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16 *ES6 DEARCROFT MONTESSORI SCHOOL "CONTINUING A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE IN MONTESSORI! EDUCATION FOR OVER 25 YRS." PRESCHOOL PROGRAM: AGE 3â€"6 YEARS ELEMENTARY LEVEL: AGE 6â€"11 YEARS â€" Limited Places Available For Grade 3 To Grade 5 Age Students OPEN HOUSE for PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION New 3â€"Yearâ€"Olds FOR FALL 1994 at 7:30 p.m. WED. MARCH 2nd LOOKING FOR QUALITY PROGRAMS FOR YOUR CHILD? On Thursday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m. Dearcroft hosts The Parent‘s Forum. Join us for an information evening on hing from summer camps, computer and music classes for chi dren, French, science and sports programs, communication seminars etc.... Admission is free, refreshments will be served. All Oakwville parents are welcome. For more information please call, 844â€"2114. FOR INFORMATION REGARDING ADMISSION AT BOTH LEVELS CONTACT: ~ THEADMINISTRATION: MRS. R. McCONNALL 1167 LAKESHORE RD. E. OAKVILLE 844â€"2114 HELPING THE WORLD WRITE. NOW Selfâ€"sufficiency through literacy in the developing world For information, call 1+â€"800â€"661â€"2633 IMAGES FROM THE PAST. HISTORICAL COSTUMES. GENEALOGY. ARTIFACTS. CRAFTS AND LIFE SKILLS FROM BYâ€"GONE DaAys. ENTERTAINMENT REPRESENTING CANADA‘S CULTURAL MOSAIC. COME AND EXPERIENCE THE RICHNESS OF OUR HERITAGE. ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE SHERWAY SQUARE THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Feb. 23, 15 The joys of restaurant hospitality Sissies didn‘t brave last week‘s Valentine Sunday polar blasts . amongst Confederation Park‘s / beachfront ice dunes were out en masse. A majority of â€" whom, we report with pride, being seniors. With our host Alex Tsangarakis at the ready to pluck two of us from refrigerated extincâ€" . tion in The Great Outdoors. A whiff of bacon. A stumble‘ through drifts. And there we were, secure and warm, in Van Wagner‘s Beach Road 90â€"yearâ€"old schoolâ€" house. Except Miss Ida Little, bless her memory, wouldn‘t know her old teaching turf. Not after the Tsangarakis family‘s magic touch. Their new stateâ€"ofâ€"art Baranga‘s on the Beach. With onâ€"duty Alex to beckon us in. Here‘s one more gemâ€"like examâ€" ple, weâ€" concluded over his inspirational club sandwich and eggs on muffins, of our communiâ€" ty‘s restaurateurs‘ unquenchable initiatives despite prevalent downâ€" putting of small business by elected highâ€"domes: We seniors{claim authority on the subject. Who more than us scouts the diningâ€"out front? Who HERITAGE SHOWCASE EXHIBITORS abaft . Burlington Skyway. But toughies : CARLSON | figure more in family milestones than our friends, the hostesses and hosts, dispensing their tender loving care? . Nancy Knowles at Oliver‘s will get the point: she who shepherded me, halfâ€"blind in postâ€"surgery helpâ€" lessness, through our memorable family dinner to mark my halting reâ€"entry into the real world. And Brad Townsend at Allegro: he whose master plan for our oldest daughter‘s 50th: birthday dinner ranks as one of our epic parental coups. Seniors do not forget such friends. Nor march past their open ‘doors when in need of classy susteâ€" nance amiable to our tightâ€"fisted Visa cards. Run your fingers down the yelâ€" low page restaurant listings and pause over the host of other to Maddy. Our first encounter; reâ€" ; Nancy‘s, Brad‘s and Alex‘s who During the winter months, child also have imprinted our oldsters‘ happiest memories. Take that bubbly Valentine Sunday seniors‘ â€"table in Baranga‘s spectacular lakefront ‘dining room. One of those unexpected delights which endear us to our hometown maitre d‘s. Three grayâ€"haired Ccouples. Gussied up to mark this special time for oldsters still in love. Cards exchanged. Fancy drinks sipped. Giggles. Glances. Capacious menus pored over. Oohed and ahed over. Attentively tended to by warm, skilâ€" ful youngish waitress and waiter. Took us back 55 years. To farâ€"off North Country‘s Donald Cafe. Its juke box, and, for a nickle in the slot, "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby." My first serenade sometimes skated to and f school." Enough to trigger our mem into riotous flashbacks. Fo seniors isn‘t that what dining 0 all about? In any season? thanked Alex and left. “We’ll back," we promised. You bet we will. Gardenefl shares hi. expertise (Continued from page 15) "Right now, I‘m gardening u the snow," he chuckles, openi:: doorway to his ‘secret garden, crawl space lined with racks a racks of tiny seedlings lovingly g minated by seeds sewn into | composted earth â€" some bene: fluorescent lights. Last year he built a sun room the back of his house, to be used addition to two small greenhou' ~he built, and the large garden taki up almost half of his back yard. Three years ago Marshall op! for early retirement, leaving behi a job as fleet administrator i Ontario Hydro, to devote more ti1 to his first love, gardening. He de a bit of landscape designing a maintenance on the side. But, mo ly, he‘s been taking horticultu: courses at the University of Guelj and is one final exam away fre obtaining his Horticultural Diplo: from that university, which expects to receive this spring. diploma required him to compl 12 courses over three years. He has been appointed a member of the Burlington Mas * Gardeners Group by the Ont Ministry of Agriculture and â€"F (which also encouraged him to course at Guelph), is involved the CNE Garden Festival, serv president of the Oakvi Horticultural Society for two ye| (and has won numerous award the organization‘sâ€"competitio runs a weekly gardening club at Syl Apps Youth Centre, and ad es other gardeners on a volunt basis. enacted now in 1994, thanks to Tsangarakis magic. Watching, we scanned waitress Karen Stewart‘s brochure writeâ€"up about this place, our stormâ€"girt disâ€" covery: "During the midâ€"century, Van Wagner‘s Beach was a thriving community :.. The area had vast amounts of fruit orchards, vegetable gardens and beautiful ponds. _ The Oakville area has become of World Vision Canada‘s 30 H Famine to help end world hunger suffering. Groups from Oakville inclu Central Baptist Church, Qu Elizabeth Park School, Girl Guides, Upper Oaks Community Church now collecting pledges for the event to take place this Friday Saturday, Feb. 25th and 26th. Halton students lead the way Canadian teens as 10 hlgh schools numerous churches join forces to c bat hunger through World Vision‘ Hour Famine. More than 1,000 students f; Oakville, Burlington, Dundas Waterdown will join thousands of 0 Canadians by forgoing solid food for hours to raise awareness and money relief and development projects. Area famine fighters will r between $30,000 and $50,000. This be the largest single fundâ€"raising e for the famine relief. Nationally, W Vision hopes to raise $2.5 mill through the yearly event. Participants go without solid food 30 hours to raise funds for We Vision‘s emergency aid and longâ€"t development projects in countries THE ONTARIO HI‘STORICAL SOCIETY ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCE CENTRE LINCOLN CONTINENTAL OWNERS CLUB TORONTO CAR AND TRUCK MODELLERS THE ROUSSEAU PROJECT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 CHP HERITAGE CENTRE 7:00 pm _ Sandy Macintyre, Fiddler NEUROFIBROMATOSIS SOCIETY OF ONTARIO _ THE MONARCHIST LEAGUE OF CANADA ONTARIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY â€" 7:30 pm © Christopher Federico, Piper ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM MUNICIPAL CHAPTER OF TORONTO 10DE TORONTO CHAPTER 5* PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY CLANS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES TORONTO BOARD OF EDUCATION > 8:00 pm . ASTA Scottish Country Dancers OF CANADA OF CANADA SESQUICENTENNIAL MUSEUM 8:30 pm _ Sandy Macintyre, Fiddler BLACK CREEK PIONEER VILLAGE CLAN GREGOR SOCIETY OF CANADA ONTARIO BLACK HISTORY SOCIETY THE ONTARIO GUILD OF TOWN CRIERS CLAN. MACKAY ASSOCIATION OF CANADA TORONTO BRANCH UNITED EMPIRE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 SWANSEA HISTORICAL SOCIETY JAMES McCOWAN MEMORIAL SOCIAL LOYALIST ASSOCIATION 7:00 pm _ Sandy Macintyre, Fiddler WEST TORONTO JUNCTION HISTORY SOCIETY TH: EEUsETEchsL BIRTHDAY PARADE s HISTORICAL sOciety LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO T0 pm : York Re.ggncy Da.ncers 8 MONTGOMERY‘S INN â€"â€" EARLSCOURT BRANCH BRAMPTON QUILTERS GUILD 7:50 pm . "The Lady Jillian", Singer and Celtic Harper CITY OF YORK LOcaL ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION CANADIAN RAILROAD HISTORICAL 8:10 pm _ Fort York Regency Dancers ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION THE SALVATION ARMY GEORGE scott ASSOCIATION, TORONTO YORK 8:30 pm _ "The Lady Jillian" ADVIsORY committEE . > RAILTON HERITAGE CENTRE DIVISION _ . 3 CITY OF YORK HISTORICAL commiTTEE _ MISSISSAUGA HERITAGE FOUNDATION ONTARIO ELECTRIC RAILWAY SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 26 WESTERN HISTORICAL society ONTARIO MUSEUM ASSOCIATION HISTORICAL: ASSOCIATION ies f B ETOBICOKE HISTORICAL BOARD/LACAC TORONTO MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD ONTARIO SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL 1:30 pm Mlsmss.augas of _The_ New Credit First Nation, ETOBICOKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ONTARIO GENEALOGY Society ARCHAEOLOGY Drumming and Singing MISSISSAUGAS OF THE NEW CREDIT TORONTO BRANCH AE:PS:::ED :IEHITAGE FOUNDATION 2:00 pm Earlscourt Branch 65 Boyal Canadian Legion FIRST NATION COSTUME SOCIETY OF ONTARIO f Pipe Band NATIVE CANADIAN CENTRE OF TORONTO 78TH FRASER HIGHLANDERS ;“':gsé’s‘i::é‘é“ SOUTH HISTORICAL SOCiIETY 2:30 pm _ Parade of Historic Costumes ONTARIO HERITAGE FOUNDATION THE YORK PIONEER ‘HISTORICAL SOCIETY j TORONTO HISTORICAL BOARD TORONTO‘S FIRST POST OFFICE 2:50 pm â€"~ Tamara Madden, Peruvian Harp COMMUNITY HISTORY PROJECT TORONTO FIELD NATURALISTS 3:00 pm _ Annex Singers, Choir 3:30 pm _ Tamara Madden, Peruvian Harp $ HERwWay Garoreys $ THE avEENSWAY AT H\/\/\", 421 . Sudan where civil war has displa « port World Vision‘s programs for e 220,000 people and famine has ki thousands. Proceeds from the famine will gency relief in southern Sudan as we, development projects in Asia and S America. The 30 Hour Famine pro is also supporting a street kids pro in Calgary. By fasting for 30 hours, young ple and adults identify with the milli of people who face hunger daily: * In Subâ€"Saharan Africa, 4.4 mill children die before the age of five. is 33 times the total number of chil who die in all industrialized coun combined. * Only 39% of the population Haiti has access to safe drinking w compared to almost 100% in Canada. Participants in the 30 Hour F will raise funds for projects such planting 1.8 million tree seedlings Ethiopia, reversing the effects of devastating drought that killed th sands of people in the midâ€"1980s. World Vision is an internatio Christian humanitarian relief and de opment agency, assisting people reg less of race, rehglon or gender in 0 5,000 projects in more than 90 coun around the world. The 30â€"Hour Famine Hotline is 8 387â€"8080 ("ate nothing, ate nothing." t