Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Spring 1983, p. 16

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Network Slides available Two sets of slides, kept at the FWIO office in Guelph, are available for loan to WI Branches across the province. The first, entitled From Here to There With the Women’s Institute, was prepared by former Home & Country editor Marg Zoeller and contains 80 slides and a commentary. It depicts activities at the Erland Lee Home, Officers' Conference and the International Plowing Match, just to name a few. The second is a copy of the set presented to FWIO twin Manitoba recently. Called Ontario: From the Manitoba Border to Ottawa, this set includes [20 slides and a commentary. Both sets provide a good oppor- tunity for W] members to learn more about our province. To borrow the sets, please write to the FWIO office, Guelph Agriculture Centre, PO. Box 1030, Guelph, Ont. NlH 6N1. Through the efforts of the FWIO board directors and members of the W], a gift of 120 slides with a comâ€" mentary has been presented to the Manitoba Wl as part of the twinning program. They will be kept in the Manitoba office and be on loan to the members so they may learn about Ontario, its way of life, the WI at work here, 4-H programs. Junior Women’s Institutes and places of interest from the Manitoba border to Ottawa, our capital city. Health booklet A 16-page booklet, recently published by the Ontario Ministry of Health, provides some long-awaited information to the general public on how to choose a nursing home, what a nursing home offers, how to apply lb for extended care benefits and what accreditation means. Called Consider Yourself at Home â€"- Nursing Homes in Ontario, this full colour booklet is available in English and French. A Free copies are available by writing to: Health Information Centre Health Promotion and Information Branch Ontario Ministry of Health 9th Floor, Hepburn Block Queens Park Toronto, Ont. M7A 152 New feature Beginning with the Summer 1983 issue, Home & Country will be featuring a new regular article. Call- ed District Diary, the column will focus on one Wl district each issue, and will include histonca] informa- tion on branches in the district, cur rent programs, activities and projects as well as any special plans for the future. A balance between the past, present and future is desirable. If you feel your district would make interesting reading, please send pertinent information, including the name of the district PRO, so she may be contacted for additional material, to: Editor Home & Country Guelph Agriculture Centre P.O. Box 1030 Guelph, Ont. NIH 6N1 Code check Under new postal regulations, Canada Post is requiring 100 per cent accuracy of the postal code. When there is no postal code, or in the event of an incorrect postal code, addi- tional charges will be incurred. Please check the label on your Home 8; Country bundles or on the magazine itself if you receive only one. If the postal code is wrong, notify the editor at the Guelph Agriculture Cen- lre (address page 2) to make the cor- rection and avoid extra charges. Thank you. / It Take note Ontario Women’s Institute We is coming up at the Erland t . Home. From May 31 to June 2, r Lee’s hours will be 9:30 am. It p,m. During these three days, pion craft demonstrations will take pla quilt blocks will be for sale along \r preserves provided by Guelph at WIs and articles made from a y. of material, a hank of yarn or a l of cotton. Mrs. Victor Beachin is the Lt hostess. She can be contacted writing to RR. No. 1, 552 Rit Road, Stoney Creek, Ontario, L. 3X4, for more information on ‘ Week. Womenâ€" Unlz'mited Potentir Are you using the convenorship' source sheets recently sent out ‘ FWIO and the Ontario Ministry Agriculture and Food? By now I sheets should be in the hands of branch convenors and being used plan programs for 1983-‘84. A lot thought and preparation went in the sheets to give you new progra ideas, so don’t forget to use then Viideo tapes, exploring four of l five convenorship topics suggested the fact sheets, will be available it viewing at the Officers’ Conform to give you more information on ti subjects. PRO suggestions Provincial Public Relations OffiCc May Brown suggests PRO officers 5 the Branch and District level follm these simple guidelines for preparing their annual written report to accome party the financial report this spring- WI Projects Include comments on the projects you supported. Was this an increaSB

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