2015-2020

The 1864 Tea Party was a great success, but it took a lot of time and work, so you’d think the KWI members would like to take a little time off and rest. Not so. The January meeting held at Wanda Adam’s home started as usual with the devotional. Roll call was answered by 14 members with a donation for Pennies for Friendship. The reading and approving the previous meeting minutes were done and there was a lengthy discussion about creating a fifth panel. Inadvertently, some families’ history had not been represented although the planning committee believed they had done all they could to reach out to all the community for photographs and information on all the Knutsford resident’s history. However, one important member who had been forgotten was Captain John Silliker and his wife, Ellen Duggan Silliker, the earliest family of settlers in Knutsford. No material on him was available during the time of planning. The women agreed the new information must be added to a fifth panel. Letters went out to the community asking specifically for information and photos from the 1860s to 1950s. The committee hopes to get a photo of the First Baptist Church in Knutsford. Fairley Yeo was asked to contact Boyd Beck, curator to see if he would agree to make another panel and if there was

room in the front room of the community centre for another.

It was also decided to borrow the Signature Quilts from the Provincial Board Office and display at the area convention. In March, the West Devon WI was contacted to help plan the convention. A discussion was also had on an opportunity to host a Festival of Small Halls 2015. However, it was decided not to consider it that year because the hall was not wheelchair accessible. The members discussed options for receiving a grant to have a wheelchair ramp built. A report from the hospital committee was a letter from Paul Young, manager of C.H.O. and Western Hospital concerning the X-ray machines. It said they were being manufactured in Europe and were state of the art and would have the newest software images available in three seconds. They were

expected to be operational in late June.

The February meeting was held at Frankie and Barbara Sweets home. Barbara opened the meeting with a poem entitled Winter a Bridge Connecting Fall and Spring. She also gave her

treasurer’s report, seconded by Susan Smallman. In new business, the Area 2 convention will

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