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AKâ€" Volunteer Hours Worth Six Million Dollars! By Geraldine Campbell If a monetary value (based on a 1987 average wage of $11.7/hour) were placed on the work of the Women‘s Institute for the people of Ontario and their communities. the figure would reach at least $6 milâ€" lion. Last year the Women’s Inâ€" stitute donated half a million VolunA teer hours to various causes - 4â€"H. Agriculture in the Classroom. local fairs. nursing homes. or wherever they were needed. WT members realize the importance of their comâ€" munities. and they are prepared to donate time to assist others. Next time you buy a cake at 3 WI Bake Sale or attend one oftheir fund raising functions, be thankful there is a rural women's organization that cares enough about their com~ munity to do something for it. As you travel Ontario. you will notice that the WI Hall is often the link that holds the community together. This information was part of the report [gave as the Public Relations Officer at the FWIO annual meeting last November in Guelph. Howover.Women'slnstitutcsare not only about fund raising and volunteer hours. they are also about resolutions. When 20,00” women speak as one voice - as they do when 3 WI resolution is passed - action will happen. After all. Brock University exists today becauxc ol'a Women‘s Institute resolution. This year. l2 out ofthe IN rcSUILlA "Household Hints" From Selwgt WI Environmentally Friendly Household Hints, compiled by the Selwyn Women‘s Institute, is a timely and extremely useful book. This Branch wanted to do more than lip service to the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario theme for the 19905 â€" "Women and Their Environment." They col~ lected these household hints from a wide variety of sources, and ran them pasta wide variety of experts. The publication is considered one of the best of its kind presently on the market. The book was recently presented to the Lake l‘icld Librarian. Jill Warren (lettt. by Self wyn WI President. Evelyn Wilson (centre). and Convenor ot’ the bunk. Margaret Killeen (tight). The book costs $5. plus ‘3 I .50 for postage. It can be obtained by writ- ing to Margaret Killeen. RRI Lakelield, Ontario. KI‘JL 2H0. [ions presented by Joan Law. Resolutions Convenor at the FWIO Annual h‘lceting. were ratified. With a theme of "Women and the Environment" for the decade. it is natural that many resolutions would he on that topic. IVILUI)’ briefs were presented by WI members to local councils on etwirontnental issues. and action has resulted at the local level. The Federated Women": In- stittttes nl'(’)utarioisan organization that has been around for over “It years. and it is not afraid to Inclth issues that are important to its mem- bers. (it'rnldim' ('ampht'll is the Public Relations ()fflrt‘rfur fllt' FWIU. C 0n gratulaabnsr Anniversaries ll.|\\ kextmte \Vl. Nttttutc l'uxt . till ('titttpht‘ll‘x ('nntrr W], I ire} South Mi l.)|ltl Yalltw \\'l. Nnrlolk South 4.“. [ltthlltlt \Vl, ( ire), ('L'IIIIL' . 7|) Suntllttll \VI, I'ccl Nurllt 7‘ l’ttu'lt WI. \tnmtuiil Htl (iortltttt \VI. Manitoulin West till (ZIICIIi-tl“Li‘t'eiNiItllt iii (Zuni-tun WI. NitttlututhulntulI Na (‘utttnpxh't \VI. \Vt'litni'lon ( 'rtttrt- HS i‘urtwtetx I'.Ill\ \\ I. Ri'ttltt-u North HS \Ilvrt Walt’r WI. Mntttluultu West 34* St “ch-It‘s \\ I, IItttIIIt “'th iii himbt'rlr} WI. ( llt'V l‘.i~l “(1 Life Memberships llmtusullt' \VI I’aultnrlinttlnt‘t Mittyart'l Wlttlt' Mart-arm Strum! ('Jll’tliin \"l Rttlll film-ts ‘\'II\ or Water WI Ritllt Ilitntaumn -Ili|/L’l .’\Il|ll\lln rhumtln ‘\lItll‘-HII Kathie-sit lrItL -|‘k‘rtil\c “mutt ('L-rlil'tt‘ales of Merit (kill-dim “'l Mary I.lIlIl\L‘_\1Illl1IlL‘I Silver “filler WI rl-rantt-xt‘ulvtlle 'I‘JJI'IILL‘ Sillurtl rMar) l'. Lani: ll & (’ Der-ember. January, l-rhnmiy I‘I'Il ||