December 5. Isobel will contact Roy Ellsworth for Santa, and Carol and Norma for music. 
     
     Fairley will do bulletins; Joan will read A Christmas Story. Orell will read the Candy Cane Story. 
     
     And Susan and Barbara will work on children’s crafts. Members will meet at the school the day 
     
     of the party at 9:30 a.m. to decorate the school. Betty Sweet conducted the program with a story 
     
     about a woman named Brigette Van Vliett. She said the Germans had come to her house in 
     
     Holland looking for her father, but he was hiding in the barn. One of the men looked at her 
     
     mother, took out a picture of his family and left. He didn’t look for her father anymore. This lady 
     
     was from the Netherlands but now lives in Summerside. There was no hospital report, and 
     
     Barbara and Susan adjourned the meeting followed by members repeating /n Flanders Fields. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Karen Rodden wished everyone a good winter as she was leaving for the Carolinas, U.S.A. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Christmas meeting was held at the home of Susan and Garth Smallman. The members were 
     
     introduced to Jordan MacDonald, project manager of the Community Seniors Cooperative Ltd. 
     
     The vision is to establish an affordable, modern 35-unit community care facility within the town 
     
     of O’Leary. Actions to date were intensive meetings with government reps, industry 
     
     professionals and community members. Site has been determined and business plan completed. 
     
     There will be a community fund raising, co-operative membership. Some members paid $10 
     
     memberships while Jordan MacDonald was there. Traditional carols were sung, and it was 
     
     decided to unveil the final panel at a later date. Members took a moment of silence to remember 
     
     sister member Marion Luxton. Barbara Sweet, treasurer, collected offering and holiday money 
     
     and GICs. Verna will send thank you cards to Carol and Gary Morgan and Norma MacNeill for 
     
     leading the music and Christmas carols and helping with the clean up afterward. The party was a 
     
     success with 27 children in a play dough class. Books and crayons and crafts were enjoyed by 
     
     all the children. The program went on until Santa arrived and gifts were handed out. Three and 
     
     four generations were present, great grandparents, grandparents, parents and children. It was 
     
     delightful for the members to watch the hall being used in such a happy way and enjoyed by the 
     
     community young and old. Correspondence included a thank you note from the Caring Cupboard 
     
     for their continued donations and a thank you card from Susan Smallman for the food, visit and 
     
     cards when her mother passed away. The K WI received a cheque for $100 from cousins of 
     
     Marion Luxton in her memory. Marie Kenny, president of the PEIWI of Canada sent a paper on 
     
     art education for children March 17, 2020. PEIWI offered gift ideas from the WI. Conveners are 
     
    
   
   
    
     encouraged to give a small report at each meeting. Fairley filled out a venue survey for the 2019 
     
    
   
   
    
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