AWI Council Minutes - January 2001

              • Moved by Mildred Luz that we approve Carol Brown's application for the Muriel Bronson
Scholarship to be forwarded to FWIC. Seconded by Darlene Wicks. Carried.
• Carol Brown also applied for the Cornelia Wood award given by Alberta, but as the deadline
for applications were not until April this application would be reviewed at the May meeting.
Handicraft Convener:
• As no names had come forward to take on the convenership and help at this year's convention,
Phyllis Kosik will place an ad in the Home and Country advertising for a new Handicraft
Convener.
New Member Award:
• Mildred presented the number of new members that had been submitted to her in the past year,
60 new members have registered.
• Darlene Hallett drew Christine Kirbyson for the new member award. Christine is from the
Delburne Women's Institutes. Christine will have her way paid to the Provincial Convention in
May in Camrose.
• The runner- up is Rae Septa from Leslieville. In case Christine is unable to attend, it will go to
Rae.
• Mildred will write letters to the winners advising that the office will need to be notified if the
winner intends to attend convention.
Meeting Date and Attendance:
• Attached is a list of District Meetings and Constituency Conferences with dates and council
members attending.
Convention 2001:
• Mildred will organize six members to look after the two sales tables. These are to be the only
members allowed to sell at the tables.
• Phyllis will find two ladies to man the registration desk and she will be the liaison person.
• Evaluation Sheet will be included this year in the packages
• Cash bar will be provided by the hotel
• Registration table will be in hallway. The sales tables will be in the Handicraft room.
• Mildred Luz to ask the Craft Store and possibly a bookstore from Camrose to set up sales
tables on the Wednesday afternoon. Possibly donations will be made to AWI for the
opportunity to set up at the convention.
• Brenda will be offering a craft session on Wednesday afternoon again. No word yet as to what
the craft will be.
• Maxean indicated that with council's approval she would invite Premier Klein to open our
convention since it was the year of the volunteer. Others to be invited to the opening would be
the Mayor, MLA, MP, Mgr. of the Hotel, Chamber of Commerce.
• Mildred Luz had some leads for entertainment and will contact to see if it would be possible for
them to attend.
• Darlene will ask Joanne Van Arnam to be convention secretary. Maxean will write her a formal
invitation if she is interested.
• Handicraft Convener, Brenda Willsie, has written the regulations for sending handicrafts to the
convention and this will be mailed in the next mailing.
• Ten CCs will be required to help with the packing of handicrafts on Wednesday evening, May
30. District 2 and 3 will provide three CCs' District 4 and 5 will provide 2 CCs to help.
Handicrafts cannot be picked up until the morning of May 31 and Directors are asked to advise
members so they know in advance. Any disagreement will be forwarded to Brenda.
• Registration Fees will be set as: