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JORTH By CHERYL ELLIOT Special to the North News Glen Abbey should be getting its third elementary school by September 1995 and the site plan already New elementary school planned for (Glen Abbey The Town of Oakville is currently reviewing, for approval, the site plan for the $8.66â€"million Glen Abbey West Public School to be built on includes space for six future portaâ€" bles. "There were 320 responses with very little spoilage," said Grant Buchanâ€"Terrell, GARA‘s Parks and Recreation chairperson. Basketball, with a 55% response, topped the list of the 28 most popular The Ministry of Education has approved funding for the 72,000 square foot school which will accomâ€" modate 685 Kindergarten to Grade 8 students. The school also has room for 80 Junior Kindergarten students, if needed, and a childcare centre for up to 30 children. "There will be good use of the site," said Bell, GARA‘s schools and churches chairperson. "The Halton Board of Education will not have to provide land for a playground because one‘s already there." Students at the school will have use of the softball diamond, soccer field, tennis courts, and a creative playground in the playground adjaâ€" cent to the twoâ€"storey school. Bell added that the new school will have little impact on the populaâ€" tion at Pilgrim Wood School or Abbey Lane School. STUDENT SURVEY GARA has just completed a surâ€" vey of Glen Abbey students from T.A. Blakelock, Queen Elizabeth Park, St. Ignatius of Loyola secondary schools, and Pilgrim Wood, St. Bernadette‘s and St. Matthew‘s elementary schools to find out which sports and recreâ€" ational activities they enjoy most. Heritage Way in West Glen Abbey, Planning and Development, chairperâ€" son Brian Bell, told the board of directors of the Glen Abbey Residents Association (GARA) on Monday night. "One message is that there are lots of things kids want to do if given the opportunity," he said. The children had no clear idea of the cost of activities, and overwhelmâ€" ingly said they did not want to go to schools for activities, but preferred to go to the Glen Abbey Recreation Centre, according to Buchanâ€"Terrell. GARA will share its findings with the Oakville YMCA and the Glen Abbey Community Church which will be starting a youth program at the recreation centre this summer. Buchanâ€"Terrell said he was curâ€" rently discussing printing a Glen Abbey activity youth directory with a local publisher. He has also discussed with GENâ€" STAR â€" land developers in Glen Abbey â€" the possibility of using a preâ€" fabricated storage building they have offered to the community. Although Buchanâ€"Terrell would like to use the building as a youth centre, he is concerned about the cost activities girls and boys want to parâ€" ticipate in this summer. This was folâ€" lowed closely by baseball, at 53%; horseback riding and biking, both with 49%. Word processing classes 4%; ballet 7.1%; and community work 7.8% were at the bottom of the list. One student was interested in mud wrestling and two in sky diving. GARA will meet with the Town of Oakville and the River Oaks Association of Residents (ROAR) to plan an event to mark the opening of the Upper Middle Rd. bridge across 16â€"Mile Creek, which coincides with the Summerfest weekend. The Special Events chair also reported GARA made about $600 profit from their recent garage sale, and broke even on ticket sales for its Blue Jays night. . GARA will honor its past presiâ€" dents at a bench dedication ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 19th at the Heritage Way Tot Lot. Following that ceremony, there will be a park dedication for Wildwood Park at Dorval Dr., south of the golf course entrance at 11:30 a.m. GARA, ROAR, and the Iroquois Ridge Residents Association will compete, for a trophy, to get the biggest turnout for a September blood drive. ERFEST Sounds of steel band music will be wafting through Glen Abbey on Friday Aug.20th to herald the start of Summerfest ©93. Plans are moving full steam ahead according to Special Events chairperson, Gail Smith. Site plans for everything from a Bavarian Garden to pony rides have been drawn up for the annual threeâ€"day event. He also recommended that if GARA decides to take the building, it should look for other groups such as Girl Guides or Cadets to share the facility. of a suitable location and bringing the building up to acceptable codes for hydro and water.