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16 - The Oakville Beaver, Friday May 16, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com Making a World of Difference, One Child at a Time SCHOOL STRATEGIES WRAPPING UP THE SCHOOL YEAR Staying focused on the present is important­there is still homework to be done and tests to write. Start a discussion with both your child and with your child's teacher about what can be done now to make the most out of the time that is left. · If grades are a concern, ask what can be done to help improve grades in the time left? Are there extra assignments or missed homework that could be made up between now and the end of the school year? · This is also the time to ask about Summer School. It's a fantastic opportunity to catch up or get ahead...and it can be fun too! · Talk to the teacher for tips and suggestions to help with staying on track, and keeping focused. · For those end-of-year projects and exams it's important to have a plan to manage the time that is left. · Take a look at the project or exam and how much it is worth to the final grade. · Estimate the time needed to dedicate to studying or researching. · Create a study schedule by writing study hours in an agenda or on the family calendar. AM740 sale completed By Wilma Blokhuis SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The year is wrapping up but it's not time to slack off. Keep that learning momentum going to the very end. If it has dropped off, pick it up with renewed vigor! Don't let the end of the year fizzle out. Stay on task and motivated. It takes a little planning and a little motivation. But with equal measures of these, the year could go out with a bang! Voted Best Learning Centre A better future for your child starts here! Contact us today for more information. www.oxfordlearning.com Ask about our little reader program. OAKVILLE NORTH 1131 Nottinghill Gate, Oakville (905) 469-1929 OAKVILLE NORTH EAST OAKVILLE SOUTH 380 Dundas St. E. Oakville (905) 257-1207 Maple Grove Village 511 Maple Grove Dr. Suite 2, Oakville (905) 849-4027 It's final ­ the sale of AM740 was recently finalized. The sale of CHWO AM 740 to Moses Znaimer of MZ Media and formerly CITY-TV by AM740 Prime Time Radio Inc., has been approved by the Canadian Radiotelevision and Te l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s Commission (CRTC), the federal broadcast regulator. The adult standards station popular with more than half a million listeners aged 50 and up was sold on Sept. 17, 2007, for $7,320,433. AM740 Prime Time Radio was a limited partnership of White Oaks Communications Group Ltd. (the Caine family of Oakville), 59.6 per cent and four other investors each with a 10.1 per cent investment, Peter Gilgan of Mattamy Homes, retired Ford of Canada president Kenneth Harrigan, semi-retired businessman George Patton and insurance broker Terry Patterson. This limited partnership will cease to exist. "As of today, Moses Znaimer is the new owner," said Michael Caine on May 1. Caine is the former president of AM740 Prime Time Radio and `creator' of the highly successful radio station with a musical format including everything from big bands and '50s crooners to the early rock 'n roll, folk, country cross-over artists, and many of today's top artists specializing in `retrosounds,' making it the most successful 50-plus station in Canada. "What happens now is up to Moses, but I'm not aware of any specific changes," said Caine. AM740 and about 15 of its existing staff, mainly on-air and sales, will be moving into new studios to be built at Znaimer's Toronto broadcast centre, home of CFMZ Classical 96 Toronto and Classical 103 Cobourg. Six will leave AM740 including four sales staff who are moving on to other jobs, some outside of radio. Among those staying with AM740 is veteran salesman Stan Davis, of Bronte, who at age 78 has survived both lung and prostate cancer and continues to "outperform his budget," said Caine. "He's incredible, an amazing success story . . . an inspiration." Davis, who has worked in sales for 45 years, joined CHWO 26 years ago. "I was supposed to retire in 1995, but I came down with lung cancer and I had prostate cancer the following year, but I was still in reasonably good health so I continued working," albeit "very part time." Davis will continue spending a few hours each day at the office and working from his home for both AM740 and JOY 1250 "looking after all of my regular accounts that I've had for quite a few years." Davis added he's continuing to work because he enjoys it. "As for myself, we're now in a situation where we can look to other investments in other technologies to grow our business as I'm certainly not retiring," said Caine. "I've got two other radio stations to run." He heads White Oaks Communications, which owns and operates CJYE 1250 AM ­ JOY 1250, a contemporary Christian music station and CJMR 1320 AM, a multi-cultural station. Currently all three stations share studios at the Broadcast Centre, 284 Church St. Caine said a staff party was held to mark the change in ownership for AM740, to thank the staff and celebrate the retirement of long-time announcer Barry Morden. "We're going to miss Barry,' said Caine, who has worked at CHWO and AM 740 on three different occasions, the last stretching 43 years. "He was a fixture here, our spiritual granddaddy." Morden first worked at CHWO while he was a student at Oakville Trafalgar High School. Caine told his employees "how much I loved them and proud I am of the fact that we created an unusual and unique team of talent and I'm so glad some of them will be going on to fulfill that dream. I'm very grateful to all of them for everything they've done to build the dream of AM740." The sale was approved following a CRTC public hearing held in Vancouver in February and March where it was an agenda item under the `non-appearance phase subject to interventions' of which there were none specific to this transfer of ownership. Hence, Caine did have to attend the hearing held in Vancouver. AM750 began life as CHWO 1250, launched by Howard Caine on Nov. 17, 1956, a 1,000-watt AM station with a nostalgia format. Its studio was located in downtown Oakville ­ not far from the present Broadcast Centre at Church Street and Trafalgar Road.