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A8 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER W ednesday March 29, 2000 Anti drinking & driving essay contest MARCH BREAK B O W L I N G PARTY: The Oakville Beaver held its Second Annual March Break Bowling Party earlier this month at Bowlerama in Trafalgar Village Mall. Over 300 carri ers and guests showed up for the event. Getting ready to test their luck on the lanes are: (1 to r) Lauren C raw ford, Taryn M cAleer, Pam Snell and Brooke Powell. Interested participants have until May 5th to submit entries for the Essay Search 2000 in Memory of Janet Dooley. The essay search was initiated by William and Stephanie Dooley, parents of Janet Dooley who was killed by a drunk driver in 1991. Both helped form, and are heavily committed to, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Halton. The Essay Search is conducted annually by the Town of Oakville's Committee Against Impaired Driving and corporate sponsors. This year's topic is "Why No One Should Drink and Drive.'T h e two categories are 13 and under and 14 and over. Essays should be forwarded Kimberley Kitteringham at Clerks Department, Town of Oakville, P.O. Box 310, 1225 Trafalgar Rd., Oakville. L6J 5A6. Fax - 815-2025. E-mail kkitteringham@town.oakville.on.ca. U ] !< B e c a u s e S h o u ld S u m m fM e r o re C o n s is t o Than Just Weekends" Students get long winter break in 2001 Halton public school students are in for another late start for the Christmas holiday break in the next school year. Due to concerns over Y2K computer problems, students didn't return from their two-week holiday break last Christmas until Jan. 10th. Next w inter's Christmas break involves similar timing, with classes end ing Friday, Dec. 22nd and resuming Monday, Jan. 8th. But this time, it's a scheduling con flict with New Year's Day and not Y2K concerns that's causing the delay. Holding the break a week earlier would have prevented a Monday return date, since the Jan. 1 holiday falls on that day. The late Christmas holiday start was approved as part of the 2000/2001 calen dar by the Halton District School Board. Other proposed 2000/2001 calendar rec ommendations include starting the school year the day after Labour Day, Sept. 5th, and finishing June 29th. Other school holidays will include Thanksgiving Day, Oct. 9th; Spring Break, March 12th-16th; Good Friday, April 13th; Easter Monday, April 16th and Victoria Day, May 21st. Schools will also be closed to students for professional activity/development days on Oct. 6th, Dec. 1st, Feb. 2nd and June 28th. Those days will be used by teachers for activities like communicating with parents about student progress, training on curriculum, assessment/evaluation reporting, course planning/preparation, submission and verification of secondary school marks. High school exam periods will be Jan. 25th-31st and June 20th-26th for semestered schools and June 13th-26th fpr non-semestered schools. D e d ic a te d to th e P u r s u it o f E x c e lle n c e i n D e sig n a n d C r a fts m a n s h ip f o r o v e r a Q u a r te r C e n tu r y y BEAUDRY BeaudryGroup.com Pools, Landscaping &Lifi'stylts T brom o/M ississauga (905)949-8808 O akville/B urlington (905)639-6502 Power plant open house Sithe Inc. is hosting an open house today to display its plans for a natural gasfired power sta tion just across the OakvilleMississauga bor der. The meeting takes place at the Green Glade Senior Public School, 1550 Green Glade, Mississauga from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sithe is proposing to build a $500-5600 mil lion state-of-theart 800 MW nat ural gas-fired, power station on the east side of W i n s t/ o n Churchill Blvd., south o f Royal Windsor Drive. The plant will include a 100-foot generating build ing, topped by an 85-foot smoke stack. Treed 12-to 14-foot berms will surround the site. Plans for the power station will be on display dur ing the open house, and Sithe staff will be avail able to answer questions. Police seek public's input H a l t o n Regional Police are inviting the public to provide input towards the developm ent of its three-year business plan. Police C hief Ean Algar and the Halton Regional Police Services Board are solicit ing residents' co operation to help identify policing, issues and recom m endations for service delivery. To that end, Oakville puKiic consultation meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 18th at 7:30 p.m. in the north audi torium of region al headquarters, 1151 Bronte Rd. For more information, con tact Services Board adm inis trative assistant Alix Kerr at 8254816.