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Craft shows, | |acquire new informatu?n in Health~/~Women's Health mental issues as having milk _ health fairs, fundraising, |rural Ontario, today' WL Council, will be providing -- pasteurized ~ and having. -- entertainment, WI members | | members travel the breadth= _ FWIO members and rural bread wrapped; then white . are busy in their communi-- / rof our country and even our _ Ontario women with access lines down the centre of _ ties: ' globe by plane to meet for * to vital health information. _ provincial highways FOR Women's Institutes, born / | conferences artd fellowship, _ Featuring the resources of IMPROVED SAFETY ON 103 years ago in Ontario, is| and they are becoming as _FWIO's--Health Partners ROADS; music in school -- now a national organization} [comfortable with e--mail and . (listedbelow), community . curriculum (1937); legal age and Federated Women's) (the Internet as lhei;-techig *' workshops will be delivered . for marriage at 16 years Institutes of Canada (EWIC)] \sons--and daughters, grand* in ~ rural communities with _ parental consent -- reflects a national viewpoint \sons and granddaughters. throughout . Ontario, and (1937); traffic to halt when . for WI members, and mem--] | The _ WI--» website organized and hosted by _ school buses stop to pick up. ~bers Canada--wide will gath--) Lwww.fwio.on.ca is visited participating WI Branches. and drop _ off. children er in Brandon, Manitoba! Wby readers worldwide. Now _ Branches will receive sub-- (1962). this June for their Triennial \many 'WI _members 'no. stantial support . through _ In more recent times WI's Convention. | (Jonger rely on a phone call . Leadership (Praining, --an * efforts. to . enforce--such--_ On a global scale Wi mem-- {for news, a host of e--mails event planning kit and pro-- isstes as handicapped park:" bers are also members of| each morning connects them -- motional material, which -- ing regulation (1985) AND | Associated Country Women with _ others | across. the _ will assist their planning TO-- PROMOTE MORE . of the World (ACWW) 'andl |province, 'the country and _ activities. funding | for health care, --'many will * take advantage |even the globe. This program provides. _ have been recognized by our _ of the «opportunity to meet, ' The nearly 12,000 mem'> . numerous benefits. Not only politicians. Before becom--*~ like--minded. women fromfl {'bers. 'who . make wup ' the _ will it increase awareness of ing an FWIO resolution around the. world at thé{ |Federated Women's important health issues, it "each issue of concern is dis-->. ACWW. .. 23 . 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