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Ribbon cut on new St. Mildred's expansionbecome reality. The entiredream.By Dominik Kurekexpansion cost $19 million,One of my dreams is to cover a royal OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF$9 million of which camewedding, she said.through donor contribu-She told the gathering how she wants to St. Mildreds-Lightbourn School (SMLS) grand open-tions.share the royal wedding experience with a ing celebration of its new wing, Monday, was a decade in To help mark the ceremo-wide audience. She then held up her ticket to the makingny, the school invited Anne-England to the applause of the entire gather-An Oakville independent day school for girls, St. Marie Mediwake, CBCing.Mildreds-Lightbourn School (SMLS), has just realized Evening News co-anchor, toMayor Rob Burton told the girls in the more than a decade of work to expand and enhance its speak to the students.audience that much of the celebration was facilities.She told the gatheringspent on thanking the adults, who have To mark the achievement, the Oakville independent everyone has a song or wordsworked to make the enhancements happen, day school for girls treated about 250 guests, 600 students that truly resonate with them.but the school is very much about them.and 100 faculty and staff to an opening ceremony.For her, such a saying isThis school was organized for the pur-The ceremony occurred after the completion of the something she heard frompose of trying to inspire you to be the very final portion of a construction project that began in 2000. her mentor: Be you and bebest you can in life and to be what you want The final wing is also the realization of a project that had you big.to be. Thats really its proper purpose, he been in the planning stages for more than 14 years and That does not mean be asaid.based on requests by parents of former students.big mouth. That means usingHe told the students they will have a Speaking before the gathering in the schools large the talents you have and usingchance to inspire adults. He added the town gymnasium, Greg Taylor, chair of the SMLS board of them to the best of your abili-has already benefited from youth ideas, such governors, said expansion of the original school building MICHAEL IVANIN / OAKVILLE BEAVERties, Mediwake said.as the creation of Oakvilles first youth drop-was restricted because much of the school property is on She said everyone has ain centre, a skate park and much more.aONE, TWO, THREE...:St. Mildred's Lightbourn School flood plain that could not be built upon.dream of what they want toI would like to tell you of another youth students Megan Nobrega, left, and Ana-Sophia Avasthi pre-We had a problem. We really wanted to expand but we become.idea. A four-year-old thought of YTV and neededpare to cut the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony celebrat- more land, he said.Take a piece of paper andthats why we have YTV in Canada. That four-The school purchased several area properties anding the official opening of the school's new wing. a pen and write it down,year-old was my daughter, he said.eventually it gained four acres of land that it could build something that you see your-He said the students at the school can upon.that were repeated and achievable were writ-self doing.also realize their dreams.The school gathered the then-parents of the school intoten down on another paper.Mediwake said writing it down will help aThe whole town looks to you and hopes its gymnasium. Those parents were divided into fourWe called that piece of paper a master person move towards meeting the goal, byyou do move onto greater achievements.groups and asked to write down a wish list for the schoolplan and thats what weve stuck with during helping them ask whether a particular deci-Former school chaplain Ralph Spence, a expansion.the build over these years, he said.sion will move them towards realizing theSee Construction page 15The four wish lists were compared and the requestsFourteen years later, those ideas have Spring Pool & Hot Tub Sale!FACTORY DIRECTFREE INSTALLATIONINGROUND POOLSON ABOVE GROUND POOLSSAMPLE SPECIALSINSTALLED FROM24 Ft. Round$279918 Ft. Round$239915 Ft. x 30 Ft. Oval$389912 Ft. x 24 Ft. Oval$3299$24,995FREEVinyl & FibreglassINSTALLATIONTHE SPIRIT 6-7 Person Most energy effi cient X400 SERIES4 PersonPlug N Play Hot Tub on the Market 110V - 15 Amp Service Estimated Monthly THEWAVE 5 Person 11 Hydro Therapy Jets Electric Cost $10.33/mthPlug N Play or Colour Changing Waterfall 40 Hydro Therapy JetsHardwireO L.E.D. Lighting WaterfallFACTORY 20 Hydro Therapy JetsNL$2499ODIRECT L.E.D. LightingFACTORY YPlus:NL$5999DIRECTOFREE STEREOFACTORY YNL$2999DIRECTA $995 ValueY504 IROQUOIS SHORE RD UNIT #1OAKVILLE, ONTARIO L6H 3K4905.815.5252www.leisureindustries.caFACTORY DIRECT7 Thursday, April 14, 2011 OAKVILLE BEAVER www.insideHALTON.com