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4- The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday December 26, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com Health Wellness A new monthly section in City Parent One of a parent's chief responsibilities is to deal with the health and wellness of the family. Whether it's providing nutritious snacks and meals, keeping everyone physically active or coping with illness, injury or chronic health issues, the more information that's available, the better. City Parent's monthly Health & Wellness section will provide that information through articles about alternative therapies, healthy eating, new products, trusted treatments and tips. & High school boundary review heats up at Catholic board By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Monthly topics to include: Healthy New Year's Resolutions, Nutrition, Dental Health, Living with Asthma, Allergies, Special Needs, Breast Cancer, Stress Busters and more. Don't miss the opportunity to appear in this targeted section each month. Contact us as soon as possible to reserve your space today! 905-815-0017 1-800-265-3673 Signs of protest were hoisted throughout last week's meeting of the Halton Catholic District School Board at which the Oakville Secondary Schools Boundary Review Committee delivered its interim report to trustees. The lead up to the meeting has been filled with controversy ever since school councils of the West Oak Trails community were informed of the possibility that students from their elementary schools could be diverted south from nearby St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Secondary School to St. Thomas Aquinas on the other side of the QEW. "Our kids have gone through four boundary reviews in nine years and they have been told repeatedly by board representatives that they will be reunited with their friends. They were promised that they would be reunited at Loyola for high school," said Trina Humphrys, a concerned St. Joan of Arc Catholic Elementary School "Our kids have gone through four boundary reviews in nine years and they have been told repeatedly by board representatives that they will be reunited with their friends." Trina Humphrys concerned St. Joan of Arc school parent parent. "These kids are now in Grade 8 and they are looking around and saying, `How is it that these adults in the Catholic board can break a promise and lie to us and get away with it.' That's not what these kids are being taught at school." Although they were not permitted to address the board, as the options concerning the secondary school boundary review were presented, a group of about 30 parents made their feelings clear none-the-less by holding up homemade signs that condemned any option to redirect their children to St. Thomas Aquinas. `The board moves West Oak Trails students again! 5 times is too many,' read one sign. `Neighbourhood kids need neighbourhood schools,' read another. The reasons for the boundary review have also been a source of anger among those who oppose it. They are convinced the review's sole purpose is to raise the enrolment at St. Thomas Aquinas to the point where the school qualifies for government grants, which would allow for the demolition and rebuilding St. Thomas Aquinas so desperately needs. However, board staff have noted that the greater purpose of the review is to solve the overcrowding problem that exists at Loyola and Holy Trinity secondary schools by redirecting students to a place where there is room to accommodate them. Board staff said this place is St. Thomas Aquinas and the fact that the school could receive additional government funding through such a redirection is merely a byproduct. See Board page 5