Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1964, p. 36

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Barbara Brawnlee of Kors 4-H Homemaking Club pre- sents Kors Women's Institute President, Mrs. Archie Sorhie with a gift from the club. The club girls held a tea for their mothers, friends and Institute members, charged a small tee and used the money to buy a "hinder" or book to start the second volume of the Institute‘s Tweedsmuir history. The completed first volume was on display at the ten. of this roll call was the setting up of a rhythm band. Kleinberg and Nashville had a most inter- esting talk on the treatment of emotionally disturbed children by a representative of the Thistlctown Hospital. Vellorc Junior Institute had a discussion with the Junior Farmers on the question “Is Chivalry Dead?" They eSpecially appreciated their program on Citizenship. Community Activities A great number of Institutes are doing an outstanding piece of work in sponsoring 4-H Homemaking Clubs for the girls of the com- munity. Phelps continues to maintain a hall, a public park and memorial as a remembrance and a place for recreation for the community; also cooperates with others in sponsoring a fall fair, a school nurse service and a skating and hockey club. giving the use of their park for a skating rink. _ Kipling: A resolution regarding the renam- Ing of a local lake was presented by the Inn stitutc and was taken up by the Chamber of Commerce. This branch triedâ€"though with- out successâ€"to get a dental clinic for the local school and its many neighborly projects inâ€" cluded a shower of baby clothes for a mother of twins. Teeterville’s community activities included holding a flower show, an old school reunion and garden party, fourteen euchre parties. 36 eleven teenâ€"town dances, and a Britt,de Stew supper; redecorating and adding . rim and kitchen to the Institute Hall (for; ° rIL J school house). - East Norfolk Junior Institute Working wtle in cooperation with the Junior Farmeru mm the county health unit, helped a need} mm, gave blood at the blood donors’ clini- "tier. rained their families on family night I - Hm tributed to the W. 1. International Sch lwlllp and to a local Nursing Bursary. Most of the Institutes in Norfolk tum are contributing to 3 Nurses’ Bursar; til; county. Wooler has a Women‘s Institute [3h ith slides. swings, teeters, etc. for small it w The picnic tables in the park are oh. “I by visitors. Brooklin sends four members eaci. Jill to serve tea in the Red Cross project t”. View Lodge for senior citizens at Wh In June the residents Were invited to a l-. .ll'l Institute member’s home in the canal ml to provide the program. This Institui: l .t special meeting when 10 members, i ‘Lllt visitors and 37 children saw a demo in on making puppets and operating Myrtle sent cookies to the Whitby ,rm Hospital at New Year’s and plans Wu; ale to send parcels at regular times to the in: in one of the Cottages of the hospital. Kintore community has a Recreatit un- mittee which was originally sponsored the Institute. Mount Elgin gave a donation of Sir he public library and $100 to assist tht club with installing floodlights for tin sc- ball diamond. Norwich took over responsibility ; iltC cleaning of the town’s rest rooms wh- no been neglected. Belfauntain Rockside reports: “For i :c- and year We have sponsored a square ‘ “1:1 project from fall to spring which is ‘ 4!- tended by the younger set.” The Institutes of North Peel have be -i- ing an annual “luncheon dessert euci 1}" raise funds for their scholarship. The i ‘ I‘ very popular and funds are raised wit ‘ilc difficulty. Mono Road provides tWO member" all month to staff the Health Unit’s Baby ‘ “iv The Institute sponsored two bus trips th at in which members of the community "PC includedâ€"one trip to Stratford to set [it Taming of the Shrew", one to O'Keele‘ '0' ronto to see “The School for Scandv Among Snelgrove’s many community illES Was holding a benefit euchre for a boy who had had a leg amputated in an ‘:i- dent. HOME AND COW?“

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