of thanks was given to Betty Sweet and Fairley Yeo for their leadership role in the summer 
     
     project. Fairley Yeo offered to represent the KWI on the West Prince Literacy Council. It was 
     
     decided to leave CPR awareness to November. Members would attend Community School for 
     
     CPR rather than go to on their own. Correspondence included a letter of recognition from 
     
     Premier Pat Binns congratulating the KWI on the prize awarded by the Rural Beautification 
     
    
   
   
    
     Society. The ladies asked Lorne Luxton to make a frame for the certificate. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The KWI held its February meeting at the home of Wanda and Lorne Adams. Betty Sweet 
     
     brought the meeting to order and then turned the meeting over to Melissa (Dennis) Keenan on 
     
     the role of the Opportunity Centres in West Prince. Melissa is the facilitator for the opportunity 
     
     centre at Westisle. There are six centres in West Prince — Tignish, Palmer Road, Alberton, 
     
     Westisle, O’Leary and Tyne Valley - available to anyone wishing to upgrade their education or 
     
     learn computer skills. Applicants must be 18 years of age and out of school for one year. 
     
     Computer training and high school credits for academic Grade 12 can be obtained or you can 
     
     write your GED (general education development.) Day and evening classes are offered. 
     
     Afterwards, Melissa took photos of the WI members with a digital camera, the latest in modern 
     
    
   
   
    
     technology. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Margaret Stewart Sweet was a guest speaker at an institute meeting in March. She spoke of her 
     
     role as a family mediator and explained the project she was applying for. She was using 
     
     mediation in agriculture issues instead of confrontation, concerning land over the environment. 
     
     Mediators are unbiased, building unity in agriculture. She also discussed her role as a family 
     
     mediator and how much better mediation is for a family in marriage separation than the courts. 
     
     She talked about parenting plans in custody and access and how parents have equal rights to their 
     
     children in 1999. There were 48 recommendations to the family law act to put in place a more 
     
     equal balance for children. Margaret was thanked for her presentation and information. It was 
     
     decided to put together an application for a summer project through career placement. And 
     
     suggestions were made to enter a Time Capsule float in the O’Leary Potato Blossom parade. In 
     
     August, a flea market/bake sale/farmers market was held at the school. A quilt made especially 
     
     for this yard sale sold for $500. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A $50 donation was received from Thomas Huestis in memory of his mother, who attended the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Knutsford school. A $50 donation was also given to the KWI from Wendy Harris, and for the 
     
    
   
   
    
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