Oakville's Leslie Ashworth, 18, was recently nominated for an Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year Award. Every nominee receives a certificate of recognition from his or her local, weekly community newspaper -- Ashworth received hers from the Oakville Beaver . Ashworth was nominated by Marybeth Beuglet, rehabilitation co-ordinator at the Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH), for her work on creating the Suite Melody Care program at the local hospital. The program sees Ashworth visit OTMH every month to play music for the patients at the rehabilitation ward. Suite Melody Care recently received formal approval, allowing Ashworth to eventually expand her program to other hospitals and include more musically-talented youths. Ashworth has also produced two CDs, giving a portion of the sales to Free The Children (now totalling approximately $2,500), and gives performances for charitable and not-for-profit organizations, such as ArtHouse, Wellspring, and Ashworth nominated for Ontario Junior Citizen award 17 | Friday, January 30, 2015 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Future Aces, to name a few. Ashworth has been home-schooled and will be part of one of the first online high school graduating classes to have completed their entire high school diploma online. In the past few years, she has maintained an overall average of more than 90 per cent. She studies with the Royal Conservatory of Music. Ashworth plays piano and viola and has performed in Carnegie Hall as the gold medal winner of the American Association for the Development of the Gifted and Talented. Besides having played with the Oakville Symphony Orchestra, Ashworth is the grand prize winner of the Canadian Music Competition and was asked to perform with numerous orchestras in various venues across Canada, including: the Vancouver Convention Centre, The Banff Centre's Rolston Hall, The Convocation Hall at the University of Alberta and the Conservatoire de Montreal, as well as Koerner Hall in Toronto, the Toronto Metropolitan Convention Centre and the George Westin Recital Hall. Visit ocna.org/juniorcitizen for a list of the final Leslie Ashworth receives her Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year Award nomination certificate from Oakville Beaver Sub-editor John Bkila. | photo by Graham Paine Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or facebook.com/HaltonPhotog) get 1 oil change * at regular price & get next one Spray Tans - $25 Offer expires January 31st, 2015. Must bring in this ad. FREE Offer expires March 31,2015 *Does not apply to synthetic oil voTed #1 Salon www.TanWild.com # ROSA AUTO SALES www.rosaauto.ca | rosa_auto@yahoo.ca SALES 905.337.9339 SERVICE 905.337.9965 1071 SpeerS road, oakville 511 Maple Grove Drive, Oakville 905.338.2700 905.849.7560 Call to book your appointment Hearing Tests | Custom Earmolds Hearing Aids | Hearing Aid Repairs Hearing Aid Batteries www.haltonhearing.com B4-1148 Winston Churchill Blvd. Oakville, ON L6J 0A3 Where children learn to think, not what to think. Melissa McFadden B.Sc., M.Sc., Reg CASLPO Chief Audiologist At Fern Hill we believe our number one job is to turn students into life long learners. Helping them uncover hidden talents and inspiring them to never lose their child-like wonder. To remain relentlessly curious. Reminding them of the importance of not only asking why, but also why not. Halton Hearing Centre has been proudly serving Oakville residents since 2007 Book your tour today. fernhillschool.com