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PAGE 6 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, JULY 2, 2003 www.durhamregion.com • ' // II If: nsî S • f&M À IS V- Æl « >. * i#||§ Jpf ' . fepi ^ r JPl • jo jjjpl 111 ft i 'ImpI, jfc> p&i . - ji| 9 WALTER PASSARELLA/Statesman photo Primary storyteller COURTICE - Lucas Crosby, a Grade 1 student at Monsignor Leo Cleary Catholic School in Courtice, placed first in the province in a young author's awards competition held by the Ontario English Teacher's Association. His story 'Snapping 'Snapping TTirtle' won in the fiction category. UOIT ready for inaugural class OSHAWA - Just one year after its official creation through the passage of Bill 109 by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, the University of Ontario Institute Institute of Technology is well on its way to greeting its first class of students this September. The university's first and largest academic building, as well as the first phase of a new residence, will be ready for students when they arrive on campus campus in the fall. In addition, construction of two more academic buildings, as well as a new 73,000-square-foot campus campus library began this spring. These buildings are scheduled for completion for 2004. In addition, a world-class, year- round tennis centre, and a championship championship regulation soccer field will open this year and will be available to university university students. Other athletic facilities including a twin-pad arena will be ready in 2005. UOIT is Ontario's first laptop-based university. Each student at the university will use a current model of the IBM ThinkPad and classrooms and labs will be fully networked. Enrolment at UOIT is projected to reach 6,500 by 2010. Additional undergraduate programs, graduate and doctoral programs and world-class research opportunities will be developed. A New Metroland Wine Connection Offering Parents eye Bowmanville money for Peterborough school BLAIR EDWARDS This Week PETERBOROUGH - A planned Bowmanville separate school for 2005 should be shelved say Peterborough Peterborough parents who want the $3 million the board set aside put toward the immediate immediate construction of a new school in the liftlock city. Parents here picketed outside the. Catholic school board headquarters Tuesday night, demanding trustees build a new school to replace St. John's Elementary. The Jane Street school in Peterborough Peterborough needs a complete overhaul with more than $1.6 million in renovations required. Board director of education , Mike Langlois says that's money the school board simply doesn't have after the Ontario government recently rejected an appeal for a Prohibitive- - To-Repair Grant - money provided for l a school deemed too costly to repair. However, St. John's School coun- 1 cil maintains the board does have the money. The board, says council mem- ■ bers, can pull about $3 million out of plans to build a new school in Bow- manville in 2005 and cull more fund- ' ing from expansion plans for another Clarington school. "We (have) an old decrepit, unacceptable unacceptable building that is unfit for our precious children," says a letter to parents from the St. John's School council. In April, the board's hopes for a new . school were crushed when it learned it wouldn't get any provincial funding to renovate and/or replace St. John's. But the Province has rejected appeals to fund a new building and Mr. Langlois Langlois says parents shouldn't expect a turnaround. Janet McAuley-Oliver, co chair of the school council, says parents need to pressure the Ontario government as well as the school board. "I think we need to go back to the Ministry of Education as well as (Peterborough (Peterborough MPP) Gary Stewart to say this is not good enough." 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