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the president also appealed to commercial firms and the response was most genflmus' The ban was a veritable piczurc gallery for the dkly‘ Ayr institute. according to a local 93355 “For: “took the Community Centre under 1ts WIRE when construction was undertaken “in Years 3g?" Since that time the Institute has contributed 111 donations and rental fees the sum of $13.2”. "This." says the report, “has made it possible for the Centre‘s Board to meet payments over the years which otherwise would have created a se- rious problem." Annan, which we presume draws some of its members from the Leith community, voted $200 to assist in providing heating units for the Annan and Leith community halls, $100 to go to each hall. Mrs. Lloyd Smith of Rutherglen reports: “Fol- lowing our Eat to Live project the Institute memâ€" bers set to work to get health supervision for the school children and we now have a Public Health nurse and a doctor visiting the school regularly. The Council and the Reeve of our township. with us pushing them. secured a doctor for our school; and the Red Cross Outpost at Orillia sent us a nurse. We also consulted with the teachers and now the children are made to sit in their seats for a half hour at noon to eat their lunch. We hope this will make for happier. healthier chilâ€" dren in our community.“ A home economics extension worker. following a class in Moccasin Making with North Hunts- ville branch, reports that this Institute, with only eleven members. sponsors a class in square and country dancing for forty-five children. The class meets weekly. each child paying ten cents toward the cost of the teacher and the Institute matting up the balance. (We take it these are Junior teenage boys and girls.) The Institute also sponsors a junior hockey team. They award two books to children in each grade at public school, one award for progress, one for proficiency. Fortyâ€"nine children who helped with a Christmas concert were later entertained at a toboggan party. Goderleh Institute at the local Kinsmen‘s An. nual Trade Fair set up an exhibit of antique china. including teapots and other pieces over one-hundred years old. At a previous Kinsmen's fair they-provided an exhibit of an old-time strategists 2:1. , another year they at. 30 This towel with o design at the birthplace of Adelaide Hoodless was shown oi the Annual Rally of North and South Brunt Women‘s Institute; Left to right: Miss E. Yams. Secretory-Treasurer North can South Brant Rally Committee. Mrs. Arthur Rowland, Cl’tDIl'mDri Hamilton Convention CUJHMII. tee and speaker at the mom County Rally,- Mrs. J. 5. Hr‘n'en President North Brunt Cvélricl; Mrs. A. F. Wilson, Chcrmnn, North and South Bront ism. mittee. ranged a period bedroom with four-posits. ml and other furniture of the same period :hu Kinsmen gave the Institute a booth at whirl. .m-t sold cakes, fresh every day. Our reporter in Norman Clairmont, says “This created gow aih. lic relations with our town folks." Thirty years ago when the Women's ln~ rm of Simcoe County were ready to start a nu im â€"they had already collected a considerablt m. ber of articles of historic interestâ€"the nt“, council gave them the use of the old r w. office as a place to keep and display the air seum pieces. Now they have over 700 1 it. with more coming in all the time and the. m- outgrown their present quarters. So at the _n- ning of this year a committee from the W n. Institutes of the county appealed to the council to provide a suitable building and all up a board of management representing :1 in. people of the county. The financial Obltg -n« connected with a museum. the women expl w! were too much for the Institute women to in it. but they would be happy to serve on co lit tees or help in any way they could. (lu- ‘n- other good example of Institutes doing the p .t-r work necessary to establish a community h tr then turning it over to the civic authorit. hi maintain and continue. Ed.) Orillia Institute, the first of five branch in be Organized in the town and surrounding that has since been taken into the town 1'- cently entertained the other four branches A good-will banquet. Eighty-two women attt rd and, to quote a report, “enjoyed a very frn ii- and pleasant evening." Mrs. C. S. Rickers, PRO for Port Dulh it reparts that Port Dalhousie Women‘s Ins it held “Open House" in the parish hall to eel? ".6 International Night. The team of four oar an who represented Canada at the Olympics ml their coach, all local boys, were honoured at iii‘ meeting. Coloured movies and slides fcat N the Program. showing the team in training or. in Henley course in Port Dalhousie, the civu we ccit’llon before they left for Rome, the trip. C” m- ch Village, historic places in Rome. the races and Pictures taken in Britain on the way home. ‘lit coach. Alex Wilson and sports writer Craig Swt' 26 Were the commentators. Guests were PFC-sm from neighbouring Institutes and when refit-h» HOME AND COUNTRY