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It was about this time that the basement under the Cathedral came alive with excavation and the creation of the Cotton Room and new classrooms, providing much needed space for our young people and for meetings, enabling ACW to expand and produce many pleasant functions

such as the Valentine Card Parties.

In 1974 Archdeacon Tanton was forced to retire, due to ill health and Canon and Mrs. Westin came to St. Peter's from Amherst.

The following Ash Wednesday, the First Annual Quiet Day and Penetential Lunch was held with the proceeds going to St. Monica's Children's Home in Jamaica and St. Peter's Day Care in Argentina. On Maundy Thursday, 1976, the Firs Annual Seder Meal of lamb and

special salads was served to approximately one hundred people.

As our request, Father Westin prepared ou Binney-Vesper Service, which we conduct ourselves in All Souls' Chapel prior to each meeting.

On the organ in the Chapel there is a Memorial Book bearing the names of loved ones in whose memory forty—eight kneelers were made and

dedicated on All Souls' Day 1976.

Following this project came the formation of the Kneeler Committee

(a small group of ACW members) which continues to work towards the designing and creating of some two hundred needlepoint or hooked

kneelers for the Cathedral —— a project that will require the help of talented Anglicans across the Island.

In 1977 the renovation of the Cathedral kitchen began, a project of 'Binney' in connection with an extensive renovation program of the Hall, ably planned by Kitty Orford, Norma Simpson, and Marjorie Vessey, and completed in 1979. This not only eased the 'K.P.' duties, but, opened up the facilities to neighbourhood services, providing a modern workplace for the annual long-time major fund-raising Christmas Bazaar; the Pot Luck Supper with the Annual Parish Meeting: the Annual Dessert Party to which all the ladies of the Congregation are invited to enjoy each other's company and the product of Binney members' most special dessert recipes —- such as Margaret Westin's renowned trifle; breakfasts for the Laymen's Association; luncheons for the Theological Conferences; in alternate years (with St. Paul's and St. Mary's) the Annual ACW and DSC Meetings; the Christmas Birthday Party and Parish Family Concert; the monthly Charlottetown Christian Council Suppers; and catering

for wedding receptions.

Many of these ACW projects required funding and so Mammoth Candy Sales, Home Baking Sales, Rummage, and Anything Sales (with the Laymen) have been organized by 'Binney' through the years.

The deteriorating condition of our beautiful stain-glass windows, several of which are 'Kemp' windows, had caused concern for sometime and, through the determination of Cis Hyndman, a Heritage Fund was established when she conducted a 'Sewing With Knits' course in the Cotton Room. Added to this were the Laymen's project, chaired by

“Art Holland, that turned 'glass into glass', and Binney members

began making fudge on a weekly basis, so that by 1982 the repairing

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