Brooksdale WI Tweedsmuir Community History: 2008-2009

Publication: Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON), [2008]-[2009]

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Brooksdale WI Tweedsmuir Community History, 2008-2009

Women's Institute Activities, 2008
- Topics of Brooksdale WI meetings
- Loretta Murray receives an Ontario Volunteer Award
- Brooksdale WI scholarship and bursaries presented
- London Area Convention, October 7
- Rural Community Health Fair, October

4-H Activities, 2008
- Oxford 4-H
- Oxford 4-H award winners of the Gay Lea Foods 50th Anniversary commissioned painting
- Brooksdale 4-H Life Skills Club wins Club of the Year
- Laura Green awarded the Oxford 4-H Volunteer Tribute Award

Community Events, 2008
- Guides/Pathfinders events
- Willis and Anna Beryl Bean receive a service award from the Ontario Association of Agricultural Studies
- Jim and Katherine Grieve; Anne and Grant Innes receive Ontario Volunteer Service Awards for service to Embro Fair Board
- Local music and drama news
- News about local businesses (stores, restaurants)
- RCMP Musical Ride
- Embro and Zorra Agricultural Society news
- St. Andrews United Church celebrates 125 years
- Embro Fire Department fund raising
- Local history exhibit at Tavistock and District Historical Society
- Embro Highland Games
- Embro Fair
- Brooksdale WI sponsors Sheena Grieve in Embro Fair Ambassador Competition
- Kathryn Walton wins title of Embro Fair Ambassador
- Embro Fair Awards Night
- Embro West Zorra history book published
- Harrington Community Club renovations and Christmas open house
- Death notices, Birth Announcements, birthdays, marriage announcements, anniversaries, graduations

Women's Institute Activities, 2009
-2009-2010 FWIO Board
- "Flexibility Needed to Survive--Women's Institute must change says FWIO president-elect [Carol Innes]
- Oxford District Women's Institute Antique Appraisal Day
- Cathy Morris, Anna Beryl Bean, Lois MacLeod, Margaret Green, and Margaret Lupton receive Ontario Volunteer Service Awards
- Topics of WI meetings and fundraising efforts
- 95th London Area WI Convention, October 2009
- Oxford WI District Annual, October, 2009
- "BWI Hosts ROSE Program for Neighbours and Community
- Princess Elizabeth WI celebrates 62nd anniversary

4-H Activities
- Oxford 4-H members attend Discovery Day
- Oxford 4-H "Go for the Gold" at Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs
- Sterk Seeds donates to Oxford 4-H fund
- Marion Sterk receives Oxford 4-H Volunteer Tribute award
- Alberta 4-H exchange delegates arrive in Oxford
- Oxford 4-H members receive Gay Lea Foods 24 Project awards

Community Events, 2009
- Two volume set on the history of West Zorra/Embro is published
- Brooksdale WI makes donation in memory of OPP Const. Laurie Hawkins
- Local drama, shows, sports news
- Tom and Emily Walton receive the Community Service Award from the Embro and Zorra Agricultural Society
- Scout/Guide news
- Local agricultural news
- Local personalities and their jobs and hobbies
- Renovations to Harrington Grist Mill
- Embro Fair
- Birth, birthday, anniversary, wedding, death, graduation announcements

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Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario

Date of Original

[2008]-[2009]

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4-H clubs
Agriculture
Anniversaries
Awards
Birthdays
Conservation and restoration
Death
Fairs
Farming
Fund raising
Galleries & museums
Health
Infants
Meetings
Music
Sports
Women's Institutes

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English

Geographic Coverage

Brooksdale

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.23339 Longitude: -80.93302

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