Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1965, p. 32

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Marsville "sent a delegation to meet with the local council and the hall committee to discuss the modernization of lavatory faciliâ€" ties in the local community centre." For their meeting at the “Widows' Home" a home for elderly women, Grand View and Terrace Hill provided a hot chicken sup- pet and gave each inmate a flowering plant. Oak Hill also provided a full course meal and fresh produce for this home. They put on a musical program at 21 Rest Home. Moyle provided lunch on their school‘s Open Home Day during Education Week. This Institute also assisted three bereaved fam- ilies by serving tea to relatives and friends from a distance following the funerals. At a benefit euchre. Tranquillity and Fair- wit-u raised $150 for a family in need of help. 'l'utelo's report says: “The majority of our metnhen are in the seventy to eighty years age group, so our activities now are planned more tor fellowship and entertainment than they were lilly yours ago, We are entirely uithin the city and have no success getting young mothers to join as most of them work at lea-u part time and they feel more allegi- once to Home and School. Our work includes noting the shutâ€"ins." Maple Grove had a "personal shower" for a woman who had lost all her belongings when her home was burned. Sour Springs on the Brant Indian Reserve held a picnic tor the children attending Mo- hauk ltlHlllLllL‘ who stay at the Institute through the summer vacation. Middleman-II sent a Visiting Homemaker lo a home in the communin “here she was nt'L'Llctl. PELHICN Mills: "On tour occasions ficverul memhen \lNIlCLl local senior citizens on their Mrs. Gertrude Phillips presenting the award given in her honor by the Nipissing District Women's Institute: to Mu. E. Johnston 0! Kipling branch. 3! birthdays. taking a birthday cake. flux; . their own teacups. We also visited H couple on their sixtieth wedding annJ Selkirk provided entertainment untl mas gifts for residents of the senior Home. also remembered a ward at dren‘s Aid at Christmas time. Elsinore members have bought ant flowering crab apple trees to make “lovelier” by centennial year‘ Thi holds its December meeting in the at Christmas social for the communitv bring food for lunch and the IDStllllt auction sale of articles suitable for t. gifts. Mount Hope in Centre Bruce plitlt- flowering crab apple trees on the grounds. Tara sponsors a monthly baby cli members assisting the Health Unit clinic. Underwood had a rummage sale the proceeds to the nearby school lot children, Scotch Block, Halton County. bout toric public school, Ligny, for Mill“ The Women's Institutes at Simcoe county scholarships to 4-H Homemaking Club girls Here the chairman of the Scholarship Comm" George Holt, presents the Simcoe County I" Watt Ontario Women's Institute Scholarship Orr. and the new Simcoe County Area Onloi en‘s Institute Scholarship to Wendy Brewer. 7 her Provincial Honors in club work and has b" in the Sunday School and Young People's w'» church. Wendy has completed six homemo'v proiects and has taken an active part in 0th and community clubs. Both girls are now Teachers’ College. use of the Institute and the communil restrictions as to its use for moral N‘ pecially.” When a member had a slut reavement the Institute “went to her aw .- complete charge of her home for thret Norvat helps to support their old schtn community hall. Limehouse gave two flowering CI'LIl‘ trees to the school. also a fold-away L a wool blanket for the staff room. HOME am: can at“

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