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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1999-02-17, Page 7CWL meeting in Dublin talks about elder abuse A joint St. Patrick's and St. Vincent do Paul -•CWL Meeting was -held on Feb. 9. After the regular meeting the group welcomed- guest speaker. Lise Willems from the London Diocesan Plowing match video shown to WI • Seaforth Women's Institute held its meeting at Olive Papple's on Feb. 9. . Doris Hugili. President opened with.a reading "My ..First Valentine RollCaII was answered by l2 members. . Minutes of the meeting were read by Betty Hulley. • Our annual •meeting on •April •13 will be held at the Seaforth Manor. At the-- next • meeting members are asked to bring items •to put in the bags for, the Plowing Match. • The meeting was turned over to Clarissa Stewart. Olive showed a video on Huron County and the Plowing Match. We have some wonderful places in Huron County. • Olive Papple.gave a reading "On the Farm' and Clarissa Stec. art gave a reading "Memories." The `birthday :.closest, to Valentines was Betty Hulley. • At the January meeting Olive Papple had a special birthday. She was•presented with a flower, birthday cake and ice cream. ' • The next meeting will be at Betty Hullcys on March.9 at' 1:30 p.m. Lunch was served by hostesses Viola• Lawson. Gladys Doig and Jessie McGregor: , 4-H club talks about healthy chinchillas The second meeting of the.. Huron ' County Chinchilla Club was held at "Cargill on Jan. 30. It Has opened with the 4-H -pledge. The roll call.."Do you -know where you are going to -keep your chinchilla. .once you get .them?" .was answered. Tonga Drost read some information. about chinchillas. Barb read ,Tonya's entry for. the Paul - Steckle award telling why she liked 4-H: Ray brought up a cage and showed us how to work it and what we have to do to keep the chinchillas healthy. _Ji ltii: our president, discussed the next meeting on Feb. 13. Barb and Ray described what Abu should look for in • a chinchilla. You should look fur •a white bells. yellow teeth and dark fur The darker the fur the better the chinchilla. Then we drew to see what order. We get-to•–vhoose - our chinchillas for our project. We went down to the shop where we looked at the chinchillas. After buying our animals the meeting ended with pop, crackers and cheese. Da►•id Varulerr Hoed 4-H club has election To start off the Consuming Passions meeting. we received our books and discussed the dub criteria. The elections for council were next. Elected are: Adrian Guntsensperger. President; Lindsey McClure, Vice President; Secretary, Anita Kreutzwiser. and Press Reporter. Louise McBride. To end out the technical portion we finished a page on "if 1 had a $I00 1 would buy.... I Executive who spoke on the topic "Elder Abuye." She spoke to the members' • about a resolution regarding needs for the elderly and educating the public about elder abuse. This resolution is being presented at the upcoming.=April Diocesan Convention in London. Heartfelt sympathy of the . community was_extended to the family of Andrea Van - Steelandt who passed awae -on Feb. 11 .at Seaforth. -Community Hospital. Sympathy: is -extended to her husband George Van'. Steelandt: to sons and- a daughter. Gilbert and .wife Ricki Van Steelandt: RR Duhjin:. to .Christine and husband Ronald Hyde, Stratford; to Frank and wife Dorothy. Van Steelandt. RR 1: Blyth: to grandchildren Tanya. and Karen Van Steelandt. Achiel Goussens • and Brian, Debbie and Rick • Van Stei landt and. three- sisters in Beltttum. - Svrnpathy�u.'' Dublin and area aim) xtendeii- to Win.i; c and Sheila Jihb and tamt:y; RR 2.. Dublin. on the re.er• !,2ath of Wrnston•s tatrwwr of Sun.le Ind -N no passed i;HT FORTODAY a little e. ;, „nes i track THE HURON EXPOSITOR, F.brusry 17, 1111111-7 Valentine's. 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