Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1964, page 34

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Making children's puzzles and playâ€"dough. 4-H Homemaking Club girls demonstrated Sepa; rates for Summer â€" “a real fashion show, the secretary comments, and Cotton Acces- sories for the Club Girl’s Bedroom. . Avonton reports as an outstanding feature "an address by a speaker from the Thames Valley Authority with a film of our own beau- tilul valley." I _ Carlingford enjoyed a panel dlSCUSSIOI'l on “Years teach us more than books," followed by questions and comments from the audience. Dublin had a talk with slides on Upper Canâ€" ada village. Gould’s: "One of our members gives a sum- mary of the CAC (Consumers' Association of Canada) bulletin at each meeting.” Motherwel] had a speaker from the London Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and gave a dona- tion to the Foundation. In St. Paul‘s list of program features we note talks on “How to Encourage Children to Read Good Books", with a roll call “Something I Learned from the Hand Book” and the motto: “The mind is like a parachute â€" it works best when it's open." A talk, “The Story of Canada‘s Freedoms“; roll call “A Canadian citizen of renown and why”; and the motto “The path to freedom is a way of duty.” A talk on “How to Face Illness and Tragedy”; a roll call “The household gadget I find most useful"; and the motto “The person who is alâ€" ways beefing is likely to get himself in a stew." Westwood had an address on Accident Preâ€" vention in the Home. Morson: "The talk on municipal assessments and taxation. by the township clerk, cleared up many misconceptions that the average woman has on these subjects." Alice had an address, with films, by a for- mer tuberculosis patient â€" “very educational on the rehabilitation of a person who has spent some time in a sanitarium." Goshen reports. “For a change and to suit some of our officers we had one morning meeting with lunch at noon. It was a success.” _ Russell Village recommends exchanging vistts with other branches in the district so that members throttghout the district may “get to know" each other better. Severn Bridge borrowed the recording of Mrs. Haven Smith‘s speech at the F.W.I.O. sixty-fifth anniversary luncheon and invited four other branches to hear it with them. The tape-recording can be borrOWed from the Home Economics Service Loan Library. West Ward Evening also used this record for an Open House meeting. At West Ward Evening branch each month a member brings up a point of interest from the Hand Book and a live minute discussion is held. 34 (.Ioldwater Huronia Senior: “A spa. Juvenile Delinquency and a teacher w|. on Education laid facts before the mothers of the Institute that should i helpful in bringing up children." Churchill had a good panel (“SCUM - mm the public school inspector as moderai- ,nd , school board member, a senior to I junior teacher and a parent taking part Gilford suggests varying the order iter 0n ‘Npole inunfl \eri . Pm. cedure at meetings. They began one ,,. Hm” meeting with dessert and coffee foil | i“ the business and the program. For I! Del cember meeting they met in the eve: m had a buffet supper to which they inn my friends, then had their business and .; mas party. Cains Corners had an address Oil Health from a doctor specializing in th Clearview recommends having a . An. ing committee to prepare for election M report says: “Before we did this om at meetings were long-drawn-out and In a. tended . . . One of this Institute’s roll i it to name a Cabinet Minister and his i it Cloverlea reports: “We derived a hit fit from our ‘question and answer' pct 'llil our public health nurse. Through it» tions, personal problems were dealt \ art the nurse thought this would be 01 iv more of our members than if she talker ‘ll'lC sort of illness that might concern onl_- Hi two.” Zion Jubilee: “Our roll call. ‘Soni , I fish ‘itii learned from the Hand Book” pro‘ Ira more study of the Hand Book would our meetings.” Garson recommends roll calls that it llt.‘ members look up information or at l Liv some thinking to prepare their answers Penage Road members went to a ml Health meeting where they learned ll' . A better understanding of the problem M- tients getting out of mental hospitals. At Sunday Creek, Centre Temiska a "visiting teacher“ gave an address on - its Material and led a discussion on ad: in This Institute with a membership of eh "ill‘ a Tweedsmuir History and at their me: on historical research they had a speak ltw told about the district in the early "W Kakaheka Falls recommends a St. loi “‘l’ bulance film with a demonstration on L til respiration. Slate River says “The art of another c such as the coloring of Easter eggs‘ Ukrainian people do it, was much enlt‘ ‘” our branch.” _ South Gillies suggests having more - “'91 disaussions. Their report says: “Our PW” “n Prelfldice and Discrimination brott‘ghi “l” varied opinions but we believe our dtSL'l- an HOME AND cow"TH

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