Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1967, p. 23

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'ELFOUNTAIN-ROCKSIDE WOMEN’S ‘ D INSTITUTE has not one but three Cen- * tennial Projects. As a farâ€"reaching project, the Institute deâ€" tt‘v'i to adopt Fort Providence Women’s titute in the North West Territories, sending J 111 wool, copies of Home and Country and -ii! necessary items as well as exchanging ers and ideas. The second project, still not completed. is W Centennial Library. The first step was to permission from the Caledon Township Li- y Board to join their circuit. This was ted. Then the Township Council was ap- fill and asked if they would buy an used cottage from the Credit Valley COn- ation Authority and move it to a suitable - ion. The cottage, situated in the village k, was purchased and at the time of writ- , a foundation is being built in preparation moving the structure. The Institute will see t the book shelves are built, paid for. and Library furnished and maintained. ' he third project was completed two years The Institute approached the Peel County . uncil asking that a tri-angular median be H» :T‘ Q < fl .â€" DJ (7!? ('0 0 Ha U! (D :‘n O I: 3 .-> E? :3 m :n to (/1 n: n, 1”. ~< E m m ‘1’ ; that they break up the pavement and put :1 inside the tri-angle. This was done and The Women’s Institutes and The Centennial Peterbnrough District Women's Institute's entry in the parade at Peterborough, featured crafts old and new. Left to rightâ€"Mrs. George Cobb, Warsaw Brunch making butter.- Mrs. Clarence Foster, Laketield Branch, "granny" in the rocking chair knitting; Mrs. Albert Harrison, Hall's Glen Branchr quilting; Mrs. Roy Mullen South Waterloo making a lamp shade. the Institute planted flowers of the Institute coloursâ€"gold and blue. This year a member's son made a fountain (using field stone). topped with a bronze bell and placed it in the centre of the tri-angle. By means of an electric motor and pump, water gushes from the top of the fountain. The flowerbed is a mass of bloom. catching the eye of all who pass through the village. The little fountain was seen on the television program. "Gardening with Cox" on Sunday afternoon. August 13th. Georgetown Branch asked their members to tell of their own private Centennial Project when answering the roll call. Many members reported having planted trees. This meeting featured a paper by one member telling of Old Time Remedies. One wasâ€"to bake cookies using Castor Oil instead of butterâ€"two cookies made a dose. Tavistock Women’s Institute chose the theme “Backward, Turn Backward, oh time in thy flight. Members in old time costumes impersonated members who belonged to the branch sixty years ago (Tavistock branch was three years old then) and reâ€"enacted an Insti- tute meeting of that year. 23

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