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rwro SCHOLARSHIP Mrs. Keith Hiepleh The Committee will update the present scholarship rulings and an appropriate name change will be made to the WI Entrance Award to Macdonald Institute, It now will be known as the Ontario Women’s Institute Award to the College of Family and Consumer Stud- tes. A new scholarship was announced. to be known as the Federated Women's Institutes ol‘Ontario 601h Anâ€" niversary Scholarship. It will rotate along with the Florence P. Eadie and Dorothy Futcher Scholarships in the four regions of Ontario. REUNION Plans are underway for a Board Directors reunion in August I979. The Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario was organized on February 7. 1919. To honour this begin- ning. plans are being formulated to invite every Board Director who has ever served on the Provincial Board of the FWIO since its inception. Everyone will be responsible for her own travel ar- rangements and expenses incurred during the day. If you are interested in knowing more about the plansfcontact your present Board Director. Have you kept in touch with some ofthe Directors during your term who might have moved away? Give the current Board Director this information. We want to know more about the whereabouts of every single Board Director. Their present address. if deceased. etc. This is a big jobâ€"we need all the help we can get. NIAGARA ESCARPMENT COMMISSION Mrs. Earl Morden The Niagara Escarpment Commission which is charged with the responsibility of preparing a plan for the Niagara Escarpment Planning Area is made up of 17 members and 9 representatives of the public at large plus I representative nominated by each ofthe 8 local Municipalities. Working in parallel with the Commission are 2 Advisory Boards; one of Municipal Council represent» atives and another of Interest Groups representatives. (FWIO is one of the [3 in the Interest Groups). The preliminary proposals were presented at a meeting. in February. with representatives of the Mu- nicipalities. the Regional and County Advisory Com- mittee. and the N.E.C. Groups‘ Advisory Committee in attendance Mrs. Morden explained that the mandate of the Commission is to prepare proposals essentially de signed as discussion papers. The Commission feels that the general public must be given an opportunity to review the preliminary pro- posals. drop-in information centres at the offices in Georgetown. Clarksburg and Grimsby are being esâ€" tablished for this purpose. The public support is neces- sary if the Province‘s most outstanding physical fea- ture. with its great natural and agricultural resources. is to be preserved. 10 RESOLUTIONS Mrs. I-Ierb Maluske Resolutions Convener. and the committee. Miss Molly McGhee. Mrs. C. Diamond Mrs. Gordon Sherwin. Mrs. Maurice Jones and M”: John Forrest did an excellentjob of researching my.» r'nation concerning the 34 resolutions sustained M Area level as well as the 3 emergency ones sent into the Previncial level. In all II were sustained and will be sent on to mi; proper destinations. LETTERS OF COMMENDATION Some resolutions were lost, because there were on ers similar in content. In other cases letters of C01: mendation and encouragement will be sent on to ti. proper authorities. A letter was to be written to the Ministry of Q. rectional Services commending them for their rehabi tation program and encouraging those in authority expand these programs in their penal Institutions. SUSTAINED RESOLUTIONS COCHRANEâ€"TEMISKAMING AREA WHEREAS some brands of quilt baits. that are co monly used in making quilts are very flammable: an WHEREAS it is a hazardous type of material to l‘ on beds or cribs; THEREFORE be it resolved that the Federal Women‘s Institutes of Ontario request the Onla Government and the Department of Consumer's :-. Corporate Affairs to enact legislation to the effect H the labels on the batts be clearly marked as to th exact content characteristics, especially to its flat mability. EASTERN AREA WHEREAS the flamboyant and daring sale of Pt nographic literature is on the increase. especially supposedly respectable stores and shopping areas; a. WHEREAS the minds of readers. especially oft young. who are the most impressionable and vuln able. are being saturated with this type of filth .i subculture; and WHEREAS this type of resolution has. no doubt. . ready gone forth without apparent results: THEREFORE be it resolved that the FWIO contr the Honourable Roy McMurtry, Attorney General Ontario, and convey our concern, displeasure and ti satisfaction with the flamboyant sale of pornograpl ' filth. GREY-BRUCE AREA WHEREAS with the increasing number of land-i ‘ sites u5ed for domestic and industrial purposes in U tario and their subsequent problems e.g. (I) Partners are forced to unwillingly subsidize Ian: fill sites in three ways (a) lower farm pensions on retirement (b) loss of savings on a sale I (C) 1055 of income due to pollution of wells an:I ponds