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Weather for Oakville, ON Thu Fri Sat Sun 6° -4° 7° 2° 5° 0° 8° -2° Abbey Park scores at OFSAA for second year Sports www.insidehalton.com dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 Stay Connected! Friday, March 13, 2015 | 56 pages A Publication of Metroland Media Group Connected to your community - $1.00 incl. tax Public board expands Gr. 1 Core French by Tim Whitnell Metroland West Media Group The Halton District School Board (HDSB)is expanding its Grade 1 Core French program this fall. At the March 4 board meeting, trustees voted to add 15 schools to the program. The additional 15 schools brings to 39 the number of Halton public board schools providing primary Core French in Grade 1, 40 minutes per week. That's slightly more than half of schools able to accommodate it. In September 2014, 24 schools began providing Grade 1 Core French. Prior to that, students received French language instruction in Grade 4. An interim report will be brought to the trustees in November 2015 regarding this year's rollout, while an annual review will come to trustees at the end of the school year. Joining the program in Oakville are: Brookdale P .S., Gladys Speers, New Central, River Oaks, and North East Oakville No. 1. Other schools in Halton include: Park, Tiger Jeet Singh, South West Milton No. 9, Robert Little, Robert Baldwin, King's Road, Ryerson, Alexander's, Tecumseh and Paul A. Fisher. Duo delivers pick-me-up to patients by Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver Staff When Roger Mailhot, right, began visiting patients in the Palliative Care Unit at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH) 10 years ago, he approached Frank Rea, left, the owner of Forget-Me-Not Flowers, about providing a oral arrangement he could take with him on his visits. The answer was `yes', so each week for the past 10 years he has delivered a bouquet to a patient. | photo by Riziero Vertolli ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog) or www.facebook.com/HaltonPhotog Every Friday morning, Roger Mailhot arrives at the palliative care unit at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, owers in hand. "For me?" the staff greet him, "You shouldn't have." Mailhot has been visiting with patients and delivering owers for 10 years, a weekly ritual that It's amazing how it does began after seeing how volunteers can touch people. It brings help patients and them a little serenity relatives during in their life and it's an the nal month of expression that you his sister's life in a understand hospice. the challenge they He joined the Oakville hospital's are facing. palliative volunteer Roger Mailhot team two years Oakville resident later. And while he enjoyed providing companionship for patients and assistance for families, Mailhot believed there was more he could do. "I just wondered if there was something I could bring them, a little gift," he said, "something to give them a little lift." see Gift on p.7 Oakville's Preferred Yorkville Limousine Servicing Oakville & the Greater Toronto Area Tomasz Executive Chauffeur Service 25% OFF your first trip Call us today to make a reservation. We offer corporate rates AIRPORT · CORPOR ATE · WEDDINGS · NIGHT ON THE TOWN Senior Chauffeur Reservations · 905-822-0060 · www.yorkvilletorontolimo.com