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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | 8 Priestley makes picks in Tim Hortons' contest by Dominik Kurek Oakville Beaver Staff The Traveler's Guide to The Oakville Waterfront Festival The Oakville Waterfront Festival is back this weekend! "The entire Festival committee is excited for opening night" said Bill Smith, Chair of Celebrate Oakville Festivals, the organizing body behind the return of OWF . This year the Festival is proud to offer Oakville Transit shuttle buses to and from Coronation Park. Shuttle buses will be departing every 10 minutes from Oakville Go and Bronte Go all weekend long. Shuttles will commence on Friday August 2nd starting at 6:30pm. Saturday and Sunday, August 3rd and 4th the shuttle service will begin at 9:30am. Bus fare for the Oakville Waterfront Festival shuttles will be $2 per person, children 5 and under are free. Shuttles departing from Coronation Park returning to both Go stations are free! Guests are also encouraged to ride their bike to the event and park them in the Willson International sponsored bike corral. "Take advantage of the summer weather and ride your bike to the festival, there will be plenty of room to store your bike inside the festival grounds" said Smith. Parking will be extremely limited in the event zone, so festivalgoers are encouraged to utilize these alternate means of transportation to the event. For more information please visit: www.oakvillewaterfrontfestival.ca Connect with the festival today: Twitter- @OWF2013 Facebook- Oakville Waterfront Festival When Vancouver-born celebrity Jason Priestley stopped by Tim Hortons in Oakville, he had more than just a coffee. He says he takes his coffee with a bit of sugar, but this time the Beverly Hills, 90210 star had a whole lot as he judged Tim Hortons' ongoing Duelling Donuts competition. "It was really fun to judge this contest," Priestley said Tuesday at Tim Hortons Centre for Innovation (headquarters). "We had a lot of fun today. We ate a lot of doughnuts, a lot of very interesting doughnuts, that were created by a lot of creative Canadians." In February, Priestley had a cameo on the popular sitcom How I Met Your Mother, in a role that inspired the contest. The episode played on the idea of a Canada obsessed with Tim Hortons, where Priestley imagined an ideal doughnut. He was interviewed for a faux documentary where he bragged about a concoction called `The Priestley.' Following the episode, a Tim Hortons chef for research and development Wayne Blythe made a mock batch of what the envisioned pastry would be -- a chocolate Timbit stuffed inside a strawberry-vanilla doughnut. "The Priestley is good, there is no question about that," said Priestley, who has tasted the doughnut creation not available on Tim Hortons shelves. After Blythe made The Priestley doughnut, Tim Hortons sent a photo of the creation out on Twitter, with the caption "A Timbit IN a doughnut? Genius." The public's response to the Tweet made clear the interest in new doughnut flavours, said Donna Finelli, a Tim Hortons spokesperson. Priestley said the resulting competition was a testament to the power of social media. The contest challenged Canadians to try to beat The Priestley. It received more than 63,000 doughnut entries. Since then, those doughnuts were narrowed to the top 16, and Priestley and a panel of three other judges selected their top eight picks. "The doughnuts that we tasted today were amazing. Some of the combinations were things that I would have never thought of putting together," Priestley said. "They are different than The Priestley. I don't know if anything is as good as The Priestley, I mean, let's be honest." The star said he enjoys eating doughnuts, but, due to the industry he's in, he's not able to eat too many. "At events like today, I get to enjoy several, which is a lot of fun," he said. With the top eight now selected, the public gets to vote on a winner between Aug. 5 and 18. Contest details and a doughnut design program are available on the company's website and Facebook page dubbed Duelling Donuts. -- with files from Hamilton Spectator Jason Priestley was one of four judges helping to choose from the top 16 creations in Tim Hortons' Duelling Donuts competition at Tim Hortons Centre for Innovation yesterday afternoon. Priestley was given the honour after having a doughnut named after him in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. 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The Oakville Fire Department reported no one was injured following a carbon monoxide scare at the new Oakville hospital construction site yesterday (Tuesday). At 12:44 p.m., four members of a work crew conducting underground tunneling in the area of Third Line and Dundas Street for a sewer system began experiencing symptoms associated with carbon monoxide exposure. Oakville Fire Chief Lee Grant said the carbon monoxide emissions may have come from tunnelling equipment being used. The workers were brought to the surface, assessed by paramedics and found to be in good health. Three were taken to Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH) for observation. EllisDon Senior Project Manager Jeff McKay said the work was being done by a sub-contractor for the Region of Halton at the site.