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Weather for Oakville, ON Thurs Fri Sat Sun 16° 14° 16° 14° 16° 14° 19° 13° Growing up poor: series Page 16 OYS looks back on 70 years Page 24 www.insidehalton.com 916 Winston Churchill Blvd. k ill www.carstaroakville.com k i ll Collision & Glass Glass Service Service Collision & 905-845-7579 905-847-2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Thursday, September 29, 2016 | 56 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Help stock Fare Share cupboards for holiday by John Bkila Oakville Beaver Staff Put to the test Licensed childcare spaces are welcomed by Julia Le Oakville Beaver Staff As Thanksgiving approaches Oct. 10, Fare Share food bank hopes the annual food drive it holds at the holiday will restock its shelves and the tables of the needy. Fare Share's annual Thanksgiving food drive begins Saturday (Oct. 1) and runs through Sunday, Oct. 16. Items that are most needed include canned stew and chunky soup, baby food jars, diapers sizes ve and six, and tins of salmon. For a complete list of most-needed items, visit www.oakvillefoodbank. com/needed-items. Donations can be dropped off at collection bins found at all Oakville Fire stations and local grocery stores, as well as at the 1240 Speers Rd., Unit 6, food bank, which is open to its clients Mondays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and Thursdays, 3-7 p.m. Volunteers are also urgently needed see Thanksgiving on p.30 Oakville Fire Training Of cer Dave Connors peers into the inferno inside the training tower as he leads a RIT team (Rapid Intervention Team) of re ghter recruits -- Anthony Farrugia, left, and Brendan Neely. Nine Oakville re ghter recruits, are graduating a 12-week training session at the department's South Service Road training campus today (Thursday). For more photos, see Spotlight on p.6 and visit oakvillebeaver.com. | Graham Paine/Metroland There should soon be more licensed childcare spaces in Oakville for infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers. Exact numbers are not yet known. "We're looking forward to the Region of Halton being able to take up a sizeable portion of these spaces," said Ontario Labour Minister and Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn, who visited the Margaret Drive Regional Child Care Centre Sept. 23. He was there to expand on the Ontario MPP Kevin Flynn government commitment, made in the Sept. 12 Throne Speech, to create 100,000 new, licensed child care spaces across Ontario within the next ve years -- see New on p.21 SAUNDERS, SAXTON & WINTER ~ A Legacy of Excellence ~ Wendy Saunders Kim Saxton Ruth Anne Winter Sales Representative Sales Representative Broker 136 Church Street, Suite 1A - Oakville, ON | 905.845.1223 sswteam.ca | sswteam @ johnstonanddaniel.com 4141 Derry Road West - $2,299,000 1123 Morrison Heights Drive · $3,359,000