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Wednesday, August 16, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER A7 COMMENT Even by kayak, it's worth the trip to Chantry Island If you ever need a wake-up call at the ary/ cottage, say, about 9 on a Sunday morn · We placed our kayaks into the water ing, sign up for a kayaking jaunt to an and donned lifejackets, betting we'd island, a bird sanctuary, off th e _______ ________make it in maybe 15 minutes. Southampton shQreline. The sun was shining, lunch At first, you will be lulled was packed, the hated sun into a pleasant sense of antici screen was applied vigorously. pation. After all, the Chantry Ju jubes were tucked into the Island lighthouse is an intrigu waterproof storage hold at the ing image out there in the back of the kayaks. Better yet, deceptively mild waters of the water, that famously Lake Huron. changeable water of Lake A migratory bird sanctuary, Huron, was calm. Smooth as the island is off limits much of glass, in fact. Not a wave in the year, especially in the sight. Perfect. But we had for sprin^breeding season. In the gotten one element of the lake: summer, though, it's a magnet its famous changeability. for paddlers. _______ ________ Oh sure, it was an idyllic Local volunteers have paddle out, for about three already dedicated thousands of hours to minutes. Then, reality set in. All of us the restoration of the island, including were paddling madly in our kayaks, an ambitious reconstruction of the origi Drew in his Critter kayak, Kate in her nal stone keeper's house. More than 60 sleek sea kayak, me in my promise-itvolunteers donated more than 7,000 won't-tip kayak and Bob and Harry, our hours last summer to get the project off landlubbing dog, in the other no-tip the ground. kayak. We were paddling, it seemed, The island, you see, is untouched. and getting nowhere. The wind whipped And anywhere you turn in this town, the our faces and we couldn't hear the oldest port on the Bruce Coast, the shouts from each other. island dominates. It is everywhere: cycle The kids were frustrated, the dog along North Shore around Miramichi was catatonic. My spouse, gritting his Bay and it's there. From the windows of teeth: "kayaking, eh...kayaking." our cottage, we watch it every morning So much for our quiet time on the and every evening. It looks tantalizingly water. So much for a gentle morning close.Jt must be a snap, we say, to get awakening across the smooth glass sur onto it. face of the lake. And how much trouble can you get We were awake; wide awake. into heading out towards a bird sanctu- M uscles ached; patience thinned. DIANE HART Another memorable family outing, I thought grimly. Somehow our smooth as glass water had changed into tumultuous waves. The wind was ferocious and the sky no longer blue, but ominously grey. Paddle faster? You must be kidding. Approaching the island, all went quiet: as the waves and wind died down (hurrah!), the sounds from the birds were everywhere. We waded ashore. And instead of the moans and groans from the family, you'd have thought they'd paddled across from Michigan for heaven's sake, all we heard were birds - dozens of them. We sat on the rocks and ate lunch. Ju Jubes were divvied up carefully; we looked at where we'd come, far from the sandy beach. To think, we said with amaze ment, we thought the island seemed so close. A heron stood, just behind us, quiet ly. Cormorants flew over us. An egret took off nearby. We meandered about, enjoying the tranquillity of the place, until two canoeists called out a warning: "Poison ivy is everywhere." Drew, of course, couldn't be found; the dog was having fun rubbing himself in a dead seagull. The return journey, we thought, would be a simple matter of being blown back. We hadn't factored in the waves, the wind, and just for fun, rain. Later, as we stopped at Gerry's fries, we wondered if the kids would ever step into another kayak. "Can we go next weekend?" they asked. I don't know what's worse: another trek across to the island or a massive dose of artery-hardening Gerry's fries. What ever happened to lolling about in a hammock on a Sunday morning at the cottage? o TENDER FOR: O A K V IL L E Automotive/Light Truck Equipment 8 4 5 -6 6 0 1 TENDER NUMBER: T-13-2000 SEALED TENDERS on forms provided will be received by the Town Clerk, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario, or by mail to P.O. Box 310, Oakville, Ontario, L6J 5A6 until 2:00 P.M., Local Time, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2000 Specifications, tender forms and tender envelopes are available at the offices of the Purchasing Department, telephone (905) 338-4197. The Town of Oakville reserves the right to reject any or all tenders and the highest or lowest as the case may be will not necessarily be accepted. R. J. Coumoyer, C.I.M., P. Mgr. Director, Purchasing and Office Services NOTICE OF SURPLUS AND SALE PART OF LANE, PLAN 105 BEING PARTS 22, 43 AND 44, PLAN 20R-4200 TAKE NOTICE THAT: 1. The Council for the Corporation of the Town of Oakville at its meeting of August 2, 2000, declared certain lands surplus. These lands are described as follows: Part of Lane, Plan 105, being Parts 22, 43 and 44, Plan 20R-4200, Town of Oakville, Regional Municipality of Halton. 2. 3. This notice is in compliance with the Town's By-law 1995-71. A copy of a plan showing the lands to be sold is available for inspection at the office of the Manager, Realty Services at the address shown below, by appoint ment by calling 845-6601, extension 3022 during normal business hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). A museum ofun-natural history Y ears from now when the entire population of the earth has been wiped out by a John Travolta movie gone horribly wrong, travellers from other planets will descend upon this earth in the inevitable quest for intergalactic colonization. Once they secure their safety by mak ing sure all of Kathy Lee Gifford's record ings have been destroyed, they will begin a massive archeological dig to discover who lived here and what life was like on earth. And it will be so unnecessary because all they would have to do is go to any vet erinarian's office and look on top of the fridge where they keep a collection of the more noteworthy objects they have removed from the stomach, intestines, colons, and rectums of dogs. What vets remove from the innards of canines consti tutes every town's museum of un-natural history. Aliens would certainly know the cur rency we used and how much money meant to us, if they watched the family in Barrie, Ontario who, after discovering $1,110 in three envelopes missing from the bedroom dresser, spent three days last win ter sifting through the frozen lumps left in the backyard by their three-year-old Golden Retriever. After working with hot water, Lysol and face masks, they man aged to recover $960 in cash which they took to their local Hong Kong Bank of Canada for re-issue. I just hope they lied to the people at the bank. If that story gets back to China, it'll just make us all look bad. Nobody knows what happened to the remaining $150, but they're keeping an eye on that dog like he's a kind of primitive ATM. In Montreal, a husband was ripping through the Christmas wrapping looking for the cellphone his wife had given him WILLIAM THOMAS All The World's A Circus that morning. He couldn't find it anywhere. However, when he went into the kitchen for another cup of coffee, he heard the cell phone ring ... in their dog's stomach. A palm-size phone, the dog swallowed it intact, but the vet said it would never pass. With nothing to lose, but the bonus minutes, the couple decided to wait it out and lo and behold, the dog gave his owner the same present twice. It's called "Call waiting and waiting and whoa!... man that had to hurt." Many important messages were lo st... somewhere in the colon. The eight-inch knife swallowed by a twenty-four inch dog in New York says something about crime in that city. The large diamond ring swallowed by another New York dog must have been painful on its way out but then as Nazareth's hit single said, love hurts. A list of what my own vet, David Thome has removed from dogs would include a 10-inch plastic bat that squeaks, a rubber motor mount, a red elastic hair scrunchie, a golf ball (Spalding), a flip flop, socks, tubes of medicine and salves with oversized tops, rubber bands, beer caps, safety pins and an eight-inch curved rib bone that miraculously made it's way through the entire system of a dog who eventually and gratefully spelled relief with a capital "Roof." At Madeleine Zeller's clinic in Welland socks, pantyhose, and scrunchie hair bands are popular contents of canine stomachs. She has removed carpeting, stones, rubber balls, twist ties, tinsel, earplugs, coins, baby soothers, and a shish-ka-bob skewer from a dog who pulled off a daylight BBQ robbery in full view of all the guests. Among many more common items, Dr. Allan Bennington of Guelph University has removed a mound of gravel from a dog's stomach after he ate the spot in the driveway where his owner had emptied the BBQ grease. Com cobs, say the doctor, the dry and dangerous cores leftover after the kernels have been cleaned off are common and can be fatal once they're ingested by dogs. He has removed everything from razor blades to a fish hook with nylon line after a dog ate the bait. He once extracted a metal ball bearing after a kid rolled the "steelie" towards the dog who was laying on the floor at the time. The dog opened his mouth and the ball bearing kept going, all the way into his stomach. Similarly Dr. Bennington had a teenag er miscue on his basement billiard table sending the eight-ball sailing through the air. His dog, ever alert for a game of catch, opened his mouth and the weight of the ball kept it going all the way down the throat and into the gut pocket. It took the doctor an hour to recover the black ball from the dog's stomach and forty minutes to get the surprised look off his face. And remember when you scratch on the eight-ball, you lose the game. Meticulous excavation and archeolog ical digging would be a waste of time by outer space explorers trying to unearth the life and times of humans. You name it, our dogs have swallowed it and the souvenirs are still on display. Be careful with your canine: unless the object is actually bigger than the dog, it could well wind up in his stomach. Maynard Millman, AACI, P.App., Manager, Realty Services Legal Department, The Corporation of the Town of Oakville 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario L6J 5A6 NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Applicant: Town of Oakville File: 42.20 Please be advised that a public meeting will be held to discuss a proposed Official Plan Amendment [proposed Official Plan Amendment No. 187], The purpose of this technical policy amendment is to delete reference in the Official Plan to the Heritage Review Committee. The three heritage districts shown on the attached map will now be reviewed by the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee The meeting will be a public meeting hosted by Town Council, at which time a staff report and recommendation will be considered. This public hearing will take place on September 6, 2000, commencing at 7:30 p.m. in the Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville. Any individuals wishing to attend these meetings and speak to this matter are invited to do so. If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision in respect of the proposed official plan amendment to the Ontario Municipal Board does not make oral submissions at a public meeting or does not make written submissions before the proposed official plan amendment is adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of the appeal. If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed official plan amendment, you must make a written request to the undersigned at the Town's Planning Services Department, Town of Oakville, P.O. Box 310, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, ON. L6J 5A6. Tel: 845-6601, Ext.3029, e-mail address: rthun@town.oakville.on.ca. You must also direct any other written submissions and/or questions to the undersigned. A copy of the final staff report, including the proposed Official Plan Amendment, will be available for review in the Clerk's Department as of August 29, 2000 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Dated at the Town of Oakville this August 16, 2000. 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