Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Kazdan, Solomon & D'Angelo Revisiting 905-842-6030 childhood dream SPORTS www.carstaroakville.com 905-8457579 905-847 -2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. 547 Trafalgar Rd. www.dentistoakville.com 905.257.9941 905.257.9941 - 380 Dundas Street East corner of Trafalgar and Dundas 905.257.9941 - 380 Dundas Street East corner of Trafalgar and Dundas Now Open! Now Open! A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 89 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2009 24 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Preparing for the Open Remembering the crew and passengers of Buffalo 461 By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF JON CURRIE / OAKVILLE BEAVER GETTING OUT: Cliff Kresge, a third-year player on the PGA Tour, blasts out of a bunker on the 13th hole during Tuesday's RBC Canadian Open practice round at Glen Abbey Golf Club. The 100th playing of the tournament was scheduled to begin this morning and concludes Sunday. They were killed on a mission of peace that few remember. Now an Oakville man is helping nine fallen Canadian peacekeepers to receive the recognition they so greatly deserve. For the past four years Oakville resident Bob Yorke, along with around 20 other volunteers, has been painstakingly reconstructing a Canadian Forces Buffalo aircraft at the Canadian Warplane Museum, located at the Hamilton airport. When completed, the Buffalo will stand as a tribute to all Canadian Peacekeepers, but most especially to the crew and passengers of Buffalo 461. On Aug. 9, 1974 Buffalo 461 was supporting the United Nations' peacekeeping efforts in the Middle East, making a supply run from Ismailia, Egypt to Damascus, Syria, when it was shot down by three surface to air missiles fired from a Syrian airfield. All nine Canadian peacekeepers aboard in what remains the largest single incident loss of life in the history of Canadian peacekeeping operations. It was never determined whether the destruction of Buffalo 461 was an accident or a deliberate attack on the UN by Syria. For Yorke, work on the project to honour these fallen peacekeepers began shortly after the Hamilton museum acquired a broken down ex-Sudanese Air Force Buffalo in 2004. Having spent 38-years of his life as a pilot for Air Canada, Yorke had learned numerous mechanical skills over the years making him particularly useful in getting the project off the ground. See Tribute page 3 DORVAL DRIVE WYECROFT RD. SPEERS RD. BETWEEN KERR & DORVAL ETWEEN YOUR FRIEND IN THE BUSINESS! · www.lockwoodchrysler.com Celebrating 25 years in Oakville KERR ST. TRAFALGAR 175 WYECROFT RD. OAKVILLE 905.845.6653 QEW