HALTON PRO-LIFE RESPECT LIFE BANQUET

When: November 11, 2011: Reception at 6 pm, dinner at 7 pm.

Where: Oakville Conference & Banquet Centre, 2515 Wyecroft Road Oakville.

Why: To have some fun, a great dinner, fellowship and help Halton Pro-Life in our life-saving educational work.

Guest speaker: Scott Klusendorf, president of the Life Training Institute.

MC: Brian Salmon, broadcasting veteran and DJ for Niagara radio station GiantFM.

Silent auction: A fun way to donate and take home attractive items for women, men and children – (shop early for Christmas).

Musical entertainment: watch this space.

Tickets: $75 each – to order, call 905-632-3232, email to Haltonprolife@cogeco.net or download , print and print use the order form here.

Sponsorship:  Corporations, service groups, churches and others have opportunities to showcase their support for the sanctity of life by taking advantage of five levels of sponsorship:

Five-star $3,500. Platinum $2,000. Gold $1,500. Silver $1,200. Bronze $800. To sponsor, call 905-632-3232, email to Haltonprolife@cogeco.net or download, print and use the sponsorship form here.

Halton Pro-Life helped convert a hard-line pro-choice, pro-abortion advocate to pro-life via national television on Sun News TV’s new Michael Coren show, the Arena. To find out how, click here.

This year’s Life Chain is on Sunday, Oct. 2, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the usual locations in Halton:

Burlington: Fairview St. & Maple Ave.

Georgetown: Maple Ave. & Guelph St.

Milton: Main St. & Ontario St.

Oakville: Trafalgar Rd. & Dundas St.

Please come out, as the youth in our picture did, to proclaim your belief in the sanctity of life and to tell the truth that abortion kills babies and hurts women, and that it can be forgiven. Please recognize that it is designed as a silent witness, and that organizers ask people to carry only the signs provided.

If you have any questions, call us on 905-632-3232.

Following from the success of the first 40 Days For Life vigil at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, the next will be held from September 28 to November 6, as part of the biggest network of vigils yet held across the world. The vigil consists of 40 days of prayer and fasting, 40 days of peaceful vigil outside the hospital, and 40 days of community outreach. To learn more, click here or visit the 40 Days For Life website.

Guest speaker for the 2011 Halton Pro-Life 2011 Respect Life Banquet is one of the world’s most accomplished and persuasive pro-life speakers and teachers: Scott Klusendorf, president of the Life Training Institute. Scott has received many accolades as a banquet speaker and for his ability to inspire pro-lifers to greater efforts and persuade the non-converted to become pro-life.

Banquet details: November 11, 2011; reception at 6 pm, dinner at 7 pm., Oakville Conference & Banquet Centre, 2515 Wyecroft Road Oakville. Other attractions: Silent auction; musical entertainment.

For more on Scott and details of the banquet, click here.

More than 15,000: that’s the official figure from Campaign Life Coalition president Jim Hughes for the number of people who thronged Parliament Hill and the streets of Ottawa for the 2011 March for Life. As it has been every year, the turnout this year was a record. And the number of young people made this “a youth movement,” in the words one of them.

For pictures of Halton Pro-Life marchers, comments from Jim Hughes and links to videos, click here.

Father Ted Colleton, a pro-life hero for more than 30 years in Canada, died peacefully at the age of 97 in his native Ireland on April 26. Father Ted brought an irrepressible good humour to the fight for children in the womb and people threatened by euthanasia. Campaign Life Coalition national president, Jim Hughes, told Lifesitenews: “”He was a wonderful example, giving everything he had for the unborn and vulnerable. He never rested.” Now he has gone to a well-deserved rest.

For a personal recollection of Father Ted by Halton Pro-Life executive director Tom Kelly, click here.

For every 100 babies born in Ontario, 37 are aborted. For teen abortions, the figure is much higher: for every 100 babies born to Ontario teenage girls, 152 are aborted.

Two out of five women who had abortions had more than one. About one in five teens aged 15 to 19 who had an abortion had more than one.

These statistics are greater than the figures release by Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health. They were compiled by a study known as the POWER report.

Two articles analyzing and commenting on this situation are available on this website: one published by Catholic Insight and the other by Andrea Mrozek, Manager of Research and Communications, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada.

Baby Joseph, an Ontario one-year-old, would have died in the London, Ontario, hospital where doctors wanted to remove a breathing machine against his parents’ wishes. He was taken to a hospital in the U.S. where an alternative treatment will be attempted.

Pastor Joshua, an Etobicoke minister, suffered brain damage from a heart attack and the Brampton hospital wanted to cease nutrition and hydration.

These two cases raise the question: should hospitals be allowed to override patients’ or parents’ wishes in life-and-death treatment decisions?

They also help us understand what is euthanasia and what is not.

For my opinion, please read my blog., Tom Kelly, Executive Director

Halton Pro-Life’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. in St. Gabriel Parish Centre, 2261 Parkway Drive, Burlington. 

Guest speakers are Jim Kaine and Keila Matthews.

• Jim Kaine is the loving grandfather of two grand-daughters who has, he says, “a heart that is saddened” because he mourns two other grandchildren he should have had. He suffered the loss of those two more grandchildren when his daughters each decided to abort their second children.
• Keila Matthews’ story is happier. She became pregnant while single and resisted her boyfriend’s preference for her to abort her baby. She is due one week before the meeting so we hope she will be able to bring her baby.

Jim and Keila will share with us the human realities of what it feels like to be pregnant and anxious or scared, what it feels like for parents and grandparents to lose the chance to love a child, and what it feels like to overcome all fears and, with the help of a loving family, to find the courage to give life.

On the agenda of the business section of the meeting:

• 2010 Audited Financial Statement approval
• 2010 Executive Director’s report
• Election of Board of Directors
• Culture of Life Award
• Refreshments and fellowship

 Please call to reserve a place: 905-632-3232 or email haltonprolife@cogeco.net