the local organization for retarded children. They have maintained a school for eleven years though it has been a hard struggle and they are grateful for any help especially fi- nancial.†Providence: “We recommended to the town- ship council that Stop or Yield signs be placed at all rural intersections; and we received a reply that they were accepting the recom- mendation and taking action.†Arkona has started a choral group. Warwick is joining the Junior Farmers and the Federation of Agriculture in a Lambton County Home Beautification program as a cen- tennial project. Forest. For several years this Institute has organized a Christmas Carol Festival for the community. Practically every church and every school has a part in it, with choirs pro- viding very fine Christmas music in addition to the carol singing. Lois Ann Shiell, win- ner of the 1966 Jean Scott North Perlh Ontario Wa- men's Institute Schol- arship. Lois Ann was an honor stud- ent in each grade in high school. She is a member of her church chair, a leach- er in the Sunday school and active in young people's work. Some of her hobbies are cooking, sewing, gardening and music. She has completed six 4-H Homemaking Clubs. Lois Ann is now attending Teachers' College Aughrim has a representative on the auxili- ary of the County Home and another helps regularly at the school for retarded children. The Institute provided material for the chil- dren’s handwork after hearing an address by the school’s principal. Shetland reports visiting the school and giving materials for the workâ€" shop. When Pakenham had a guest speaker from The Heart Foundation, they held the meeting in the hall where there would be room for anyone in the community to attend. Innisville bought copies of Nellie McClung’s book “Clearing in the West†and presented them to local school libraries. Tin Cap says: “We canvassed our communi- ty for funds and purchased a school to be used as a hall for the institute and the comâ€" munity.†Delta institute “co-operated with the Delta Legion when the new cenotaph was erected, WINTER 1967 Dione Halbert, winâ€" nor of the 1965 Dutferin O n t a r i 0 Women's Institute scholarship, has com‘ pleted twelve 4-H Homemaking Clubs and was assistant leader of another club. After complet- ing Grade Xlll at high school, Dione took her diploma in Slenography and is now employed in the Dufferin office of the Ontario Depart- ment of Agriculture and Food. and served lunch to two hundred people fol- lowing the dedication of this memorial.†Bayview has ordered flowering crab apple trees for Fairfield Park as their centennial proj- ect. The park gardener will attend to their planting and care. Maple Leaf gave $400 to the new Lennox and Addington Hospital to buy “special cribs." Grantham in Lincoln county, where there are Victorian Order Nurses working for rural as well as urban people, made layettes for the nurses to give where they are needed and provided other items along this line. Practi- cally all the Institutes in Lincoln county reâ€" port assisting with a well baby clinic, which is probably directed by the county V.O.N. Queenston-St. Davids has members who take turns doing volunteer work and visiting at the Home for the Aged. Four members are interested in the residents of an Outâ€"Patients Home in connection with the Mental Hospital. The patients are entertained at teas. taken far drives and generally involved in sociability. Vineland seems to be making its Women’s Hall a great benefit to the community. A nursery school is held in the hall four morn- ings a week. A Baby Clinic is held there twice a month with Institute members assisting. The Home and School Club had a cooking school in the hall and a religious group, “Youth Time" meets there twice a month. The Instiâ€" tute rents the hall for weddings, showers and other social gatherings. Sheguiandah paid $100 toward a swimming instructor, we presume for the children. Mindemoya owns and maintains a park with two bath houses, ï¬replace, tables and other essential picnic equipment. As a centennial project, Bin bought forty- two flowering crab apple trees to be sold to members and others for planting on their home grounds. They hope all these trees will be blooming in centennial year. Britten in North Perth has also bought flowering crabs to re- sell to residents. 33