Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), January, February, March 1992, p. 13

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Resolutions Approved at 1991 Annual Meeting The following resolutions were apâ€" proved by the Executive and Board Directors of the Federated Women‘s ln- stitutes of Ontario at their annual meeting last Novemberi They include: 10. ming to the Essex, Kent and Lambton County areas by reopening CBEI' Windsor; appealing to the Ministry ofHealth to regulate the dispensing fee in pharh 13. rows be installed; appealing to Revenue Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, and the Ontario Min- istry of Revenue to recognize short- 1, requesting the Ministry of Health, the macies across Ontario, and to make it term child care costs as employment Ministry of Community and Social reasonable and affordable to expenses for those stay-abhome Services, the Ministry of Women’s everyone; parents who assist in operating a lssues,andthe CollegeofPsychology 11. urging the Minister of Justice to family farm; and Psychiatry to enact legislation change the Young Offenders Law to 14, appealing also to Revenue Canada, that requires anyone practising have all crimes committedby 14tol7 the Ontario Ministry of Community psychotherapy be licensed by an ac- yearoldoffenderstriedin adultcourts and Social Services, and the Ontario credited professional association, and with appropriate deterrents; Ministry of Revenue to recognize the that licenses be granted only after ap- 12‘ asking the Ministry ofTransportation work done by stay-alâ€"home parents propriate training and examination; to enact legislation requiring that and consequently to allow a tax credit 2. petitioning the Minister of Transpor- uniform overhead lane directional ar- for the income earning parent. tation and the Solicitor General of 7 Ontario to lev fines a ainst the . misuse of the slow moviiig vehicle I l l Board signs; 3. asking both the Federal and Provin- cial Government's to require that the "Best Before Date" on all food products be in larger print and in a more prominent place; 4‘ urging the Ontario Medical Associaâ€" tion, the Ontario Hospital Associa- tion, and the Ministry of Health to promote the development of comâ€" munity-wide, hospital-based, breast feeding committees that will educate and encourage pregnant women to Pictured above are the Second Year F WIO Board Directors. From left to right in the back row are Rosina F indltzy, Lot's Dil/abough, Elsie Howes, Morton Lowry, Florence Downing, Peggy Dadd, Pamela Bronn, Marg Harris, Joan King and Betty McGregori Seated in the front row from left to right are Marcine James, Peggy McLeod, Joyce Glover, Irene Richardson, Lot's Lougltlt‘rt, Grace McCollum and Eleanor McMillan. breast feed their babies; 5. recommending that the Ontario HospitalAssociation urge hospitals to only use formula from those com- panies that adhere most closely to the World Health Organization's interna- tional code of marketing breast milk substitutes (Geneva, 1981); 6. persuading the Government of Canada to take action to have the Arâ€" chiVES of Canada remain in Ottawa; 7. pressuring the Ministry of the En- vironment toenact legislation making all wine and liquor bottles subject to a refundable deposit at the time of sale; 8. requesting that the CRTC restore the CBC Channel 9 programming to the Essex. Kent and Lambton County areas in order that they are provided with the necessary caverage of Canadian content; 9. requesting also that the CRTC and the CBC restore the local news program- The First Year F W10 Board Directors, from left to right in the back row, are Beatrice Harry, Darlene Harding, Marjory Humphries, Anna Farrow, Pol Ozwari, Jerrene Porteous, Mona Bray, J udy Smith and Irene Enders. In the front row, from left to right, is Carol Ellerton, Edith Jenkens, Marilyn Sharp. Beth Burnett, Bessie Saunders and E dythc Joseph H & C January. February. March 1992 13

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