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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday July 30, 2008 - 11 Update Community Forward announcements of nonprofit local events for Community Update to the Oakville Beaver, 467 Speers Rd., Oakville, ON, L6K 3S4; email angela@oakvillebeaver.com or call 905-845-3824, ext. 248. Free listing. BULLETIN Eleven-year-old boy needs a sports buddy. Can you help him live the dream? Call Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton at 905-339-2355 for information. Peer Counselling: Are you going through a difficult time? Do you need support around issues of abuse, relationship issues, and grief/loss? Contact The Women's Centre, Hopedale Mall, 1515 Rebecca St., Suite 229,Oakville, 905 847 5520. Register for Halton Region Community Food Advisor Volunteer Program Information Sessions -- Monday, Aug. 18, 7-9 p.m.; Tuesday, Aug. 19, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Halton Regional Centre, 1151 Bronte Rd., contact 905-8256000 or visit www.halton.ca/health/services/nutrition/community_food_advisor_program.htm. WEDNESDAY JULY 30 HAPPEN ­ Linking People and Opportunities Networking support group for business professionals in career transition meets at 8 a.m., at Burlington Art Centre. Speaker George Torok, discusses Promote Brand You. Cost is $10 for members and $30 for non-members. Call 905339-0268 or www.happen.ca FRIDAY AUGUST 1 Fish Fry at Oakville Legion, Branch 114, 36 Upper Middle Rd. E. from 4:30 - 8 p.m. Cost is $8.50 per person. Everyone welcome. Call 905-845-6271. SUNDAY AUGUST 3 Emancipation Day Family Picnic at the Oakville Museum at Erchless Estate, in partnership with the Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton (CCAH), 1-4 p.m., George's Square, Trafalgar Road (between Palmer and Sumner avenues); Emancipation Day picnics, held at this site annually since the 1860s, attracted many African-Canadians who visited Oakville to celebrate their freedom in Glory Land. Pack a picnic, enjoy musical performances, participate in African drumming, and bring along your kids. See Muhtadi's World Drummers - Native of Trinidad, master drummer, and founder of Toronto's International Drumming festival; Steel Band; Karolyn Smardz Frost, historian, archaeologist, and author of I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (2007). Call the Oakville Museum at 905-338-4400, or visit www.oakvillemuseum.ca. MONDAY AUGUST 4 Open House at Bronte Legion, 79 Jones St., 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., barbecue, salad and dessert. All welcome, including children. For information, call 905-8274722. The Oakville Art Society is holding its 43rd annual Art in the Park on the waterfront in Bronte, Art in the Park is located at Heritage Waterfront Park, Bronte and Ontario street. Admission is $3 at the gate. SATURDAY AUGUST 9 Walk-A-Thon fundraiser, organized by the Vaishno Devi Temple and the Halton Sikh Cultural Association in Oakville, for the S.E.N.A.C.A Seniors Day Program Halton Inc. The 5 km walk is an interfaith walk. The walk will take place Aug. 9, 8 am. Pledge sheets e-mail angela@oakvillebeaver.com or call 905-845-3824, ext. 248 can be picked at S.E.N.A.C.A Program locations, 53 Bond St, Palermo United Church, 2521 Dundas St. West. Forms available at the First Ontario Credit Union, 338 Kerr St. or by calling Pravin Lata Sharma at 905-827-9382. For more information contact, Pravin Lata Sharma 905-827-9382, Vaishno Devi Temple 905-825-4202 or Halton Sikh Cultural Association in Oakville 905-469-1313.