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Dog walker comes to aid of fallen man By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Halton MP Lisa Raitt hosts Town Hall meeting Saturday Halton MP Lisa Raitt is hosting a series of town hall-style meetings this Saturday. Raitt, the Minister of Natural Resources, will hold three consultation meetings that will provide an opportunity for Halton riding constituents to offer their opinions on what the priorities should be for the upcoming session of Parliament and the 2010 budget. The meetings will be held in Burlington, Oakville and Milton and are open to all. Meeting times and location on Saturday are: · Milton Sports Centre, Room 3, 605 Santa Maria Blvd., Milton. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. with the meeting from 9-10:30 a.m. · Tansley Woods Centre, Room 3, 1996 Itabashi Way, Milton. Registration is at 11:30 a.m. with the meeting from noon-1:30 p.m. · River Oaks Community Centre, Room B, 2400 Sixth Line, Oakville. Registration is at 2:30 p.m. with the meeting from 34:30 p.m. For more information, contact Raitt's constituency office in Milton at 905-6930166. 3 · Thursday, January 7, 2010 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.oakvillebeaver.com An Oakville hairstylist who came to the aid of an injured man, stranded in Bronte Creek Provincial Park, says what she did was nothing more than a simple act of human decency. Lorri David had chosen to endure Monday's bitter winter cold to follow her usual routine of walking her two dogs through the park when, at around 2 p.m., she heard a man yelling in the distance. "I just assumed it was someone who had lost their dog so I ignored it for a few minutes and then I thought maybe I should check it out just in case there was something wrong," said David. "As I got closer I could hear the urgency in his voice and so we started to run towards him." After a considerable trek off the beaten path David came upon a very upset chocolate Labrador retriever and a man lying on the icy ground. The man told David he had slipped and broken his leg and was in so much pain he could barely move. Using her cell phone, David called 911 and stayed with the man until police, fire and ambulance personnel arrived on the scene. She also kept the man's dog under control as it kept nudging him. While this could be seen as the dog's touching attempt to help its owner, in reality it only caused the man more pain. As the two waited for the ambulance, the man told David he was 52 years old and this was the first bone he had ever broken. When help arrived, David called the man's family to let them know what had happened, so they could come and look after the man's dog. "I keep thinking to myself what if I hadn't gone when I heard the yelling," said David. "He was freezing because he was laying on the ice and we couldn't get him up off the ice." David is also grateful that she walks NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER HELPFUL TRIO: Lorri David with her two dogs, Buddy (left), a border collie cross, and Holly, an Australian cattle dog cross. The trio came to the aid of a man who had fallen and broken his leg in Bronte Creek Provincial Park on Monday. her dogs in Bronte Creek Provincial Park twice a day, a habit, which she said has made her familiar with the area and allowed her to guide the rescue workers to her location. David said she has kept in touch with the man's family since the accident. She said they have told her the man has been diagnosed with a spiral fracture to his tibia (shinbone) for which he received surgery on Tuesday. David said she is not comfortable with being called the hero of this story, noting only her hope is that if she were to find herself in a similar predicament, someone would do the same for her.