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Resolutions Approved at the 1992 FWIO Annual Meeting The following resolutions were approved by the FWIO at their annual meeting last Novemberi They included: 1. pressing the Federal Department of Health and the Ontario Ministry of Health to provide sufficient funding for creative research and the use of the best technology in an intense effort to find the cause and treatment of breast cancer. 2. working with the Ontario Breast Screening Program to recruit and en- courage all women fifty years of age and over to have a mammogram and learn how to examine theirown breasts; 3. voicing strong opposition to closures of rural post offices and the reduction of normal postal services, and urging the Government of Canada to immediately discontinue these practices; 4. requesting that the Ministry of Educaâ€" tion make it mandatory that all children in grades one to four be taught to read using word recognition and phoned- cally based programs; 5. urging the Department of Justice to en- act legislation that will permit publishing the names of repeat young offenders; 6, pre5sing the Ontario Ministries of Health and Education to develop a pro- gram in the schools making it mandatory for all adolescent females to learn self-breast examination; 7. requesting the Ontario Government to enact legislation to the effect that the Planning Act of Ontario be amended to eliminate merging of abutting proper- ties owned by the same individual(s), thereby causing all abutting property landowners of property previous to 1979 and since the amendment of 1979 to have equal right without discrimina- tion; 8. persuading the Ontario Minister of the Environment to allow an immediate test burn at the St. Mary's cement kiln, and if the test meets environmental stand- ards. then proceed to allow the use of rubber tire chips as fuel for cementkilns in Ontario, thus reducing the number of discarded tires in landfill sites and used tire depots and removing the potential 6 Home a Country. Spring 1993 of a dangerous environmental hazard; 9. appealing to the Premier of Ontario to immediately withdraw the legislation to legalize casinos and video terminals in the province of Ontario; 10. urging the Department of Justice to change the act to allow publication of the names of young offenders who have been convicted; 11.requesting the Ontario Ministry of Transportaan install red reflecting arrows to indicate the entrances to over- passes; 12.pressing the Govemment of Ontario to investigate their concems and arrive at a solution to provide the municipalities of Ontario with a fair and equitable system of policing; lSappealing to the Federal and Provincial Governments to review the methods of funding for medicare and put the fund- ing partially back on the general populace; 14. urging the Ontario Ministry of Trans- portation to erect signs at the beginning of the passing lanes indicating the length of such lanes; 15.:equesting that Agriculture Canada en- act legislation so that frozen foods with a durable life period greater than ninety days have a clearly marked packaging date; and, 16tasking the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to remove programs like “Video Hits” from prime time viewing by young children. Pictured above are the Second Year FWIO Board Directors. From left to right in the back row ls Carol Ellsnon, Beatrice Harry, Pat Ozsvari, Judy Smith, Mona Bray, Jen'an Porteous, Anna Farrow, Marilyn Sharp and Wendy Flatt. In the from In w, from left to right, is Edith Jenkins, Marjory Humphrles, Bessie Saunders, Irene Endsrs, Beth Burnettand Darlene Harding. 7719 First Year FWIO Board Directors, from left to right in the back row, are Alma Riddoch, Helen Stafford, st Coulis, Lorna McGrath, Mao Craig, Harm/ha Koetslor, Mary Caldwell, Pauline Lindsay, Doreen McMillan, Dorothy Bosdham, and Ruby Hendricks (alternate for Edythe Joseph). in the front row, from left to right, is Cindy Ashton, Pal Macdonald, Dorothy Sutherland, Vl Heiress, Laurens McIntosh, Lois Fraiburger, and Vivian Fawaett. 9