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A2 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday April 18, 2001 Help your child get the best of the early years The Child Care Enrichment Committee pre sents the Early Years in Action Presentation, for caregivers and parents who want to discover how to give their child a boost in their earliest years. The presentation will take place on Thursday beginning at 3 p.m. with opening remarks by Halton Regional Chair Joyce Savoline, Dinner will follow, and the night will wrap up at 8:30 p.m. with Danielle Zanotti, manager of York Region Early Years. The presentation will take place at the Ramada Inn, 360 Oakville Place Drive. Photo by Erin Riley J U S T R IG H T: Daniel Turner, 2, tries on the glasses he received from the easter bunny Saturday at the M eyer Family Chiropractic Centre on Trafalgar Road. The Centre held an easter egg hunt to raise money and donations for the Fareshare Foodbank o f Oakville. Humane Society budget over $1 million per year A story regarding the proposed cat by-law in the W eekend edition o f the O akville Beaver incorrectly reported the O akville Hum ane Society's annual budget is $448,000. That am ount is actually the am ount the Tow n o f O akville pays to the O akville Humane Society for animal control services. The annual operating b u dget fo r the humane society is over $1 m illion w ith the rem ainder com ing from donations, adoption fees, licencing fees and the anim al control contract from the Town o f M ilton. The O akville B eaver regrets the error. Luck w as with owner of restaurant (Continued from page A1) V 4 I y fe jV V V * :ing maximum 48 months O.A.C See dealer for details, ·All vehicles market value priced in windows ·Market value price includes freight, air, tax& NO CHARGE PDI, protector plus included · NO ADMIN. FEES T E S T D fe lV E Instock a t "It punched a good hole in the roof. Fortunately for me, I know a roofer and he was able to come out right away on Easter weekend, voiding any further damage." The tree was removed on Friday. The roof, and some minor structural damage, will be repaired in time for Good To Go's open ing this Saturday. Clapham estimates the damage to be between $2,000 and $3,000, less than his estimated poten tial business loss due to the delayed opening. "Had it fallen a bit one way or another, it might have taken off the whole roof. We were lucky no one was in the building," said Kerry Salari, general manager of Good To Go and Mixed Grill Catering, which Clapham also owns. And, no one was sitting on the patio. According to eyewitness, Sylvia McGroarty, who was eating an ice cream cone with friend Gord Sherwood next door in front of Bill Hill's Lakeside Marketeria. it could have been much worse. Three children wheeled along the sidewalk -- on a bike, skateboard and scooter -- beneath the tree shortly before it fell, said McGroarty. "We first saw the tree sway about six inches as the kids went under it, and then it started to move back and forth about one foot, and I thought . . . oh my god," said McGroarty. She and a few other bystanders encouraged people, who had parked their car in front of the tree to move, "and then a lady parked her van beneath a hanging branch and we got her to move as well." McGroarty had gone into Bill Hill's to call the Town when the tree fell. "When I heard crackling, I rushed back out, phone book in hand, and the tree had already come down on the roof of the burger place," said McGroarty. Closer inspection revealed the roots o f the tree had rotted. According to Bill Hill, the roots were cut over the years whenever water and sewer pipes were laid and road improvements done. "It was a big tree when I first came here in 1932," said Hill. "It had to be over 100 years old, and that wind had to be over 90 miles per hour." Lakeside Marketeria employee Nancy Whyte said "I saw it lift and drop down, lift and drop, lift and drop . . . `T h e first time I saw it sway I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. "It's just fortunate that no one got hurt." U A K -L A N D I M V e h ic le s Man spent best Easter with family (Continued from page A1) - F C fD L IN C O L N ' / ( ) `l i ( i { ( i l ( ) ( ( i l ( ( ! . , O o k v i l l o ai m i (.'.i w. I 5 4 4 -3 273 Meanwhile, police had notified his family that he was missing. His three brothers travelled through the night and were horrified to find his coat and cell phone inside his empty truck on the dock at Thombury. "The wind was blowing really hard and it was very cold and we knew he had no warm clothes with him, we could only think the worst," said C abral's 27-year-old brother Kevin. Once or twice during the night Cabral caught sight of the search planes, but was too far away to attract their atten tion. The lights on the distant shore blinked in and out of view between the giant waves. "I only thought of giving up once, then I thought about my wife and how much I love her and how I would never be able to say I love you to my daughter, then I knew I had to keep going," he said. Ignoring the pain in his badly blistered hands, Cabral paddled through the night doggedly trying to make his way to shore. Around 10 a.m. on Good Friday, a woman who owns a cottage on the lake about 35 kilometres east of Thombury, spotted a boat about 200 metres from shore and called the coast guard. A Labrador helicopter was sent to the scene to investigate, said Elit. "It's unbelievable, he was standing in his boat waving his paddle. It's very rare that we'd find someone alive after a night like that, it's basical ly a miracle," said Elit. Cabral, exhausted from his battle to keep the boat upright, was horrified when the wind from the blades of the helicopter tipped his boat plung ing him into the icy water. "I was only in the water for a minute, but it was so very cold it took my breath away," he said. Two coast guard scuba divers jumped into the lake and attached Cabral to a winch and he was pulled up into the helicopter. "I was very happy to see them. They saved my life," he said. His distraught family had just checked into a Collingwood hotel when the news of his rescue came. "We were so happy we were yelling and screaming," said his sister-in-law Debbie Cabral. Cabral was wrapped in warm blankets and taken to the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital where he was treated for hypothermia and then he phoned his wife. "It was marvelous to hear her voice and tell her I was alive. I'm a survivor and the biggest factor was that the Lord answered my prayers and gave me the strength to get through this," said Cabral, who returned home to Oakville to spend "the best Easter ever with my family. Civic Scene W ednesday, April 18: Halton R egional C ouncil m eets in the regional council cham bers at 9:30 a.m. at regional headquarters, 1151 Bronte Rd. The H alton D istrict School Board meets at 8 p.m. at the J.W. Singleton Education Centre, 2050 Guelph Line, Burlington. Thursday, April 19: A public inform ation m eeting regarding 2416 M arine Dr. is at 7:30 p.m. in the Trafalgar Room of the Oakville M unicipal B uilding, 1225 Trafalgar Rd. M onday, A pril 23: The O akville Planning and D evelopm ent C ouncil m eets at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the O akville M unicipal Building. "Riesday April 24: O akville's Com m unity Services C om m ittee meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Council C ham bers of the O akville M unicipal Building. O ak v ille's A dm inistrative Services C om m ittee m eets at 7:30 p.m. in the T rafalgar Room of the O akville M unicipal Building. 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