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PROGRAMMES PRESENTED OVER THE PAST TWELVE YEARS HAVE BEEN INTERESTING, ENTERTAINING, AND INFORMATIVE. OUR CONVENORS HAVE STRIVEN To EDUCATE US ON THE SUBJECTS OF SAFETY IN THE HOME, CAR DRIVING AND ROAD MANNERS, NEH METRIC SYSTEM, MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, INVESTMENT AND RETrRE- MENT INFORMATION, INSURANCE, INFORMATION ABOUT HILLS, RESPONSIBILITY OF GOOD SOVERN- MENT, SAFETY (LOCAL SAFETY PATROLMAN), PREVENTATIVE MEDECINE. OUR HOMES ARE PERHAPS NIGER PLACES TO LIVE BECAUSE OF VERY INTERESTING SPEAKERS FROM PETERBOROUGH FLOOR COVERING, HOME DECORATING CENTRE, ALSO SPEAKERS ON LIGHTING IN THE HOME, FLOHER ARRANGING, HOME FURNISHINGS AND INTERIOR DECORATING, AND HE MIGHT ADD, BE T MORE BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT BY COSMETIC AND ths DEMONSTRATION BY MERL NORMAN, ALSO ON How To BE A CHARMING HOSTESS, AND 100 YEARS OF FASHION. . INFORMATIVE MEETINGS WERE HELD ON FARM VACATIONS, CHEMISTRY IN AGRICULTURE, MEDIC ALERT, SILVER QUEEN OF METALS, BLUE MOUNTAIN POTTERY, THE HONEY BEE, HORSES, $CYCLING SOLAR HEAT, POLUTION, ALSO PESTICIDE POLUTION, CONSERVATION AND NUTRITION, SPEAKER FROM LOCAL HOME AND SCHOOL, AND CANADA POSTAL SERVICE. NE HERE EDUCATED IN THE ART OF CAMEO PAINTING, THE ART OF QUILT MAKING, PRESSING AND LPMINATING FLOWERS, MAKING CHRISTMAS BALLS, CANDLES AND FAVORS ' AND THE ART OF MAN- UFACTURING CANOES. NE HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF TRAVELLING To COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD BY VIEHING SLIOES OF A MEMBERS TRIP TO HOLLAND, SWITZERLAND, AUSTRIA, GERMANY, ALSO ON A TRIP TO AFRICA, A BUSTRIP To ALASKA AND YUKON, To SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND, NAPAL, A MEMBER GAVE US AN INT- ERESTING ACCOUNT OF HER HOMELAND HOLLAND, ANOTHER MEMBER OF HER TRIP TO AUSTRALIA, Am A SPEAKER ORIGINALLY FROM ST. VINCENT IN THE CARABIAN. NE LEARNED ABOUT NURSING EXP- ERIENCES IN INDIA, LIFE IN RHODESIA, AND ABOUT NORWAY THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN,AS WELL AS LEARNING ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE GARDENS OPENED IN 1932 ON THE BOUNDARY OF N. DAKOTA AND MANITOBA, (PICNIC NOOKS AND TABLES DONATED BY W.I.) WE HAVE BEEN MUCH ENLIGHTENED ON THE SUBJECT OF LOCAL SERVICES BY SPEAKERSFR0?4 MITED COUNTIES HEALTH UNIT, CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF CONSUMERS, HOME ECONOMISTS, ONTARIO HEART FOUNDATION, RED CROSS, UNITED WAY ETC. THE PAST AS HELL AS THE PRESENT HAVE BEEN REPRESENTED IN THE FORM OF A TALK BY MRS. KNOTT, FIRST LADY INDIAN CHIEF FROM CURVE LAKE, SPEAKING ON THE INDIAN CULTURE, PAST AND PRESENT. A TOUR OF A LOCAL H.I. MEMBER'S HOME TO VIEN HER ANTIOUES, FOLLOHED BY HER TALK ON CANADIAN GLASSHARE; A TALK BY THE CURATOR OF LANG CENTURY VILLAGE; NILL-. BROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENE ON LOCAL HISTORY; ALSO THE CURATOR OF THE PETERBOR- OUGH CENTENNIAL MUSEUM RE PASSING ON THE SAME HERITAGE TO OUR FAMILIES AS HE HAVE RE- CEIVED FROM OUR ANCESTORS, AN ANTIQUE DISPLAY BY MEMBERS AND EXPLANTION OF EACH PIECE BY LOCAL ANTIQUE DEALER, A LOOK AT CANADA'S HISTORY FROM INDIAN TO THE PRESENT BY HAY OF NARATIVE AND FOLK MUSIC. INTERESTING SIGHT SEEING TOURS CONDUCTED BY OUR CONVENORS INCLUDED, KEG KRAFT, PETER- BOROUGH CENTENNIAL MUSEUM, COUNTRY HERITAGE MUSEUM AND THE LINHOOD FARMS FISH HATCH... ERY, NEHHAY RUG, AND DELAVAL. THE thi, HAS REPRESENTED BY VARIOUS DISTRICT PRESIDENTS ADDRESSING US, A30 A PAPER ON NORTHERN CANADA H.I. AND PAPER ON FORMATION OF DISTRICT N.I.Is HELL AS THE HISTORY OF OUR OHN M.I.. NE STUDIED VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF A.C.H.w. AND A SPEAKER ONFE HORLO Coo-. FERENCE IN PERTH, AUSTRALIA. THE EXITEMENT OF RACING THROUGH WHITE HATERS AND VIEHING THE BEAUTY OF MANITOBA BY CAN- . OE HAS OURS AS WE WATCHED A MOVIE PRESENTED BY ONE OF OUR LOCAL CANOE ENTHUSIASTS WHO TOOK PART IN THE 1977 CENTENNIAL RACES. SLIDES OF OUR LOCAL CONSERVATION AREAS GAVE US SOME IDEA OF THE HORTHHHILE WORK BEING DONE BY THE CONSERVATION AUTHORITY IN PRESERVING THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF OUR AREA, AS HELL AS THE HILD LIFE. ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR PROGRAMMES HAS A TALK BY RUSSELL Ross, LOCAL MPP FOR NORTHUMBERLAND. M