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8- The Oakville Beaver, Friday May 25, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com North Park will be a mega-recreation complex By Kim Arnott SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The future of Oakville's next mega- recreation development will be up for discussion next month, as the town seeks public input into possible plans for North Park. "Mom, I want to PROGRAM VIDEO is not a camp! GAMES" In an Oakville summer camp that That dad & you will wish you had when you were kids! Your son or daughter is a 9 to 17 year old gamer who is good at math without working hard at it. Some day, s/he may even want a job programming video games. This summer, Real Programming 4 Kids can teach your child game programming using real programming languages such as Visual Basic, Java and C++. Finally a summer camp s that is not a camp! Young kids can use Visual Basic to create Pacman, Frogger, King Kong, Worms or Donkey Kong games. Teens can start in more advanced projects such as building a Mario game or creating their own 3D worlds in Direct X. The really advan use C++ to program RPG games, Half-Life Mods, or RTS games! T maximum class size is only 4 students per instructor. To schedule a FREE NO OBLIGATION TRIAL CLAS call Real Programming 4 KidsTM Phone: 416.469.9676 www.realprogramming.com The 79-hectare park near the corner of Neyagawa Boulevard and Dundas Street is slated for a variety of indoor and outdoor recreational facilities. A multi-surface ice arena, indoor pool, recreation centre, library and indoor soccer field are being contemplated for the site, along with outdoor sports fields, skateboard and BMX facilities, trails, a splash pad and a leashfree dog zone. The town also plans to put an Operations Yard on a portion of the property, to coordinate maintenance needs and equipment in north Oakville. Development of the site is expected to occur in several phases over the next 10 years, with construction beginning on the first phase as early as next summer. At a public meeting scheduled for June 20, town staff will pres- A multi-surface ice arena, indoor pool, recreation centre, library and indoor soccer field are being contemplated for the site, along with outdoor sports fields, skateboard and BMX facilities, trails, a splash pad and a leash-free dog zone. ent possible design concepts for the property, as well as potential ways to co-operate with the Halton District School Board, which may build a high school on an adjacent property. Cost estimates involved with the development will also be outlined. At a meeting of the Community Services Committee Tuesday night, one nearby landowner expressed concerns about the impact on traffic in the area, particularly if both the recreation complex and a high school are situated at the alreadybusy intersection of Dundas and Neyagawa. However, the town plans were greeted warmly by Jean Gandubert, of the Oakville Soccer Club. "This is great to see this moving forward," he said, noting that a shortage of soccer fields has resulted in over 800 Oakville children on a waiting list to play this year. Gandubert expressed the club's willingness to work with the town to ensure an indoor soccer field can be developed at North Park. He also suggested lit, allweather turf fields would maximize the amount of playing time the club could get out of the park.