Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1963, p. 31

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We were thrilled to receive a Korean Christâ€" mas card from Kyong Sook at the holiday season. I‘m enclosing a picture which accompanied the letter. The children are wearing the clothes which were sent in the parcels; the purse and the doll were also sent to them. Briefs RS. S. C. BAGDON of Atherton In- M' stitute and a member of the F.W.I.O. Board was recently presented with an Award of Merit by the Norfolk County Chamber of Commerce. The citation listing her many services to her county and the province through the Women‘s Institutes. the Church. the School Board includes the rather unique office of “Women's Institute representative at the County Court." The point of interest here is that the Institutes of Norfolk County send representatives to attend Court sessions when New Canadians receive their citizenship papers. The Court session is always followed by a reception to welcome the new citizens. Stamford Women‘s Institute Afternoon Group, which is sponsoring a Morocco hoy through the Save the Children plan. reports: “We sent the required 360: then. instead of ,sending gifts our Branch sends $5 a month toward his education. He said in one of his letters that he went to school when he had the Kim Kyong Sock, with her mother and brother, at Pusan, Korea, sponsored by the Anna P. lewis Institute in the Save the Children crusade The dull. the purse and clothes the children are wearing were sent to them by the Institute. SUMMER 1963 M c r i e Josephine Cosolta of Corsica, sponsored by Bola Institute in the Save the Children crusade. Marie is twelve years old, her tother is dead and her mother is not well. An interesting pain! in this “adoption” is that Marie is (one- 5ponding with some at 1he Bulo school children. money. This extra contribution was not asked for hut in: thought it might help him." Mrs. Eleanor Huhinskt'. PRO. Smith Ioho Institute writes: “Some of our Institute memâ€" bers thought they would like to we the Kitch- ener Ice Capadcs. a distance of h‘tt to tilt) miles from our homes. It was decided to fill one small bus, for 3h people. charging enough to cover Bxpcnx‘cx only. In one week's time 84 people mentth and their families. friends and neighhors \xcrc cngcr to go \0 we had to hire two larger buses, The show wax excellent and everyone enjoyed the communin outing which they could not have had it' it had not been arranged by the Women's Institute." Walkcrton Afternoon Women's Institute is known for its award\ to pupils to hoth puhlic and high schools. For three years they have given an award for Citizenship to a (irade VIII student in hoth the public and separate \chool of the town; and II‘HN year they in1ro- duced an award tor the liighcst marks in Home Economics in (-rade X. Mrs. (tordon Kettles reports that Carlsbad Springs hranch had an entertaining meeting last winter when some ol their menthct's put on the Sixty-filth Anniversary Ski1 puhlished in The Furmcr'\ Advocate. "At another meeting." Mrs. Kettles writes. "we decided to copy thc program on (‘KOY Ottawa radio station called ‘I.ch Wire,' where people phone in their opiniom on dill’crcnt topics. The ladies at our radio station were ‘Lotta Tonuge' and ‘(iarc'v (iossip‘ and the pro- gram wax ‘Dcad Wire.‘ The evening's crowd were equipped with toy telephones and dinner 31

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