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LiViIIg for home & COI.lIltI‘y If you compare the earth | iC _ o Winnie was a 4â€"H to an apple, cut the apple P _â€"â€"â€"â€"_ @ leader for several years in half, then into quarters, l 2e _-“*7%\&% and was also a member of eighths and finally | iB hss z. c o the Community Oriented sixteenths, then peel the | | n . s Policing Committee in skin off, that represents | | e en‘ Shakespeare as chair, the amount of the world‘s ~â€" â€" se fundraising chair and ‘ land used to grow food. pie . Sss secretaryâ€"treasurer. Winnie Trachsel used s mt d Education is one this illustration for e Ap . ”!‘;'}% .. thing that Winnie truly an "Agriculture in the BA 1st t| y d believes in, whether it‘s Classroom" workshop 2P sAE in the classroom or out. at Queen‘s University in $z [ k. /. al She wasn‘t as fortunate Kingston more than 20 Je f Te ‘X as many to have that years ago. Although it may F [ 1 z. * \) opportunity. She left have been true then, the i se s : â€" B ‘school at age 16 with amount of arable land is 2 ~ 3 io es * the hopes of going back. diminishing all the time. . e se 7 »"1; nsP Later, "I tried to dg some ; As a Women‘s Institute e . $ _ g correspondence courses," (W.I.) member since 1981, | ‘*â€" Sn ag e > tg she said, "but I need Winnie knows all too well | <__ 2e 8: m f’“f'-f d ] someone to teach me face the need for education Bs 3. Â¥as & *~3% f to face," she added, beyond the classroom. J & o +CA x > Born in Stratford, Since 1897, when the % n §M / ; | Winnifred Reavely, she first W.I. branch was 3. <*.. <<gxl / | | was the second oldest formed at Stoney Creek, e > o :. B of five children. Older Ontario, women have been | |_â€" *\ m & brother Dennis and > meeting to improve their > Tok : @ F his wife, Vickie, live in skills in homemaking BILL GLADDING / TAVISTOCK GAZETTE London; Sherron (Gerald and childcare, as well as Winnie Trachsel is a Life Member of the Women‘s Institute and | Audet) in Belle River, and | to lobby governments on an active member of the Hampstead branch. 7w (@z z. | Robert (Vicki) in Windsor. health and community : Je i, AR4@r_>i5f7; y | Another sister, Laura wellness projects. They Athlone Branch in 1981 Match, and headed rural Bourne, died at age 17. actively work together for | when Jane Danen invited learning sessions. She When she was five family, home, community Winnie to a meeting. She was also instrumental in years old, Winnie went and country. continued with the group the 2010 W.L. Provincial to live with her great Winnie Trachsel says until it disbanded in 2000. | Conference held at the grandmother in Strathroy she‘s a good example She remained an Institute | University of Waterloo. and stayed there until of how W.I. has helped associate member for one For three years, Winnie completing Grade 4. She â€" / women over the past 120 year, then in 2002, joined was the Guelph Area then moved with her years. "If it wasn‘t for W.L., | the Hampstead W.I. with Representative on the family to Drumbo where I wouldn‘t be able to get friend Helen Anderson board of the Federated she finished public school up and speak in front of who is from the disbanded | Women‘s Institutes of and went on to Paris people," she said. Elmhurst Branch. Ontario (FWIO). Her area District High School, It And it was through her "I missed the friendships cogmny 4 f : ication in serving in and activities," Winnie ® 3 a & ‘I L~ â€" o most every capaoity â€"â€" | admitied, Now as the If it wasn‘t for W.1., I wouldn‘t be able to _ within the organization, youngest of the current : get up and speak in f"mt of people” sometimes more than ] nineâ€"member Branch, she & YX n t § | onte, that she has been regularly hosts meetings es . = Winnie Trachsel â€" f honoured as a life in her home. She also gets ' . C C ' member. In October of together once a month for | included more than 50 was during her Grade 2015, Winnie also received | lunch with members of the | branches and some 300 10 year, while working the Women of the Year former Athlone W.L. members. She is currently | in the tobacco fields, award for Community s Over the years, Winnie working on a resolution that a medical condition Service from Optimism has set up dozens of fall for the Perth District surfaced. She was rushed Place in Stratford. fair displays, quilt shows, advisory council to have to Kitchener hospital and Her involvement with promoted W.I. at the February 19th recognized had a kidney removed. W.I. began with the International Plowing as W.I. Day. The next summer she ~ Jav â€" Gez.p| ar i5 2617 1