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The Banquet The guest speaker for the banquet was Mrs. Ruth Watson, who demonstrated the art of making dried weeds look beautiful. I At the banquet, Mrs. Austin Zoeller, Prestâ€" dent of the Federated Women‘s Institutes of Ontario, assisted by Miss Marion Ruttan, P33t Junior Board Director, Miss Susan Eller and Mrs. David Brown presented the Junior Wom- en’s Institutes of Ontario presidents’ badges to Miss Doreen Harrop, Miss Sylvia Shaw and Miss Margaret Oliphant. I A name for the Junior Women’s Institute newsletter was chosen at the banquet. It is to be called “THE. JUNIOR ENTHUSIAST.“ Following the banquet, there was a Wiener roast with the girls huddling around a camp- fire singing the typical camp songs, spirituals. The tWenty-five girls left the conference on Sunday very tired but with a feeling of satis- faction. answers to questions, a wealth of new ideas and a happy thought of meeting their new friends at a future date â€"â€" maybe at the next fall conference! Why don‘t you come next time and find out for yourself? Get actively inâ€" volved in all the fun. Just don‘t read about it! "Junior Institute’s the name; Enthusiasm the game!” To conclude the evening the girls attended a play party which turned out to be a birthday party for Miss Ruth Whitehead from Teeswaâ€" ter Junior Women’s Institute. The birthday girl was fifteen on Sunday. A birthday cake com- pleted the festive and happy occasion. The feature of the Sunday morning session was a Church Service conducted by Mrs. Roy Wright. The Weekend concluded with a short hike. Some, spurred on by Mrs. Watson‘s demon- stration, searched for decorative weeds. After a picnic lunch everyone returned to the lodge with "rosy" checks. if * * YUKON FLORAL EMBLEM The Fireweed is the official floral emblem of the ‘rukon Territory. Being a hardy and beautiful plant that can be seen everywhere in the Yukon, it is a natural choice. It was the subject of a poem by Sarah Drury Taylor, a prominent Yukon pioneer: "Of all the flowers named in song To which the woodland nvmphs belon The fireweed in her gorgeous dress g Transforms the earth with her caress . . . The forest fire's unseemly blot She covers now1 and on the spot \Where blackened embers strewed the ground Her wreaths of fiery weed abound.” it it * 22 The Junior Women’s Institute Annual Meeting Are you a whiz at planning meetings . J0 you join the large majority that always up with the same old thing? Come to tilt in. ior Women’s Institute Annual Meeting r. haps you will gain new insight and a WET: (it ideas for types of meetings. The prospective date is mid-April in water, Bruce County. (Final plans will b‘, licized later.) llL‘ .\- The day’s agenda will include a sessi 0 meeting planning, types of meetings, . . guest speaker. A provincial project will s it discussed. Bring your ideas. Crafts â€" 1 Flowers and sing songs will add a light. esting touch to the day. Everyone come. The Junior Women‘» . tute of Ontario needs YOUR SLlple“. time, don‘t be left out of the fun. Con ,r join the action. MRS VAN WAGNER “I never thought of such a thing. 1« is! go on from day to day," said Mrs. Val. ner when asked at the time of her 1001: It day by a reporter how it felt to live to or hundred years old. At that time Mr or Wagner was one of the two living sci members of the Stoney Creek Women‘ ii tnte. The other charter member was ht wt Mrs. McKinley Morden, of Hamilton. On November 13, 1970, Mrs. Van '. icr died at the age of 101. Her next I: .4 would have been on December 30. Mr or» den is now the only living charter mer ml the first Women’s Institute in the world. Mrs. Van Wagner’s maiden nan W Christy Ann McFarlane and she was 1‘ ‘lLl' ow of Lt. Col. Henry Picton Van Wag: "lw died in 1940. There were no childre. will she and her husband were interested Ilk‘ Farmer’s Institutes and she was one of 101 women who attended that organization. .eel- ing in Squires Hall in Stoney Creek (In NH- ary 19, 1897. Mrs. Van Wagner is buried in H when Cemetery. * * * HoME AND (1, INTRY