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Special Programs and Projects A Note to P.R.0.’s The purpose of this Special Programs and Projects section is to give Public Relations Officers 0 spot in Home and Country where they can tell all the Institutes of the province almut anything done in their own Institute which might offer a suggestion to other hranches. As we have explained in previous issues. we cannot give space to routine reports of meetings #unless the program is so original or out- standing as to give an idea to other Institutes. A particularly good subject for a topic. dis- cussion. debate, motto or roll call would be welcome. Some years ago it was decided that we could not report anniversary celebrations. These are of interest trzainly in the local community where the participants are known and of course P.R.0's will me that they get into the local papers. And please note that to produce an illus- tration we require a photograph. not the negaâ€" tive: and that we cannot make a cut from a colored picture or from a slide. Perhaps the best way to see the sort of material we need Jfor this section is to look at the topics in this and previous issues. Then. as P.R.O. for your branch or district or area. if you have a story that should be told, do. please, send it along. â€"- Editor. Mrs. Beverly Sthrum, President Port Dover Institute presents the Institule's gift of an ambulance to the. town by way of the Mayor and the Deputy Reeva. 24 High Financing By Mrs. Beverly Schram N DECEMBER 24. 1962, om mm. 0 purchased a $4.000 fully equipped an. bulance and presented it to the um“. this being the largest single project we Int-n;- ever undertaken. In order to raise money we operate a hot-1h at the community arena. A percentage 01 W. profits is paid to the Arena Commission v: St year as rental and the balance is spent in various projects. We also installed an cxh fan in the arena lounge to overcome the Sum , problem during hockey games. As anoi! t fund-raising project we hold weekly bin During our meetings we pass around a ‘ marked “Pennies for Friendship" into \vl every member makes a donation, and person having a birthday during the inn adds 25:: to her contribution. With the money raised by our various 1 acts we contribute to a Scholarship Fund at Nurses’ Bursary Fund. Each year we prc trophies to the junior boy and girl winner- field day at the local public school. Each mt cigarettes are sent to the Ontario Hosp'un Aurora to be distributed among the l' patients. Two retarded boys in this hos. were adopted by our branch and they an membered on their birthdays and at spi dates throughout the year. Two years agL adopted a little girl through the Save the L dren Plan. She lives in Austria and at Ch mas and on her birthday she is rememb with a gift. Members of the Women’s Inslil and residents of the town celebrating It fiftieth and sixtieth wedding anniversaries remembered. We also send flowers to I celebrating their eighticth, eighty-fifth ninetieth birthdays. We are most fortunate to be able to 1 money in various ways and in return use i help others. (Editor's note: We still mu how one Institute can raise funds to carry w much work. If Port Dover has any to mendations along this line may we have it please.) l Entertaining Historical Exhibit By Elsie Little OMEN’S INSTITUTES of Non County marked their sixty years activity and the sixty-five years <i' Women‘s Institutes were founded by stagint historical diSplay at the Norfolk County F Three rooms, parlor. bedroom and kitcl were furnished in the manner of sixty 31' ago and all during the five days of the ‘ Women’s Institute members were present these rooms wearing costumes of the period. HOME AND COUNi’