Colonel John Butler.

December always brings changes and we welcomed new Branch President Eugene Oatley and Board Members Jerry Fisher and Arnold Westlake.

Program for 2008 (First Half) is as follows:

* Feb. 2--Corlene Taylor UE--William May and The Mayholme Foundation

* Mar. 1--Lita Rendall and Carolyn Bassett--Land Registry Office Title Searches

* Apr. 5--Larry Rittenhouse--Who are those Pennsylvania Dutch?

* May 3--Cameron Calder--George McClure:--The General who burned Niagara-on-the-Lake.

* May 18th dedication of the Cairn at the Butler Parkette

* June Event: Loyalist Flag Raising at Niagara-on-the-Lake

Loyalist Burial Site Plaques have been erected at Carl-Bald-Misener Cemetery and Plato Cemetery. On the 221st Anniversary of Lyon's Creek United Church, we placed a plaque on their cemetery. We have received permission to place plaques at these cemeteries: Warner, Dell, Stamford Presbyterian, Steele and St. John's Anglican, while others are in the planning stage.

Our Branch made donations to Friends of the Loyalist Collection at Brock University, in memory of Barbara Schilz UE (our former treasurer), Bob Powell UE, and June Alfieri UE, three long-time members who passed away last year.

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By Eugene R. Oatley UE, Branch President