auxiliary sold 24 tickets in the community for the Spring is in the Air Gala fundraiser dinner. 
     
     Others who donated were: - MacAusland’s Woolen Mill a (blanket worth $140); - Co-op ($50); 
     
     - Western Auxiliary ($200); - KWI ($200) ; - The Foundation Alberton ($300); The Yeo 
     
     cottage was also donated to auction to highest bidder. Correspondence included registration for 
     
     convention May 26, deadline May 11. Application forms available for students for education 
     
     scholarships and Louise MacMillan Memorial Scholarship. Triennial Convention in Winnipeg, 
     
     July 2018. There was a discussion on whether to apply for a grant for tables and chairs and 
     
     windows. Fairley will get information for deadline on application from Ellen Rennie. A yard sale 
     
    
   
   
    
     will be held May 26. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Festival of Small Halls will take place between June 10 and 23. A vote of thanks was extended to 
     
     Betty Sweet for the beautiful job writing Empress McDowell’s memorial for the WI Book of 
     
     Memories. A committee was formed to make plans for the 90th anniversary of Knutsford 
     
     Women’s Institute. The celebration will be held at the community centre. Orell, Susan, Verna, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fairley and Betty were appointed. Meeting closed with the Lords Prayer. 
     
    
   
   
    
     During the May K WI meeting Karen Roddin was welcomed back from the south. Minutes of 
     
     previous meeting were read and approved and correspondence included W.I. roadside clean up 
     
     May 12. Yellow bags were passed out to be placed in mailboxes. Notes and News: Rural 
     
     Beautification Competition available with good prizes. Karen Roddin will attend the 100 km 
     
     yard sale the same day in Knutsford school community center. Fairley reported she will apply for 
     
     grant for New Horizon for 14 tables and 60 chairs and PA system. Kevin Adams will be asked to 
     
     supply if they are approved. Home Economics convener Verna Smallman gave a talk on safe 
     
     preserving. Yard sale tables are needed. Joan Smallman will bring eight tables and Susan 
     
     Smallman will phone 20 people for offers of food for bake sale. Taylor Vardy will volunteer to 
     
     help: she wants hours for her program. Wanda Adams thanked everyone for remembering her 
     
     with flowers when she was ill. Isobel Harris reported that people are volunteering to cut grass; 
     
     Orell Smallman’s grandson for one and many more. Festival of Small Halls will take place June 
     
     23. Twenty tickets have already been sold. Happy Birthday was sung to Lorraine Harris for her 
     
     90th birthday. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The annual June outing and regular meeting afterward at the Corinthian Home was not done this 
     
    
   
   
    
     year as Empress McDowell had passed away. The meeting took place at the community centre. 
     
    
   
   
    
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