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OAKVILLE'S BEST REAL ESTATE SECTION INSIDE! www.oakvillebeaver.com Beaver THE OAKVILLE A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 52 No. 15 Education director wants more time to resolve Ward 4 accommodation issues By Tina Depko OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The director of education of the Halton District School Board has asked trustees to delay making a decision on the Ward 4 Oakville elementary schools accommodation issue. Trustees are scheduled to vote on the recommendation at tonight's (Wednesday) board meeting, but at a program and accommodation review committee meeting Monday night, Wayne Joudrie said he does not anticipate having his revised recommendations ready by that time. He asked trustees to pass a motion at Wednesday's meeting to defer the decision until the Feb. 18 meeting. Joudrie indicated that he would like to make changes to the three recommendations currently on the table. The changes are in response to the marathon fiveand-a-half hour delegation night last month, as well as the twohour debate around the issue by trustees at Monday's meeting, he said. "After hearing the discussion tonight, and that discussion will help form what the final recommendation will look like, I'm sure it won't be ready for Feb. 4, so I'm hopeful on Wednesday evening, there will be a motion to defer that to the next board meeting on Feb. 18 and that will give me a little time to actually refine the recommendation you see in front of you," Joudrie said. The current recommendation would see one single-track French immersion school (Ecole Forest Trail), two dual-track schools (Pilgrim Wood and proposed new school Palermo) and five singletrack English schools. One such possible change to that recommendation Joudrie has hinted at would be growing new Inside Artscene...........................................30 Sports...............................................32 Classified.........................................37 Partial Delivery: Sport Chek, Performance School, The Bay, Arrow Furniture, 2-4-1 Pizza, Coast Mountain, The Cash Store, Oakville Little League, Toys R us, Peoples Jewellers, Fitness Depot, Danier Leather, Home Depot, Staples Business, Part Source Just Brilliant B RETAIL & WHOLESALE LIGHTING February Lamp Clearance TABLE LAMPS 40% off 243 Speers Road · Between Kerr & Dorval · Oakville, ON · 905.849.LITE (5483) · www.conceptlighting.ca L L Poor Cousin Founder PG 30 321 Cornwall Rd. 321 Cornwall Rd. 321 CornwallRd. Old O k ill M k Olde Oakville Market Olde OakvilleMarket 905.815.8777 905.815.8777 PAUL FOLEY AMP MORTGAGE AGENT Purchases Renewals Refinances Rental Properties Credit Lines 40+ Lenders HO: 100-480 University Ave. Toronto, ON M5G 1V2 *OAC, E&OE M08005472 905-827-8009 1 YR 3.50% 4 YR 4.39% 5 YR 4.49% "Using Communication To Build Better Communities" WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2009 68 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER SCIENCE PROJECT: Eastview Public School students (l-r) Shaan Bhambra, Ted Holden, Alastair Chapman, Jack Schoner and Kyle Errygers examine the salmon eggs in Meaghan McBride's science class on Thursday afternoon. The class will be host to 100 Atlantic salmon eggs as they develop into fish. When ready, the class will be releasing the fish into Bronte Creek in May. Eastview students helping Bring Back the Salmon By Tanya Kostiw SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER See Accommodation page 2 A stork delivered a special bundle to the afterschool science club at Eastview School on Thursday. The delivery was not a baby, but 100 Atlantic salmon eggs and the stork was Kyrsten Burns from the Federation of Anglers and Hunters. The students are taking part in a project called Bring Back the Salmon, an initiative that restores the Atlantic salmon population to Lake Ontario. Due to human activity, the species has been extirpated, or locally extinct from the region since 1896. Burns, the program's education coordinator told the students they were helping to bring this species back to its natural habitat. Eastview's science club, along with about 90 other schools in the GTA, will raise 100 Atlantic salmon and release them once they reach the fry stage. Eastview will release their fish into Bronte Creek, most likely in May when they will be a couple centimetres long. The students are excited about the project. As a small group crowds around the incubator and See Salmon page 7 · Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed · Serving Oakville with Shop at Home Service SHUTTERS CALIFORNIA & PLANTATION · Wood & Vinyl Shutters, Supplied & Installed · High Quality at Affordable Prices Authorized Eclipse Shutters Dealer Shop at Home Service FREE Featuring lighting from Oakville's Finest LIGHTING STORE SHUTTERS ETC. 905.691.4455 www.shuttersetc.ca Trump Home · Troy · Stonegate Design · Walter Heidle and much more