www.brantfl orist.com/obdentistoakville.com905.639.7001905-842-6030HALTONTRANSMISSIONwww.carstaroakville.com547 Trafalgar Rd.905-845-7579559 SPEERS ROAD, UNIT #3 2212 Wyecroft Rd.SNA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 201ONTPage 120ARIOS TOP NEWSPAPER - 2005-2008On guard(905)842-0725905-847-2595A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 49 No. 68USINGO40 Pages $1.00(plus tax) COMMUNICATION T BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIESTHURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011Buddhist monkstatue stolenfrom cemeteryCopper statue served asgatekeeper for family plotBy David LeaOAKVILLE BEAVER STAFFAn Oakville family is appealing to residents for help after a very special statue was stolen from theGlen Oaks Memorial Gardens cemetery in Oakville,late last month.Alice, whoMy family is really sad. asked that her realWhy would someone name be withheld,said she discov-take this from aered the statuecemetery? That'swas missing lastsomething I just don't week, when sheunderstand.came to the cem-eteryDAN HO / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER to visit theAlice, family spokespersongraves of her par-ONE FOR ALL:Jacob Pokocky (with bat), an ambassador for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, will be joined by his Oakville A's ents.teammates, when he participates in the TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes in Mississauga this Sunday.The metre-highcopper statue of aBuddhist monk sitting on a unicorn had been part of Young ambassador takes swing at Juvenile Diabetesthe memorial that marked Alices family plot.By Dan Horeally well when I play my sports, said have a lot of stage fright and I like speak-It had been there since 2001, when my motherSPECIAL TO THE BEAVERJacob.ing about my life and about diabetes andpassed away, said Alice.He believes his active enjoyment of that's fun.My family is really sad. Why would someone takehen he talks about diabetes, howsports is the reason he was chosen to be Diabetes never gets in the way of funthis from a cemetery? Thats something I just dontit is caused and how it is man-one of four Junior Diabetes Research for this positive youngster. He describesunderstand.Waged, you could forget for aFoundation ambassadors for the year.very simply how it affects his baseballThe statue has great spiritual value for Alice andmoment and think you are talking to aThis youngster is proud to promote game.her family. She says the statue serves as a kind of specialist in managing the illness.awareness for his illness, which he was It's just this pack that I have to wear,gatekeeper, forgiving the sins the deceased commit-Instead, this is 10-year-old Jacobdiagnosed with when he was a little over he said, referring to a pump he wears thatted in life so they may move on to heaven.Pokocky, who plays AAA rep baseball andthree years old.puts insulin in his system should hisPolice, however, fear those who took the copperAAA rep hockey. It's an honour because out of all the blood sugar level go too high.statue may be seeking a monetary, rather than spiri-He also has type 1 diabetes.people they could have chosen, they chose If it goes low, [my dad] will just givetual, gain.I play a lot of rep sports and I workme, said Jacob, who has already spoken me Rockets.According to police, this is not the first timereally hard at it and I manage my diabetesfour times so far about his illness. I don't See Walk page 8See Family page 5