Bervie Broads Clue #1

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Our team went on a short trip to the site of our former WI Hall, which started its life in 1855 as the Orange Hall and was one of the earliest buildings in the Bervie area.
The Women’s Institute purchased the Hall in 1960. In 1961, it was moved across what is now Highway#9 in Kincardine Township to where it sits now. The lot was the site of the Primitive Methodists Church as the sign we are standing behind says. The church saw many changes and had burnt and was taken down before the Hall was relocated to the lot.
The Bervie WI hall has been the location for many Community Showers for babies and weddings, Community Teas and Card Parties and for several years the Victoria Day weekend WI Plant/bake/yard sale. Bervie W.I. had many 4-H Meetings there with girls and boys from the area.
The lack of affordable housing and the increased costs of insurance and up-keep contributed to the decision in Spring of 2021 to sell the hall. It was purchased by a young contractor and is in the process of being turned into a single-family home.
Our outing included two of our team making snow angels in the freshly fallen snow and they did not even have to be pulled up out of the snowdrifts.
It was a beautiful sunny winter day in Bruce County.

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Submission part of the WISH challenge for WI's 125th anniversary.

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Feb 2022

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