for Jonah MacNeill. There was a discussion on hiring someone to clean it top-to-bottom and 
     
     paint back steps. A new venture will be coming in June. The community centre will be used as a 
     
     venue in the Small Halls entertainment centres. Fifty seats will be sold at $20 each. K WI will 
     
     supply lunch, coffee, tea and light supper for the cast. Fairley Yeo read the poem The O'Leary 
     
     Road. John Yeo, her father-in-law, used to recite it to large gatherings years ago. Betty Sweet 
     
     gave her citizenship and legislation convener report. Prince Charles and the Duchess, Camilla, 
     
     visited the house where Lucy Maud Montgomery lived while they were in Ontario. Also, Malala 
     
     Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was injured for wanting to attend school, received the Nobel 
     
    
   
   
    
     Prize and has recently become an honorary Canadian. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The May K WI regular meeting was held at the school and Joan Smallman was hostess. President 
     
     Orell Smallman opened the meeting with a Mother’s Day poem. Verna Smallman presented the 
     
     program with a reading called The Old Woman and the Burglar, and a heartfelt reading titled 
     
     Loving Muriel, about an Alzheimer’s patient cared for by her husband. Susan Smallman gave 
     
     the convener program, Around the world on P.E.I. Several communities in P.E.I. had the same 
     
     name as other places around the world. Anne Dougay was hired to clean the school and paint 
     
     back steps. Wanda Adams gave the hospital report and said that 32 volunteers at the New to You 
     
     were treated to a meal at the G&E Restaurant by O’Leary Hospital auxiliary for all their 
     
     volunteer work. The Ambulatory care will be set up by June 1. Correspondence was read and 
     
     dealt with, and a form was filled out to be taken to convention listing the well-known places in 
     
     the area people should experience including West Point Lighthouse and beach, Cedar Dunes 
     
     Park; Fabrics Crafts and More Quilt Gallery, O’Leary; O’Leary Potato Museum; Mill River 
     
     Experience, hotel, golf course and campground; MacAusland’s Woolen Mill, Bloomfield. The 
     
     Provincial WI convention will take place June 3 at Credit Union Place in Summerside. Five 
     
     members registered to attend: Betty Sweet, Orell Smallman, Barbara Sweet, Verna Smallman 
     
     and Fairley Yeo. Before the Festival of Small Halls program is held, the old washroom and 
     
     storage room needs paint as well the back entrance. The 100 km yard sale, hosted by the town of 
     
     O’Leary and sponsored by the West Prince Graphic, will take place May 27 at the school. KWI 
     
     members plan to have food tables and the WI members donated items for sale. Gena Yeo will 
     
     have book sale as well. Anyone can book a table. Susan and Garth Smallman have volunteered to 
     
     cut grass for two weeks. Verna will cut it next, and Isobel Harris will see to getting volunteers 
     
    
   
   
    
     for the rest of the season. 
     
    
   
   
    
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