Pine Lake History - 1976 - 1989

              PINE LAKE WONIEN'S
Doris Warke spoke of
handicraft competitions
at the constituency .
provincial and federal
level and encouraged
entries in all of the
competitions . She urged
that we try a craft .
Further education offers
courses to get you started .
There will be others with
interests the same as your
own Handicraft is a relief
for stress and it is
relaxing .
From her A . W . I .
INSTITUTE NEWS
convenorship on Interna-tional
Affiars . Doris
Warke gave a quiz on
Member Countries of the
United Nations .
Marion Brown gave
1983 Review in her
Secretary Report . Per-fect
attendance by six
members: Marion
Brown, Lillie Clutton,
Dorothy Herbert, Kay
Lawrence . Gayle Olson
and Doris Warke.
She listed awards for
the year, service to the
1' I\ 1 . L\ KE W'ONIEN'S INSTITUTE
Isabelle Beck
Guest speaker for the Pine Lake W . I Branch was
Faye Mayberry Constituency Convenor .
She spoke of the Constituency Conference which will
be held on April 27 at the Red DeerMuseum. The theme
of the Conference will be an Associated Country
Women of the World mini- Conference . The
constituency education convenors will be promoted to
Area Vice- presidents for the day . They will represent
the countries of the world in dress, by banners and with
flags ; and they will sit in session .
There will be a presentation of A . C . W . W . slide s that
were taken at the Triennial Conference in Vancouver .
A " Salute to Farm Women" is sponsored by the
U . F . A . Co- op in Red Deer in honorof all farm women . It
is being held the week of March 5- March 9 . March 7 is
the day allotted to the WA Branches of the Constituency
and the Pine Lake Branch will participate .
The Grey Nun Centre Workshop in Edmonton was
attended by Provincial Education Convenor for
International Affairs, Doris Warke. The Cross Cancer
Institute is requesting a donation of wigs, new or used .
Dorothy Williams, District 5 Director, gave a
workshop program on safety in the home and on the
farm .
Editor of the ' Home and Country' Pauline
Kozdrowski wants information on how to better the
paper .
There is a poster competition as it applies to Alberta
and Prince Edward Island . She emphasized the plate
and the quilt triangle competition and the Hazel Styles
Scholarship .
Doris Warke is continuing to promote Project 71
" Water for All" and told of the training that is provided
for pump installation, repair and maintenance .
Constituency Convenor for Citizenship and
Legislation Wanda Andrews has forwarded the reports
received on pornography to Aileen Kritzinger,
Provincial Education Convenor for Citizenship and
Legislation .
President Kay Lawrence presented Dorothy Herbert
with the A . W . I . 5 year perfect attendance pin, and Lillie
Clutton with the 25 year service pin .
Kay Lawrence will accept used Christmas cards
until March 31 . Resolutions are to be in by March 15 .
Blackfalds W. I . and Pine Lake - W . I . are in charge of
resolutions .
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immediate community . t o
the community at large
and to the world at large .
She listed also the various
studies during 1983 .
Highlight of the year
was the A . C . W . W . Trien-nia
l Conference which
was held in Vancouver .
B . C . . Canada . Seven
members attended this
conference, thus attend-ing
at all four levels of
Women's Institute -
Constituency, A. W . I .,
F . W . I . C . and A. C . W . W .
Isabell e Beek
j The Growing and~ Carfng - of
Roses was the program presented
by Vera Pierce, branch educa-i
tional convenor for agriculture
and Canadian industries . She
recommends the Book of Roses by
G. W. Shewchuk of Edmonton .
She and her husband Eric
Pierce visited the author's home
and enjoyed viewing a front and
back yard filled with roses.
Women's Institutes presented a
day long display at the UFA Farm
Co- op in Red Deer during Agricul-ture
week and salute to farm
women.
The heart fund card party and
donations netted over $ 200 .
The Pine Lake branch allotted
$ 25 for the purchase of supplies
for the Cadotte W. I . newly formed
day care centre .
Doris Warke, provincial educa-tional
convenor for international
affairs told of Women's Institutes
receiving recognition for partici-pation
in the farm safety program .
The winning W. I . quilt block
may be registered and used for
displays.
The District 3 Conference had
four members in attendance from
the Pine Lake branch. Delegate
Marion Brown reported Olive
Meyer of Wetaskiwin as the new
District 3 Director . Each constitu-ency
convenor gave a report and
placed a flag depicting her area on
the Alberta map.
Kay Rowbottom, AWI Presi-dent,
spoke of Bangladesh and of
the foot pedal sewing machines
they use in the cottage industries .
Guest speaker at the conference
was FWIC President Bernice No-blitt.
The provincial convention will
be held at Olds on May 29 to 31 . A
handicraft sales table with one or
two priced items from each
branch will be there to help with
the AWI office fund.
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Pine Lake Women's
Institute
" New Hope in Dark
Times" was the program
presented by Branch
Educational Convenor for
Health, Marion Brown .
The plan that can save
20 .000 Third World
children every day is
G . O . B . I . ( G) Growth
Charts ( O) Oral Rehydra-tion
( B) Breast Feeding
and ( 1) Immunization .
Disease and malnutri-tion
take a frighful toll of
the world's children .
G. O . B . I is a low cost
program that can prevent
many of these deaths .
The main problem is
persuading all govern-ments,
communities and
individual families that
G. O . B . I . is important and
worth doing
Branch plans are being
finalized for the Consti-tuency
Conference . Our
country of study is Mexico
which will be highlighted
by drama and music .
A reminder was given
for the Canadian Unity
poster and the cushion
competition .
Kay Lawerence presi-dent
delivered the
Gadotte W. I . Day Care
articles to the Provincial
W. I . Office in Edmonton .
Marion Brown reported
that a special project has
been approved by the
County of Red Deer
Further Education Coun-cil
for C . P . R . courses .
Adult s will be offered a
basic C . P . R . course for a
tuition of 10 dollars and
the Heart Saver, Infant/
child C. P . R. Course at a
tuition of 5 dollars .
A Workshop on Porno-graphy
will be held May
25 at 7 p . m . and May 26
from 9 a . m . to 12 noon at
the Margaret Parson's
Theatre, Red Deer
College .
Isabelle Beck
Pine Lake
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