Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1962, p. 40

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Zion Amnbel Insti- lule's prize-winning Heat in their township's centennial p u r u d 2. Costumes and furniture are of the hundred-years- ago period, The birthday cake repre- sents the Institute’s twenty-fifth anniver- sory. Avonmore “conducted a chest Xâ€"ray Clinic with an attendance of over three hundred." Berwick invited the administrator of the lo« cal hospital to come to a meeting and explain the hospital‘s needs; then the Institute provided the basic furnishings for a two-bed room. This Institute entertained the community folk at a Hallowe’cn party, Alice sponsors an annual field day for the two hundred children from six schools in the surrounding area. At Forester’s Falls as the result of a pro- gram feature “What‘s Your Beef?” an old house partially destroyed by fire, an eyesore and dangerous. was torn down and the place cleared up. This Institute cleared up an area in the park and made a place for small chil- dren to play. Laurentian View had a family night and in- vitcd the whole neighborhood, “promoting good fellowship.” White Lake organized an Institute orches- tra; Cumberland sponsored a community draa ma group; Leonard put on a play, the pro- ceeds going to the World Refugee cause; New Flos invited the whole community to an “Irish Night". Mitchell Square with the help of other groups in the district organizes an annual Armistice Day service at the town cenotaph. The Institute plants and takes care of the flowers and shrubs around the Cenotaph, Severn Bridge sponsored a St. John Ambu- lance course for thirty people in the district. Hobart Carley says: “We hold euchre parties in our school as this is the only entertainâ€" ment in our small community.” Ingleside spon- sored a monthly party for senior citizens. ' . Egr»;Y/VEIPSA?Y m Cedar Brae started a library‘ buying l- for children and bringing in a travellii; brary to help with the supply of books. " also helped with the cleaning of the lil rooms. Norman "sponsored the school‘s Chri concert" “also purchased the necessary l~ for the concert.” (Possibly music books? El Star of the North had a showing Ol Ontario Hospital Commission’s film “A St Detail", "with the result that many more pl. applied for hospitalization.” Bourkes has joined the Film Council Regional Library Board and the Canaditu‘ sociation of Consumers. Their film sho- are well attended and the book mobilt livers books regularlyâ€"a service worth l times the small cost. C.A.C. bulletins arc tributed to members. [slay-Zion sent a resolution to the mum. and county councils regarding hunters passing on farms; and action has been t to have heavier fines imposed in Vict county. West Ops organized a bowling leach members and their husbands. Slate River says: “At present the Institu: attempting to bring order out of the ten tions made to the community hallâ€"after Board has run out of funds. We now h two Institute members as Hall Board M bers and we have been having cleaning l“ because we cannot afford a janitor." Temagami arranged to have conservaz» I films of wild life shown to pupils in schools. Bridgeport appealed to the village coun | to have more safety patrols for children gov I to and from school.

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