Pine Lake History - 1976 - 1989

              PINE LAKE W. I . Auy,
TheHeritage Day Picnic, sponsored and or-ganized
by the Pineglen Recreation Board, was
well attended and present were three of the
first school class of 1914 . They were Charlie
Pierce, John Escott and Nigel Lawrence.
KayLawrence gave a beautiful presentation
with the poster she had made showing the
evolution of the Pine Lake School District No .
2960 .
W. I . recognized the first school class who
were to be presented with medallions . The
original seven were : Bertha ( Pierce) Allen,
Alice ( Pardoe) Chennels, Arthur Pope,' Percy
Herbert, Charlie Pierce, Nigel Lawrence and
John Escott.
Douglas Campbell, President of the Pine-glen
Recreation Board, made the presenta-tions
to Charlie Pierce, John Escott and Nigel
Lawrence whowere present to accept their me-dallions.
Red Cross has made a special request for
more white mittens for the Annual Charity Ba-zaar
and Raffle to be held at the Parkland Mall
in Red Deer on Nov. 3, 1984.
Pine Lake W. I. proceeds from the Delburne
Bazaar will go toward Project 71, Water For
All.
We have sent a letter to the Pine Lake Prop-erty
Owners Association in support to have a
garbage dump in the area, but with controlled
dumping recommended.
Dorothy Herbert offered a program on citi-zenship.
She gave the meaning of citizenship
as full membership in a country. Citizenship is
acquired by birth or by naturalization and
every country has its own citizenship laws . She
also spoke of political rights as well as civic
and political duties .
PINE LAKE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE NEWS NO V, ' d"' 1
Thirteen membersof the Pine Lake Women's Institute wished Annie
Allen a very happy birthday by song.
Doris Northey, Constituency Convenor for Red Deer Centre, and 6
membersattended theRegionalACWW Conference held in Edmonton,
November 610. Marion Brown, Wanda Andrews and Kathleen
Lawrence attended from the Pine Lake W. I. The conference provided
the opportunity to learn firsthand of the world body and of its projects .
The Pine Lake Christmas Concertwill be on December 2l, 1984 . The
scrapbook of introduction of the Pine Lake W. I. members to the
twinning P. E. I . members is completed and it will be mailed to them.
Edna Whittimore, Environmental Conservation Constituency
Convenor submitted a letter asking that we make " Birds" our main
theme forthe year . Project Nest- Box Alberta is part of a new federally
funded program entitled Environment 2000. A Conservation Program.
The address is : Elli'sBird Farm, Box5501, RedDeer. AlbertaT4N6Nl .
For her program, special guest Doris Northey, Constituency
Convenor for Red Deer Centre spoke of the world organization for
Women's Institutes and for sister organizations - the Associated
Country Women of the World. which todav has nine million members.
In 1909 Adelaide Hoodless was inspired to improve the life of rural
women and their families when she organized the first Women's
Institute, and that was in Canada . ACWW wasorganizedin 1933 by Mrs.
Alfred Watt.
The motto for ' Home and Country' was the stimuli for womens
banding together in groups all over the world.
PresidentofACWW is Dr. Ellen McLean of Canada . TheHonorable
Senator Martha Belish of Warspite, Alberta is an Area Vice- President
of Canada.
' It is ACWW's view that positive action to improve thestandard and
qual, tyof life forruralwomenandtheirfamilies is an important means
of promoting theirrights, while at the same time contributing toward
the major goal of equality, development and peace.'
The 304 societies of the 60 countries all have similar objectives and
work closely with the UN . UNESCO and FAD.
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PINE LAKE W. 1. NEWS
Therewere fifteenmembers present forthelast meetingof theyear
The W. I. family supper was well attended . Guest speakers were
Douglas and Beverly Sawyer, son and daughter of John and Ella
Sawyer; and Peter Lawrence, son of Bob and Irmpa
wrence .
DouglasSawyer. the4HPremier of- Alberta sppeon4 acrvrtie,
travel for - 4,11 and of the speaking engagements.
Beverly Sawyer interviewed an AADAC representative and an
R. C . M. P . officer, while taking part in creating- a film on drug and
alcohol abuse. Emphasis was put on a posltve approach in solving
problems caused by drugs and alcohol.
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PeterLawrence is thefirst recipient of the Rick McKinnon Awardfor
physical Education at the Delburne Centralized School.
President Kathleen Lawrence and Doris Worke were guests of the
Hornhill Women of Unifatm at their Christmas meeting. Dorothy
Erickson gave an excellent report on hervisitto thedinnerin honor of
the queen, last fall .
The Pine Lake W. I . handicraft and bake table at Delburne netted
$ 123; 80 to go toward ' Project 71' . This project hopesto make waterand
sanitation available in third world countries.
The Pine LakeW. I . will commemorate their 30th Anniversarywith a
1986ioalendsr using pictures of Pine Lake~ and area-,
Isabelle Beck
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PINE LAKE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
A supper featuring Prince Edward Island dishes
preceeded the October meeting and was held in
conjunction with the World Food Day .
President Kay Lawrence opened the meeting with
fourteen rrtgmbg rs ggeatfug the Creed,
Roll Call was Pennies for Friendship, mittens lot-
Red Cross, canned food for the Red Deer Food Bank
and THOUGHTS OF THE DAY.
Kay Lawrence attended the October 1, 1984
Representatives Meeting. Constituency Convenor,
Doris Northey will be a special guest at our November
meeting.
The W . I . Christmas supper date has been set for
December 7, 1984 .
A thank- you has been received from the Zambia
Association of the W. I .' s for the knitted squares for
baby blankets .
The ' Squares for Zambia' project has resulted so far
in 2500 baby blankets, the squares were sent to the
Zambia Association of Women's Institutes by thirteen
different countries.
Lillie Clutton presented a program on International
Affairs and spoke of the projects promoted in world
countries. The ACWW Project 7r'WaterSanitation for
All' has provided upgrading of water supplies,
sanitation and the installation of lavatories . Local
committees helped by raising funds and by sharing in
the work .
The ACWW's Project Committee during 1982- 3 have
allocated grants for projects in Kenya, India, Pakistan,
Peru, South Africa and the South Pacific islands. More
recently a grant was authorized for Indonesia.
The Alberta Women's Institutes raised money has
reached the Bangladesh class to help buy knitting and
sewing machines, to help train women to help support
their families and to gain some independence . There
are six training shops in operation where two hundred
and forty Bangladesh women per year receive
training .
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