SNOWBLOWER W IN T E R C H E C K O V E R Single stage or D ual stage i Pick op A Deliveiy Available C U R R E N TP O W E RM A C H IN E R YIN C . 1G6 1 L i k m h o n . ' R d W . M W M u g i 3 B22-«2 11 Crusaders to Bronte Butterfly ^co n test Cup takes flight Sp o r ts F ocus M e H v d c s BfMi/ Q .E .W . & D o rv a l D r w w w .o a k v ille b e a v e r .c o m NORTH TH E O AKVILLE A M E R I C A 'S M O S T " USING AWARDED COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER 56 Pages $1.00 (plus G ST ) A Metroland Publication Vol. 40 No. 129 COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COM M UNITIES" WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2003 M ayoral candidates face off By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Mayor Ann Mulvale A strictly controlled Oakville Chamber of Commerce mayors debate yesterday w asn't supposed to be a onetopic debate, but it proved tough to steer the discussion away from development. Outside of north Oakville growth, development charges kept cropping up across many of the 13 questions asked during the 90-minute debate. About 100 people attended the pub lic debate, but only chamber members could ask questions. `T here is no bias in this debate. The chamber does not recommend candi dates to its members," said chamber executive director Laura Babcock, who held candidates to strict time limits. wouldn't allow repeated questions and was ready to halt the debate if questions dried up or dissension arose. "Many feel Oakville has lost its way. It's time to get the town back on track and control growth for a change," said candidate Rob Burton, a founder of the Clear the Air Coalition and long-time official with the Joshua Creek Ratepayers Association Inc. Burton said Oakville needs a mayor who will put "existing residents and the environment first as I promise to do." Long-time Oakville M ayor Ann Mulvale asked for "continued trust." She touted the advent of a "new deal" for municipalities in which communi ties, the building blocks o f the nation, would receive modem "tools" like secure revenue sources and legislation that would enable local decision-making, to deal with issues like growth while respecting current and future res idents, the economy and the environ ment. Burton claimed that the additional 55,000 population target for Oakville can be altered and that if Oakville is to have its character and greenspace respected, it can't hold 55,000 new peo ple unless they're accommodated in a very different style than currently exists here. "It's a question of density," he said. Mulvale said the Town would revisit its plans for north Oakville growth and greenspace protection if federal or provincial government policies should change or if studies came up to provide (See 'Candidates' page A2) Challenger Rob Burton O a k v ille S ik h l e a d e r k ille d in f a t a l c r a s h t Ward 3 voters want to preserve neighbourhoods By Kim Amott SPECIAL T O THE BEAVER By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Oakville's Sikh community is mourning the loss of one of its most prominent members killed Saturday on his way to a religious ceremony at the temple he helped build on Bronte Road. T a rse m Singh Sian, 63, of C re e k s id e Drive in O a k v ille , was killed while mak ing a left Tarsem turn into Singh Sian the Halton G urudw ara on Bronte Road just south of Dundas Street around 7 p.m. Saturday. Sian's Toyota was struck from behind by a Honda driven by a 20-year-old Everett woman. The Toyota was forced into the oncoming north bound lane where it was struck head-on by a north bound cube van driven by a 37-year-old Burlington man. Sian was rushed to Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital with vital signs absent and succumbed to his injuries several hours later. The driver of the Honda escaped with minor injuries and the driver of the cube van was uninjured, according to Halton Regional Police. Sian's wife, HarbHajan Kaur Sian. 61, who was a passenger in the Toyota with her husband, suffered a bro ken arm and injured ankles. One of the couple's four adult children, daughter Kamaljit Kaur Bamrah, was travelling several cars behind her parents en route to the Gurudwara when the acci dent occurred, said family friend Parminder Grewal. The Sian family and Grewal had been long-time friends. Both were among the first Sikh families to set tle in Oakville. "To say he was the founder of the Oakville Sikh community wouldn't be an overstatement," said Sian's long-time friend and fellow Oakville resident Piara Singh Roshan. The two men came to Oakville at approxim ately the same time, began work with Ontario Hydro on the same day, and retired after 32 years on the same day. Their four-year-old granddaughters are friends and Roshan said he and Sian just last week mailed away their pension applications together. Sian was a civil design engineer with Ontario Hydro until he took early retire(See 'Collision' page A5) Most of the talk of preservation in Oakville over the last five years has cen tred on green space and natural features. But when residents in Ward 3 speak o f preserving the environment, they're generally referring to buildings, streetscapes, and even intangibles like character and community. At an all-candidates meeting on Monday night, voters in the southeast Oakville ward made it clear to political hopefuls that they like their part of the town just the way it is. More than 300 people crowded into the Oakville-Trafalgar High School auditorium to voice their desire to see the well-established ward retain its dis tinctive characteristics. Among the main concerns were downtown redevelopment projects, in fill developm ent, the future o f the downtown hospital, school closures and, o f course, property taxes and assessments. The ward, which will elect one coun cillor to sit on town council and one councillor to sit on both town and Halton regional council, will have the choice of a veteran councillor or a new comer for each position. For the local seat, incumbent Tedd Smith, who has represented the ward (See Sharkey s' page A5) FORMAL PRESENTATION: K athleen N ew m an-Brem ang is presented by h er father, Joseph Brem ang, to h er escort at the first annual Cotillion Ball hosted by the Elite Institute of H alton at the Hilton G arden Inn on Saturday. F or m ore pictures see A rtscene page C l. Police deliver speeding ticket to Canada Post van S p e e d in g m o to r is ts s e e m Somebody was in a hurry to deliver the mail last week. During the sixth week of the traffic enforcement initiative in Oakville by the Halton Regional Police, a fully-marked Canada Post van was clocked doing 93 kmh in a 50 kmh zone -- the highest recorded speed of the week. Other top speeds reported by Halton Regional Police Staff Sgt. Chris Perkins included 80 kmh and 81 kmh in the 50 kmh zones, and 62 kmh and 65 kmh in 40 kmh zones. According to Perkins, one young motorist was clocked doing a full 80 kmh in a 40 kmh zone, but the radar unit failed to lock the speed in appropriately, so Editorials.................M Focus....................... B1 Update...................... B3 Sports...................... B4 Artscene................... Cl Classifieds................. C4 Dream Home.............D1 Ph ib I Ddhm : to b e m is s in g th e m e s s a g e o f tr a ffic e n fo r c e m e n t u n it · One motorist got stopped for traveling at 62 kmh in a 40 kmh zone. She told the officer her two children are students at that school, and she was a teacher from another school. · A male driver got charged with speeding, and the officer recognized him as he had given the same man another speeding ticket earlier this month on the same street, in the same place. · A vehicle was seen making no effort to stop at a stop sign. The officer estimated the speed to be about 40 kmh through the intersection. 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