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"ews from the Juniors 7 J SY YEAR FOR HOMEMAKING CLUBS ,HIS has been a busy year for Girls’ Home- making Clubs with over 1,200 Local Lead- and Assistant Local Leaders attending 113 a] Leader Training Schools. Records indi« an all-time high in clubs and member» ’ embers are encouraged throughout to we to improve their own previous records :chieve good standards rather than do ething better than someone else. The elveâ€"year-olds are commended for their beginning, and County and Provincial our girls for consistent improvement and gress through their club experience. Senior in, hers help and encourage Junior members ‘ keep at it, to try again, to comment on club bits and to take part in demonstrations : thers, whose interest and understanding is v i" to good club work, attended Achievement 5 in greater numbers than in previous M 7 s. Youthful newcomers to Canada find a {glean-re at clubs and soon make new friends '. _;ey readily learn to write and speak English. -;ߤtempt record books and assume their re- pnsibilities as good club members Occasiom 47.5 , their mothers look in on the Achievement 3y and make new friends too. GIRLS’ HOME GARDEN CLUBS Some 320 Girls' Home Garden Clubs have organized with a membership of over $3600. These clubs, requiring four meetings. Numbers at the Kirktun Girls’ Homemaking Club, giving at flamenstration on Meat Cuts at the London Convenlion first fall, created a lot of amusement when they led this "cow" onto the stage. The framework was at heavy win, the covering of iute sacking dyed in Holstein block and white; and two girls got inside and provided the lag: and the action. On this model the demanstrutors pointed out the location of the various beet cuts. SUMMER 1953 not no: . union . ‘ mu.- % Elma Centre Junior Gols' Homemaking Club at Atwood in Perth county has tour sisters as members, Marian, Grace. Marilyn and Margaret Nichol. They are shown here with their leader, Miss Jean Bollontyne. Miss Bollonlyne has been a club leoder almost continuously sinre l94l and has, herself, completed sixteen proiects. are led by local leaders, who attend a one- day Local Leader Training Schooli Gardeners plan, plant and care for a home garden with 20 varieties of vegetables, follow, ing recommended plans and practices suggestâ€" ed in their pamphlet, "Garden Plans with Cultural Instructions for Ontario Girls' Home Garden Clubs", They consider and practise ways and means of improving home surround- ings by tidying-up homc grounds. and planting flowers. Flower gardening includes planting six varieties of flowers, and planning and starting flower beds, borders or some special planting. It has been suggested that clubs observe Coronation Year by planting trees. it is re- commended that funds available for recogni- tion for “good gardening" he used to purchase seeds, plants. or shrubs. Members registered in their third year undertake a sperial project such as startng a hot bed, setting out strznw berries, raspberries, asparagus or rhubarb. HOMEMAKING CLUB MEMBERS GO TO THE CORONATION Homemaking Club members were selected to go to the Coronation. Flora McLaughlin, Tamworth Club, Lennox and Addington coun- ty, and Jean Samells, Seugog Club, Ontario county, were members of the W. Garfield Wes- ton party, while Ruth Prindlc, Allonford Club, Bruce county, went with a group of Girl Guides, JUNIORS' TRIP TO BRITAIN The young people selected from Junior Farmers and Junior Institute members to l‘L‘L'L:i\/t' the Ontario Government's trip to Eng- land and Scotland are: Helen Nosbltt, Peel county; Katherine Ferguson, Elgin; Fred Fancher, Lumbton and Charles Griffiths, Ox- drifL They will hr: accompanied by Miss Flora Durnin from the Women's Institute Branch, The young people were selected largely for outstanding work in their home communities, and the selecting committee found it a difficult task to choose from the many well-qualified applicants nominated by their county asso» riations. IT