Brooksdale WI Tweedsmuir Community History: 2005-2007

Publication: Tweedsmuir Community History Collections (Stoney Creek, ON), [2005]-[2007]

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Brooksdale WI Tweedsmuir Community History, 2005-2007

Women's Institute Activities, 2005
- Carol Innes presented the 2005 Volunteer Service Award
- Community Family Supper, 2005
- Brooksdale WI visits Bell Homestead
- A Haunted Hayride at Fanshawe Pioneer Village, 2005
- ROSE session on cancer

4-H Activities
- 4-H annual meeting, 2005, recipients of Norman Dickout Judging Awards include Amanda Topp, Gijs Arts, Kyle MacLeod, Michael Lupton, Mathew Lupton
- 90th anniversary of 4-H in Ontario
- 4-H Discovery Day
- 4-H welcomes Japan to Oxford

Community Events, 2005
- Embro Fire Department fund raiser
- Local sports news
- Girl Guides/Scouts events
- Local agricultural news
- Dorothy Kittmer's 90th birthday
- Jeannie Coulthard's 90th birthday
- Local dance/drama/music news
- Embro Fair
- Birthday, anniversary, wedding, birth, death, graduation announcements

Women's Institute Activities, 2006
- BWI gathers, sorts, rolls, and packs boxes of yarn for Carribean Small Crafts project
- Adelaide's Tea Party, February 16, 2006
- BWI Annual Meeting, April 2006
- St Pauls WI celebrates 90th anniversary
- Zorra Township swears in first female mayor, Margaret Lupton (BWI member)
- Newspaper articles about the year's Brooksdale WI meeting topics
- Elm Grove WI celebrates 60th anniversary
- Scadding Award of Excellence presented to the Curators of the Women's Institutes Tweedsmuir History, 2004

4-H Activities, 2006
- Delegates from Manitoba exchange with Oxford 4-H members
- 4-H members write letters to Canadian servicemen and women in Afghanistan

Community Events, 2006
- Embro Fire Department fund raiser
- Graham Learn and Amanda Green nominated for the youth in agriculture category of the Oxford County Federation of Agriculture Awards of Excellence
- Summer students at the Ingersoll Cheese Museum and Sports Hall of Fame
- Various community awards
- Local sports events and awards
- Articles about 'Ted's Pond'
- Articles about Doug Turvey, Town Crier
- Local health and wellbeing news (i.e. Wellspring Stratford program)
- Apple Festival
- Braemar WI members nominated for the District WI Women of Excellence Fair Award
- Anne and Grant Innes receive the OAAS Agricultural Service Diploma
- Local Girl Guides news
- 50th anniversary of Samsonite in Stratford
- Margaret Lupton for mayor campaign material
- Death, birthday, birth, engagement, anniversary, and wedding announcements

Women's Institute Activities, 2007
- Ontario Volunteer Service Award presented to Anne Innes and Laura Green
- Brooksdale WI Annual Meeting, April 2007
- New executive for Oxford District WI, 2007
- "Visiting the Past" August 2007
- Quilts, Crib Quilts, Comfort Pillows, Finger Puppets
- Oxford District WI scholarship and bursary presentations
- London Area Convention, October 3
- Article about Jeanne Coulthard's more than 70 years as a WI member
- Scone-making bee for the Zorra Caledonian St. Andrews Night

4-H Activities, 2007
- AGM of the Oxford 4-H Association
- 4-H exchange between Oxford County and Shellbrook, Saskatchewan
- Gay Lea Foods commissioned print presented to five 4-H members for completing 24 projects and being a member for 5 years

Community Events, 2007
- Jim and Katherine Grieve receive the Agricultural Service Diploma
- Learning Unlimited, Oxford, celebrates 25th anniversary
- Local sports news
- Girl Guides and Boy Scouts news
- Thistle Theatre wins three festival awards
- Articles about Robbin Wenzoski, wood carver
- Article about antique collection belonging to Margaret Waud
- Embro Fair Ambassadors
- 2007 Women of the Year awards presented to Rajbir Bhinder, Louise Ackroyd, Sharn Bhinde, Martha Henry, Crystol Perley, Mary Cobb, and Jeanne Coulthard
- Area dancers from Judy's School of Dance perform in Nashville
- Articles about various hobbies and professions of local people
- Marriage, Graduation, Marriage, births, anniversary, birthday, and death announcements

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Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario

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[2005]-[2007]

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English

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Brooksdale

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.23339 Longitude: -80.93302

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