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RELAXOLOGY BEAUTY & SPA Oakville location Grand Opening Special 15 min. Herbal Foot Steeping 30 min. Foot refl exology 45 min. Body Massage Ion Cleanse (Detoxify your Boby) Paraffi n Hand Wax Treatment $89 Reg. $195 Mississauga Chinese Centre 888 Dundas St. E. , Unit B2-A2 905.566.5775 Clarkson 1846 Lakeshore R. W. 905.919.9799 BDC 4310 Sherwoodtownes Blvd. 905.275.3335 Brampton 150 Wescit C108 905.450.5888 Golden Square Centre 1177 Central Pkwy.W. 905.848.8898 OPEN LATE TILL 1AM Square One Shopping Centre across from Tim Hourtons on the Lower Level between Sears and Zellers 905.276.8898 Toronto 361 Eglinton Ave. E. 416.322.5556 North York 280 Shepperd Ave. E. Unit 103 416.901.9999 rrs TM Gift Certifi cates available Open 7 days a week Offer expires Nov. 30, 2010 Oakville 380 Dundas St. E. Unit D12A. 905.257.8889 Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday By appointment only. 11 Friday , O ctober 15, 2010 O A KVILLE BEA V ER w w w .o akvillebeaver .co m By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The federal government has given Sheridan College $750,000 to help rev up the economy in southern Ontario. At a press conference held at the college Thursday, Oakville MP Terence Young announced Sheridan received the funds through the $15 million Applied Research and Commercialization Initiative. Young said this initiative was created by the federal government as a direct result of feed- back from business leaders, academics and community leaders, who suggested the gov- ernment take a leadership role in addressing the gap between research and commercializa- tion. Sheridan College is already a leader in the Oakville community, said Young. With this announcement, Sheridan becomes a partner with business and government to lead the eco- nomic recovery from one of the worst reces- sions weve had in years. Sheridan will use the $750,000 to partner with small and medium businesses in south- ern Ontario on such activities as applied research, engineering design, technology development, product testing and certifica- tion. Through partnerships, Sheridan will help businesses bring new products, practices and processes to the marketplace faster. We will largely be working with small and medium enterprises, who are operating busi- nesses, but want to grow to the next level, but they are just so busy doing the work to stay afloat that they have no time for the R and D, said Jeff Zabudsky, Sheridan College president. How do I take this product and tweak it to make it better? How do I move it into a larger global context? That is what these dollars are meant to do. Zabudsky said members of Sheridans fac- ulty and student body will be working with these businesses to complete this important research and development work. This will ben- efit the students by giving them the hands-on experience they will need when they graduate. Zabudsky said Sheridan was chosen as a recipient of this grant because of its track record of doing applied research with industry. Sheridans Dean of Applied Research Darren Lawless said that while no partnerships have been finalized as of yet, numerous busi- nesses have approached Sheridan seeking help through the grant and the partnership. Well look at things like what is the prob- lem they are trying to solve, do we have the expertise to try and help solve that problem, said Lawless. We have a set of criteria and a process in place to establish the feasibility of the project. We want to make sure what they are asking for is not curiosity-driven research, but research actually driven towards helping the company to become more successful and by doing that we suspect they will be able to gen- erate new products, new processes, hopefully hiring Sheridan grads or other people as well. Lawless said some of these business part- nerships could be finalized as early as Friday Oct. 22. Sheridan gets $750K to help small businesses grow With this announcement, Sheridan becomes a partner with business and government to lead the economic recovery from one of the worst reces- sions weve had in years. Oakville MP Terence Young