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OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, May 29, 2009 · 28 Genealogical society conference at Sheridan this weekend The Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) will hold its 2009 conference, hosted by the Halton-Peel Branch, at Sheridan College May 2931. The conference will feature 10 Friday workshops, a marketplace, and 35 sessions with renowned international speakers. Speakers at the event will include Marg Aldridge, Sherilyn Bell, Ruth Blair, Colin and Elizabeth Briggs, Ruth Burkholder, Richard Doherty, Dr. David Elliott, Robert Fizzell, Alison Hare, Shirley Hodges, Jane MacNamara, Sharon Murphy, Patricia McGregor, Dave Obee, Janice Nickerson, Kathie Orr, Marian Press, Gary Schroder, Louise St. Denis, Fawne Stratford-Devai, Tammy Tipler-Priolo, J. Richard Houston. The feature speaker will be Kory L. Meyerink, an adjunct history faculty member for Brigham Young University's Salt Lake Center and a founding director of the Salt of Institute Lake Genealogy. A Saturday plenary session will be hosted by J. Brian Gilchrist, a reference archivist with the Region of Peel Archives. banquet Saturday's speaker will be award-winning author and journalist Charlotte Gray. Conference details and online registration can be found at www.ogs.on.ca/conference. You can also contact the OGS provincial office at 416-489-0734 or e-mail conference@ogs.on.ca. Charterability cruise June 4 Charterability, an Oakville community group that helps seniors and those with physical disabilities enjoy time on the water, will host its 12th annual "Cruise for a Cause." After already successfully raising awareness on the need for an accessible dock on Sixteen Mile Creek (now finished), the cruise will take place Thursday, June 4 on the Wayward Princess, hoping See Cruise page 30 cordially invite you to attend the Annual General Meeting Wednesday, June 17, 2009 -- 7:00 pm Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton office at 464 Morden Road, Oakville, ON *BBBSH voting members are directors and volunteers who are Big Brothers, Big Sisters, In-School Mentors, Club Tutors or Committee volunteers (who have volunteered in excess of 30 hours in the fiscal year Apr 1, 2008 to Mar 31, 2009) and who are eighteen years of age or older.