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Discussion group leaders at the Officers' Conference. left to right, front row: Mrs. ( Mrs. Mrs. Alex Watson, chciirri'tclnl Mrs. J. Sherman Mrs. Ford Sudden, Mrs. Harvey Woies, Mrs. 1'; “Do not be afraid to attempt new things. In the .t‘f‘gfworld of commerce today there are regular conâ€" ' inferences when men and women sit dOWn together discuss a problem. Every SUggestion made is recorded and none is rejected until all its ramifiâ€" cations have been explored. And we are told that many which seemed the wildest. after being pol» . fished up were the most successful. Again we have :Tthe power of an idea. So. let your imagination work for you; cultivate ideas and create out of ' them a newer and finer place for your organization In your community.” Home Economics Service ‘ r Miss Helen McR-.-ner, Director. Home Eco- :jfi'nomics Extension Service, Ontario Department of "; Agriculture, expressed her appreciation of the rmopportunity _of working with the Women's Insti- «fiztutes and said that a Conference of Women‘s Inv ,ktgstitutes Presidents was a most important group for ' fiber to mEet because of the support the Institutes 1“had given the Home Economics extension pro- 7 gram through the year. 1.500 more women took "' extension services this year than did last year: and there were about 1.000 more girls in 4eH Homemaking Club work. Miss McKercher es- pecially appreciated the response to the "Eat to study back to their local groups. The following letter was quoted to Show some of the results in “The ‘Eat to Live' project was very interesting and helpful to us in our community. All our embers really got behind this and we are happy 10 report we now have a Public Health Nurse nd Doctor visiting our school regularly. The ed Cross Outpost at Callander has sent us a nurse free of charge. The Council and Reeve of ‘our Township, with us pushing them, secured a :octor for our school. We also contacted the teachers and now the children are made to sit in their seats for half an hour at noon to eat UMMER 1961 Verne O'Hara. G. W. Smith. Back row: Mrs. James Hoggerly, George Thurtell, Mrs. R. M. Starkey. their lunch. We hope this will make for happy. healthier children in our community. Thanks for the help you gave us in this project.“ The Director outlined the new home econo» mics extension program for the coming year. There will be no half-day coursesâ€"it costs too much to send an instructor out for a half-day‘s work and attendance records indicate that women can get out to a course from ten o'clock to four if they are really interested. “Don't feel that you have to have a course every year," Miss Meâ€" Kercher said; “and don't feel badly if you have to cancel a course. We have many requests every year that we can‘t fill." New services in Foods are courses in "Creative Cookery" and “Shopping in the Sixties“ and a Local Leader project “M3 Pounds of Meat“. This is the quantity of meat consumed by the average Canadian every year and the course includes choosing meat, uses for different cuts and cookâ€" ing methods. A new Clothing Course is “Belts and Buttonholes". Women come to a course with such widely different sewing skills that it is hard to plan a course suited to every one. This course IS planned to give a professional look to dresses through good belts and buttonholes. A Home Management “Consumers‘ Workshop" will replace the “Eat to Live" project. There will be new Home Craft courses in Advanced Leathercraft and Copper Tooling and a new local leader pro“ ject, Block Printing. And the new Women's In- stitute procedure units will be workshops in Brunch Women's Institute Procedures and Dis» trict Women's Institute Procedures. The 4-H Homemaking Club program has a new food unit “Featuring Fruit" and u clothing unit “Sep- arates for Summer". “In the present machine-dominated world. the handmade has become valuable." Miss McKerchcr said. "Pride of craftsmanship has passed from the skilled artisan to the talented amateur. Wom- en now don't sew so much for thrift as for rc- laxation and creativeness. There is a revived in- terest in baking bread and buns. You are doing something important in creating talented ama» tcurs.” 'II