
STANDING ON GUARD: Detective Constable Tracey Peters and Detective Constable Patrick Overholt of the Halton Police Internet Child Exploitation Unit.
WHO'S THAT? SCHOOL PLAY: Horton the Elephant (Ryan Ilines) thinks he hears a Who in the Glenburnie School production of Seussical the Musical at the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. More than 100 Grade 4-8 students were involved in the production.
Adam van Koeverden
OLYMPIC BOUND AGAIN: Adam van Koeverden, celebrating his victory at last year's world championships, is headed back to the Olympics after winning the Olympic trials on the weekend. The defending Olympic champ in the 500m will be the favourite to repeat.
BEADED DREAMS: Rosemarie Wolff shows off her jewelry at KnitoneBeadtoo on Lakeshore Road. The Oakville jewelry maker sells her creations at the boutique, as well as at The Haberdashers Bead Boutique on Dunn Street.
KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE FOR THE KIDS: Vince Murray tries to grab a prize ticket in the Prize Machine at the recent annual spring barbecue at Total Tech Pools, 1380 Speers Rd. The fundraising event raised $1,200 for the El Hogar School for underprivileged and abandoned children in Honduras.
GLOBALLY-MINDED PLAY A SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY: Maple Grove United Church, 346 Maple Grove Dr., is presenting the play The Cards You Have Been Dealt on May 11 during its service starting at 10:30 a.m. The play about Zimbabwe, written and performed by Chaka Chikodzi, pictured here with his partner Sarah Kastner and their baby, Sekai, Daniel Huizenga and Dr. Brian Nichols, explores three different perspectives on time spent in sub-Saharan Africa. The play offers food for thought due to public and media interest in the country's recent election, economic problems, AIDS epidemic and the suffering of its citizens. Admission is free. Members of the Oakville community and the congregation at Maple Grove, under the leadership of Dr. Morar Murray-Hayes, have spent the past five years raising money for its Action for AIDS program.
BREAK ON THROUGH FANCY FOOTWORK: Ellen Ocran of the St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders breaks free from a fallen T.A. Blakelock opponent in last Thursday's Halton Secondary School Athletic Association senior girls' division 2 rugby game. The Raiders may have come out on top on this play but it was Blakelock that scored a convincing 29-0 victory in the rematch of last year's final.