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www.oakvillebeaver.com Fo r the finest in C U S T O M U P H O L S T E R IN G c a ll B aier's. Makers of fine upholstered furniture. 2333 Wrecroft Road, l o t 7 ffiawren Bronie&Thml Lme) c* MIDNIGHT * V MADNESS! * Special sale sectio n in s id e Black flag for White at Indy Sports 56 Pages M e rc e d e s -B e n z mm A Metroiand Publication Vol.38No.86 WEDNESDAY, JULY 19,2000 75 Cents (p lu sG S T ) N ew Q EW ra m p fa ta l d riv e r The truck, owned by the Jeffbrett Group of Dundas, was being driven by Cory Dufour when the vehicle rolled over into the ditch while negotiating the ramp. An air ambulance crew rushed to the scene and assisted but Dufour was pronounced dead at the scene. The tanker was carrying approximately 38 metric tons of powder cement, which remained contained. According to the OPP, the truck will undergo a mechanical inspection and the speed the vehicle was traveling will also factor into the investigation. fo r tru c k A 28-year old Ancaster man was killed Monday when the tanker truck he was driving rolled on the newly-opened westbound ramp from Royal Windsor Drive. According to Burlington Detachment OPP, the acci dent happened around 11:30 a.m. and snarled traffic for hours. Ironically, the mishap occurred only 90 minutes after area OPP launched their week-long highway crackdown on speeding and aggressive driving. Photo by Peter C. McCusker A 28-year-old Ancaster man died Monday morning when the truck he was driving rolled over on the new Royal Windsor Drive exit to the QEW. W ater quality issue confined to area A story concerning Oakville drinking water that was published in Monday's Globe and Mail has been called misleading by Town officials. The article said that Oakville water was under watch by the Ministry of the Environment because of contamination. "Oakville's drinking water is of good quality and reliable," said Mayor Ann Mulvale in response to the report. "Any problems that may have surfaced have come from private well water, not municipal drinking water. We have aggres sively monitored wells beyond the normal level since the Walkerton matter surfaced." Mulvale said the Halton Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Nosal, regularly updates the Town on its water quality and there is no need to be wary of the town's drinking water. "Since the Walkerton incident, residents have a heightened sensitivity to water quality," said Mulvale. "Our water meets or exceeds all provin cial guidelines. Residents consuming municipal water in Oakville have every reason to be confi dent that our water supply is safe and will remain * » SO. The Halton Region Health Department was informed by Environment Ministry officials that there was a problem with some private wells serv ing residents on Ninth Line between Dundas Street and Upper Middle Road but not with the water supply system operated by Halton Region. _ , w not Ric Robertshaw, Director of Environmental Services with the Region, said a consultant tested the wells in question in mid-May and found there were some negative test results. The wells were re-sampled by Health Department staff and visited all 21 homes in the area to test their wells or to leave water bottles and instructions if the residents were not at home. Robertshaw said Health Department staff will ( S e e ` R e s id e n ts ' p a g e A 2 ) Trustee Debbie Marklew resigning at end of month By S cott M acArthur SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER With Monday's announcement that Oakville trustee Debbie Marklew is resigning, the Halton District School Board will be losing one of its most active members. Marklew, whose resignation takes effect on July 31st, is moving to Brantford to be closer to her family. `The Education Act says that to work as a member on the Board, you must live in its region," said Marklew. "I'm leaving Halton and so, unfortunately, I must also leave my job, although the distance (from Brantford to Oakville) would have made it hard anyway." Marklew was first elected to represent Oakville's Ward 5 in 1991. She was re-elected in 1994, and took on the respon sibility of Wards 5 and 6 at the start of her third term in 1997. Her primary concern has been for the welfare of the community throughout her tenure. "My communities were my top priority," said Marklew, who chaired every Board committee except Finance and the Special Education Advisory Committee during her nine year tenure. "And that priority included doing what was best for the students of Halton and our education system." The ability to see educational problems far in advance also helped the mother of two. In 1982, she appeared before the Board as a parent, concerned about the provincial gov ernment's downloading of funds for children with special needs. In 1990, she once again went before the Board with con cerns of air quality in the classroom, after numerous teach ers complained of headaches and fatigue. During her time on the Board, she dealt with Social Contract negotiations, changes to the education system ini tiated by the current provincial government, and differences of opinion with fellow trustees. Marklew, a strong advocate for accommodation needs throughout Halton, is happy that Oakville is getting a new school. She's disappointed, however, that there hasn't been a renovation to White Oaks Secondary School. (S e e 'T r u s te e ' p a g e A 2 ) Photo by Peter C. McCusker G O I N G B U G G Y : Ashley and Nathan VanKralingen show their egg carton spiders made at Bronte Creek Provincial Park on the weekend during the park's presentation on bugs. S u m m e r s c h o o l n u m b e r s r i s e b u t B o a r d d o e s n 't k n o w w h y O fficials n o t b la m in g new c u r r ic u lu m By Nancy Alexander SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The number of Grade 9 students attending summer school classes in Oakville and across the Region is up significantly in math and science, but no one at this point is willing to point fingers at the new curriculum as the reason for the increase. Grade 9 math classes in Halton, for instance, have almost doubled, from four to seven, and numbers are also up for science. English, on the< other hand, has decreased somewhat. David Knight, supervisor of sum mer school at the Halton District School Board, admitted that numbers are up in some areas, "but not by much", and he wasn't willing to specu T late as to why. In total, there are about 700 stu dents, from Grade 9 to OAC, enrolled in summer school classes in Oakville. Those numbers are roughly the same as last year, except for the areas of Grade 9 math and science. Knight said the Board bases its pro jections of the number of classes need ed on what school guidance counsellors tell them in January about the failure rate they're seeing. The big surprise this year, he noted, was that the antici pated need for English classes did not materialize. A total of ten were sched uled, but only three ultimately ran. More significant perhaps, is the large increase in remedial math and English courses being run for Grade 7 and 8 students. Knight says the Board has been offering the classes to eighth-graders for the past three summers and this year extended it to include Grade 7 as well. Since last year, enrollment has almost tripled--from 10 classes to 29. "I don't know how this will translate to Grade 9 or 10 students next year," Knight added. He noted that the Halton Board has struck a committee to look into remedi ation procedures and that the Ministry of Education is providing funding to boards for non-credit remediation. While Knight was unwilling to speculate on reasons for the increases, including the new provincial curricu lum, he suggested that some Grade 9 students could be using summer school to upgrade from the applied to the aca demic stream or"to get a jump on their peers who will be part of a double cohort (graduating class) in 2003 when the last OAC classes and the first wave of four-year high school grads com plete high school at the same time. INSIDE today' s paper Edtorials..................... M Focus_______________________ B1 Business_______ _______ B6 Entertainment....,_____________ B8 Server wins $ 1,000 a week for life Just days before her 33rd birthday, Wendy Davenport checked her Cash For Life Lottery ticket and now she'll be paid $1,000 weekly for life. "I want to get the cheque in the mail, just like in the commercials," said Davenport, "and hopefully, I'll live a nice, long life." The restaurant server says she'll still keep her job at Nickel's Restaurant. She had the option of taking a onetime payment of $670,000 or the week ly cash payment. Married just three years, Davenport is no stranger to lottery wins. Earlier this year she won $8,600 through Superstar Bingo and another $170 this week as a consolation prize winner. Not only that, Davenport's home town of Belleville also produced a Cash For Life grand prize winner four months ago. Midnight Madness___ _____C1 Sports________________D 1 Classified_____________ D4 Automotive........... ........... ,J ) 8 Spe<id Supplements: P artial delivery. 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