Pine Lake History - 1976 - 1989

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Pine Lake WI plans
family swim nights
The March meeting of the
Pine Lake Women's Institute
was held at the home of Mrs.
Ella Sawyer with 14 members
and three visitors present .
The roll call was answered by
each member giving their vital
statistics in metric units .
The monthly family swim
night for members, which is
help at the Red Deer Recrea-tion
Centre pool, was well
attended . The next swim night
will be April 17 at 8 p. m .
A donation of $ 6 .65 was made
to the Associated Country
Women of the World, ACWW,
for the UNESCO gift coupon
project No . 569 to aid
F . . z .2 . - : . E . i . Congrat@ atlons June 22, 1376
Alberta Womens Institute members
were delighted to learn that Mrs- Mar-tha
Bielish, of Warspite Alberta is the
new president of the Federated Women's
Institues of Canada . Martha is a Past
President of A. W . I . and has served in
many other positions, locally, provincial-ly
and federally . In 1975 she was named
A . W . I . " Woman of the Year" in honor of
her loyalty and dedication to the princi-ples
and aims of A . W . I . We offer our
heartiest congratulations to Martha and
we know that under her inspired leader-ship
F . W . I . C . will continue to uphold
and enhance its motto " For Home &
Country" .
Alberta Women's Institutes
are supporting the anti- litter
campaign and bumper stickers
were given to the members to
be distributed in the district .
leadership training and nutri-tion
education in the South
Pacific, Asia, Africa, Malasia
and Zambia .
The program for the evening
was " Going Metric." The three
basic metric units of weight,
length and mass or volume ( the
gram, metre and litre) were ex-plained
with illustrations of
each .
A question and answer period
was held and simple problems
were solves using the metric un-its
. For lunch, cookies and a
cake were made from metric
recipes .
The hostess prize was won by
Mrs . Vera Pierce .
WI C" p~ l'ans`~
workshop
Members of the Pine r, 9ke
Women's Institute made plans
for a consumer's workshop in
the Pine Lake area at their re-cent
meeting .
The meeting was held at the
home of Mrs . Garry Klepper .
Mrs . John Warke and Mrs .
Chris Lawrence acted as co-hostesses.
Members will support the
museum as a constituency pro-ject
and volunteered to super-vise
at the museum twice dur-ing
the year.
Pictures of farming in Alber- I
to between 1900 and 1975 are
being collected as part of the
provincial project to compile a
pictoral history of farming in
Alberta .
A collection of $ 5 .35 was con-tributed
to the Pennies for
Friendship fund .
The Alberta Women's
I~" Wotes in co- operation with
the Department of
.`. I; nculture is sponsoring 34
lhblu . one- day workshops
tlnoughoul the 32 constituen-
~ ies of the province .
Community involvement in
tills program is most impor-
I . int . The public will be
Liivileged to hear top per-
_ onnel in their field in the
province.
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Pine Lake May fI, 1471~
The May meeting of the Pine
Lake Women's Institute was
held at the home of Mrs . Gayle
Olson with 15 members and
four visitors present .
Birthday greetings were ex-tended
to three of the
members .
Plans were completed for the
annual coffee party to be held
June 9 in the community cen-tre
.
The branch will enter a
" group of five" handicraft ar-ticles
in the Red Deer Exhibi-tion
and also plans to send five
entries to the provincial han-dicraft
competition held in con-junction
with the provincial WI
convention in Olds in June .
Fifteen articles were entered
in the constituency handicraft
competition in Red Deer and 11
took a first prize .
Mrs . Irma Lawrence con-ducted
the program for the
evening which was Lesson 3 of
the family finance study
" Where are Your Important
Documents and Papers ." It was
stressed that everyone should
have a will and that wives
should be knowledgeable in the
family's finances and in the
operation of the family
business .
WI meets Nov ~ 6f76
The Pine Lake Women's
Institute reported its recent
consumer workshop was a
success .
Members met for their latest
meeting at the home of Mrs .
Chris Lawrence . Mrs . Eric
Puree and Mrs . Albert
Moschenross acted as co-hostesses
.
The program included the an-nual
jelly- making project which
was partially completed .
The Christmas supper for in-stitute
members and their
families will be held Dec. 3 .
The institute, together with
two other branches, will con-tinue
to sponsor a Korean child
for another year .
Alberta W. I. One- Day Workshops
The - Red , Deec workshop
~ will be held in the Snell
Gallery, Red Deer Library .
Collee will be provided but
please bring your own bag
lunch For further informa-tion
and registration, contact
your local Aomen's institute
branch or Red Deer Centre
Constituency Convener, Mrs .
Roy Brown at 886- 4892 .
Deadline for registration is
November 15th,
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Moy' ig7l
Red deer Centre
The 56th annual conference
of the Red Deer Centre con-stituency
Women's Institute
will be held Friday from 9 a . m .
to
4 : 30
p . m.
at
Knox
Presbyterian Church Hall . The
theme this year is " the need to
be ."
Constituency convener Mrs .
Roy Brown of Penhold will con-duct
the meeting .
Guest speaker at the after-noon
session will be Pat
McKerral of the newly opened
consumer and corporate affairs
office in Red Deer . Mr .
McKerral will speak on credit
` buying.
A highlight of the conference
will be the presentation of
awards to the winners in the an-nual
handicraft competition.
PINE LAKE
CONSUMER
WORKSHOP
A consumer workshop will
be held at the Pine Lake Com-munity
Hall on Tuesday,
November 2nd . /% 7/
Registration will take place
between 9 : 30 and 10 a. m .
There's no charge.
Mr . Mel Service, ad-ministrator
of the act for
southern Alberta will be the
guest speaker for the Tuesday
morning session starting at 10
o'clock. He will speak on the
farm implement act and the
petty trespass act.
For the noon lunch break -
people are asked to bring their
own bag Ig7ch . Coffee will be
supplied
The afternoon session from
t until 2 : 45 will deal with
" coping with inflation" con-ducted
by Lynne Stegman,
D . H . E . for Red Deer, who
will show slides and organize
group discussions .
At 3 o'clock - the final ses-sion
is entitled " Beefing It Up
On Beef" conducted by Gayle
Olson, a member of the Beef
Education Committee in co-operation
with the Alberta
Cattle Commission . This
presentation will include a
film and demonstration .
This workshop has been
organized by the Pine Lake
Women's Institute and is open
to the public. Come and bring
a friend . Everyone is
welcome .