Mills Haven School - CARW2018
With this years CARW having a ‘Back to Geo-School’ theme, we thought we would school everyone with some actual schools! These caches will give you some history on some of the schools in the Strathcona County / Sherwood Park area. We hope you enjoy being schooled!
Mills Haven School was named after the Mills family who came to this area from Toronto in 1898. Mr. N.D Mills set up a law firm named Mills and Downes. Mr. Mills was also very active in the community of Strathcona (now SouthEdmonton). He served on town council in 1907, he reserved Riverside Park (which later became Queen Elizabeth Park) and introduced golf to the town of Strathcona.
Mills Haven School was built in 1971. When the school opened, the building was not ready and staff shared accommodations with Campbelltown School. The school opened on October 12th 1971 with the official opening being recognized on Tuesday, May 30, 1972.
Mr. Ron Mundell was the first principal at the school. The enrollment was 271 students and 13 teachers. By Christmas of that year the school had grown to 360. In the 1978-79 school year there were 690 students, 34 full time teachers and a support staff of 10.
It was in 1981 that Mills Haven School began the German Bilingual Program. Mr. E. Kostyshen was the principal and the first teacher for the program was Mr. S. Kawerau. Mr. Kawerau only taught for one year and continued on at the school as a volunteer until his death in 2003. The next year, in 1982, Mrs. S. Ingster was the German teacher. Today the German Program continues to thrive for students in Kindergarten through grade six and is actively involved in many German cultural pursuits.
This CARW2018 cache will be published prior to the CARW event.
Please remember that caches cannot be hunted until 9am Saturday March 3rd
Should you find this cache prior, it will not count for the event, and FTF points are only valid as of 9am March 3rd.
There are a total of 15 caches in this series. Some of the traditional caches are feeder caches, and will end up providing the final coordinates for the puzzle cache:
Colchester School - CARW2018
Remember to jot down these special numbers to help you find the last one in this series.
The numbers may be in the container, or ON the host.