Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1965, p. 36

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Home, (dealing with electricity) and a film on cancer of special help. . Aughrim sponsors two 4-H Homemaking Clubs and the secretary writes: "We are proud of our club girls and we encourage thentto share with the Women's Institute their exerting and worthwhile experiences aside from club work. One girl told us about her trip to Ottawa sponsored by Rotary, another about a family trip and going through a paper mill, and a third gave us a report on the Girls‘ Conference at Guelph. Sometimes they lead us in recrea- tion and singsongs.“ For its program on Education, Rocky Ridge had the roll call, “A quotation on education from the editorial page of any issue of Home and Country." ‘ At Junetown the agricultural representative spoke on ARDA. Community Interests Women’s Institutes, like other groups, are always ready to help families who have sufâ€" fered loss through fire, who, in most cases, have been completely “burned out," losing their home and all or part of their furniture, clothing and other possessions. Going through reports from about half the districts (the first half alphabetically), we noted that Tutela brought clothing for a family burned out; Arkwright gave fruit and canned goods; Elsi- nore gave bedding and money; Purple Grove held a “shower” for a burned out family; West Tarentorus and Lee Valley, quilts; Salem gave cash donations; North Tarentorus and Matilda blankets: Kendal gave bedding, held a shower and took a collection for a family burned out; Rocky Ridge a quilt and miscellaneous shower of household articles. Other Institutes reporting gifts to fire victims were South Woodslee, Springbrook. Bothwell’s Corners, Oxdrift, Maple Leaf Lennox. Marmara says: “We gave blankets to many burned out families." (Surely theSe reports indicate that something is terribly lacking in precautions for fire pre- Fronces Ann Mow, winner of the Mrs. Alfred Watt Memo- rial Simcoe County Ontario Women's In- stitute Scholarship for 1965. Frances has taken her Pro- vincial Honors in 4-H Homemaking C | u b work. In high school she was a member of the Honor Society and was active in other clubs and in sports. Frances is now taking the home emnomics d e g r e e course at Mocdonold Institute. 36 vention in the homes of the province, Bu, North Augusta is the only branch it: the iitii, districts studied, to report any m. We; [-0 stop the occurrence of fires. They 1, Hon hm) ing had a film on “Fire Safety." Edi. Wesley reports: “We were vex}, ,mud IL turn in about sixty pledge cards pm. mug m donations to the Eye Bank. One o= War 5, already been used and we have hertz iltl lhuL as a result, two people have regain Willa] sight.” Prince of Wales believes in givu mum gifts. Some of these were birthday C limi- mas gifts to a patient from the COI. .m- m a mental hospital and gifts to a m g,- m _, Home for the Aged. North Tare: ilS sent gifts of food to a family in a time i create. merit and diabetic foods to a men git it“. community. Wharncliffe says: “Our Christnv mm” was a real success and the paru -. m. joyed it as much as the audience. \* ,i [ml this is a very worthwhile activity .l IIHL‘I; an opportunity for young and oil wit together and we all had fun." Walford gives the use of its hr (it charge, to the Sudbury health ell: :xc i month and to the Cubs organization «nut affairs. Sowerby plans to meet with the it n,- at Public Schools at a school area Ines t it‘- cuss the new school system. Nestorville helped the Red Cross I 7 we Margaret W i l s o n w h 0 received th e I965 Flora Durnin Grey County Ontario Women‘s institute Scholarship. Mar- garet has completed fourteen 4-H Home- making Club proieets and this year she led a Garden Club. i She begins her ‘ N u r 5 e's Training " ‘ course this full. a nursing course. They publicized ti WM and provided the necessary equipmc: »: place for the demonstrations. Their r=. «It says: “We have contacted the proper .tm to see if the local school can be u wt community centre when it is closed 1 < Stokes Bay “purchased the old schm it i community centre.” Iron Bridge got a travelling Iibruf the provincial Libraries Branch and m to the public one night a week for the _ thay had it on loan. Wharnclifie also Lifl‘ enjoying a travelling library. MacLennan: “With the end of the 7 “ii” school section in sight, the Institute 9w “W HOME AND CCrI'NlRY

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