The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday September 18, 2002 - A 3 More at stake than trophies at international rescue competition TOWARF teamfinds training rewarding By Howard Mozel OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF W hen the team from TOWARF (Town of Oakville Water-Air Rescue Force) returns from next m onth's International Search and Rescue (SAR) Championships, they plan to do so with a lot more than the winning trophy. Betw een the intensive training and the knowledge they'll pick up in M ilw aukee, says Brad Yarema, he and his team mates are looking forward to sharing plenty of new tips with the rest o f their TOWARF counterparts. "It's amazing the number o f spin-off benefits," he said. In addition to yarem a, an ATM tech, the team includes Oakville Fire D epartm ent Captain Ivan Hansen, retired Air Canada/military pilot Bob De Athe and Jason Black, soon to be a Toronto firefighter. The teammates hail from four o f TOW ARF's 11 crews o f eight volunteers each, who will in turn profit directly from the advanced skill set of their competitive colleagues - insight that will then fan out to the rest of TOWARF. To qualify for the SAR Championships, which take place October 4 and 5, the TOWARF team placed first in the Canadian C oast Guard Auxiliary Central and Arctic Region SAR Challenge held in B url ington Aug. 10. (The region spans the Canada/U .S. Border to the Arctic Circle and from the Saskatchewan border to Quebec.) At that event there were teams competing from as far away as Nunavut in nine events that were scored for accuracy and time complet ed. These included First Aid, Navigation, Dead Reckoning, Line Throw, Life Ring Throw, Knot Tying, Fire Pump Operation and Search Patterns. In July, TOW ARF entered two teams in the CCGA D istrict 2 SAR Challenge, where the change the competition in mid-stream in order to test the competitors' ability to adapt - good practice for the real world. "It's amazing how quickly things change on the water," said Yarema, adding that there will also be a "mys tery event." TOWARF is responsible for the area from the St. Lawrence Cement plant in Mississauga to the Shell Pier in Burlington, however, it will respond to any task requested by the Coast Guard within the western area of the lake. The unit responds immediately to an emergency while on patrol and within 12 minutes at off-duty times. TOWARF volunteers aged 18 to 67 serve on duty every nine days. Each crew person is proficient at fire con trol, towing procedures, boat maneu vering, radar/G lobal Positioning System (GPS) navigation, life saving and paramedic first aid. One m ight think a person like Hansen might have his fill of helping people in his role as firefighter, but according to him, there's always some thing new to learn - in addition to his love of being out on the water. "There are sim ilarities, but you acquire a different skill set for search and rescue," said Hansen. Barrie Erskine · Oakville Beaver 5 3 * -' The TOWARF team heading to Milwaukee in October to compete pull Oscar the train ing dummy from the lake during a recent exercise. Shown from left are Ivan Hansen, Jason Black and Brad Yarema. The fourth member, Bob De Athe, had his hands full piloting the boat. M ilw aukee-bound crew | -- fc g r fg * O R T H O D O N T I S T D r . K r u n o T o v ilo C ertified Specialist in O rthodontics for C hildren and Adults Unfortunately, a teammate became ill and De Athe. from the second team. joined Yarema. Black and Hansen. bbT "Bob's navigational skills are just fantastic." said H | u Yarema. 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As part of the competi tion, participants will also be given a SAR scenario for which they must plan and execute a search complete with appropriate chart plot ting and other calculations. The events will impel the six Canadian and six American teams to dig deep into their expertise, espe cially when organizers can . ' X% m + G et the natural smile you deserve Orthodontically. Call us today.... Barrie Erskine · Oakville Beaver TOWN CENTER ORTHODONTICS 243 North Service Road, West Suite 301, Oakville TOWARF team members Jason Black, Ivan Hansen and Brad Yarema (Bob De Athe piloted their boat) practice their resuscitation techniques during a last week training exercise on Lake Ontario. (9 0 5 ) 8 4 9 -1 7 1 7 Boot drive Saturday Local firefighters will be holding a boot drive at various locations across Oakville to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada. 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H S i t h e ____________________________________ NOTICE OF PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE WEDNESDAY, September 25, 2002, 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. St. Luke's Catholic School, 2750 Kingsway Drive, Oakville, Ontario This notice of a second Public Open House is being published, pursuant to the requirements of the Guidelines for the Location, Construction and Operation of Hydrocarbon Pipelines and Facilities in Ontario (Fourth Edition, 1995) under the Ontario Energy Board Act (1 9 9 8 ), to inform and solicit public comments concerning Sithe Southdown Pipelines Ltd.'s (SSP) proposal to develop a new 5.5 km undergroundfnatural gas pipeline through an easterly portion of the Town of Oakville and a westerly portion of the City of Mississauga. This pipeline is to be built, owned and operated by SSP for the sole purpose of supplying fuel to Sithe's Southdown Station (an 800 MW, combined cycle power facility to be built on Winston Churchill Boulevard in the City of Mississauga). The Study Area for this project is bounded by Eighth Line to the west. Southdown Road/Erin Mills Parkway to the east, Dundas Street to the north, and by a line one kilometre south of Royal Windsor Drive to the south (see map). In preparation for its filing of an application to the Ontario Energy Board for leave to construct this natural gas pipeline, SSP retained ESG International Inc. to conduct an Environmental and SocioEconomic Im pact Assessment (ESIA) of various route options. Once all public and agency comments are received and considered, a Preferred Route, along with site-specific environmental protection and control measures, w ill be detailed in a final ESIA report and submitted in support of the leave to construct application to the Ontario Energy Board. SSP is holding a second Open House to solicit public and agency comments regarding its Preliminary Preferred Route (see map). 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