program of the year was presented by Joan Smallman and Silver Dennis, a horn and piano duet 
     
     recorded previously by Shane Woodside and Corrine Harris. Favourable comments were made. 
     
     A dainty lunch was served by the hostess and committee in charge. The meeting adjourned and 
     
    
   
   
    
     the members left for home. There was no snow, but it was a frosty night. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Other interesting items of importance that took place in the eighties include sewing for the Red 
     
     Cross. Betty Sweet asked the members to sew zippers in life jackets and after some discussion on 
     
     this subject the ladies agreed to sew 50 zippers into the jackets provided the Red Cross supply 
     
     the zippers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The institute donated grooming aides to Anderson House and knit mittens for the Canada Games. 
     
     And they raised money to adopt a village in Ethiopia for a clean water project. It was decided 
     
     that senior citizens be remembered with a Christian greeting card. There were also many 
     
     interesting guest speakers, such as Wendy Harris, who showed a film on blood transfusions. The 
     
     following year, Wendy Harris was joined by Marilyn Wilkie with a film on heart disease, then 
     
     offered the members CPR courses. The institute minutes of May 13, 1981 noted it was the same 
     
    
   
   
    
     day there was an attempted assignation on Pope John Paul Il. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When it seemed the home economist in the West Prince District was not going to be replaced, 
     
     the Knutsford Women’s Institute members protested by circulating a petition for signatures and 
     
     sending letters to the powers that be. All six letters were replied to. Finally, Premier Alex 
     
     Campbell assured the institute that another economist would be in the district. Members prepared 
     
     a resolution to support the more nutritious lunch program to be presented at the next district 
     
     convention. The quilting committee reported that a quilt had been taken off the frame and needed 
     
     to be bound and sewn by hand. They agreed to cater to the Swine Breeders barbeque to be held 
     
     in June and charge $4 for serving. The Red Cross Day Camp was underway, and many children 
     
     took part. After some discussion it was moved by Wanda Adams that the institute apply to the 
     
     Unemployment Training Corp (UTC) for help in getting water in the school, painting the back 
     
     east side, fixing the leak in the roof, and perhaps tarring of the roof of the front side if the 
     
     shingles are good enough. Motion carried. At that moment in time, the members were happy to 
     
     have the grounds and flowers looking impressive and the flag up in time for Dominion Day. The 
     
    
   
   
    
     institute did get the help they needed by the UTC. The outside of the building was painted, the 
     
    
   
   
    
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