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42 THE RURAL VOICE
NEWS
FARM WOMEN
ASSESS NETWORK
The most contentious issue facing
farm women's groups was again ad-
dressed at the meeting of the newly
formed Ontario Farm Women's Net-
work on April 16:
Should membership be open to rural
women and other women interested in
agricultural issues or be restricted to
farm women exclusively?
Rennie Feddema, who was named
Ontario co-ordinator at last November's
National Farm Women's conference in
Saskatoon, chaired the meeting. Past
co-ordinator Maria Van Bommel was in
attendance as well as representatives
from Women for the Support of Agri-
culture, Women for the Survival of
Agriculture, Concerned Farm Women,
Catholic Rural Life, the Christian
Farmer's Federation, the Junior
Women's Institute, and the Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food. It
was agreed that a networking system to
assemble and disseminate information
from the various groups around the
province is essential.
The network will neither define
policy for the groups, nor make state-
ments concerning agricultural issues.
Instead, its mandate is to keep the vari-
ous farm women's organizations in
touch with each other through a bi-
monthly newsletter.
It is hoped that this service will help
geographically distant groups to rally
around issues while making sure that
efforts are not being duplicated. The
newsletter contact is Corry Martens, R.
R. 1, Iroquois, KOE 1KO. A membership
fee of $10, whether from groups or indi-
viduals, will ensure receipt of the news-
letter.
Still, questions of who is a farm
woman, which organizations should
have input into the newsletter, and who
should be qualified to hold the reins of
the Ontario Farm Women's Network
remained largely unresolved.
Joy Ward of the Concerned Farm
Women, which recently came close to
folding, pointed out that there are large
numbers of women who have either lost
their farms because of financial troubles
(cont' d)