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Book of Negroes author speaks at CFUW meeting Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes and recent winner of CBC's Radio One annual literary contest, Canada Reads will speak at the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW)­Oakville's general meeting on Monday, April 18. Hill's talk on Faction: Merging Fiction and History in Writing The Book of Negroes, is open to the public for $10. Hill's third novel, which was released in 2007, relies on a blend of history and fiction to tell the compelling story of Aminata, who, in the 1700s, is abducted as a child from her village in West Africa and shipped to South Carolina by slave traders. Over the course of the novel, Aminata is transformed into a storyteller extraordinaire. She spins the astonishing tale of her remarkable travels from Africa to America and back again. A sojourn in Nova Scotia illuminates a longneglected chapter in Canadian history. As part of her story, Aminata registers her name in the historic Book of Negroes, an actual document, which provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the U.S. for resettlement in Nova Scotia. The Book of Negroes won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in 2008. It was published as Someone Knows My Name in the U.S., where it has proven equally popular. Hill is the author of Any Known Blood (1997) and Some Great Thing (1992), and a best-selling memoir, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (2001). As seating needs to be arranged in advance, non-members who plan to attend are requested to send an e-mail to the CFUW­Oakville mailbox at cfuwoakville@yahoo.ca and provide numbers. The meeting is at the Banquet Hall of the International Union of Operating Engineers, 2245 Speers Rd. Doors will open to the public at 7:30 p.m. with the meeting beginning at 8 p.m. A CFUW business meeting for members only will follow. For more information, contact www.cfuwoakville.ca. 17 · OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, April 17, 2009 The Regional Municipality of Halton www.halton.ca NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRE #2 Transportation Corridor Improvements Neyagawa Boulevard (Regional Road 4) from Dundas Street (Regional Road 5) to Highway 407, Town of Oakville Class Environmental Assessment Study The Regional Municipality of Halton is completing a Class Environmental Assessment to consider a wide range of options for transportation corridor improvements to satisfy future travel demands on Neyagawa Boulevard (Regional Road 4) from Dundas Street (Regional Road 5) to Highway 407 in the Town of Oakville (see map below). In order to of road improvement alternatives have been examined as part of the study including widening of the roadway, cross-sectional requirements, intersection improvements, over-all environments. The study is being conducted in compliance with Schedule C of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2000, as amended 2007), which is approved under the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act. the preferred alternative was determined taking into consideration the problem being addressed, alternative solutions, environmental effects, and comments that were received from the Town of Oakville, regulatory agencies and the public. The preferred alternative includes the widening of Neyagawa Boulevard from two to four lanes and intersection improvements. alternative and receive public comments. Following the information centre, the preliminary preferred alternative will be reviewed taking into consideration the comments received and The map below shows the approximate limits of the study area. Date: Time: Location: Thursday, April 23, 2009 Building, 1151 Bronte Road, Oakville If you cannot attend and would like to provide comments, please forward them by May 7, 2009 to the Regional Municipality of Halton at the address below. Regional Municipality of Halton 1151 Bronte Road Oakville, Ontario L6M 3L1 AECOM 170409