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C 2 - The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e sd a y M a y 15, 2002 Wanted: ATHENA nominations Standing tall, her arms reaching out. the bronze ATHENA sculpture is look ing for a new home. Do you know someone who deserves to receive this prestigious award? The call for nominations for the 6th Oakville ATHENA Award is now under way. Nominations are open to both women and men who live or work in Oakville. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the ATHENA Award has been presented to more than 3,500 individuals who have excelled in their chosen field, given back to their community and. most importantly, mentored women to achieve their full potential. Back in 1981, Martha Mayhood Mertz was the only woman on the board of her local chamber of commerce. She also discovered that only one award in 75 years had been presented to a woman in recognition of her leadership contri bution. Determined to celebrate and foster women's leadership, Mertz founded the ATHENA Award Program. What does it take to be an ATHENA recipient? Nomination forms will be available from the Oakville Chamber of Commerce in May, with a deadline of June 30 for submissions. The ATHENA Awards Dinner on Oct. 9 when Pamela Wallin will be the guest speaker. For further information, contact the Oakville Chamber of Commerce at 905-845 6613. Oakwood library volunteer `retires' By Wilma Blokhuis BEAVER FOGUS EDITOR "At Erin Mills Lodge, Mom gets the care she needs to stay independent." It wasn't an easy decision because M om has always been so independent and we didn't want to quell that wonderful spirit of hers. But even she agreed that she needed more help than we could give her. Thank goodness for the caring people at Erin Mills Lodge. M om loves her active new lifestyle and she's as happy and independent as ever. - When the young students at Oakwood School learned their much loved librarian Hazel Bruce would be `retiring,' they created a book for her, describing in words and illustrations what her duties have been for the past 10 years. Each page is coloured and laminated. Inside the back cover is a laminated life membership library card, especially designed for her. "This book will be my most prized possession, and will have a place of honour in my home," said the 75-yearold grandmother on Friday, her last day at Oakwood. For her, `retiring' from Oakwood means she'll simply take a break, get away for a while, and move on to some thing else. She and husband, Ken Bruce, a local five-pin bowling enthusiast, will take a two-week cruise in Norway and visit relatives in England. The couple moved to Oakville in 1963. Upon their return, she expects to receive a call from the Oakville Senior Citizens Recreation Centre, "where I'm on the volunteers list. "I came to Oakwood in September of 1991 when my grandson was attend ing here," said the soft-spoken volun teer librarian. "I saw an article in the paper about the school asking grandparents to vol unteer. ``I started in the classroom, helping the Grade 5 children with their reading and writing. The second year I was in the classroom with the same kids in Grade 6." Jamie Smith · Oakville Beaver Oakwood School library volunteer Hazel Bruce shows the book the children at the school made her for her 10 years of volunteer service in the library. The following year she was asked to volunteer with a gift basket filled with work in the library, card cataloguing treats and books including an Oakwood and shelving books. "I hunted for lost School cookbook and a travel book cards, I hunted for lost books, and I about Norway, at a reception held to repaired books," she said in describing thank the school's volunteers. "I'm not retiring," she told fellow her duties. "I did everything one expects volunteers, teachers and students. "I'm to do in a manual library system." And. she helps young students find just moving on." But she won't forget Oakwood and the books they're looking for. She worked six hours a week, every promises to visit. "I shall miss the library." Monday and Thursday afternoons. Previously, she volunteered at "I survived five librarians," she Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, mused. Teacher-librarian Diane Kilpinen, and with Community Living Oakville and Grade 1 student Dayna Howell, 6, then known as the Oakville Association presented the school's `retiring' library for the Mentally Retarded. Leadership training assists with community participation and promotes understanding fC ^ * Community Living assists people with an intellectual dis ability to live meaningful, con tributory lives within their com munity. This includes the ability to work and to make choices concerning one's own needs. It means not being segregated or isolated away from mainstream society. It reflects the growing understanding that everyone has the right to live a fully-integrat ed life, to go to work or school, to enjoy recreational activities and to be an active member of the community. Over the past year. Community Living Oakville has been participating in the It Takes a Village project. This initiative assists individuals and commu nities to work in harmony through a process of Leadership Training. But this is not an easy task. The process of identifying needs and direction requires brainstorming; ideas and thoughts without censor or ridicule. From the brainstorm ing sessions, the leadership training moved to goal setting. Each goal was identified by a criteria or objective which would help define when the goals were reached. The first goal that was identi fied was to increase communica tion and sharing of ideas with nity at large it means adherence to the concept that community is for everyone. With this goal in mind, CLO was pleased when Mayor Ann Mulvale proclaimed May was Community Living Month for Oakville. Finally the goal of obtaining and using wisely the meager resources was identified. Resources to provide for the needs of the intellectually chal lenged have never been suffi cient. Two special projects have grown from the `It Takes A Village' initiative. Self Advocacy is an approach in everyone concerned with the which problem identification, CLO community. 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