Women’s Institute 1986: Taken at Sheldon and Florence Dixon’s home. Back left: Ade- laide Ives Wood, Thelma Willis Inman, Ethel Leard Thomson, Elayne Rayner Thomson. Center left: Heather Harvey Dixon, Clen Lidstone Thomson,Jessie Leard Craig, Blanche Dawson Cairns, Shirley Thomas Thomson, Loraine Day MacDonald, Florence Leard Dixon. Front: Hazel Matchett Robinson. Absent: Minnie Dawson Thomson, Margaret Dawson Newsome, Bea Lefurgey MacFarlane. Hazel Robinson collec-

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speaker, a business meeting and a social time are part of each meeting. The fall meetings plan the annual Christmas Coffee Party and Craft and Bake Sale which is held in the school house the first Saturday in December and the annual Christmas party when all the ladies in the community are invited to join in an evening of fun and games at the school. The itinerary for the February meeting usually includes an outing to tour a plant or to attend a play and ends with dinner at a restaurant. Events such as the annual Prince Edward Island Road Side Clean Up and the North Tryon Canada Day Celebrations are planned each spring. Volunteer canvassing for national, provincial, and commu- nity organizations is a very real part of Institute work. Institute members also visit neighbours who are shut in, welcome new community resi— dents, host community showers for newly weds, and at Christmas and Easter remember shut-ins and older residents with a treat, card, flowers or a visit. The Women’s Institute owns and maintains the two room school house for community use.

The Canada Day celebration has become an annual community reunion party. The first celebration, organized in 1980 by Kathie Lea and Hazel Robinson, was rained out; however, the community cele- brated the next day, on Sunday afternoon, and the event was such a

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