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Oakville Beaver, 5 Sep 2013, p. 1

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Living with pain Spotlight Marlies to take on Bulldogs here Sports www.insidehalton.com t k ill www.carstaroakville.com dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 905-845-7579 905-847-2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. 547 Trafalgar Rd. Stay Connected! Thursday, September 5, 2013 | 40 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Weather for Oakville, ON Thu Fri Sat Sun R E A C H I N G Y O U T H S Raitt to headline Chamber dinner by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff 18° 10° 21° 9° 25° 15° 22° 15° Oakville mom ghts for speed bumps by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff The Oakville Chamber of Commerce will hold its 59th Annual Chair's Dinner on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The event will feature Halton MP and Federal Minister of Transport Lisa Raitt as the keynote speaker. "We are honoured to host Ms. Raitt," said Julia Hanna, Oakville Chamber of Commerce Chair. "The chamber is thrilled to provide this rare opportunity to our members. Given the importance of transportation to our town and region, Ms. Raitt's speech is very timely." The event will be held at the Oakville Conference Centre, 2515 Wyecroft Rd. see Raitt's on p.3 Canadian Mental Health Association Manager of Crisis Services Jason Barr drops the puck for local rec hockey players Melanie Green, left, and Liz Akey, who will be in a hockey tournament Saturday supporting Child and Youth Mental Health at Oakville's Canlan Ice Sports. The event will raise funds for a peer-to-peer mental health support program as well as awareness for children's and youth mental health. For details, see Health. | photo by Nikki Wesley ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog) An Oakville mother who got the speed limit reduced on Sedgewick Crescent is now calling for traf c on the street to be slowed even more through the introduction of speed bumps. Kerstin Berndt's interest in Sedgewick began in late 2011 when her children began attending a daycare there. "There was a lot of speeding. Mostly There was a lot of when the school speeding. Mostly when year is on," she the school year is on. said. It's unfortunate because "It's unfortuthe time the speeding nate because the time the speeding would get bad was right would get bad was when the elementary right when the elschool here gets out. ementary school Kerstin Berndt here gets out. You Oakville resident nd that with all the buses and all the parents picking their children up there are blocked views... There had been a few close calls." Berndt said she got together with some of the other mothers of students attending daycare and school in the area. see Safety on p.5

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