PLASP Child Care Services has built a solid reputation as an excellent provider of Before and After School programs as well as Early Learning and Child Care. A not-for-profit, community based, charitable organization, PLASP provides care and early learning to more than 10,000 children from 7,300 families annually.
Anne (Hebrew, Hannah, grace; is the traditional name of the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Anne is patroness of women in labour; she is represented holding the Blessed Virgin Mary in her lap, who again carries on her arm the child Jesus. She is also patroness of miners, Christ being compared to gold, Mary to silver. According to Catholic Encyclopedia, all their information concerning the names and lives of Sts. Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary, is derived from apocryphal literature, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Protoevangelium of James Though the earliest form of the latter, on which directly or indirectly the other two seem to be based, goes back to about A.D. 150, we can hardly accept as beyond a doubt its various statements on its sole authority.
Saint Dominic Parish in Oakville, Ontario is one of 125 parishes in the Diocese of Hamilton in south central Ontario. The Diocese of Hamilton was established in 1856 and the current Diocesan Bishop is the Most Reverend Douglas Crosby.