card. Hospital committee, Betty Sweet and Wanda Adams, reported that a bursary of $1,000 
     
    

    
     from the Hospital Aid will go to a nursing student attending second, third or fourth year of 
     
     training. It is 60 years since the hospital aid started with Marion MacKenzie first president. Orell 
     
     Smallman and Silver Dennis were the KWI’s first hospital conveners attending the aid. David 
     
     Platts installed the new septic tank in the building thanks to New Horizon, reported Fairley Yeo. 
     
     Kevin Adams is planning to be here October 1, with plumbers and electricians booked. The WI 
     
     wrote a supportive letter for a group trying to obtain a grant for doing needs assessments for a 
     
     new senior’s facility. The grant didn’t go through. They are looking for other means of funding. 
     
     Lewis John Martin and Sally Lockhart are some of the people involved. The W.I. letter of 
     
     support for the O’Leary Legion to plant a community garden was a huge success. The Legion 
     
    

    
     was the location for a successful boiling of beets by the group. The K WI applied for another 
     
     New Horizon grant to finish the project to provide a wheelchair accessible ramp. Congratulations 
     
     to the KWI team of 4 Farm Girls on being winners in the potato peeling contest as part of the 
     
     Potato Blossom Festival in July, namely Betty Sweet, Joan Smallman, Isobel Harris, and Barbara 
     
     Sweet. The team came in second and Joan Smallman was the best peeler. $25 and other prizes 
     
     were awarded. Fairley Yeo reported on the final panel. Shirlene O’Brien will meet with the 
     
     members to add more pictures to the computer on Saturday, October 11. The offering received 
     
     amounted to $52. The nominating committee, Wanda Adams and Susan Smallman brought in the 
     
     slate of officers for 2016-17. President- Orell Smallman; vice president- Fairley Yeo; secretary- 
     
     Verna Smallman; and treasurer- Barbara Sweet. While Fairley Yeo told members she had sent 
     
     CPR photos to the W.I. office in Charlottetown, a couple of mice ran across the floor causing 
     
    
   
   
    
     members to elevate their feet. Cold fall weather brings mice into warm shelters. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The October regular meeting was held at Verna Smallman’s home. In the absence of the 
     
    

    
     treasurer Barbara Sweet, Verna gave the treasurer’s report. Program convener Wanda Adams 
     
     gave the Hospital Aid report. The O’Leary Community Hospital will be celebrating its 60th 
     
     anniversary with an open house to be held November 16. Betty Sweet suggested the K WI 
     
     welcome newcomers to the community by sending out or taking a welcome card from the KWI 
     
     to them. Verna Smallman and Fairley Yeo attended the very interesting fall WI workshop held in 
     
     Sherwood Community Centre Oct 11. Susan Hartley spoke on the Power of Education for 
     
     women and girls in Afghanistan. Soviet Communists took over the country for seven years from 
     
    
   
   
    
     1994-2001. During the Taliban era, there was suffering and abuse, especially for the girls who 
     
    
   
   
    
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