Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1979, p. 15

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Agriculture;The programs through the use of paâ€" Pcm panels, films covered many topics, some examâ€" Pics were the increased use ofapplejuice: the most ex- pensive wool (musk-Ox); farm problems; new nwihods of feeding cattle; the Ontario Beef Exchange; the grape industry: cheese making; new varieties of vegetables. Agriculture and Canadian Industries are plosely related. The farmer Cannol work his land withâ€" out the aid of industry and the food industry woiild not last long without the farmer. Canadian Industries~Some of the programs were on history of how oil was formed in the ground and :Iten processed; aluminium; a biscuit company and earning more about the industries in each local comâ€" munity. Tours were taken to a hog farm; a glass fag- try: an ice cream plant; a mushroom farm and to see .nw harpsichords are made. Ladies learned how to lake fire logs from newspapers and how to bone and ill a turkey. SPECIAL MEETINGS The FW]O President and designated Board Direc- rs have attended special meetings of the Agricultural inter Fair. Ontario Food Council and Coalition to leserve Foodland. Mrs. Earl Morden. a member on the Ontario Agri- wltural Hall of Fame told about future plans and me terms of reference being proposed. FWIO Will “come a founding member and will take out a life- ine membership at a cost of $|00.UO which entitles em to make nomination proposals in the future. lrs. Morden will continue as FWIO‘S representative. FWIO SCHOLARSHIPS Mrs. L. A. Jefferson Names of scholarship winners and alternates were -tified from Northumberland East and West Dis- it'ls. Prince Edward District as well as the FWIO iorence P Eadie and Dorothy Futcher Scholarships. lgoma District did not have an eligible applicant this or and Northumberland East still have an extra Itolarship to pick up in l979 because of a lack of ap- licants in 1977. New scholarship certificates will be designed and archased by FWIO to be used in 1979. Old certifiâ€" ites with the name Macdonald Institute will be ‘ .inged to The College of Family and Consumer Af- .irs. Vfi?{v'f’r‘ } Us. Members of FWIO attending dinner. L-Fl Mrs, Sam K oski, Fa den will continue as FWIO's representative FWIO ofiiee;by not is ‘ - snbmitted jt‘o‘ FWIO . Lake-missm'mea- "p.19, ict at Year of‘the‘ Chi j“ ' 7 review the irrmunizatron charts of divert NIAGARA ESCARPMENT COMMISSION Mrs. Earl Morden The Niagara Escarpment commission (lnterest Groups Advisory Committee) continue to keep the public informed so they may understand and know. what is being clone in the escarpment area. The group have been studying the responses to preliminary pro~ posals and viewing the overlay maps showing reduced areas of control. Mrs. Mordcn represented FWIO. stating her views are based on what “I hear. see and read from property owners, farmers. developers. real estate persons. tour- ism and all others who are concerned." The draft plan will be dealt with in the next few months. Mrs. Mor~ mily and Consumer Affairs Convener; Mrs. Cecil Bell, Edu- cation and CulturalActivities Convener: Mrs. Herb Maluske, Resolutions Convener; Mrs. Donald Gaza. Agriculture and Canadian Industries Convener; Mrs. Fred Howe, Tweedsmuir History Curator; Mrs. John Brown. PRO,- Mrs. Flob‘t. W. Moore, Convener of Citizenship and World Affairs. 15

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