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Oakville Beaver | Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 12 halton.ca (| 311 Ae fie in Petite) aiHalton —— ae REGION Spring Compost Giveaway Halton residents are invited to attend the Spring Compost Giveaway from May 8 to 14 at the Halton Waste Management Site. Residents can take up to the equivalent of seven bags of compost per household, as a thank you for helping divert approximately 27,000 tonnes of yard waste from landfill last year. nt GY INIVWIUL Sz GY TVNOID3Y BRITANNIA RD + May 8 to 13 | 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. + May 14| 8 a.m. to noon Where: Halton Waste Management Site, 5400 Regional Road 25, Milton Who: This event is open to residents of Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville. Visitors may be HWMS 5400 Regional Rd 25 Base Line QEW asked for proof of residency. Remember to bring: Gardening tip: When applying compost to your garden, blend it with topsoil or another gardening fill. For best results, apply 60 per cent topsoil and 40 per cent + Upto seven of yourown + Ashovel to bag compost. bags or containers your compost Rarmaenallatenmetion, Donations of non-perishable food items will be visit halton.ca/waste or accepted and distributed to local food banks. Cash donations will not be accepted at this time. Celebrating Halton’s doctors! Next week is Halton’s annual Physician Appreciation Week. Thank you to all Halton doctors for your efforts to keep residents safe and healthy. Halton Region Public Health works closely with physicians in our community to connect residents with the important health services they need, and the Region is committed to ensuring residents continue to have access to excellent family doctors as our community grows. Gary Carr inal Chair There are always physicians who are accepting new patients in our community. If you’re looking for a family doctor, please visit halton.ca to find a practice near you. Meetings at Halton Res insidehalton.com Redon Council meetings are taking place through web conferencing until further notice. eos will be posted to halton.ca. Please contact us, as soon as possible, events or meetings. ff you have any accessibility needs at Halton Region IBNEWS NORTH OAKVILLE'S FIRST HIGH SCHOOL TO OPEN IN 2026 DAVID LEA dlea@metroland.com Plans to construct North Oakville's first high school are moving ahead. The Town's P| and Development Council voted during its Monday, April 17 meeting to approve zoning changes that will allow for the building of a Halton Dis- trict School Board secondary school at the northwest corner of the Sixth Line and Town staff aid “the new thi ti school, which has already received fund- ing from the province, will be 144,000 square feet in size and feature 53 class- rooms sand 18 portables. will also be a sports field, 205 paring spaces and a dayc: enior Planner Robert Thun said thea daycare would be 759 square metres in size and accommodate 8 He said the school is cepected tor openin September 202¢ "This is the srs t high school in North Oakville, and it would é assist in creating Halton District School Board image Aconcept design for the new North Oakville high school. but that opening date was pushed back as the school board worked with town staff to locate a new North Oakville site. There is no shortage ofneed fora North aes ee school, with url planner Hickey previously pointing out that 28 Sof October 2020, there were 734 sec- ihe Nort Oakville East Secondary P] id Thun. “This high school was originally sup- posed to be located at 1039 Dundas St. W., just west of the Dundas Street and Neyaga. wa Boulevard intersection. Those plans, however, had to be scrapped when it was discovered that ra- dio waves from a nearby radio tower array could potentially impact electronic devices at the school. The province committed $33.6 million to build a North Oakville high school that would accommodate approximately 1,200 students. The Neyagawa/Dundas Street school was scheduled to open in September 2024, That number has only grown since en. Ward 7 Coun. Nav Nanda said North Oakville is very excited about | ithe high school's impending and asked if it was possible for neg ening to come sooner, in 2025. Thun said he would relay the question to the school board but said high schools as large as this one typically take about three years to build. The opportunity to finally move the plans for the school forward was well re- ceived by Mayor Rob Burton. "I imagine the parents and high school kids of North Oakville may be happy about this," he said. __¥ Patient Counsellit . AFib and DNAS ~ Always | Here tocSHOPPER RS 2) Help Y ul iple v¥-Home Visits 7 Consulti / Free Nutrition Counselling / par ~ DE ERAN PHARHACY jete Di