Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1957, p. 12

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as former teachers, nurses, and university graduates. It is iniportant to have an outlet for all the abilities people have in rural com- munities. and we all know how important it is to share with others. I have heard an illus~ tration of this in that the sea of Galilee is blue. fresh and gives life to everything it comes in contact with, not because it receives fresh water but because it has an outlet. The Dead Sea is dead, stagnant, fish die in it, not be- cause it doesn't receive fresh water but be- cause it hasn’t an outlet. “The Local Leader Training Schools are two days in length â€" not short courses but a preparation for leaders to teach others. Only leaders and assistants attend these schools. It is better to have an assistant 50 that you are assured of continuity. Most courses are planned to have four to six meetings held locally for the leader to pass on to our local group what she learned at the Training School. We hope each county will have a Summary Day. “This year the decision as to what subject each county would take was made arbitrarily in order to get a start made. Next year it will be the county’s responsibility to decide their own programme, All this means that your county or district Home Economist has addiâ€" tional work. She makes plans with you and sets dates and places for Training Schools. Most of you are familiar with 4-H Homemak- ing Club Training Schools and Achievement Days. We hope you will keep in mind that you should not have the same leaders for both junior and senior work. With the wealth of sound thinking and capable leadership in Onâ€" tario, it is quite possible to have two successâ€" ful programmes, keeping in mind always that the goal of extension work is developing all our resources, social, economic, human and material for the achievement of the highest level of life possible. “We look forward with interest and feel confident that by all of us using all our an L able resources the possibilities of SOLIHrl 17,:‘1' - ful progressrve programmes are unit in; The Department of Agriculture is [infirmi- their close association with y0ur orgammjgi and we wish you continued success in .il / mun. undertakings.” ' I ADVENTURES IN LIVING Without a camera and sound effect.- 1 . rpm ord the speaker’s dynamic personals, Hm her unique way of presenting her n-u.‘ 1-131 it is difficult to report a speech 1 Dr' Margaret Nix. Assistant Professor Ihé Faculty of Medicine at McGill Univerm but here are a few points from her add on “Thrilling Adventures in Living," “You are women interested in cw. ma. tion,” Dr. Nix began, “In the whole l- I of conservation what is more important n . the conservation of children?” Dr. Nix reviewed what medical SCI-b I135 done to save the lives of children. Den‘, um diphtheria, typhoid fever, tuberculosi iall pox, the diseases commonly responsi: for infant mortality, had been reduced the point where it was sometimes difficult :md a case for observation by mediCal 51 ,55 Science had changed our ways of lit as for example in the speed with which I «an move from one place to another, even :ur ways of keeping house. The time wa: man a child rushing in from school, hungry and “Mom, what's cooking?" Now he asks it's thawing?” But with all our advances in scicnv Dr. Nix reminded us that four persons in :ry thousand in Canada are in mental he als and many others are suffering from ; .tal disorders not considered serious enou, for hospitalization but destructive enough = lhe individual's happiness and usefulncs:. We have delinquency, too, and alcoholism. “ d," Institute members v It? Fashion Revue mod‘ :05- tumes of various db 1 in the sixty years slot the first Women's InstirU' M15 organized. â€"0.A.I_" ‘i on

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