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Here and There iii/13th the Institutes More Notes From Secretaries’ Reports Community Activities .altfleet has a special interest in quilt makâ€" i .i This year they made Seven quilts for the ' :‘nilton Unit of the Red Cross Society, gave trge quilt to the Visiting Homemakers Asâ€" iation to be given to some family in need . it. six quilts to the Children‘s Aid Society. i one to the Wentworth County Home for Aged to be sold at their bazaar. (It sold $25). This Institute has a friendly visiting nmitee and individual members visit resi- i 118 of the County Home; regular attention is on to birthdays and other occasions of a other of residents who need this attention. Stoney Creek’s December meeting program d the theme Christmas in Other Lands with itors formerly from Holland and Lithuania ling how Christmas is celebrated in their *untries. Members brought gifts to be dis- ‘buted to children under the care of the Chi]- en's Aid, and the Superintendent of the Chil- eu’s Aid spoke briefly. Picton reports: “We sent delegations to the .JLll'lCll regarding the centennial project of an .tension to the public library.” This Institute ionsors a chorus to entertain at Christmas Be at the town hospital, Rest Homes and ome for the Aged. Alice says: “We gathered good used cloth- g and took it to families who had welfare roblems, especially clothes for the small chilâ€" ten and those of school age who must have 'arm clothes for winter.” Lake Dore invited the elderly people of the ommunity to their historical meeting. Loeksley-Rankin Institute has a ball which 5 available to the community at a reasonable cent. The members keep the hall clean and in "6pair but they engage two men by the year to act as caretakers, to open and close the hall 4nd to “keep order” if necessary. The Institute members “chaperone their own dances.” V Combermere sends gifts regularly to a child In Smith‘s Falls Ontario Hospital. Goshen and South Horton and Stewartville rePort spending a few afternoom at Bonne- Chere Manor, Renfrew County Home for eld- erllf People, doing sewing and mending for the remdents. When a woman of the community was hosâ€" Pifalized for six weeks, members of Crown "111 Institute helped the family by providing SUMMER 1966 At a workshop on Copper Tooling directed by Miss lsubel Leslie of the Dept. of Agriculture and Food, Home Economics Branch, and organized by Gravel- ridge Women's Institute, a little boy watches his mother working on a wall plaque. occasional “baking,” casseroles. etc. and assist- ed with the children‘s school lunches. Harvie Settlement donated $25 and bought clothes for the children of a family “who are finding it hard to make ends meet." Members took "baking" to a woman who was ill. This Institute bought a 75 cup coffee urn “to be available for any gathering in the community." Rugby invited the women of the community to a Christmas dinner â€" we presume they brought their pre-school children if it was a noon meal. After dinner they had “a party"; and they brought to this gathering “white gifts" for the Salvation Army‘s Christmas ham- pers. Shanty Bay maintained a library in a local store. Coldwater Huronia. Hollows, Branchton and Churchill report sending gifts to patients in the mental hospital, Alliston has a “memorial shelf” in the pub- lic library. The Institute provides the books in memory of deceased members Maple Valley organized an Arbor Day at the community hall at which “grass was cut, flower beds attended to and the hall given a general cleanup." New Lowell paid hospital insurance for two months for a boy in hospital with cancer. Pine Tree sponsors a story hour for chil- dren in the library after school every other Monday. A lady. qualified for this, tells the stories and the institute has two members on hand to escort the children safely from and to the bus and to serve hot chocolate and cookies. Stayner takes a special interest in two schools for mentally retarded children in the area and 31