A 4 - The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e s d a y O c to b e r 29, 2003 E C O N O M IC D E VEL O P M E N T ECO N O M IC OCVflOfMlNl O A K V IL L E Second West Oak Trails school opens next September By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF It hasn't yet been named and its boundaries still must be set, but construc tion is beginning on West Oak Trails sec ond public school. Last week shovels broke ground on the more than $8 million, 650-pupil school that will open this coming September. It may take time for the traditional community school naming, but it won't, take long to open the doors to what's now simply called West Oak Public School #2. The new school will open two years after the first West Oak Trails Public School opened. The new school, which is located on Grand Oak Trail, will boast 60,000 sq. ft. "This is another exciting moment and we've had a few recently. After a long time of not being able to build schools, this is the eighth school we've built in the last two-and-a-half years," said Halton District School Board (HDSB) director Dr. Dusty Papke. While Mayor Ann Mulvale, who attended the ground breaking ceremony last Thursday noted the need for the new school, she also noted that residents in established areas are feeling the pressure of school closings in their neighbour hoods. The mayor touted the value of walk-to schools in neighbourhoods, particularly for students in junior grades. Halton Regional Chair Joyce Savoline, who was also out for the groundbreaking ceremony said neighbourhood schools become "the glue of the community." "There may be a chill in the air, but there's warmth and happiness in my heart today." said area school trustee Annette Kirk welcoming schools in areas where they are "desperately needed" particularly north of Upper Middle Road. The JK to Grade 8 school is among five in total called for in West Oak Trails and a total of 41 new schools needed across Halton over the next 15 years, said Papke. The new school will be wired for com puters. It will boast two gyms, it will be fully air-conditioned and have what archi tect Carruthers Shaw and Partners Ltd. of Toronto call a "community forum" or marketplace. The school promises to be very bright and open. It will have 18 regular class rooms. a computer lab, library, science, art, music and applications (shop) areas and three JK classrooms. It will also have a special education area. Sitting on a 5.5-acre site that adjoins Catholic elementary school St. Joan of Arc, the new public school will have a playground, paved playground and park ing area. There will be approximately 80 parking spaces, and a double drop-off sys tem that has separate loops for school buses, and a separate entrance for Kindergarten students. The new school will be named next winter. Ballot boxes will be put into neighbouring schools and the local library branches in the typical school-naming tra dition. Boundaries for the new school should be finalized sometime this fall, said Papke. The Oakville Economic Development Alliance and the Burlington Economic Development Corporation would like to thank all of their sponsors for their support of the 2003 ICI Summit. PlalioumSpoosgrs FIBREWIRED" Burlington Hydro Comm/mairtotu Peter C. McCusker · O akville Beaver School children, education officials and politicians took p a rt in the ground breaking cerem ony for the second new public school in West O ak Trails. 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