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Students honoured today for Veterans Garden work By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The Grade 7 and 8 students of St. Dominic Catholic School, who helped make the Bronte Veterans Garden a reality, will be recognized at Queen's Park today (Friday) with the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Youth Achievement. The garden, located in Donovan Bailey Park on Bronte Road, was created after St. Dominic students went to the Town of Oakville saying more was needed to honour Canadian soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Students staffed information booths and raised funds with the help of sponsors including MEDIchair, Richard Brock of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association and the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 486, Bronte, to bring their idea to life. The garden opened in 2011 and features several plaques, placed in front of newly planted trees, which commemorate the lives of several Canadian soldiers. One plaque remembers Col. Geoff Parker of Oakville who was killed while serving in Kabul, Afghanistan on May 18, 2010 when a suicide car bomber attacked the International Security Assistance Force convoy in which he was travelling. News that they would be receiving an award for their work on the garden was well received by the students involved. "When we heard we were receiving this 3 · Friday, February 22, 2013 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com OAKVILLE BEAVER FILE PHOTO / @halton_photog a labour of love: Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay speaks at Bronte Veterans garden in Oakville during a ceremony organized by St. Dominic Catholic School to honour Trooper Marc Diab and Oakville native Col. Geoff Parker, soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan. killed in Afghanistan in 2006. Mitchell's mother, Carol, wrote back and would later visit the school on multiple occasions thanking the students for remembering her son. Amazed by the impact of their small gesture and driven by their teacher, John MacPhail, the students would send letters and posters to the families of other soldiers killed in Afghanistan and would eventually work to award we were pretty proud of ourselves," said Tessa D'Attoma, 14, who noted the fundraising efforts included movie nights and popcorn days. "It's great to get an award for doing something that was so fun." The work of the St. Dominic students to honour Canada's veterans did not begin with the garden, but some years earlier when the students sent a letter and poster of tribute to the family of Cpl. Robert James Mitchell who was create the Bronte Veterans Garden. "All of this has really been life changing. What we have done is so little, but it really makes a change for some people," said Faith Gruber, 12. "A lot of the families we have done posters for have replied to us saying they were always afraid that after a couple of years nobody would remember their sons or daughters or parents. I think this (garden) really honours them." Canada's Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay visited the Bronte Veterans Garden last June and praised St. Dominic students -- calling what they had done "an expression of love for soldiers, for their families, (and) for their country." MacPhail also congratulated his students for the creation of the garden and for earning the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Youth Achievement. "I'm just proud they were recognized," said MacPhail. "It's just fabulous that our community supported our young people. It certainly goes to show how dedicated Oakville is to supporting even its youngest citizens to become productive members of society and how if you have a good idea, not only will your school community support you, but your municipal government will take your idea seriously and see how they can make it a reality." The Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Awards are part of the Province's Heritage Week celebrations. 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