Weather for Oakville, ON Fri Sat Sun Mon 22° 12° 29° 17° 26° 20° 26° 19° Page 4 No fireworks from trailers in Oakville: Town PLATINUM Readers' Choice winners Page 13 www.insidehalton.com 353 IROQUOIS SHORE DRIVE, OAKVILLE dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Friday, August 29, 2014 | 84 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Oakville dad, daughter survive lake ordeal after boat capsizes by Rachael Williams Hamilton Spectator A L L F U N A N D G A M E S Shivering in the water for more than six hours with his 13-year-old daughter, Morgan, by his side, Alun Phillips desperately waited for help after his boat capsized in Lake Ontario. The only thing that kept his spirits up was the jokes and laughter he shared with his daughter. "The thing that can kill a situation faster than even a sinking boat is panic or fear or pessimism," Alun said. "She was just a superstar." On Tuesday, Alun took his daughter out on his 18-foot Hobie Cat sailboat as a present before she started Grade 8 at Eastview Public School in Oakville. The seemingly innocent boat trip turned dangerous when the vessel capsized 180 degrees and the two were left to fend for themselves in the 65 C water. The coast guard found the boat around 9:30 p.m., after a search that included the Halton marine unit and a C-130 Hercules airplane from Trenton. The pair was rescued around 10 p.m. The father and daughter, who live in Oakville, left the Burlington Beach Catamaran Club early Tuesday afternoon. They went for lunch at Baranga's on the Beach restaurant in Hamilton and then headed back, see Father on p.3 Madison Smith plays under the parachute with other local children last Friday (Aug. 22) during an event at Coronation Park put on by members of Oakville's Momstown. The community group, which offers early-education programming and support for mothers, is taking part in Quaker Canada's Chewy for Charity lunch bag design challenge. The program encourages parents and their children to create Canadian-themed lunch bag artwork. Parents can submit designs to Quaker Canada at www.chewyforcharity.ca and for every submission, the company will donate the equivalent of 10 lbs. of food to Food Banks Canada. For more photos see p.75. | photo by Chantal Ayotte Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or facebook.com/HaltonPhotog) FOR VOTING US AS YOUR FAVOURITE DENTIST AGAIN! DIAM OND