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Community UPDATE EDITOR: WILMA BLOKHUIS J N L Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 250) Fax 905-337-5567 email blokhuis@haltonsearch.com · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2006 31 Please forward announce ments of non-profit and free events for Community Update to Wilma Blokhuis, Oakville Beaver, 467 Speers Rd Oakville, Ont. L6K 3S4; email blokhuis@haltonsearch.com or call 905-8453824 Ext. 250; BEFORE NOON THURSDAY to be included. Free listing. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton's biggest fundraiser of the year, Bowl for Kids' Sake Feb. 17, 7 - 9 p.m. at Hopedale Bowl for 5pin bowling or Feb. 24,7 - 9 p.m. at Classic Bowl in Mississauga for 10pin bowling. Register a bowling team or sponsor a team of Little Brothers and Sisters. For details call 905-339-2355 or see www.bbbshalton.ca. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 Free Workshop: Journey Through the Chakras Series Root Chakra (wear red). Meditation and hatha yoga every Friday 7:30 9:30 p.m., Unity Church, 3075 Ridgeway Dr., Units 6-10, Mississauga. Call Danuta 905-5691320, www.bluestarcanada.org. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4 Fashionably WORN, historical fashion show and lecture, Oakville Place, 8 - 9:30 p.m., with Jonathan Rebecca and Third Line. Call 905Walford and Oakville Museum at 847-5520 for appointment. Separation/Divorce Group Erchless Estate, Tickets $25 per person. Portion of proceeds for starts Feb. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m. (6-8 Canadian Cancer Society. For tick weeks) Cost $30. Are you going ets, call museum, 905-338-4400 or through the painful experience of separation or divorce? Share your mat mail' s Guest Services. concerns and receive support, The SUNDAY FEBRUARY5 On Your Mark...Get Set...dip. Women's Centre, Ste. 210, 12 annual Polar Bear Swim for Hopedale Mall, Rebecca and Third Line. Call 905-847-5520 Halton Women's Place, 5 p.m., Life After Cancer - profession Emma's Back Porch, 2084 Old Lakeshore, Burlington. Fundraiser ally facilitated drop-in networking for women's shelter. Enjoy the hot and support group for individuals tub afterwards and watch the Super who are post treatment and are Bowl. For pledge sheet, call Carm at looking for support with long term 905-332-1200 ext. 244 or e-mail her side effects or re-entering the work place is offered on the 1st and 3rd cbozzo@haltonwomensplace.com. Monday of each month from 7 MONDAY FEBRUARY 6 8:30 pm. Wellspring Halton-Peel, Rwanda: Then and Now Canadian journalist and author 2545 Sixth Line, 905-257-1988. Huge McCallum speaks about 1994 ^ (F eb .6 an d 20) Front Row Centre monthly genocide in Rwanda at Power of One lecture at St. John's United meeting 7 p.m., in the lobby of the Church, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m., free. Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts. Speaker: Ronnie Brown of the Refreshments. Centre staff. Prospective members Family Law Legal Clinic with Lydia Moritz, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. are welcome to volunteer arm of Half-hour private session get advice the theatre. For more information call 905-337-0516. and guidance on family issues Tots and Us, open to moms, around separation/divorce, child/spousal support, and dads and grandparents who are tak child/custody/access. The Women's ing care of a preschooler and would like to meet others, St. Paul's Centre, Ste. 210, Hopedale Mall, United Church, 454 Rebecca, 10 11 a.m. Caregivers and children will participate in playtime, music, sto ries and snack. No charge. Call 905845-3427. Weekly Walks by the Water along Waterfront Trail with the Bronte Bunch. Group walks every Monday year round for fun, fitness and friendship. Meet at'back door of Coach and Four, Lakeshore and Bronte. Walk begins 7:15 p.m. Apres walk refreshments. Beginners welcome. Approximately 7K walk, 1.5 hours. Call Sylvia, 905825-8763. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7 Oakville Seniors Camera Club, 7:30 p.m., at 263 Kerr Street Seniors Centre. Are you interested in photography? Presentation by Jiri Vondrak, Landscapes. New members welcome. Cost: $3 per person. Enquiries: Mary Bastead 905-827-0836. Support Group For Survivors O f Sexual Assault - Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Services of Halton (SAVIS) will be offering a peer support group for women who have survived sexual violence. Group attendance is free and week ly meetings held Tuesdays 10 a.m. noon Feb. 7 - March 28 (eight weeks). SAVIS on second floor of Hopedale Mall, Rebecca Street and Third Line. Call Ingrid at 905-8253622 to register. ZING - Zonta Information Gathering, wine and cheese hosted by Zonta Club of Oakville, Feb. 7, 8 or 16,7:30 - 9 p.m., The Boardroom - Ste. 100,700 Kerr north of Speers and south of QEW, Teriyaki Experience, ScotiaMcLeod Building. RSVP by Feb. 3 to Allison McDonald, 905-845-1670 or e-mail alliso n _ m cd o n ald @ sco tiacm cleod.com. Job Shop - Is your Job search taking longer than it should? Are you not getting the results you expected? Do you need help staying on track? Intensive, results focused, free, 465 Morden Ste. 109, 9:30 11:30 a.m. Call The Centre for Skills Development & Training at 905-845-1157 ext. 101 or visit www.thecentre.on.ca. Five Tibetan Yogas and Meditation, Rotary Youth Centre, 560 Guelph Line in Central Park, Burlington with .former Buddhist nun Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw. New four-week beginner class Tuesdays, Feb 7 - 28, 5 :15-6 p.m., $65. Pre register 905-901-9848. or events@lamponthepath.org. Bring this ad back into any one of our Purdy's locations, spend $20 and get a FREE box of Hedgehog 6's. |XLe s Happy Valentine's Day from your friends at Purdy's Chocolates. Please visit us at www.PURDYS.COM V a u g h a n M ills Vaughan, Ontario