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County and Provincial Honour girls of the 4-H Homemaking Clubs of Prince Edward County. in front of the railing ore Ida Waierhouse 'und Erma Rus- borough (Provincial Honours). Another F.R. girl, Bette Jean Rankin is absent. The County Honour members are Diana Dick, Nancy Dontalor, Miriam Henry, Beverly Dnnlalor, Cath- erine Smith, Evelyn Bedford, Elaine Bird. Deborah Williams, Carolyn Hubbs. Three olhers are absent: Bernice Bedford, Marion Yorke, Donna Holl. In Castleford Institute, each member “adopted” a child in Smiths Falls’ Ontario Hosâ€" pital for a year sending greeting cards and a gift on special occasions. Stewartville also reâ€" ports keeping contact with individual children in this hospital. Barrie supplied clothing for a needy famâ€" ily of eight and a crib for the baby that was coming. They paid for these out of their “birthday box cash". Shanty Bay maintains a library at the post office. A number of Institutes in Simcoe county distribute county library books, pay rent for a library or provide a librarian. Stroud has a Welfare committee “busy the year round looking after the sick, the aged and the lonely.” Cleaniew sent a delegation to ask the townâ€" ship council for fire protection, this being the only towuship in the county without this service and there had been three fires on one conâ€" cession in three months. When the council gave an evasive reply the Institute had it pubâ€" lished in the local paper so that everyone could see the council was taking no action. Immediately the council called a ratepayers' meeting to consider the question. Maple Valley arranged social evenings with euchre, crokinole and other games for every two weeks through the winter. Sunniwood has weekly euchres; Sunday Creek monthly dances. MaeGI-egor has started a drama group. Cedar Brae “had a terrific turnout of bus- bands at their smorgasbord supper. The men answered the roll call with ‘Why I like my wife to belong to the Institute.’ ” At Markstay Institute members volunteered to supervise the children’s playground during the summer. Gal-son reports “sponsoring a district health FALI. I962 unit service. with volunteers to help at the clinic." (The report does not say whether the service is :1 clinic for pro-school children or something else. Ed.) Bourkcs, a small branch. belongs to the Regional Library and receives hooks every three months which they make available to the com- munity. They gave :1 substantial order of groc- eries to an "unfortunate" family. Sunday Creek also gave groceries to a family in need. Savard provided cod liver oil for school children. Ouimet Dorian bought flowering bulbs and planted them so they would bloom at Christ- mas time to he sent to senior citizens. O’Connor organized zt clean-up and beauti- fication of the cemetery and held a decoration day. Many relatives from a distance attended. South Gillies petitioned the Department of Highways to do something about the dusty condition of the road and this was remedied. Maple Grove "urged the council to better mark a dangerous corner at a crossroads and a new checkerboard sign was put there the next week," Ospringe arranged an "Old Home Day" at the school with a service to dedicate the school bell. They had a cairn erected and placed the old school bell in it with a bronze plaque. Eramosa held community euchre parties in the school. The people enjoyed the parties and the Institute tonnd them a good way of raising funds. Cm’lilke joined the Trinity Farm Forum for a special meeting connected with the broad- Cast on The Farm Family. Glanford says: “This year a new Institute. the Maggie Johnston, was organized near us with twenty members, all young married women, and we have helped them in any way we could. beginning with a donation of $10. 37