Oakville Newspapers

Oakville Beaver, 29 Aug 1993, p. 3

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Mary Ellen Matthews cheks out some of the books and supplies ready for shipment to Jamaica Books to Jamaica plan a success By ANGELA BLACKBURN Oakville Beaver Staff The summer saying goes "No more teachers, no more books..." but books are the operative word in a once vacant portable unit behind Rebecca Street‘s St. Dominic‘s Elementary School and St. Dominic‘s Church. About 550 boxes or over 15 tons of materials were loaded up destined for Jamaica via Air Canada Tuesday morning. The books were collected by all Halton Roman Catholic School Board schools in Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Georgetown between January and June. Their destination: Jamaica‘s Port Antonio school system. Project Jamaica, as it is dubbed, began in May 1992 when Mary Ellen Matthews, a secretary at Milton‘s St. Peter‘s School made a return trip to Jamaica on her honeymoon. Matthews had visited before and began sending back school materlals on an individual basis. When Matthews saw how much further need there was in Jamaican classrooms, she went to Halton Roman Catholic School Board educaâ€" tion director Cliff Byrnes with a proâ€" posal upon returning home. During her visit, Matthews was invited to see the fruits of her labor. A boardâ€"wide drive for education materials was soon born, Project Jamaica. Shipping of the collected goods from Oakville to â€" Pearson International Airport via Air Canada to Jamaica, was handled by the Kiwanis Club of Port Antonio and the " al ANTOINETES ..¢« GYmMNAsTIC cuwuB : m as, Maich j "When we needed more than one classroom, we ‘panicked," said Matthews, adding now the portapac‘s hallway is filled. Fern Hill Club, Jamaica. So much was collected, Air Canada moved the goods in six shipâ€" ping containers â€" free of charge. NY.TUMBLERS (Z to 3 y NDERCYM (3 to 5 yrs.) SEECIALTY KINDERCYM PROCRAMS ADVANCED NDERCYM (min. : TEEN GYM NAS’[‘ICS (11 BOYS!‘ CYMNASTICS (6 to PERFORMANCE PLUS ;

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