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Home and Country Fall 2007 Acting President Elect Zella Pimm, Acting President Elect M embers how would you like to Celebrate 100 years of Alberta Women’s Institutes in 2009? Where, when, and how? All ideas will be considered as Council must have some plans in place before the AWI Convention in June 2008. Please send me your ideas soon so we can start to plan for that most special occasion. Time is important because of the FWIC Convention in June 2009. For the AWI Convention in June 2008 in Camrose we are asking for designs for a pin and a plate. Each of you can start your ideas now, and please watch for the President’s Newsletter for where and when to send them. If you would like to be on the 100 year party planning committee send me your name address and phone number. Please Fax me at 1- 780- 338- 2186 Thank you for your help! wi I n July, the FWIC Board met in Paris, Ontario for a busy time of workshops, meetings and tours of the Hoodless Homestead and Erland Lee Museum Home. Both Darlene Wicks and I attended from Alberta, along with each Society Executive Officer and President. Updates were given on various projects and some highlights follow: Into the North, Phase II: This project is being undertaken in a variety of ways by each province and region. B. C. Women’s Institutes have sent items to some remote northern communities. Saskatchewan has collected Campbell’s soup labels which they used for books to send to northern communities. Manitoba is also looking at northern communities and Ontario has chosen Club Amick, their Lieutenant- Governor’s literacy initiative for young aboriginal readers in fly- in communities in northern Ontario. Quebec is in contact with a midwife who goes to a northern community and is looking for supplies to start a Girl Guide program, and they have also been in touch with Scholastic Books. The Maritimes have been in contact with a school in Nunavut. Nunavut is paired with the Legions, so they are also interested in the project, and Newfoundland will be working through a missionary with a school in Labrador, which is in desperate need of supplies and clothing. They are also fortunate in that the RCMP will fly articles to the community from St. John’s. What a wonderfully varied way to continue this project on a more local level! More on our Alberta project can be found elsewhere in Home & Country. New Member Challenge: A motion was passed at the meeting: That FWIC challenges each province to a NET gain of 20 members in the triennium in order to obtain a Certificate of Achievement which will be presented at the FWIC Convention in PEI. I am convinced that in Alberta we can meet and even surpass this challenge! Peace Garden Shingle Fundraiser: Thank you to those who have already sent in donations. They are coming in well from across Canada, but it has been discovered that the wood foundation under the shingles also needs replacing, so please keep this project in mind when you are making your annual branch donations. They should be sent directly to the FWIC office. Federated News: In her report, Barbara Sheardown reported that the circulation of 1,100 issues represents less than 10% of our members! Please subscribe either individually or as a branch so that you can get ideas from other societies and learn what our national organization is doing. Subscription forms are printed in the magazine. If you have any questions about FWIC, please contact me and I would be happy to help. wi FWIC Elizabeth Rushton, FWIC Executive Officer
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Transcript | Home and Country Fall 2007 Acting President Elect Zella Pimm, Acting President Elect M embers how would you like to Celebrate 100 years of Alberta Women’s Institutes in 2009? Where, when, and how? All ideas will be considered as Council must have some plans in place before the AWI Convention in June 2008. Please send me your ideas soon so we can start to plan for that most special occasion. Time is important because of the FWIC Convention in June 2009. For the AWI Convention in June 2008 in Camrose we are asking for designs for a pin and a plate. Each of you can start your ideas now, and please watch for the President’s Newsletter for where and when to send them. If you would like to be on the 100 year party planning committee send me your name address and phone number. Please Fax me at 1- 780- 338- 2186 Thank you for your help! wi I n July, the FWIC Board met in Paris, Ontario for a busy time of workshops, meetings and tours of the Hoodless Homestead and Erland Lee Museum Home. Both Darlene Wicks and I attended from Alberta, along with each Society Executive Officer and President. Updates were given on various projects and some highlights follow: Into the North, Phase II: This project is being undertaken in a variety of ways by each province and region. B. C. Women’s Institutes have sent items to some remote northern communities. Saskatchewan has collected Campbell’s soup labels which they used for books to send to northern communities. Manitoba is also looking at northern communities and Ontario has chosen Club Amick, their Lieutenant- Governor’s literacy initiative for young aboriginal readers in fly- in communities in northern Ontario. Quebec is in contact with a midwife who goes to a northern community and is looking for supplies to start a Girl Guide program, and they have also been in touch with Scholastic Books. The Maritimes have been in contact with a school in Nunavut. Nunavut is paired with the Legions, so they are also interested in the project, and Newfoundland will be working through a missionary with a school in Labrador, which is in desperate need of supplies and clothing. They are also fortunate in that the RCMP will fly articles to the community from St. John’s. What a wonderfully varied way to continue this project on a more local level! More on our Alberta project can be found elsewhere in Home & Country. New Member Challenge: A motion was passed at the meeting: That FWIC challenges each province to a NET gain of 20 members in the triennium in order to obtain a Certificate of Achievement which will be presented at the FWIC Convention in PEI. I am convinced that in Alberta we can meet and even surpass this challenge! Peace Garden Shingle Fundraiser: Thank you to those who have already sent in donations. They are coming in well from across Canada, but it has been discovered that the wood foundation under the shingles also needs replacing, so please keep this project in mind when you are making your annual branch donations. They should be sent directly to the FWIC office. Federated News: In her report, Barbara Sheardown reported that the circulation of 1,100 issues represents less than 10% of our members! Please subscribe either individually or as a branch so that you can get ideas from other societies and learn what our national organization is doing. Subscription forms are printed in the magazine. If you have any questions about FWIC, please contact me and I would be happy to help. wi FWIC Elizabeth Rushton, FWIC Executive Officer |
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