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A 4 - The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday May 21, 2003 Smart growth means innovative strategies (Continued from page 1) transit is in place when people arrive. Money should also be found to ensure com muters can seamlessly transfer from good local to good regional public transit, said Mulvale. recalling the days before recent budget cuts w hen O akville com m uters were able to show a GO pass to gain free access to local buses. The smart growth panel has also called on the provin cial government to establish a co-ordinating body that can look at issues o f planning, transit and transportation that cross municipal boundaries. "The piece o f the puzzle we control is incom plete." notes M ulvale, suggesting there is a need for broader co ordination. supportive legisla tion and money from both the province and the federal gov ernment. M anaging growth in a way that's smart will also require new and imaginative strate gies, she said. "W e're not saying that every neighbourhood has to have 20-storey /.ones." said Mulvale. "Com pact develop ment does not mean high rise. W e're looking for a m ore cre ative build form." · · · Some o f the recom m enda tions o f the report suggest the province should: · Ensure growth is bal anced (betw een residential and em ployment) so people can live and work in close proximity: · E ncourage com pact development at key nodes to use infrastructure effectively: · M anage growth to limit its im pact on farm land, forests, lakes and rivers, natu ral heritage features and min eral aggregates; · E stablish a protected Natural Heritage System o f core natural areas and corri dors; · Make investment in tran sit the first priority for dealing with traffic gridlock prob lems; · Invest in existing inter regional and local transit to meet the dem ands o f growth: · Take a more collabora tive approach to waste man agement to reduce the need to export garbage, increase com posting and encourage the sharing o f inform ation on new technologies. Student wants to make a world of difference Fundraisingfor Nicaragua By Melanie Cummings SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Ashley Burtch is 17. ready to graduate from Queen Elizabeth Park High School and unsure about her career plans. Work with children in a Third World country? (It has been her ambition since she was an eight-year-old.) O r pursue academic life studying medicine or teach ing. and then embark on the aforem en tioned mission? This summer she would like to head to Nicaragua to help figure it all out. Burtch calls it a sort o f career day that spans over two months. She is no stranger to the impoverished South Amer ican country. Last Decem ber she spent two weeks travelling with 20 other Cana dian youths, delivering 4.000 shoe boxes, other wise know n as Samaritan's Ashley Burtch P u rse s. These are filled with donated items such as shoes, socks, toothbrushes, candies and toys. W hile in Nicaragua, Burtch met Dean Peters, a pastor w ho opened a church in the capital city Managua. It was an excursion w ith Peters to the city's dum p that still resonates in Burtch's memory. Children live in it. They scurry to catch new deliveries o f garbage so that they can be the first to sift through and hopefully snap up the 'g o o d ' junk. Cardboard rates high -- it can be used as shelter. A nd refundable bottles are sought-after moneymakers. Peters is in the process o f completing construction on an orphanage in Managua to shelter about 25 o f these chil dren in a safer and more sanitary atmos phere than the dump. It'll be ready by sum m er and Burtch hopes to work in it. although she won't be paid. This is her dilemma. After shelling out S 1.900 for her trip in December, she's tapped out. Burtch roughly calculates that w ith her room and board covered this time, she'll only need about $ 1.500 for her flight ;uid miscella neous items. A planned garage sale and backyard barbecue, as well as the ample babysitting gigs she routinely gets from neighbours and friends, are her only sources o f income. She also has to jockey her time between earning money and tackling a taxing workload at school this semester, with calculus, chemistry and English. "If I don't manage to get the money together this time. I'll have to put the trip off temporarily." said Burtch. But her determination to make a dif ference in the lives o f children who strug gle to survive alone and in squalid condi tions means Burtch will not stay away from them indefinitely. "This is what I want to do," she said. And with or without a post-secondary degree or diploma in tow. she is bound to make a world o f difference. 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