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District Diary Renfrew South â€" 0n the Ottawa River The Women‘s Institutes of Ren- t'reu South are located within the Otâ€" tawa Valley â€" beside the Trans- Canada Highway-117 on its 50 mile stretch via Arnprior to Ottawa. our national capital. Algonquin Park lies 80 miles west through Egamille and Barry's Bay â€" while Highways 132 and 41 lead south to Kaladar and via 40] to Toronto. Lying adjacent to the mighty Ottawa Riier ol‘ earliest e\~ ploration and the giant logging and lumbering industry. Rent‘rew folks can behold their Quebec neighbors and um them by bridge or by water. Renfrew South Women’s Institutes pay grateful tribute to our first branch at Burnstown â€" a village with its special bridge across the Madawaska River 7 as our first recruits ol‘ that 1897 origin of womenl‘olk at Stoney Creek. Here the beginnings of Renfrew South District met in 1914 for the first an- nual meeting with Mrs. J. F. Blane and Miss Agnes McLachlan as leaders with The Maple Leaf Forever as opening song. The second district annual was in Goshen Hall with an attendance of 55, from nine bran- ches. Following Burnstown and Goshen. came: Castleford, Horton South. Pine Grove, Bonnechere Rent‘rew South is located in the Ottawa Valley. close to the Quebec border. 1‘) Valley, Horton North, White Lake. Clay Bank. Braeside. Arnprior. Calabogie. Combcrmere. Loehwin- noch. Dewars, Rosebank. Glasgow Balsam Hill, and Stewartville # 19 branches. Rent‘rew South belongs to Subdivi- sion 3 in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Convention Area. The average attcn~ dance at the district annual is IJO out of 33] members. White Lake. Calahogie. Glasgow and Balsam Hill hare halls. Branches contribute to hospitals in Rent‘rew and Arnprior: to Renfrew‘s Bonnechere Manor with [cats and volunteer service and contributing an electric organ in 1957; to nursing homes with teas and donations. A child is sponsored in the Dominican Republic. Homemaking and craft classes are events each year. L'lrll'l‘ 'l stiltllt MMPH’. qutrn IVSHIUH HHI) |N BURNSTOWN JUNE 4 mm SOUTH TV In 1973. the district erected a unltti'ersarr of Renfren' South. Pictured are treasurer Mrs. E. Mujtrttrv. Renl'rew South Women‘s Instin: grew apacc. showing much lat talent, in 1948 Mrs. Marga Hamilton â€" a wielder of ideas by pen trail â€" won a Provincial Es Contest. A Countrywoman's D while our poet laureate Mrs. Dr, Humphries had an honourable m. tion. Combermere‘s Mrs. Ha' Stevenson won oil painting away. Bonneehere Valley had prizes hooked rugs. Mrs. T. H. Jones White Lake and Mrs. Eileen Brydt ol' Burnstown won poem prizes at i area. Rosebank excelled Tweedsmuir History work. AI» Mrs. Dorothy Crozier of ROSEbHK W.l. won first prize on a pen sketch of the Douglas Mill at l: Area Convention. All branches ke records of their history. In 1963. Rent'rew South celebrat l ..i t‘l' lII'Tlfiii t plaque at BUI'NSIDWH Church to commemorate the 60th president Mrs. T, H. Jones and serretary-