Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1962, p. 34

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is for older people in the community and club girls â€" they carry on three 4H Homemaking Clubs, with leaders and assistants from the Institute. Desbarats gave a banql-I'?t to “‘9 school Grade VIII graduating class which. they say. “will be an annual event from now on. Onondaga served tea and cookies to mothers bringing children to the Child Health Clinic each month. St. George members voluntarily staff the public library. They sponsored a bus to the C.N.E. for people of the community. They also sponsor a baby clinic. Ohsweken sent Christmas gifts to lndian patients in the Brantford and Hamilton Sans; also gifts to three girls and a boy from the district who are in Ontario Training Schools. Sour Springs acted as hostess branch to a three-day convention of the Indian Home- makers‘ Clubs from the Indian Reservations of Southern Ontario. The Sour Springs members also billeted the delegates. Walkerton Evening: “We plan to go to the Shakespearean Festival again this year. We are very much interested in this type of enter- tainment.” This branch sponsors a Maytime Musicale for children of both public and sep- arate schools, high school students and also for adults. The Institute gives prizes to school children for posters advertising the Musicale. Mar “had an ‘open night’ featuring a debate on the value of the modern versus the little red school in producing citizens.” This was followed by a cold turkey buffet supper. “Home and Country is eagerly read and quoted. We enjoy the poems tucked in." Park Head and Lavender each asked the council to place speed limit signs in the village. This was done. Kairshea Institute purchased a closed rural school. It was Cleaned and redecorated, the Institute members doing most of the work. They also put curtains at the windows. At the first of September they held Open House and Harvest tea -â€"- “a lovely event", they report, "with many former pupils present." The Institute finds the hall very convenient for 4H Homemaking Club meetings. North Gower: “Our interest in supporting public speaking contests resulted in having a special evening of professional instruction for school pupils, teachers and parents." Richmond holds an annual flOWer show and junior garden project. School pupils of ten to fourteen are supplied with vegetable and flower seeds for a special sized plot; gardens are judged and produce is exhibited at the flower show. There are classes for adults too. The Institute serves tea at the show. Vernon members entertained their husbands at a smorgasboard supper â€" very much enâ€" Joyed. This branch also gave leadership in an organizing a TB clinic or Chest X-ray SUEZLL for the community. They publicized the «in. vey, provided a suitable building for it mil members helped the technicians. Central Yarmouth last winter spam, “I community card parties twice a. month, a mu. munity picnic. a tea for patients at the m. tario H05pital and a tea at the Mem. Hospital for the Aged. Yarrnouth Glen “an, ,jy ed” a lonesome patient in the Ontario Hosp .| Middlemarch held a card party for Om Hospital patients and sent them gifts at Cl 4. mas time. Battersea purchased a community field $1.800 and paid for it in one year. The} _ now erecting “out buildings”. Syden; n, worked closely with Council, Board of T L and Lions in improving the town hall .l adding a kitchen. Jubilee Frontenac sponsored two sluden attend the United Nation’s Seminar at Qu. University. Desboro has an annual clean-up day a local cemetery. Gleneden contacted all institutes with .i radius of fifteen miles about organiziii i school for retarded children asking for I help financially and in finding children ii need such a school. The school is no\- ll operation. Grandview purchased an nnuscd ehurcl- 1r a community hall. Ashgrove completed their project of cl um um .\i 4"!“ I “Ill-At Marlo" Mayer, Pelhum Union Club, lineoln Col“ commenling 0" "The Cereal Shelf" exhibit at the la. ‘l Achievement Day. HOME AND COUN'IFCV

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