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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 PRINTER EMPTY? REFILL AND SAVE UP TO 60% Remembering Tamya Page 25 Upper Oakville Shopping Centre 905-842-5600 www.thinkrefill.ca refill A School Like No Other Preschool - Grade 8 905-257-0022 www.fernhillschool.com FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010 46 pages $1.00 (plus GST) A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 48 No. 72 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" Oh baby NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER BIRTH DAY: Workers set up Ron Mueck's A Girl, a 16-foot-long, 800-pound hyper-realist sculpture of a newborn baby girl, for exhibit at Centennial Square. Oakville Galleries will be hosting the only Ontario stop of the National Gallery of Canada touring exhibition Real Life, featuring the work of artists Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner. For more, see Artscene. OT teacher nominated for Governor General's Award By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF They are stories of war, stories of loss, stories of sacrifice and they should not be allowed to fade into the dusty pages of history. Oakville Trafalgar High School (OTHS) Grade 10 History Teacher Pam Calvert said this desire to keep the memory of First World War and Second World War soldiers alive motivated her to task her students with remarkable projects aimed at uncovering not only how local soldiers died, but also how they lived. These projects were recognized at a national level, Wednesday, when it was announced Calvert was among 25 finalists for this year's Governor General's Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Canadian History. The finalists are selected, annually, from among hundreds of nominees from across Canada with the number eventually being whittled down to six award recipients. Canada's History Society CEO Deborah Morrison talked about why Calvert was chosen to be one of the 25 finalists. "World War I and II are a big part of the Grade 10 curriculum so it is pretty necessary for teachers to come up with innovative strategies. It can be hard to keep their (students') attention on something that happened almost a hundred years ago," she said. "Her approach of getting them out and See Teacher page 12 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR GM EMPLOYEE PRICING EVENT! Now you pay what a GM employee pays. The family business that service built. 2010 Chevrolet Cobalt LS Just add taxes and licence NOW ONLY $12,799 410 South Service Road West 905.845.1681 buddschev.com