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18 - The Oakville Beaver, W ednesday February 22, 2006 OPCC relaunches campaign, holds 25th anniversary gala Only six m onths after the launch of its $400,000 capital cam paign, the Oakville Parent-Child Centre (OPCC) has reached a major milestone, raising half the funds required for the relocation of its current Kerr Street premises to a new main site at 461 North Service Rd. The new location will ensure the OPCC has a nursery school and program rooms that are acces sible and at ground level, plus more parking. The new space will increase its capacity to respond to long wait lists and introduce new programs and upgrades to existing services. It will replace the current 6,400 square foot location on Kerr Street, which it has occupied for the past 19 years and outgrown. The OPCC has negotiated a 10year lease for 8,200 square feet of space, about half of the former home of the Oakville Gymnastics Club. It is anticipated the renova tion will be completed by May. OPCC has received $100,000 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, $25,000 from the Ontario Ministry of Community, Family and Children's Services, plus donations from parents, cor porations, and local businesses. To celebrate its 25th anniver sary, OPCC is holding a Renaissance Gala on Saturday Feb. 25 at the Burlington Convention Centre, 1120 Burloak Dr., Burlington. The $125 a plate gala will fea ture a `royal feast/ a four-course dinner, live auction with Mayor Ann Mulvale and dessert table, starting at 6 p.m. For tickets, call OPCC at 905-849-6366. All proceeds , from the Renaissance Gala will go to the capital campaign. Campaign patrons are Mulvale and OPCC co founder Anne Day. LI ESA KORTMANN / OAKVILLE BEAVER ON T H E MOVE:. The Oakville. Parent-Child Centre (OPCC) is preparing to move to 461 North Service Rd., and has relaunched its $400,000 capital campaign to cover renovation and moving costs. Shown from left are Christine Szustaczek, Chair of Capital Campaign and OPCC board member; Jill Snidal, OPCC Executive Director, Jeremy Rakowsky, leasing manager, Davpart Inc.; Anne Day, co-founder of OPCC and Capital Campaign Patron; Gino Rossi, construction supervisor,, Davpart Inc.; Nikki Taylor OPCC Parent Education Manager, Lucie Brouillette, OPCC board member and Mayor Ann Mulvale, Capital Campaign Patron. A t a s t e o f T u r k is h D e l ig h t s 'xl' (NC)--Turks, like Canadians, love potatoes. And the way Turks love them best is locally grown, baked, then stuffed with combinations of freshly-chopped vegeta bles, herbs and topped off with sauce. This staple of the Turkish diet is known as kumpir. · * pal f& | § P ^ 1 * -: 1 . L ri, J L P > r 1 * r ^ | In fact, so great is the Turkish love affair with pota toes that kumpir bars dot their cities and towns much as burger joints dot ours. Matthew Spencer of London, Ontario, who lived and worked in Turkey, describes the kumpir bar as being similar to our deli-style salad bar: "The baked potatoes are halved and hollowed out. The potato flesh is then whipped. Your choice of fresh vegetables and Turkish cheese is stirred into the whip, returned to the potato shells and topped off with one of several sauces. "Kumpir can be a quickly-prepared nutritious and delicious meal." Or, he points out, it can be shared by two or more people as a snack. At home in Canada, kumpir is one of his favourite lunch dishes: After baking Ontario-grown long russet potatoes in a microwave oven for 6 minutes, he halves and hollows them and whips the potato flesh. He then adds a combination of chopped red and green peppers, tomatoes, olives, mushrooms and grated cheddar cheese to the whipped potato, returns it to the half shells and tops them off with a teaspoon of olive oil. Locally-grown potatoes are important, he adds, because of the intensity of their flavour and freshness. -News Canada Thank you Oakville Beaver readers for choosing us your gold m edal w '> winner for Japanese Restaurant. ( I h K s J * s B | i | H e y K id s ! < ) \0 e entertained by a *p i] clown or Wizard ff/P every Sunday gWednesday. *Every Sunday and Wednesday one child 10 years and under eats FREE from the kids menu with the purchase of one adult entree 0 6 0 DUNDAS STREET E,, UNIT B 1 1 9 0 5 .2 5 7 .3 1 8 3 l . lb . o . · DINE IN · TAKE OUT · DELIVERY TRAFALGAR & DUNDAS (IN THE LONGOS PLAZA) A M C Theatres (QEW £ Winston Churchill) For reservations 905-829-3233