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21 | The IFP -H alton H ills | T hursday,January 10,2019 theifp.ca To determine your designated home school, refer to our website www.hdsb.ca (Find My Local School). Call your designated school to find out which dates have been established for Kindergarten registration. 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Burlington: ext.3307 Milton: ext.3324 Oakville: ext.3271 or 3324 Halton Hills ext.3294 Please bring the following original documents with you to register: If you require language assistance registering your student for school, please contact Halton Multicultural Council (905) 842-2486. Si necesita ayuda en su idioma para matricular a su hijo/a, por favor llame al Halton Multicultural Council (Centro Multicultural de Halton) al (905) 842-2486 For further information, please contact: Phone: 905-335-3663 Toll free: 1-877-618-3456 Please register your child by February 1, 2019. Access to the school library is provided once registered. 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"The Norval Commu- nity Association has falsely led the Town of Halton Hills to believe that consultation with the local residents has been undertaken," said Gladstone. "There has been no such consulta- tion, involvement or even notification provided to the residents of any of the undertakings." Fraser, who is also in- volved in the projects, says the purpose of the proposed development is threefold: to provide a broad range of education- al, recreational and cul- tural services; to support and enhance a variety of arts and cultural oppor- tunities for the enjoy- ment of residents; and to promote opportunities for tourism. "I think the Norval people who have signed the petition care deeply about their community and I'm happy to meet with them anytime," she said. "I'm also happy to see what ideas they have for the property other than 'No, we don't want it,' because it is coming, it is going to come and it needs to come." In a letter sent to May- or Rick Bonnette in June from Gladstone and local residents, Gladstone out- lines her reservations with the proposed devel- opment stating that "any non-residential develop- ment of 402 and 404 Drap- er Street, Norval would drastically diminish the dollar value of neigh- bouring properties" and "have a significantly neg- ative impact on the qual- ity of life of the resi- dents." Norval resident Cheryl Dziergas lives across the street from the Manse and cottage and says she has concerns about the proposed muse- um and literary centre, as she has two small chil- dren, one with autism. "This is a health con- cern for my daughter. Noise is a huge thing for her," Dziergas said. "We bought this house be- cause it was a quiet little cove on the street. Now, are we going to have to move?" Dziergas says the cur- rent traffic from visitors coming to Draper Street and the Children's Gar- den of the Senses throughout the year is al- ready a lot for her daugh- ter to handle. "There are cars every- where. People park on the street, they block people's driveways, they walk on people's lawns," she said. "They have no consider- ation." Dziergas said she only heard about the proposal for the museum this past summer after one of her neighbours moved out of the area as a result of the impending develop- ments. She said not long after, Gladstone began approaching residents to sign a petition. Gladstone said she first came across a men- tion of some of the pro- posed Norval develop- ments accidentally, in De- cember of 2015. "I was Googling some- thing - completely oblivi- ous to anything that was going on here - and the first thing that popped up to me was a PDF from a Town of Halton Hills meeting," she said. The document refer- enced a September 2015 meeting, when the Norval Community Association presented plans for a Nor- val Park redesign, which included enlarging the existing parking lot, add- ing a wheelchair-accessi- ble washroom attached to the Norval Community Centre, and adding an en- trance and pedestrian walkway off Draper Street, as well as gateway signage for Willow Park and Norval Park. "The Norval Commu- nity Association had gone before the Town, un- der the guise of re- presenting the residents, and asked for money to remodify the whole park," she said. "And I was thinking, 'This prop- erty abuts me, why don't I know about what's going on?'" The proposal was de- ferred from budget con- sideration at that time, until more research and information could be col- lected. That same year, the Heritage Foundation of Halton Hills was awarded $90,000 by the Town for the acquisition of the Norval Manse on the con- dition that the foundation create a business plan outlining the viability of a museum and literary centre on site. According to Glad- stone, though a public fundraising event was held to aid in the project in 2016, Norval residents were only formally told about the Lucy Maud Montgomery Museum and Literary Centre at the first and only public consultation session to date, held at Upper Cana- da College in March of 2018 - a meeting that Fra- ser says was an unamica- ble one. "I went into the March meeting that the Town had called with great ex- pectations and very hap- py to explain what our vi- sion was," Fraser told the committee on Dec. 11. "I felt personally attacked the whole time. I didn't feel that people were there with an inquiring mind but were there to rabble-rouse." "We were asking ques- tions that they wouldn't answer," Gladstone said of the meeting. "Were there voices raised? Yes, NEWS PROPERTIES WERE HOME OF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES AUTHOR Continued from page 1 See PROJECT, page 22