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13 | O akville B eaver | T hursday,A pril 8,2021 insidehalton.com A caring voice, a compassionate ear, If you need to talk, we're #HereToHear Available 24/7 905-849-4541 • dchalton.ca Funded by: • 25% of Canadian seniors live in isolation • You don't have to be alone • We Listen - We Care Notice of a Proposed Application to Amend the Parkway BeltWest Plan Town of Oakville Ontario Planning and Development Act, 1994, Subsection 6(7)(a) Take notice that the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing has received an application requesting removal of certain lands from the Parkway Belt West Plan (PBWP). The application details are as follows: Applicant: Infrastructure Ontario Subject Lands: The Subject Lands are approximately 7.5 hectares, located at 50 Sherwood Heights Drive in the Town of Oakville; Southeast of Highway 403; West of Sherwood Heights Drive; and East of Ford Drive. The lands are legally described as Part of Lot 4, Concession 2, South of Dundas Street; Parts 1, 4 & 5 on Plan 20R-21774; and Part of PIN 24902-0740. Proposal: Removal of the Subject Lands from the 'Public Use Area' on Map 7: Oakville-Mississauga Mini-Belt of the PBWP. More specifically, removal of approximately 7.17 hectares from lands designated 'Open Space and Buffer Area'; and approximately 0.33 hectares from lands designated 'Road' within the 'Public Use Area'. Should the Subject Lands be removed from the PBWP, permitted uses would continue to be subject to the Town of Oakville's Official Plan and Zoning By-law. Any future development on the Subject Lands would require approval from the Town of Oakville. File No.: 24-PBW-205873 To receive a copy of the proposed PBWP amendment and/or if you have any questions regarding these applications, please email us at: parkwaybeltwestplan@ontario.ca Submissions on the proposed amendment may be made to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing untilMay 7, 2021 by email at: parkwaybeltwestplan@ontario.ca. Please refer to the file number indicated above. The options available to the Minister for this application, depending on whether submissions are made, are set out in sections 7 & 8 of the Ontario Planning and Development Act, 1994. Generally, if no submissions are received within the time specified, then the Minister may approve, modify and approve, or propose to refuse all or part of a requested amendment. If the Minister proposes to refuse all or part of a requested amendment, the Minister shall allow the applicant a period of time within which to make written submissions. If submissions are received within the specified time, then the Minister may approve, modify and approve or propose to refuse all or part of the amendment, or refer the amendment to a hearing officer or the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal to conduct a hearing and to make a recommendation. Students at an Oakville high school are rolling up their sleeves -- literally -- this week to help with some important COVID research. King's Christian Collegiate is partner- ing with the Hospital for Sick Children, vol- unteering for blood tests and nasal swabs in an effort to shed a light on the effects of coronavirus on adolescents. "SickKids is trying to figure out how many teenagers may have had COVID in the past, that didn't realize because they were asymptomatic," said Sharon Roebbe- len, director of admissions at Kings, who al- so runs its Doc Talk club for students purs- ing medical careers. "It's relatively rare for an adolescent or a child to have COVID so they are wondering if there is more to it." Student interest in the initiative has been high. Said Roebbelen, "The kids are really ex- cited about the opportunity to participate in COVID research because it's so valuable. We've got quite a few families who have been impacted by the good work being done at SickKids, so they wanted to help with that and participate. "We have a family here at the school who lost a child to brain cancer last year. This child was really helped by Sick Kids. The family heard about our project and offered to reward every participant with milk and cookies." This isn't the first time SickKids and King's have worked together. The high school has provided Sick Kids with research on several other occasions. "We've helped with SickKid's research before, typically blood research. So, they could compare the blood of healthy kids to the blood they collect from sick children," said Roebbelen. Michael Elioff is a placement student from Fanshawe College. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HELPING WITH SICKKIDS' COVID RESEARCH MICHAEL ELIOFF m_elioff@fanshaweonline.ca NEWS