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Healing through her art Artscene It's elementary for the Edge Sports www.insidehalton.com SELLING YOUR JEWELLERY? LONDON GOLD Fine Jewellery Co. Ltd. 905.337.0051 www. oakvillebeaver .com Stay Connected! Wednesday, January 29, 2014 | 44 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Weather for Oakville, ON Wed Thu Fri C Sat A T C H I N G I C E T I M E -10° -18° -4° -13° -2° -6° -2° -6° Public invited to speak up on Downtown by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff Tip on missing girls stirs hope in community by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff The Town of Oakville is inviting residents and business owners to weigh in on a new downtown streetscape. There is an open house and workshop at Town Hall tomorrow (Thursday, Jan. 30) at which people can share their vision for what the downtown area should become. There will be discussion about creating a cultural hub and redesigning the functionality and look of the downtown streets. "We need to upgrade our cultural facilities and now is your opportunity to provide input on how best to do that," said Mayor Rob Burton. "Our theatre, art gallery and library are being challenged to meet the growing needs of our citizens and users, and reconstruction of Lakeshore Road is already in our capital budget; so we have an opportunity to not just make changes that we need, but to make changes that will make Oakville the most livable community in Canada." see Open on p.4 The Bronte Creek Residents Association celebrated the opening of a new community skating rink, located on the soccer eld in Valleyridge Park. Here, Randy Wu, 8, races his older sister Haidi, 11, on the new rink. For more photos, visit www.oakvillebeaver.com | photo by Graham Paine ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or facebook.com/HaltonPhotog) A tip sent to the Oakville Beaver concerning the possible whereabouts of childhood friends Darlene Tucker and Jinisina `Jan' Stonehouse, who both went missing in 1983, has generated no shortage of responses. The tip was emailed to the Oakville Beaver, a day after the newspaper ran a story about the two cold cases. It was sent by Angela Ellis, webmaster for the North American Missing Persons Network. The lead directed attention to two Facebook pro les, which Ellis believes could be Tucker and StoneDarlene Tucker house. The two women shown in the pro les are Facebook friends. They have different surnames. Both live outside of Ontario. Ellis said she had provided the lead to police more than a year ago, but had not heard back from them. It went to the OPP and then on to Halton police. On Tuesday, Halton police con rmed the information had been investigated previously. "It was discounted then," said Det. Const. Steve Martin, whose working on the cold case les. see Woman on p.5 SHUTTERS · Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed · Serving Oakville with Shop at Home Hom ome om e Service Se · Wood & Vinyl Shutters, Supplied & Installed · High High g Quality Quality Quali ty ya at t Affordab Affordable able Pri Pric Prices c CALIFORNIA & PLANTATION SHUTTERS ETC. 905.691.4455 www.shuttersetc.ca Authorized Eclipse Shutters Dealer Shop at Home Service FREE