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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com CELEBRATING 26 YEARS! Between Kerr & Dorval Olympic Dream in her sights ARTSCENE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009 YOUR FRIEND IN THE BUSINESS 175 Wyecroft Rd. Oakville 905.845.6653 www.lockwoodchrysler.com OUT OF INK? REFILL AND SAVE UP TO 60% Upper Oakville Shopping Centre (Upper Middle & 8th Line) 905-842-5600 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 141 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" 48 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Joudrie retiring Public school education director will end five-year term in August By Tina Depko OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Second H1N1 death in Halton By Tim Foran METROLAND WEST MEDIA GROUP The head of the Halton District School Board (HDSB) has announced that he will be leaving next summer. Wa y n e Joudrie, 56, has served as director of education since October 2005. He has decided to retire, with the last day of Wayne Joudrie his five-year term coming at the end of August 2010. "I am actually two years past my required retirement date as prescribed in the Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan," Joudrie said. "I will have completed my 33rd year in public education and my 19th year in senior administration at the end of August." Joudrie came to the board following a two-year term as education director for the Grand Erie DEREK WOOLLAM / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER SONGS OF HOPE: A children's choir from the Mully Children's Foundation in Kenya sings during the Concert of Hope at the Harvest Bible Chapel last week. Giving hope to Kenyan orphans By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF See Joudrie page 8 In 1999 Stella Louku's future was very much in doubt. With the death of her father, Louku and her mother had been forced to move from their home in Kitale, Kenya, where Louku was born, to the Kipsongo Slums, an area known by some as `the place of the dogs.' Now a young woman, Louku remembers the hardships of her childhood in Kipsongo with she and her mother having little to eat and often going to sleep Charles Mulli hungry. The situation for Louku only got worse when her mother started drinking. "When she came home she would beat me and then I thought I could not continue living with my mother," said Louku. "Then I decided to go to the street." On the streets of Kenya, the lives of children are rarely happy ones with children often falling into lives of drug addiction, sexual exploitation, thievery and despair. A second Halton resident has fallen victim to the H1N1 influenza virus. Halton Medical Officer of Health Dr. Bob Nosal reported yesterday afternoon a man in his eighties living in a nursing home in Halton died earlier this week from a lab-confirmed case of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus. It's against the Region's policy to give out details such as the victim's name, residence or when he died, but Nosal confirmed he did have an underlying disease. He was admitted to hospital last week. A woman in her seventies became Halton's first H1N1 victim when she died early this month after being hospitalized with the virus. She also had underlying health issues. "Normally there would be more deaths expected every year from See Orphan page 10 See Flu page 13 Oakville's largest selection of Natural Limestone and Hardwood · Custom Quality Workmanship 35 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN TILE INSTALLATION LARGEST SELECTION OF WOOD FLOORING OVER 500 SAMPLES ON DISPLAY GRANITE COUNTERTOPS BUY DIRECT FROM THE IMPORTER LARGE SELECTION OF NATURAL LIMESTONE & PORCELAIN TILE Monday to Friday 7:30am-6:00pm · Saturday 7:30am-5:00pm · Closed Sunday 243 SPEERS ROAD, OAKVILLE · 905.338.1288