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Wednesday June 27, 2001 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER A5 Paul Hill, 54 Lansing Buildall executive supported Dream Home Lottery Funeral services will be held on Friday for Paul Hill, a director of Lansing Buildall and volunteer with the Oakville Great Dream Home Lottery since its inception. The funeral mass will be at 11 a.m. at St. Matthew's Parish, 1150 Monk's Passage, followed by interment at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery. Hill, 54, died Monday at home fol lowing a two-year battle with cancer. He was baptized at St. Matthew's on Father's Day. Bom Nov. 24, 1946 in Toronto, Hill was raised and educated in the city. After high school, he got a job at Vicwest in Oakville, where he remained for nearly three decades. He also honed his business skills there, and left the company as vice-president, said his daughter Nicole Hill. Hill married Sharon Sterling on Oct. 12, 1968 in Toronto. He joined Lansing Buildall about seven years ago. Hill was also president of Sterling Industries, having taken that business over from his grandfather about seven to eight years ago, she continued. Hill was one of the original volun teers with the Dream Home Lottery, having been its building chair for the six years the lottery has been held. He was responsible for working with the Dream Home builders, initial ly Merrick Homes and now Mattamy Homes, and maximizing sponsorships and donations from suppliers. "He brought in Lansing Buildall as a major sponsor," said Mary Ellen Frederick of the Community Foundation of Oakville, and the Dream Home Lottery's founding project man ager. "He encouraged the building suppli ers to donate directly to the homes. We got $100,000 in donations to the homes, thanks to Paul's leadership," said Frederick. "This helped us raise over $3.5 mil lion since the inception of the lottery. Over the years, lottery proceeds have supported the Red Cross. United Way, Ontario Special Olympics, the CFO's Heritage Trails, OTMH Charitable Corporation, W ellspring, and the YMCA capital campaign. "He was too young to die," she con tinued. "Paul was a wonderful person, a dedicated volunteer. He put his heart and soul, and energy, into everything he did. "Paul was a caring individual with a wonderful sense of humour. He was a P r i n c i p a l f o l l o w e d s t u d e n t 's p r o g r e s s (C o n tin u e d fro m p a g e A 1 ) "Gillian was in my son's class in high school," said Kingsley, who admits to following her career. "When I found out she qualified as a teacher, I was quite interested in meeting her again." Now after four years of teaching, Sherratt says she's interested in becoming a school principal, but admits, "I have to get some more expe rience first." Speaking at a small retirement func tion held at the school, Sherratt spoke of Kingsley's qualities as an adminis trator, noting two in particular, "her calmness and her professionalism." K inglsey's is heartened by · Sherratt's career choice. "I feel personally rewarded when somebody like Gillian seeks a position in my school. It shows I did have an im pact. . "A really big one," said Sherratt. At the end of this month, Kingsley will retire after 33 years of teaching 27 of them in Halton, mostly in North Oakville. She started locally at M unn's, moved to Falgarwood in 1981, then went on to Pineland in Burlington and was appointed vice-principal of Brant Hills in 1989. Kingsley returned to Oakville in 1991 as vice-principal of Montclair. In 1995, she became principal at Sunningdale School. Previously, she had taught in South Africa, and also for the Department of National Defense at CFB Rockliffe in Ottawa after coming to Canada in 1970. She plans to pursue her passions for gardening and looking for antiques. "And, I plan to travel extensively." One of her proudest achievements was her participation in Sunningdale's Dreamacres project, a naturalization of the school grounds. "Gardening is certainly a passion of mine. It has certainly made a differ ence to the students." Kingsley has been involved with Dreamacres since its beginnings five years ago. To date, the school has a sunflower garden, two reforestation projects, "and we're just finishing the butterfly garden at the back of the school," she said. "I'm very proud of this project." However, Kingsley feels its time to leave. "When your former students come to register their kids at this school, then you know it's time to go," she joked. But seriously, she concludes: "I'm really going to miss the students. I've had daily interaction with students for 33 years. I'm going to really miss that. I've personally had a very rewarding career." Paul Hill very humble person, who just gave and gave. He always had encouraging words to encourage others - a really positive person." He is survived by his wife, three children, one grandchild, a brother and sister, his parents and father-in-law, a brother- and sister-in-law, plus nine nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Rd. W,, on Thursday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and from 7 to 9 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society. Meeting's legality called into question (C o n tin u e d fro m p a g e A 1 ) M ayor Ann M ulvale first attem pted to see if audio from the meeting could be piped into the out side atrium to continue the meeting. "It would take an hour and then there's no guarantee it would w ork," pronounced M ulvale after a quick investigation. The m ayor said town council c o u ld n 't know ingly continue a m eeting in contravention o f fire and building codes. Nor could it conduct a legal pub lic m eeting und er O n ta rio 's Planning Act if anyone was denied their dem ocratic right to attend, hear, see or speak to the issue at hand. "This has got to be a legal m eet ing," said a frustrated M ulvale, who tried to calm an irritable crowd. Some people felt the town should have anticipated the large turnout. Sim ilar m eetings last sum m er drew overflow crow ds who spilled out of council cham bers and strained to hear from hallways. However, M ulvale said the Town hasn't had to pipe audio out of council cham bers to accom m odate a crowd in more than a decade. "This hasn't happened since the late 1980s when the issue was m ar ket value assessm ent. I know because I was one o f the people out in the hallway," said the mayor. The Town had set aside three m eetings this w eek -- M onday, Tuesday and Thursday -- to accom m odate delegations w ishing to speak on the developm ent o f lands north o f Hwy. 5. F or the next two nights, M ulvale prom ised there w ould be audio, h opefully video, and chairs to accommodate an overflow crow d in the town hall atrium. A third, possibly even more dates, were to be announced last night. The Town's website will be updated regularly. Cable 10 will carry the debate. Last night's m eeting will be broad cast today at 1:30 p.m. for viewing or videotaping. C ablenet usually only covers C ouncil, not Planning & D evelopm ent Council m eetings, but there was enough public interest to w arrant the coverage. As o f Monday, 45 people were form ally listed as delegations. M ulvale expected at least another 45 w ill step forw ard as inform al del egations when the crow d is polled (as is done during public m eetings held under the Planning Act). On the table is O fficial Plan Amendm ent No. 198 -- a plan to take urban Oakville north o f Hwy. 5. 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