Pine Lake History - 1956-1975

              I Pine Lake WI
marks anniversary
I PINE LAKE - The WI cele-ibrated
its 16th birthday at an
j April meeting held in the home
of Mrs. Eric Pierce, with 14
I members attending.
A birthday cake was made
and decorated by Mrs. Garry
Kleppcr to celebrate the occas­ion.
It was decided to cancel fam­ily
swimming night until fur-:
thcr notice since participation
was down. A new member, Mrs.
Donald Scott was welcomed.
Mrs. Dennis Buckler was chos­en
as delegate for the confer­ence
in Camrose.
Dorothy Douglas Conner marries
L e s l i e Herbert Underwood
Best Man - Charles Warke
Flower G i r l - J a n e l l e Conner
jio l /'} 7z, ( Granddaughter)
The May. meeting of the Pine
Lake WI was held at the home
of Mrs. Robert Lawrence. bjgl'- /"/
teen members and one visitor
attended. ^
Mrs. Arthur Lawrence, Mrs.
D. Scott and Mrs. David Pope
reported on their visit to the
conference in Camrose. Mrs.
Roy Clutton gave a progress re­port
on the swimming lessons
sponsored by the WI. A report
was given by Mrs. Robert Law­rence
concerning the annual
coffee party. Mrs. David Smith
repurted that ZA articles had
been entered from the group at
the annual handicraft tea in Red
Deer. j t
j Mrs. Swain Swainson reported
j on the 17th biennial conference
of district 3, held in Camrose
I May 8- 10. which was attended by
j 45 members and over 100 visi- tg
jB] tors. District 3 is made up of;
i nine constituencies with 900
members. Mrs. H. Hillabry otm
Camrose is the director.
WI CONFERENCES
WELL- ATTENDED
Dr. Tom Parkinson, Mrs. Ha­rold
HiBatiy and Mrs. James T.
Morrisroe were featured spea­kers
at the June Women's In­stitute
constituency conference
held in the Knox Prebyterian
Church hail.
Dr. Parkinson spoke to mem­bers
on the value of wearing
Medic- Alert bracelets. Mrs. Hil-laby
\> f Camrose, district three
oUrector, told the 60 delegates
present of the fringe benefits
WI membership brings.
Provincial vice- president Mrs.
Morrisroe urged all members to
voice concern and work for the
threatened environment.
Under the direction of con­stituency
convener Mrs. Tom
Corrigan, secretarial reports
from 12 branches were heard.
Standing committee chairmen's
reports were given in a panel
discussion, moderated by Mrs.
Graham Mayne of Highway WI.
Nominating committee mem­bers
Mrs. J . I. Woodrow and
Mrs. Harold Steele introduced
three standing committee chair­men:
Mrs. J . I. Woodwrow, so­cial
service convener, Mrs. Nor­man
Code, UN convener and
Mrs. Graham Mayne, home eco­nomics
convener.
Mrs. Morrisroe
Hillsdown- Valley branch th
the attendance plaque for 1972.
Mrs. John Warke, constituency
handicraft convener, presented
awards to Mrs. A. Bennett, Mrs.
Joe Nolan, Mrs. Glen May berry
and Mrs. Bill Moore. Winner of
the over- 70 handicraft award
was Mrs. M. E . Walker with 14
entries. Branch awards went to
Highway, Hillsdown and Ridge-wood.
I
presented the
hranrh w i t h'
P i n e L a k e p l a n s b a z a a r
W. l. News
The Highway W. I. met re­cently
at the home of Mrs. W.
Hay Jr.
Special guests were Mrs. J.
V. Smith and Mrs. W. E . Jans-sen
of the Hillsdown Valley W. L,
and members of the Pine Lake
WJ. "~
The short business meeting
was followed by a garden party
and a puppet show
By MRS. JOHN WARKE
Pine Lake
Pine Lake WI held the
September meeting at the home
of Mrs. John Warke with 10
members and six visitors pre­sent.
The family monthly swim­ming
night sponsored by Pine
Lake WI at the Red Deer swim­ming
pool will begin on the
third Saturday night in October.
Committee reports included
reports from the jelly com­mittee
which stated progress
with its work. The bazaar com­mittee
reported some of its
work is completed with the
remaining work progressing
well. A drug seminar will be
held at Pine Lake Community
Centre soon.
UN slides will be shown by
Mrs. John Sawyer at the Oc­tober
meeting.
. A pictorial calendar of Alber­ta
scenes will be sent to the
Australian WI pen- pal group
The executive and directors are
to send in their submissions on
the Worth commission report
soon.
Pine Lake WI catered lunch
for the Joe Cramer auction sale
at the Pine Lake Hall. Guest
speaker for the afternoon, in­troduced
by Mrs. Dennis
Buckler, was Brian West,
animal and relatives in the Pine
Deer, department of
agriculture.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Allen
have returned from a trip to
England and have been visiting
friends and relatives in the Pine
Lake area before returning
home to Calgary.
A bridal shower was held for
Miss Diane Wilson of Pine Lake
recently prior to her marriage
to Harold Peters of Delburne.
The history book committee
reports 22 copies sold and 17
more copies ordered of Buried
Treasure, a book being
published in co- operation with
Elnora, Trochu and Huxley
depicting t^ t stories of f
residents of the area prior * c
1900 and after Buried Treasure
will be released from the
publisher sometime in
November.
Residents of Pine Lake are
generally in favor of having a
branch of Parkland Regional
Library at Pine Lake.
A shower was held at Pine
Lake Community Centre
recently for Mr. and Mrs Andy
Kuzmicki. A selection of gifts
was presented by Art Vincent
on behalf of those present.
Beginners in Grade 1 at
Delburne travelling on the
school bus from Pine Lake in­clude
Leita LawTence, Peter
LawTence, Teresa Vincent,
John Paul Cramer. David Holt
and Layne Durrand.
David Smith is attending
University of Alberta in the
faculty of pharmacy.
Carol Loewen is taking nur­sing
training at the Red Deer
College.