everyone working together, we were able to keep things running smoothly. In June we closed for 
     
    
   
   
    
     the summer months with a potluck supper in the centre which was enjoyed by all. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The minutes of the first organization and regular meeting in 1928 were read. The KWI was 
     
     organized in 1928 at the schoolhouse with Mona Saunders as the supervisor. Thirteen ladies 
     
     were present. From this group, Mrs. Vera MacArthur is the last surviving charter member. She 
     
     was presented with a corsage by President Susie Smallman. Corsages were also presented to 
     
     Mrs. Annie Smallman, the oldest member on our records, by Orell Smallman, her daughter-in- 
     
     law, and to Cora Smallman, who has been a member since 1929 and served 64 years. It was 
     
     presented by Freda Woodside. The presentation of life membership pins and certificates to 
     
    
   
   
    
     Myrtle MacWilliams was made by Silver Dennis, while Joan Smallman read her citation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The institute members were honoured to have Vera MacArthur cut the 65th Anniversary cake. 
     
     She extended her thanks to the members and remarked how very much she has enjoyed the 
     
     fellowship and friendships made over the years, through her involvement in the institute work 
     
     while living in Knutsford. During the November 1994 K WI meeting, a letter from the WI 
     
     provincial board reminded local branch institutes to obtain liability insurance. If someone 
     
     suffered injuries on the property, the individual directors of the branch could be liable. After the 
     
     new slate of officers was brought in by Helen Adams, a discussion was had concerning the issue 
     
     of acute care and emergency services that was to be taken, either from the O’Leary or Alberton 
     
     hospital in the near future. Silver Dennis and Fairley Yeo volunteered to look into it to see if they 
     
     could get the appropriate information on such a short notice to make a presentation on Saturday 
     
     before the West Prince Health Authority and Constituent, Mr. Lerden. The presentation would 
     
     stress the importance of why we need acute care and emergency services left in O’Leary 
     
     hospital. Later in October, at another institute meeting, Betty Sweet read to the members the 
     
     presentation which was typed by Marilyn Smallman and Corinne Peters. It was unanimously 
     
     approved and ready to be presented by Fairley Yeo to the West Prince Health Authority Board at 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hernewood School. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Joan Smallman, treasurer, gave the yearly financial report and Orell Smallman conducted the 
     
     program. She read a humourous reading called Courtship in Church, and a poem, the O’Leary 
     
     Road, written in 1918, by Ed Formen of Lot 11. She also read the write up of the first wedding 
     
     in Knutsford Methodist Church (situated at Knutsford Cemetery) in 1915, when Annie Taylor 
     
    
   
   
    
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