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Imagine "Oakville" with no oaks. From today's Toronto Star.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...geid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1156456211352
http://www.haltonsearch.com/hr/ob/story/3642586p-4211100c.html
www.halton.ca/savethetree
Donor, brewer seed bid to save Oakville oak
Aug. 25, 2006. 05:40 AM
MIKE FUNSTON
STAFF REPORTER
A fund to save an historic Oakville oak tree from the axe has received a big boost from a Toronto donor pledging up to $150,000 and a local brewer who is selling suds for buds.
The donor wants her name to remain anonymous, but Trafalgar Brewery marketing manager Lindsay Key wants everyone to know 50 cents from every 650 ml bottle of White Oak Weissbier will go to the fund. The marketing campaign has just been uncapped and already 800 bottles have been sold, Key said.
The bottle label has a picture of the majestic 250-year-old tree and is being sold at Oakville's five LCBO stores and at the Speers Rd. brewery. The German-style wheat beer sells for $3.75 a bottle.
"We're going to apply to the LCBO to make it available throughout Halton," which also includes Burlington, Milton and Halton Hills, Key said.
The LCBO has approved thefundraising initiative, he noted.
Halton Council decided this summer that the ancient oak must make way for the widening of Bronte Rd., north of the QEW near regional government headquarters. Some citizens asked council to divert the road , but the $343,000 cost was deemed too high.
But councillors agreed to approve the diversion if community and corporate fundraisers raise the money by Dec. 15.
Joyce Burnell, community co-chair of the newly formed Woodlands Oak Tree Preservation Committee thinks the oak can be saved.
She said the mystery donor, who has an "Oakville connection," has pledged in writing to match every other dollar given to the fund up to $150,000, Burnell said.
To date, $25,000 has been raised.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...geid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1156456211352
http://www.haltonsearch.com/hr/ob/story/3642586p-4211100c.html
www.halton.ca/savethetree
Donor, brewer seed bid to save Oakville oak
Aug. 25, 2006. 05:40 AM
MIKE FUNSTON
STAFF REPORTER
A fund to save an historic Oakville oak tree from the axe has received a big boost from a Toronto donor pledging up to $150,000 and a local brewer who is selling suds for buds.
The donor wants her name to remain anonymous, but Trafalgar Brewery marketing manager Lindsay Key wants everyone to know 50 cents from every 650 ml bottle of White Oak Weissbier will go to the fund. The marketing campaign has just been uncapped and already 800 bottles have been sold, Key said.
The bottle label has a picture of the majestic 250-year-old tree and is being sold at Oakville's five LCBO stores and at the Speers Rd. brewery. The German-style wheat beer sells for $3.75 a bottle.
"We're going to apply to the LCBO to make it available throughout Halton," which also includes Burlington, Milton and Halton Hills, Key said.
The LCBO has approved thefundraising initiative, he noted.
Halton Council decided this summer that the ancient oak must make way for the widening of Bronte Rd., north of the QEW near regional government headquarters. Some citizens asked council to divert the road , but the $343,000 cost was deemed too high.
But councillors agreed to approve the diversion if community and corporate fundraisers raise the money by Dec. 15.
Joyce Burnell, community co-chair of the newly formed Woodlands Oak Tree Preservation Committee thinks the oak can be saved.
She said the mystery donor, who has an "Oakville connection," has pledged in writing to match every other dollar given to the fund up to $150,000, Burnell said.
To date, $25,000 has been raised.
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