The school committee reported that the plumbing be checked in the spring. The hospital committee reported that the auxiliary is thinking of disbanding. The hospital is meeting in November so the KWI meeting will be cancelled. Next regular meeting will be held in January. In unfinished business, it was noted that DVDs of the Tea Party are nearing completion and all reports required have been mailed to Charlottetown WI office. It was also decided by a show of hands to have a Christmas party, tentatively December 6. A planning committee of Isabel, Susan, and Barbara was appointed. Susan will try to find a Santa and Fairley will do up flyers to inform residents of the event. Members will meet at 9:30 to decorate. Susan Smallman will also deliver food items to the Caring Cupboard. Wanda Adams moved meeting adjourned and the poem Jn Flanders Fields was repeated in unison followed by W.I. Grace. Members were pleased to have

Shirlene O’Brian join them for lunch.

The Christmas meeting was held at the home of Betty and Ken Sweet on December 10 at 7 p.m. Roll call was answered by nine members with tray favours for hospital patients, and a White gift for a mental illness patient. They then said a Christmas reading or poem. Devotion was conducted by Verna Smallman, which stressed the real meaning of Christmas is sometimes not behind the needs of those about us. We all want love and security, and this cannot be wrapped up in a gift. Correspondence included a letter from the QEH requesting a donation for their fund- raising campaign. School committee reported a successful Christmas party was held. They were most grateful to committee members, Barbara, Isabel and Susan, for organizing the event, to Fairley Yeo for sending out flyers and for being the M.C. for the evening, to the Marantha Group for providing the musical entertainment, and to Joan for entertaining the young and old with her gift of storytelling. Craft-making with the children was offered by Barbara and Susan. There was a special thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus for their visit from so far away. Orell Smallman said the sale of the CDs of the 1864 tea photographs were going well. It was moved by Fairley Yeo and seconded by Harriet MacNeill that $100 be donated to the QEH. Convenor reports were passed out and the program was a Christmas quiz which really tested their brain power. Sunshine Secret Pals were revealed, and new names of next year’s pals were drawn. Fairley Yeo moved

meeting be adjourned and WI Grace was repeated.

“Upon my death I would want to be cremated immediately, my ashes to be placed in my

tearoom tea pot, two if necessary.” - Rita MacNeil

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