Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Winter 1961, page 7

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F,W.I.O. Board. Left to right â€" Front Row: Mrs. George Young, Mrs. H. A. Dickenson, Mrs. Cecil Runnolls, Mrs. Douglas Hayes, Mrs. Jos. Hoggerty, Past President; Mrs. L. G. Lymburner, President; Mr. T. A. Hilliard, Assistant Deputy Minister at Agriculture for Ontario; Mrs. Gerald Holder, Secretory-Treasurer; Mrs, K, E. Lontz, Director of Extension, Ont. Dept. oi Agriculture; Miss Helen McKercher, Director Home Economics Extenfl sion: Mrs. Wm. Wolloce; Mrs. E. V, Thompson, Cone ference and Holidoy Secretary. Second Row: Mrs, E. S. Brown, Mrs. N. A. Moundrell, Mrs, Lewis Keefer, Mrs. Norman Cameron, Mrs. Harry Digweed; Mrs, McConnell, alternate tor Mrs. Droysan; Mrs. Geo. Bowland, Mrs. Greer Hislop, Mrs. W. T. Phillips, Mrs. Gordon Bothwell, correct home method. 7. Cold pack canning re- tains more vitamin C than the open kettle method. 8. Immunization is being well carried out in children but not in adults. More care is advised where adults are concerned. 9. Representatives from one workshop served proper food for lunch at their next Wamen‘s Institute meeting and ex- plained why each food was necessary. If). The same branch reported they will carry on a 2 minute interval at each meeting as a year round service of their knowledge from the workshop. They will use the true or false quiz which they received at that time as a contest at their next meeting. Another branch reports posting drawn illustra- tions on their bulletin board of information gained at the workshop. The same branch plans on giving a paper on "Eat to Live". Another group hopes to hold panel discussions, assist in health clinics, hold weight control classes and stress proper vitamins at community meals. Agriculture and Canadian Industries Reporting on Agriculture and Canadian Indus- tries the convener, Mrs. Dorothy Newhouse said that farm management is the key word in agri- culture today and that farm women through their Institutes shoud reach out for more education in this field. She spoke of the value of an education at the Ontario Agricultural College and at Macdonald Institute and said that Institute Women should advise and help young people to take this higher education to help them meet the challenge of agriculture today; Institute members could be proud of the Women's Institute scholarâ€" ships. WINI‘ER 1961 Mrs. Mervyn Hickson, Mrs. Elton Armstrong. Mrs. John Tonton, Mrs, Bernard Brooks, Convener of Historical Research and Current Events; Mrs. M. Emerson, Mrs. Dorothy Newhouse, Convener of Agriculture and Cana- dian Industries, Back Row: Mrs. J. O. Forrester, Mrs. L. Trivers, Mrs. L. Humphries, Miss Lily Dempsey, Mrs. Roy McCartney, Miss Doreen Brock, Miss Florence Porter; Mrs_ McKenny, alternate for Mrs_ O'Brien,- Mrs. Norman Smith, Mrs. Bruce Connell, Mrs. Sherman Foster, Mrs. D. W. Cameron; Mrs. Douglas Hort, Convener of Citizen- ship ond Education; Mrs. Milton Pardy, (Mrs. W. Elmore and Mrs. P, Moen were not present when the picture was taken.) Among the programme features bearing on Agriculture and Canadian Industries. were the Roll Calls: "A press clipping of agricultural inter- est". "A new industry and its products", “A new trend or policy in agriculture." Mottoes: "The love of the land lies deep in the heart of man", “The peace of the world depends on food." Papâ€" ers and Talks: “Farm accident prevention“, "It‘s better with butter". “The new Farm Credit Act”. “Is farming is business or a way of life‘?". "Pro- duction of sun-flower oil and its use". “From log to paper”. “Pasteurization and its worth", "From beet to sugar bowl." Discussions reported dealt with Conservation. Price Supports on eggs and pork. Soil depletion clue to lack of organic matter and many other subjects. Some of the projects listed were spon- soring 4H Clubs, supporting Farm Forums. help- ing with the farm accident survey, sending dele- gates to the Rural Life Conference. cleaning up neglected cemeteries. Mrs. Newhouse also re- ported sponsoring swimming classes for children and providing instructors and hosts and hostesses for teen-age dances. (Perhaps these don‘t really come under the convenership of Agriculture and Canadian Industries, but they should be reported somewhere. Ed.) “Institute tours of industrial plants have done a good public relations job for Canadian Industries," said the convener. Mrs. Newhouse reported her experience as representative to the Conservation Council of Ontario and its work in reforestation. better land use, maintaining a market for forest products. providing park lands and playgrounds and the latest venture in camp schools.

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