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0À n SIReal Estate SPORTS on the marketj tune-up for team ~lt lIU inside tprovincials Pagel 23 COMMUNITY mentoring and wins rage 8 Wý t( anabîan *om AMTOADCOMMUNITY NEWSPAPER VOL. 145 NO. 13 -!e"TUESDAY, APRIL 27,2004 $1.00 (GST inclsded) 56 PAGES "Using Comniunication to Build Better Comnumities" Report recommends closing St. Peter 's, Our Lady of Victory By KIM ARNOTT Special ta The Champion The next 20 years could be tumnultuous for Halton's Catholic students and their parents. A series of recommendations outiining where new sehools should be built and where others should be closed, consolidat- cd or movcd, was contained in a plan pre- sented to the Halton Catholie District sehool board last Tuesday might. The Long Term Accommodation Plan, prepared for the board by the consulting ftrmn C.N. Watson and Associates Ltd., ana- lyzes thc demographic changes taking place in Uic region in an attcmpt to forecast Uic board's school fadility needa through until 2023. And as early as 2007, il recommends some fairly dramatic changes locally and semass Uic region. Milton, which will sec a ncw elemcntary school open its doors Uiis September, is scheduled to get anoUcer new school in Uic urban expansion area in 2007. However, Uic same time period would sec St. Petcr's School closed. I 2009, Uic report suggests closmng Our Lady of victory School and building a new elementary school in the town's urban expansion area. A second ncw elementary school would be bult in the growth area of the town the followmng year. The report suggests a 16-classroom addi- tion should be planned for Multon's Bishop Redmng high school in 2014, along with a two-claasroom addition to the elementary school scheduled to open this September. But, board Director Lou Piovesan urged trustees to recognize that the planning process has just started and final accom- modation decisions don't yet have to be made. "This is step two in many steps," he said, noting that the document will be circulated for public comment prior to fonnai adop- tion by thc board, likely in June. Cynthia Clarke, associate director with C.N. Watson, told trustees Uiat the board will be impacted by slowing enrolment growth over the next 20 years. Wbile a 17 per cent growsh in enrolment *see NOT on page 17 Inside Com m ent ................ ... Claslflid............. 25-28 Datolins ............... 29-31 Insinue ...... ........ B1-64 Chu.plon Coma"r 15. B-112 I mm~ à ockab - I 1