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www.oakvillebeaver.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, June 4, 2010 · 18 Living Oakville Beaver LIVING EDITOR: ANGELA BLACKBURN Phone: 905-337-5560 Fax: 905-337-5571 e-mail: ablackburn@oakvillebeaver.com The Green Team PHOTOS BY NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER BUILDS A CLASSROOM: Clockwise, from left, St. Marguerite d'Youville school's Green Team members Celeste Alaimno, 8, (left) and Lauren Lebre, 8, spread mulch as the group builds a new outdoor classroom at the school. Team members Nicole Dim (left) and Nicole Addison also spread mulch as Michael Duch, 10, goes to pick up more and (from left to right) Dim, Addison, Olivia Degruijter, Brianna Murphy and Holly Williamson dig in. Then, from left, Michael Duch, Cameron Nunes and Amy Kress perch on a rock to survey a job well done. The school's Green Team is currently made up of more than 50 students from Grades 3-8. The junior environmentalists have been operational as the Green Team for three years and have already picked up the Junior Foresters School Award from Oakvillegreen for planting 50 trees and shrubs around the schoolyard. The team won the 2009 and 2010 Halton Youth Awards for Environmental Excellence for environmental leadership. The team's most recent initiative involves the creation of an outdoor classroom, above, that will be available to all teachers and students on a rotation basis. The classroom is at the front of the school.