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in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, N ov em be r 8, 20 18 | 48484 DIRECTORY If you'd like to advertise your place of worship in this feature please call FIONA RUDDER 289-293-0691 Worship SUNDAY Bible Teaching & Worship Service, 12:30-2:30pm (SOUTH RIDGE ROOM) IROQUOIS RIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE 1051 Glenashton Dr. Glenashton & Eighth Line FRIDAY Teaching & Youth Service 7-8:30pm Tel: 416-892-8123 Pastor: Elder M.J. Brissett Email: mjbrisse@yahoo.ca JESUS IS LORD PenTACOSTAL UnITeD GLEN ABBEY UNITED CHURCH REV. TED VANCE THIS SUNDAY, November 11TH: ALL are invited to a special REMEMBRANCE DAY service 9:30am Coffee, Lemonade, Cookies and Conversation 10:00am Worship Service and Funday Sunday School Message: "We Remember" Focus Scripture: Lamentations 3:17-27 Here you will find Church the way you wished it could be! Friendly people, Great Music Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit! 1469 Nottinghill Gate, Oakville 905-825-5292 www.glenabbeyunitedchurch.com A concert of hauntingly beautiful music that will leave your soul refreshed and renewed. EleanorDaley: Requiem Ēriks Ešenvalds: Only in Sleep OlaGjeilo: TheGround Laurel Forshaw: conductor Timothy Lo: pianist Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018 at 7:30 pm Knox Presbyterian, 89Dunn St, Oakville Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 at 3:00 pm MacNeill Baptist, 1145 King StW,Hamilton Tickets $20 (under 35 $10) stratavocalensemble.ca Songs of Farewell § With her second baby dueWith her second baby dueW in December, Heather Go- vender decided to do some- thing for the planet to help reduce the carbon footprint of bringing more children into the world. The Oakville woman and her husband Neelan are con- cerned about the future of the planet given the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) re- port. The Govenders already have everything they need at home to care for a second ba- by, including a full set of cloth diapers that will get re- used, so they decided to hold a baby shower for Mother Earth on Sunday, Oct. 28 to give the Earth some of what it needs to support another person. They're hoping that the 100 trees they planted at Oak- ville's Falling Green Pond, with family and friends, will survive and have a positive impact, and that the plant- ing may spark something in others to consider their fam- ily's impact on the planet. They reached out to Oak- villegreen Conservation As- sociation to help co-ordinate the tree planting, including ordering the appropriate na- tive trees and shrubs and getting a permit from the Town of Oakville. Town of Oakville. T Oakvillegreen covered the cost of the trees, but guests were asked to make a donation to help cover costs. Oakvillegreen, mean- while, is hoping people will be inspired by the Goven- ders and make it a family tra- dition to plant a tree for memorable family occa- sions. Govender said the report brings good news that there is still hope to turn things around with respect to cli- mate change, and the urgent news that the time frame to do so, is short. The biggest contribution to our carbon and ecological footprints is bringing chil-footprints is bringing chil-f dren into the world, as we are then responsible for their carbon footprints, Go- vender added. "To ensure their futures on this planet, we need to lower our own carbon foot- prints and those of our chil- dren," she said. Like any parent, when bringing a new child into the world we want to make sure that child is provided for, and has what it needs to thrive and live a long, happy life. "We are dependent on the Earth for everything, from the air that we breathe, to the food that we eat, to thefood that we eat, to thef clothes that we wear," said Govender. "So providing for a child means making sure that the Earth can provide for that child. for that child. f "Our exploitative rela- tionship with the Earth is counterproductive in that respect." Oakvillegreen's subsi- dized Backyard Tree Plant- ing Program can help. It of- fers a site consultation withfers a site consultation withf an arborist, a five- to eight- foot tall native deciduousfoot tall native deciduousf tree (or two- to four-foot co- nifer), delivery, planting and tree care information, for a subsidized price, thanks to funding from the Ontariofunding from the Ontariof Trillium Foundation and the Town of Oakville. Learn more about this program here: http://oakville- green.org/backyard-tree- planting-program. Govender said it doesn't end with the shower for their family, and they are raisingfamily, and they are raisingf their children to care for the Earth. MOTHER EARTH BABY SHOWER SEES TREES, SHRUBS PLANTED AT FALLING GREEN POND Heather Govender and her husband Neelan along with their son Tambo, 2-1/2 years, held a tree planting they called "Baby Shower for Mother Earth" as an alternative to the traditional consumer-driven baby shower. Graham Paine/Metroland JULIE SLACK jslack@metroland.com COMMUNITY