Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1985, p. 20

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Network Fairs booklet available The l985 Agricultural Fairs and Exhibition booklet is now available. Copies may be obtained from coun- Iy or district Ministry of Agriculture and Food offices. Turning Point proceedings The proceedings are available from [he Turning Point Conference for rural women, held in November. 1984, A limited number of binders are for sale at 525 to individuals and $35 to groups or institutions. Contact the Faculty of Part-Time Learning and Continuing Education. Room 23. Stevenson-Lawson Building. University of Western Ontario, Lon- don, N6A 588 for a copy. I YY supplies The Government of Canada poster celebrating International Youth Year is now available. Both posters and buttons may be obtained free of charge by writing to Communications Directorate. Secretary of State. 01- tawa. KIA OMS. More information on WI signs THORNDALE ‘ firm.© 5 .5‘1'2'1315’ Thank you fellow members for your orders and inquiries for reflec- tive WI metal signs. These signs are available at any time to any W] group 20 H S: C Summer '35 in Ontario by sending an order direct- ly to International Name Plate Sup- plies Ltd.. 578 Crumlin Road North, London. Ontario. NSV lSl or tele- phone t5l9) 455-7647. Each sign costs $125 plus l0 percent federal sales tax and seven percent provincial sales tax. The blue and gold sign is 24 5 l8 inches and made from aluminm with a reflective material on top. it can be mounted on a post or a col- lege board and is oval-shaped like our crest. The Sign will last about 10 years. Doris Foster Thorndale A reminder Please remember to allow six weeks for delivery of Women‘s In- stitute supplies ordered from the Guelph FWIO office. Two new videos There are two short video tapes now on file at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food film library, which may be of interest to WI members. They are on last year‘s child care program (2:3l minutes) and the bicentennial wall hanging (4:40 minutes). The videos are VHS and feature music and pictures â€" no commentary. To book them. write to the library at Room 20. Johnston Hall. University of Guelph, NlCI 2W]. Please allow at least three to four weeks when ordering video tapes to compensate for mail delays and to avoid disappointment. Interested in more education? If you are interested in taking a high school course by correspond- ence. the Ministry of Education has a program for you. Called the Inde- pendent Learning Centre. the pro- gram offers more than [60 secondary school courses in English and French and serves more than 80.000 corres- pondence students in Ontario each year. The Independent Learning (m tre course selection guide dest-rlhgt programs in more detail. To mum your c0py and an application mm for enrolment, write to ll'lCleCchm Learning Centre, 909 Yonge 5 .‘xl Toronto, Ontario. M4W 302 it toll free number for callers or ad. the Toronto area is 800-26811 57 Program for judges, €Xhlbll( "s and directors Fairs on Display is the name , self-help program for use by .t agricultural societies or othe- . ganizations who wish to hold jut exhibitors’, or directors’ works. The kit contains an updated ju. standards book for foods, clot. quilts and handcrafts; a copy it horticultural judging standards 3- printed materials giving help and gestions for organizing a work and an ll minute video. The kit n be borrowed from and returnt .. your local agricultural office. video (1/2 inch VHS) must be rowed from the Ontario Ministt t Agriculture and Food Film Libr (See the address elsewhere on page). Farm women’s conference in PEI this fall The second National Farm \en’s Conference will be held at Prince Edward Hotel and Con' tion Centre in Charlottetown. i from Nov. 2] to 24. 1985. The rt tration fee is $100. There will b: official voting delegates from - tario. but anyone is welcome to tend. To be a voting delegate. . must be actively farming. For furl information contact Mrs, Mary Bommell, [1.11. l, Dashwood. l tario, NOM 1N0. (519) 237-3433

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