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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 www.brantflorist.com/ob www.dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 www.carstaroakville.com 905.639.7001 Classroom goes chairless Page 14 905-8457579 905-847 -2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. 547 Trafalgar Rd. A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 133 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009 32 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Loyola must seek approval for lights By Tina Depko OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) has ruled in favour of the Town over the Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) on the issue of proposed field lights at St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Secondary School. Presiding OMB Member Peter Atcheson concluded in his decision released Wednesday morning that the HCDSB cannot go ahead and install its field lights, as it had originally planned. Atcheson said the HCDSB must first submit a site plan application and receive approval from the Town of Oakville. The decision is a significant victory for many residents in the Loyola neighbourhood, who were vehemently opposed to the lights. Ward 4 Councillor Allan Elgar was also happy with the decision on Wednesday morning. " I'm very gratified that the OMB has upheld our site plan powers and that retroactive field lighting is a matter of site plan," he said. "We won and we now have the say." Elgar, who sits on the Town's Site H1N1 claims first Halton victim By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER HONOUR ROLL: Ray Waters plays the Last Post during the eighth annual Veterans Appreciation Luncheon hosted by MEDIchair Halton at the Oakville Convention and Banquet Centre on Monday. Veterans -- past and present -- honoured By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF See School page 4 eterans from the Halton Region and beyond converged on the Oakville Convention and Banquet Centre Monday, to receive a colossal thank you for their past service at the MEDIchair Halton eighth annual V Veterans Appreciation Luncheon. Around 750 veterans, many wearing their uniforms and medals and accompanied by their families, packed the centre's massive banquet hall where the event was kicked off with a ceremony of remembrance. As a piper played, a colour party of soldiers carried Canadian flags to a podium at the front of the room. These were followed by a procession of uniformed soldiers, past and present, as well as police and even RCMP officers clad in their red dress uniforms. All who could stand, did so for the singing of the national anthem and the reading of Lieutenant A woman in her seventies is Halton's first H1N1 fatality. Dr. Bob Nosal, Halton's Medical Officer of Health, reported early yesterday afternoon that the woman was the first Halton resident to die from the pandemic H1N1 flu virus. Nosal said the woman died within the last week and had been hospitalized with the virus. She also had underlying health issues. The woman is among 30 in Ontario -- 101 across Canada, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada -- to succumb to the pandemic virus since it first made its appearance last spring. Halton Region's heath department still has vaccine, however, its H1N1 vaccination clinics continue to immunize only high-risk individuals this week. Clinics for the general public have been cancelled until further notice from the Province of Ontario as there See War page 11 See Lineups page 5