SCHEDULE OF UPCOMING EVENTS
Oakville Community Centre
for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights (OCCPEHR)
P.O. Box 52007, Oakville, ON L6J 7N5
Tel/Fax: (905) 849-5501
E-mail: info@oakvillepeacecentre.org
Website: www.oakvillepeacecentre.org
Schedule of upcoming events in 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Dear supporter of peace, ecology and human rights,
Happy New Year!
We are writing to thank everyone who contributed to the success of our various campaigns, events and activities this past year and decade! A lot was accomplished thanks to the involvement of hundreds of other organizations and thousands of people like yourself in our various initiatives.
As you update your calendars for 2010, please be sure to add the following important dates to your daytimer:
1. SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2010 (2-4 pm)
- Our 23rd annual Concert for Peace will feature speakers on peace (our chairperson Mervyn Russell), ecology (Angela Bischoff speaking about climate change), and human rights (David Peck speaking about Cambodia); musical entertainment also will be featured; in the auditorium at the downtown Central Library; $10 and $5 for students and seniors to attend.
2. SATURDAY, APRIL 17 AND SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2010 (daytime)
- Our 10th annual Halton Eco Festival will feature 90 booths including 9 sponsors, educational public forums, kid’s eco fun area, silent auction, music, organic food and beverages, door prizes and a lot more; volunteers are now being recruited; at the Glen Abbey Recreation Centre on Third Line in Oakville; $5 and $2 for students and seniors to attend this “sustainable living show”.
3. SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010 (9 am to noon)- Our 19th annual Earth Week Clean Up of Oakville Waterways and Green Spaces will feature thirty or more nature sites to be cleaned up, students joining in at their schools, one hundred or more sponsors, posters from Earth Day Canada, bags and gloves donated by the Town of Oakville, raffle prizes and a lot more; free; coordinators for new clean up locations are now being sought – how about your neighbourhood getting involved?
4. MONTHLY FREE PUBLIC FORUMS
- Every month, we organize a public forum that features keynote speakers who will educate ourselves and others about important current issues and affairs; everyone is welcome to attend.
a) SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2010 (7:00 to 9:30 pm)
- Our first forum in 2010 is on the subject of “Canada’s Involvement in Afghanistan: Stay, Go or Something in Between” and features Sally Armstrong (past editor of Chatelaine) and Haroon Siddiqui (columnist with The Toronto Star); free to attend but donations can be made to support two schools for girls in Afghanistan that local group Canadians in Support of Afghan Women has adopted; at St. Jude’s Anglican Church located at 160 William Street in downtown Oakville
b) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010 (7:30 to 9:30 pm)
- Our second forum in 2010 is on the subject of “Making Mining Mind” and features Liberal Member of Parliament John Mackay who has introduced a bill to ensure that Canadian mining companies respect the human and environmental rights of citizens living in the foreign countries in which they have mining operations; this event is presented by KAIROS and is co-sponsored by the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights; free to attend; at Oakville Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road just north of the QEW.
5. MEETING FOR VOLUNTEERS: THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010
THE DATE OF THE MEETING FOR VOLUNTEERS IS THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM IN THE PROGRAM ROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR AT THE CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY IN DOWNTOWN OAKVILLE.
a) We are now recruiting volunteers to assist with the Halton Eco Festival (set-up all-day Friday and tear-down after the event is over on Sunday), assisting sponsors and exhibitors, staffing information booths and the silent auction booth, parking and shuttle bus service, performing live classical music, eco cheerleading team, welcoming committee, assisting workshop speakers, staffing entrance desk, and other assignments.
b) Do you want to help with the Earth Week Clean Up? We are looking for people to become coordinators of a clean up in your neighbourhood this spring on Saturday, April 24 in the morning. You choose the nature site to be cleaned up and we provide you with gloves and bags to distribute to your volunteers on the day of the clean up and colourful posters for you to display throughout the neighbourhood before the event so everyone knows about it!
c) Volunteers can assist in making the public forums go smoothly (welcome table, information table, coffee and snacks preparation and serving, assisting the speaker, clean up).
d) We also are looking for volunteers who like talking to people on the telephone! We have the names and phone numbers of hundreds of people who have participated in our past events. We need to contact them by phone in order to update our lists, to invite them to upcoming events, to seek their e-mail address so that future communication can be ensured, and to encourage them to volunteer or support our organization with a donation so that we can do even more in the community.
THE DATE OF THE MEETING FOR VOLUNTEERS IS THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM IN THE PROGRAM ROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR AT THE CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY IN DOWNTOWN OAKVILLE.
PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET STARTED RIGHT AWAY IN A VOLUNTEER ASSIGNMENT; WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR CALL OR E-MAIL.
THANKS AGAIN!
For peace, ecology and human rights,
Stephen Dankowich, executive director