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Olympic Spirit 9 · Wednesday, July 25, 2012 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com Time to set a clear goal Continued from page 6 Letter to the Editor attention to the best performing systems, either in Canada or around the world. We can identify and promote innovative practices, showing how they work and how they can be implemented more extensively. We can bring greater clarity and transparency to any discussion on the important healthcare issues and suggest ways to address them. And, we can encourage the evidence-based transformation that we all know needs to happen in the system. Finally, we should expect leadership and demand it from our ministers, health administrators, and clinicians. Without leadership, our system will remain complacent and the opportunities for improvement will remain unfulfilled. There is a way forward for our health-care system. It will require clear and specific direction from our leaders, a commitment to change, and a high degree of determination to achieve results. But it is possible. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, we both set a goal as a nation and set about achieving it because we knew we could. Now, it is time to do the same for our healthcare system and the Canadians it serves each and every day. John G. Abbott, CEO, Health Council of Canada THIRD ANNUAL SUBMITTED PHOTO Find Olympic mascots to win CNE passes Wenlock and Mandeville hidden online The CNE is just a few weeks away and we have five chances for you to win passes for four to summer's big event. All you have to do is find the Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, who are hiding out in the Olympic section of our web site, www. insidehalton.com. To enter this contest, find the photos containing the hidden mascot for each day of the contest period. The contest will run five times: July 27­29, July 30­Aug. 1, Aug. 2­5, Aug. 6­8 and Aug. 9­12. insidehalton.com and find these mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville (bottom corners), to win passes to the CNE. WHERE'S WENLOCK AND MANDEVILLE?: Visit the Olympics section at www. Hope Light lunch for all participants Lunch sponsored by Sponsored by Halton Women's Place Healthy Relationshipst Healthy Communities IN HIGH HEELS Men walking to end violence against women Sunday September 9th ­ Boston Pizza 270 North Service Road West, Oakville OR Saturday September 15th ­ Emma's Back Porch 2084 Old Lakeshore Road, Burlington Men -- the shoes WILL fit! Register at www.haltonwomensplace.com 10am registration 11 am walk Call Carm Bozzo, Development Mgr For each contest period you have to find the hidden mascot each day, copy the URLs of the pages it's hiding on into an e-mail and send them to newsroom@durhamregion.com. In the subject line type in `mascot contest'. For example, for the contest period July 27-29 you have to find the mascot on July 27, 28 and 29, copy the URLs of the three stories and e-mail them to us. The contests begin at 9 a.m. Friday (July 27) and end at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12. You may enter each contest just once, but you may enter each of the five contests. cbozzo@haltonwomensplace.com 905-332-1200 ext. 222 Advertisng sponsored by metroland.com Follow Oakville Beaver staff on Twitter @OakvilleBeaver or @NewsHooked @DavidLea6 @DominikKurek @Beaversports or @Halton_Photog Graphic Design by Delphinium Design delphinium.ca Printing by Digital Edge Printing digitaledgeservices.ca and communications inc. www.oakville.ca Emancipation Day Family Picnic Monday, August 6, 2012 1 - 4 p.m. at Oakville Museum at Erchless Estate Pack your picnic basket, bring the lawn chairs and have fun at the Emancipation Day Family Picnic. Hosted by the Oakville Museum and the Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton (CCAH), the picnic commemorates slavery being abolished in Canada, on August 1, 1834. Activities for the kids including games, crafts and face painting! Performances by: For more information, call the Oakville Museum at 905 338-4400, or visit www.oakville.ca/museum