Oakville Beaver, 3 Jun 2010, p. 13

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Loyola in line for $17-million facelift By Tim Whitnell METROLAND WEST MEDIA GROUP 13 · Thursday, June 3, 2010 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.oakvillebeaver.com Crawford Lake hosts Aboriginal Awareness Day Aboriginal Awareness Day -- featuring music, dance and storytelling from local First Nations artists -- is being held at Crawford Lake on June 20. The Gadaihongwas Dancers will perform on June 20 at 2 p.m. Gadaihongwas, which means "Dancing Flower", perform a variety of fun, interactive Iroquoian social dances. The dancers range from child to adult age. The event also features Chief Top Leaf , who will share traditional wisdom of the Haudenosaunee people, through story telling. New this year, Alan Emarthle will perform at Crawford Lake for Aboriginal Awareness Day. Emarthle combines wooden flute performance and storytelling. Crawford Lake staff will be hosting "Strawberry Moon" hikes, departing at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., to introduce visitors to local, traditional Iroquoian foods and medicines from the forest. Regular park admission fees apply of $6.50 for adults; $5.50 for seniors, and $4.50 for children 5 and over. Conservation Halton's annual passholders only need to show their pass for admission. Crawford Lake Conservation Area is located at 3115 Conservation Road in Milton. For more information call Crawford Lake at 905-8540234, or visit www.conservationhalton.ca. St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School is getting an expensive facelift and augmentation through a major reconstruction with the 'surgery' likely to begin this summer. The Upper Middle Road/Third Line-area school is having a large addition built, as well as many external and internal upgrades and new features, with a tentative price tag of $17 million, all of which is to be covered by funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education. Halton Catholic District School Board Superintendent of Facility Management Services Giacomo Corbacio said to build a new high school comparable to what Loyola students will have when the job is done would cost about $35 million. At a recent Halton Catholic school board meeting, Corbacio told trustees the massive project should begin this July with possible completion by December 2011. "It's going to be quite a challenge to keep the school operating while it's under construction. We'll keep (classroom) portables on site and shuttle students between them and the school," said Corbacio. The major features of the project are numerous and include: a 10-classroom addition, inter- nal classroom changes and expansion adding three classrooms, a new prayer chapel, a new roof, a renovated façade, additional parking, new lockers, a new cafeteria kitchen, an enlarged cafetorium with retractable theatre seating, a bigger entrance lobby area, new stage, cosmetology, hospitality, food and nutrition, and dramatic arts rooms, a bigger library resource centre, additional computer labs, renovated administration and special education areas, upgraded science labs, new staff and work rooms, and upgraded energy-efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. Site plan application and a building permit have been submitted to the Town of Oakville. The board expects to receive those approvals by the end of June. Loyola opened in the fall of 1986 at its current site at Nottinghill Gate in the Glen Abbey area. The school had initially opened in 1981 at the former Georges Vanier senior elementary school behind St. Dominic elementary school on Rebecca Street. During Thanksgiving 1986, Loyola's 940 Grades 10-13 students moved to the new Nottinghill site while its Grade 9s moved from the former Elizabeth Gardens School site in Burlington to the Rebecca Street building, until the new Nottinghill building was fully completed the following year. Life shouldn't be a chore DON'T PAY DOLLAR SALE TILL 2011 ALL IN-STOCK AREA RUGS OFF WALL TO WALL CARPET $ 1 $ 2 1 $ 1 $ 1 $ 50 BONUS $ UP TO % LES ICE OR ½ PR S! 1 AREA RUG PAD $ 1 You have the independence to do what you want, when you want. Depend on us to give you the freedom to do it. You've worked too hard to be tied down to preparing meals and doing chores. Delmanor offers you a Tridel inspired retirement rental community with hotel style services and a staff as dependable as family. That means no chores and far less worry for you, your spouse and your children. After all, life shouldn't be a chore: · 24 hour concierge · Hotel-style services · Professional Healthcare staff on site · Dining Room with individual table service · LivingWell Centre · Piano & fireplace lounges · Pub, card and billiard lounge · Serenity Spa and massage facilities 1459 Nottinghill Gate (west of Dorval, south of Upper Middle) · Housekeeping and laundry services · Building-wide personal emergency response system (905) 469-3232 Call now for a personal tour. Ask about our move-in incentives. Prices and specifications subject to change without notice E&OE Visit www.delmanor.com for all our GTA locations.

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