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By Joan King Hello everyone! This is my first column for the Home & Country newsletter. As the new Education Coordinator for RN10, I am just "getting my feet wet." There has hardly been time since the Provincial annual meeting. Christmas and our welcoming of the new millennium to take a breath! I trust that all members in the Women's Institute across this province are ready to step out into this new century and tell everyone about our great organization, When I was a child I can remember my grandmother saying. "You should learn something new every day!"That is why I have chosen “Learning is Lifelong" for the title of this column and for my personal slogan. It is my betief that by supplying exciting and stimulating programs. we all gain. Our enthusiasm will be invtgortiled and renewed. In turn, this enthusiasm will spread to members ol’the comtiiunity. and the WI will gain new members. The winter edition of Home & Country had a wealth of ideas for “This New Millennium" theme. thanks to Jane Cooper and the Program/Project Preparation Committee. The Provincial Board and the Education Coordinator ilI'L‘ working to develop future themes and programs that benefit the entire membership. I am sure that some of you have ideas that are unique to your coriiiiiunity or part of the province. I would appreciate a note about these programs so that I might share them with other members. We all benefit by sharing ideas. So please. pass these ideas long to me at the address below. Projects like PHONEBUSTERS are ongoing in the province. Southern and Nortliv em areas will be hearing more about lllh program in the near future. The [lrchillh Education Coordinator. Mary Lou Norton. was instrumental in the nrgaiiixation ol this program in the Eastern and Western pan of the province. I trust those nit-iiibt-rs and communities who experienced this program l'ountl it enlightening and henelicial Joan King is the Education Coordinator for the Federated Women's lllSlllU'ES oi Ontano She» (.m be matrml at 6487 Oil Heritage Rd, Cam/acme ON NON lfO Phnne 5l9 899-2642. Fax 51‘! 86‘) $26!. Mimi! kingj@x(el:o.on.ea Ladies â€" Meet the Llamas Members of the Coldsprings Women’s Institute enjoyed a Mystery Tour, including a Fall Colours Tour and a visit to a Llama Farm. Seymour WI members from Northurnberland East Distrinjoi'ned than: n route for lunch. slammed by 0m stigma-i PRO CC‘dspli’i'J’, i-ii memmma w“... Joan King, FWIO Education Coordinator Joan King. your newly elected Education Coordinator, lives in the small Village of Camlachie in Lambton County. She lives on a hog finishing/cash crop larm in Plympton Township With her husband Bill, Their three daughters 7 Carolyn. Virginnia and Vicki - work as a soctal worker. dietictan and Directorol Student Flec- reation and ReSidence at Ftidgetown College. respectively. Then son Don works on the larm and is an accountant at the local teed mill. Since 1972, Joan has worked as Olfiee Man- ager at the Errol Village School in the Lamhton-Kent District School Board With 35 years ol Institute experience, Joan has actively participated at all levels; ol the organization. She has held all ollicos Within her Aberarder Branch She is Past Presrdenl ol lhe Lamblon North DISlflCl and is their current Resolutions Convenor Joan is also the county representative to the Lamhton Federation ol Agriculture Al the provniCIal level. Joan was a Board Director from 1990 lo 1992. Chair ol the Agncullum Committee in 1993 and Chair ol Conlemnce '96 hold at Flidgetown Collette Beyond the Women‘s Institute Joan's vol- unteer commitments are varied. 4-H Loader lor 25 years. Past Prestdent ol the Lanihlun County 47H Leaders. Association; repre- sentative on the Board at Health tor the Lamblon County Hflalll’] Una. Chair ol the committee to stop Toronto garbage coming to Plymplon Township. and. member o! the Camlachie United Church Women's Assnmn- lion As Education Coordinator tor the Women‘s Institute Joan hopes lr) relay her enthusiasm tor her personal motto r "triathlon is. Lilo- long." hence. the title 01 hm column Joan emphatically believes the words Shr: often heard her grandmother speak “You L.l‘li‘)tllt’: learn something new every rlnyl” Joan is an aVId gardener, lmlh Vfiflfilable and llower, she has Sent lfll her seeds already' Hnr list at hobbies r knitting, crrichnl~ Ing. sewmg. quilting. needlepotnl, cross stitch, reading and walking attest to her personal motto. Joan and Bill have four granddaughters. the newest addition was born on February 1. 2000 Home 8. (ountry, Spring 2000 7