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Inside: Letters Prewdent‘s Column Centennial Book Hoard Briefings Health Program Named PRC Column Education Coordinator Lobbying Coordinator Tweedsmuir Coordinator AOIWV 2001 District Challenge. Congratulations FWIC Update Cross Country Caiendai 147 For Your lniormatiori .anada Post Publications Mail Reg. No, 1685341 \tmv‘bwww ‘ do: most things, it all started with em idea! An idea thzit Pitt Salter, Board Director for the Western Region. l1t|Ll one evening while watching the TV ()ntai'io programs Gregg & Company and Studio 2. Pat‘s idea was that Gregg 8t Company host Allan Gregg could interview Dr. Linda Ambrose, author of For Home and Country, during the month of February. She felt that the awardiwinning book dcxerved the recognition. and it was another way to celebrate and publicize the anniversary month of the Women's lnstitutes. As well. PatwonderedifStudio 2 hosts Steve Pniken and Paula Todd would inter- view Dr. Ambrose. So, she sent acopy ofthe history book and outlined her intent in It fax to the TVO hosts. A few days later, Pat was ecstatic to I‘ECel‘t'E acall from Studio 2 Producer Zeelaf Majeed. She d they talked at length about the Women's Institute; an organization Mdieed had heard of for the first time, After reviewing the history book and speaking With Pat, the Studio 2 Producer wag in awe of what Women‘s Institutes have done. And. she was inter, exied in filming. the following week. what happens :it it Brunch meeting. Put Nuggested the Coningsby Branch in Welling, tori Centre District. who were meeting the next week on February 3. The Branch had organized a craft iiieeiing in the morning to teach member< how to make 37D flowerx for qmlts A joint meeting with the Hillsburgh Auxdiary Wl in the afternoon fol» lowed. And Studio 2 was there! The TVO crew, from left to right, are Producer Zecâ€"taf Majeed and technicians Rod and Jan The 13-minute clip aired on Studio 3 on l'cbruai‘i [5. In addition to Put Salter. Coningxb} ‘ol Preo- dent Marjorie Gillespie. longtime l‘llll\l"u,r':'li Auxtliary member Kay Baldwin and »\rc.i PM PTESIanl for Canada Peggy Knapp were llilL‘lr tiewed. It is :in all too frequently asked LIUL‘NUHH "What A the Women'S Institute” WI members lime »ll\\'tt)gone about theircommunit) nork. titllt‘ll) became they are "doers, and not tzilkcn " thank to PM Salter and Studio 2. Ontarions tire non Ll lllllC better informed about the “ork ol the \\'i imen \ lnxiiiiiie Pitt It; antimpating a call lrom ~\|liin (it: i .in} time iiow' Left: toningsby w: memberMyn‘le Rexdand hergmnddaugm ter Lesley Squibb demonstrated ID quitting techniques Centre. Coningsby WI members, from left to right Doris Surf. Mildred Lang and Gail Burrows watch the demcnsrmhon Right: Long-time Hillsburgh AuXi/iary member its,» Baldwm (right) with Studio 2 Producer lee/sf Male-ed