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Halton’s Landscape Needs Your Talent And Ideas

Open Houses on the Durable Halton Plan:Building our Future Landscape

What Halton Region looks like and how it functions depends on you. Your contributions are needed to help us build the Durable Halton Plan. This Plan will be our blueprint for building Halton’s sustainable and healthy communities well into the future. It will determine where and how we grow, and what we protect. This is your opportunity to help shape Halton’s landscape for the next century.

The Durable Halton Plan will respond to the Provincial Growth and Greenbelt Plans, help us meet provincial requirements and ultimately, assist us in developing the next Official Plan.

To help us plan for the future together, Halton Region will host open houses to provide Halton residents and businesses with the opportunity to get involved and learn more about the Durable Halton Plan.

Let’s shape Halton’s landscape together. Please join us to plan our future at one or all of the Open Houses listed below.

Open House Schedule6:30 p.m. Open House • 7:00 p.m. Presentation

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Wednesday, June 14 Tuesday, June 20 Wednesday, June 21 Thursday, June 29

Halton Regional Centre, Cafeteria1151 Bronte Road

The GalleryGeorgetown Cultural Centre9 Church Street

Hugh Foster Hall53 Brown Street

Multi-Purpose Room Appleby Ice Centre1201 Appleby Line

Background information is available at www.halton.ca/DurableHalton.

For more information, please contact Jane Clohecy, Director of Planning & Transportation at 905-825-6000 ext.7966, or toll-free at 1-866-442-5866, or email jane.clohecy@halton.ca.

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After cruising through four matches at lastweek’s Ontario Federation of School AthleticAssociations (OFSAA) tennis championship toreach the final, Michael Syer found himself trail-ing for the first time.

Down 5-3, he thought about nothing butwinning the gold medal.

“I just kept fighting,” said the Grade 11Loyola student. “Losing never crossed mymind.”

Syer came through with the service break heneeded and held his own serve to tie the match.He would deliver another service break on hisway to an 8-6 victory, making him the provincialhigh school champion.

“You always think about doing well but I real-ly had no idea what to expect,” said Syer, whowas competing at OFSAA for the first time.

He was certainly familiar with his opponent,Aamer Javed, in the final. The two have playeddoubles together at the last two Ontario cham-pionships. Javed had a strong service game butSyer was equal to the task with an outstandingreturn game. Coach Gary Laurin said Syer madegood use of his backhand down the line and did-n’t let his opponent use his strengths.

“The other guy was a power hitter but Mikedid a good job of returning serve and keepingthe ball in play. He kept him behind the baseline

and didn’t let him come in to attack,” Laurinsaid.

As if capturing the OFSAA gold wasn’t specialenough, Syer got to play the final on centrecourt at the Rexall Centre in Toronto, where thelikes of Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters haveclaimed championships.

“It was really amazing,” Syer said. “Theatmosphere was great. It was very professional.We had line judges, umpires. It’s one of the besttennis experiences I’ve had.”

Dominates tourney’s top seed

Although the semifinal may have lacked thedrama of the final, it may have well been Syer’sbest match of the tournament. Playing top-seed-ed Arren Skandarajah, who is 15th in the OntarioU18 rankings, Syer turned in a dominating per-formance to win 8-2.

“That was the best I saw him play all week,”Laurin said.

Syer, who is ranked 50th amongst juniors inOntario but who was as high as No. 4 in the U16,cruised through the opening day of competition.He took his first match 8-2 and the next 8-3. Hewas leading his third match 2-0 when his oppo-nent retired due to injury.

The victory made Syer Loyola’s secondOFSAA champion. Swimmer Franco Salimanowas the first, winning the 100-metre backstrokein 2004.

Syer serves up OFSAA tennis title Loyola student second provincial champion in school history

ACE: Loyola student Michael Syer became the second OFSAA champion in school his-tory by winning last week’s provincial high school tennis championship in Toronto.

KEVIN HILL / SPECIAL TO THE OAKVILLE BEAVER

It wasn’t the type of start Karl Kustorand the Oakville Longhorns were lookingfor.

The Longhorns fell 26-0 to the SaultSte. Marie Steelers in Northern FootballConference action Saturday at BronteAthletic Field, the season-opener for bothsquads. It also marked Kustor’s first gameas Oakville head coach, following alengthy playing stint with the senior club.

Sault Ste. Marie scored all of its points

in the second quarter, 18 of them comingfrom running back Josh Gauthier.Gauthier scored three touchdowns in theframe and finished the contest with 64yards on eight carries.

Dan Seymour was Oakville’s most pro-ductive offensive player, running the ball12 times for 44 yards.

Oakville will next host the Tri-CityOutlaws Saturday at Bronte, a 6 p.m.start.

Longhorns blanked in opener