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C4 · The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday A p ril 30, 2003 Find th o s e ra re 26TH-ANNUAL AUXILIARY Plant Sale 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Arboretum (off Old Guelph Road, Dundas) Thursday, M ay 1 and Saturday, M ay 3 · The place to be for gardeners and collectors! · Plants propagated from Royal Botanical Gardens collections. · Check out the Rhododendron Society Show and Sale and the Dahlia and Chrysanthemum Society Show and Sale. · Cash, cheques and credit cards only are accepted. Our plant sale catalogue is on-line at: www. rbg ,ca/pages/support_plantsale. html Receive S2 off total plant purchase with this ad. Limit one per person and not valid with any other offer. K f# l # ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS www.rbg.ca 0f ANNUALS · AQUATICS · CONTAINER PLANTS · FERNS · HERBS ORNAMENTAL GRASSES · PERENNIALS · WOODY PLANTS AND MORE! FISMhWBf! TOA ll F&MfBfiEL'PAfmi&Wftj MMMMB Spelling Bee o f Canada $eeo^ Barrie Erskine · O a kville R e a ver Oakwood Public School celebrates its 50th anniversary. To commemorate the event, the school is hosting a barbeque and open house this Saturday. Holding the new school sign are Jonah Jager, 7, Jocelyne Noonan, 10, Caleb Jager, 8, Vama Skha 8, Jo h n M a rk , 8, and E m ilia Santos, 7. Back left, Sam Baines, 9, Madeleine Beese, 9, Chantal Reyes, 9. Sum m er Moeth, 10 and Akanksha Vlehela, 8. Oakwood turns 50 F ifty years o f nostalgic memories w ill be shared this Saturday when Oakwood Public School celebrates its 5()th anniversary. A t 9 a.m. past and present staff w ill gather in the gymnasium for some " catching up" over tea and coffee, fo l lowed by an assembly at 11 a.m. with greetings from Ethel Gardiner, chair o f the Halton D istrict School Board. Two o f Oakwood's former princi pals w ill also be sharing memories o f their time at the school. A time capsule containing w riting, artw ork and pictures by current Oakwood students w ill be presented to Dr. Dusty Papke. D irector o f Education o f the Halton D istrict School Board. O akville M ayor Ann Mulvale w ill then unveil a new sign for the front o f the school. There w ill also be a performance by the Oakwood stu dent choir. A barbeque w ill begin at 12 p.m. followed by an open house from I - 4 p.m. where memorabilia and old pho tographs w ill be on display. "This anniversary is a celebration o f 50 years o f learning and belonging to the Oakwood com m unity," says Demetra Saldaris, current Principal o f Oakwood Public School. "O ur school community represents one o f the most diverse areas in Halton w ith 18 different languages spoken and 21 per cent o f the school speaking a language other than English at home. This anniversary allows us to celebrate our school's diversity once again." To continue to celebrate its cultural diversity, the school held its first annu al spring M ulticultural Festival in 2001 which saw O a kville 's m ulticultural community come together in a rainbow o f costumes and dance to taste tradi tional meals from around the world. According to school archives, Oakwood Public School was opened in 1953 as the fourth elementary school in the O akville School Board. As the first school to be built in O a kville in more than 30 years, Oakwood's facilities were considered "state o f the art." They included an auditorium/gymnasium w ith stage, a fu lly equipped home economics room, an industrial arts/woodworking room and two staff rooms - one for male staff and one fo r female staff. V ikki Sweetman, school council co chair says that reaching the 50 year mark isn't a milestone taken lightly around Oakwood. For the third time running. Oakwood finds itself on the Halton District School Board proposed list for school closures in 2005. " I f it were up to the Halton Board O f Education in its 1996 and 1998 closing proposals, Oakwood would have never reached 45," she said. The school and its supportive com munity successfully fought two con secutive recommendations from the Halton District School board in 1997 and 1999 to close their only remaining neighborhood school and Sweetman hopes the school w ill again have the support i( needs to continue to be the "jew el o f the community." "W e're getting together solid data that supports Oakwood's future," she said promising to be there for the school's 75th anniversary. "The 50th anniversary brings peo ple from the past and present together which strengthens Oakwood's commu nity ties. R eflecting back on Oakwood's past five decades enables us to visualize a tim e-line which reminds us that Oakwood not only belongs to the present, but to the past and the future. This renews a sense o f ownership and responsibility for the Oakwood o f today and tomorrow." said Saldaris. At 50 years, Oakwood's celebra tions w ill reflect just how deeply its roots have reached into the community past and present. Organizers explain people tire flying in from Sault St. Marie and Alberta and others are driving in from London, St. Catherines, Toronto and Guelph to be a part o f the day's celebrations at 257 Bartos Dr. - With n o te s fr o m M a rcella Jager, Proudly p m m h ibn 2003 O akville Chapter Spelling FINAL c o m m u n ic a tio n s o ffic e r a t O akw ood School May 3 rd , 2003 in the Atrium Oakville Town Hall 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville Primary & Junior Registration Intermediate & Senior Registration 9:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Participants M U S T BE on time May proclaimed Portuguese Month May has been proclaimed as Portuguese Month by Oakville Mayor, Ann Mulvale to commemorate the first official arrival o f Portuguese im m i grants into Canada 50 years ago. It is estimated 32,700 PortugueseCanadians reside in Oakville. The official proclamation reception w ill be held May I at the Town Hall Atrium. 1225 Trafalgar Rd.. at 6 p.m. Classic Port wine and Portuguese pas tries w ill be served. The Oakville Portuguese Folklore Group w ill play traditional music. Dignitaries w ill be in attendance, as well as (he first five Portuguese immi grants to settle in Oakville. The monthly festivities w ill continue on May 31 when Oakville w ill hold a parade and an evening dance. A new monument o f the famous Portuguese navigator Goncalvo Velho Cabral w ill also be displayed at Trafalgar Park at Deane and Felan Avenues. The first group o f Portuguese imm i grants to be officially recognized by the Government o f Canada arrived at Pier 21 in Halifax on May 13, 1953. 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