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Santa Claus is coming to Oakville....

The Holiday Season has officially begun. 

 The excitement is buzing about Santa coming to our Town today and the kids have been making their lists and checking them twice. The festivities Saturday November 19 at 9am on Lakeshore Road and continue to Kerr Street north to Stewart Street. The Parade will delight children of all ages with beautifully decorated theme floats and live marching bands.

Santa will be collecting wish lists from children along the Oakville Parade route. Mrs.Claus will be selecting the winner of the Annual Kid's Colouring Contest.

Please remember those in need and bring an unwrapped toy as the Oakville Fire Fighters will be graciously collecting them on route.

The fun continous with the screening of the all time Christmas Classic - A  Christmas Story. Join in on the fun at the Encore Cinemas at either 11:30, 1:45 or 4:00pm. Please bring a donation to supprot the Oak park Neighbourhood Centre's Food Drive. Items accepted will be cash donation, non-perishable food items and grocery gift cards.

Fill your thermos with Hot Coca and bundle up warmly as Santa is coming to Town...  See you there!

Come celebrate fall harvest in Downtown Oakville with family and friends. The festivities begin in Towne Square at 9:30am with hot pancakes being served. One of Canada's Favourite performers will delight the children with a live performance. Dan the Music Man.

Towne Square will be alive with entertainment with music for all ages, fun games, and amazing wagon rides from 12pm-4pm.

Be sure to enjoy freshly roasted corn on the cob with the infamous Corn Roast.

Downtown Oakville is the perfect place to be on a beautiful fall day.

 See you there!

Glen Abbey has a newly renovated community centre located in the heart of the community at the intersection of Third Line and Glen Abbey Gate. The facility features two hockey rinks, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, squash courts and a fitness gym. The building also has several community rooms and an Oakville Public Library branch. Outside there is also a basketball court, baseball and softball diamonds and soccer field. The Oakville Gymnastics Club also has a world class facility at the community centre.

The community is filled with many woodlands and ravines that are filled with walking and biking trails. The Sixteen Mile Creek also travels alongside the golf course. There are several parks spread out across the community that include tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer fields, baseball diamonds, playgrounds and splash pads

The Glen Abbey community has seven schools. Public schools are part of the Halton District School Board and the separate schools are part of the Halton Catholic District School Board. Each school has its own boundary zones throughout Glen Abbey and Oakville. Since Abbey Park High School was built in 2004, a strong, athletic rivalry between the Eagles and the Loyola Hawks has been prevalent; especially in hockey, football and basketball.

• Three public elementary schools: Abbey Lane , Pilgrim Wood and Heritage Glen
• Two separate elementary schools: St. Bernadette and St. Matthew
• One public secondary school: Abbey Park High School
• One separate secondary school: St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School

Housing in the community ranges from single family detached residences to medium and high density attached and apartment housing forms. The majority is low density housing. Glen Abbey also has a Delmanor Seniors Community. The average cost of a home is $500,000 but homes range from $300,000 to $3 million.

Glen Abbey has two major plazas for grocery shopping and big box retail. The largest is the recently renamed "Dorval Crossing" (formerly the "Town Centres") which includes Toys R Us, Sport Chek, National Sports, Bed Bath and Beyond, Dollerama, Chapters and others. The second plaza is the "Abbey Plaza".

Glen Abbey has two churches.

• Glen Abbey United Church
• St. Matthew Roman Catholic Church

 Glen Abbey is famous for the Glen Abbey Golf Course, a world-renowned course designed by Jack Nicklaus. It has been the home of the Canadian Open several times.

Women are DIYing it in overwhelming numbers, and the home improvement industry knows it. Many of the hardware and big-box stores are gearing their advertising toward women, and the manly image of a power-tool-wielding macho man has become, quite properly, the stuff of late-night comedy.

Not every handywoman is equally comfortable hanging drywall or brandishing a Sawzall, but there's one area of home improvement where we have seen and conquered, and that's painting. According to a recent survey by the editors of the hardware trade journal Hardlines, after gardening, painting is the number-one home improvement project performed by women, with up to 54 per cent of female respondents having engaged in at least one interior painting project in the last 12 months. The result has been a radical change in the painting industry at every level, from the independent paint store, to the big box, to paint manufacture and product design.

And this is where things have started getting really interesting. The range of progress, from new technology to gadgets that'll make painting easier for the layperson, is especially fascinating.

Latex paint has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last 20 years, largely driven by consumer demand for a product that's easy to use and clean, durable and low-odour. (Latex has come so far that in exterior applications at least, many painters no longer use oil paint – for any purpose – anymore.)

Para has just introduced a new eggshell latex that answers one of the last of the complaints against latex – that it doesn't stand up to repeated scrubbing as well as alkyd. Called Elite, the new paint contains “ceramic microspheres” that protect the finish and colour from stains, scuffs and Junior's crayon marks. According to Para, even deep colours – which traditionally are most vulnerable to lifting caused by scrubbing – will remain true over time.

Here's another idea that any home painter can relate to. Most people paint their ceilings white – which sometimes leads to a problem when you repaint. How do you tell which parts you've painted and which you've missed? CIL's Magic Paint, part of a new line that also contains special additives that beef up its scrub-resistance, actually goes on pink. The tint allows you to apply a perfectly even coat, and then have fun watching it dry – whereupon the pink, which is actually a special disappearing dye, fades to a brilliant, fresh white.

But one of the most obvious improvements in the world of consumer paint – obvious in the “why didn't anyone think of it before?” sense – is Dutch Boy's new one-litre and 3.7 litre plastic containers, which feature twist-off lids, side handles, and easy-pour spouts. Because the cans are plastic, they won't rust or dent and are lightweight. The square shape also beats the heck out of traditional round gallon cans when it comes to storing quantities of half-used leftovers in the basement.

More and more consumers – especially women – have come to view repainting a room as less a form of home improvement than a quick and easy way to redecorate, especially when everyone from Debbie Travis to the owner of the local paint store is singing the praises (and the ease) of DIY. And with improvements that make the process simpler – and that make the job look better and last longer once you're finished – it's one job that just about anyone can tackle.  Article courtesy Style At Home