Our quilt production has slowed down considerably but we continue to provide Christmas treats, send cards, flowers and fruit. The big event of each year is the goose supper - we just couldn’t do without it!

In closing, I hope the Sewing Club has many more anniversaries and the Sewing Club will continue helping South Freetown live. Let’s hear it for forty years of service!

Marion Drummond, 1982

South Freetown Red Cross - Sewing Club

Year President Secretary 1942 Muriel Stetson —

1959 Margaret Reeves Elva Heffell

1960 Frances Aylward Elva Heffell

1961 Frances Aylward Elva Heffell

1962 Jessie Drummond Laura Smith

1963 Jessie Drummond Laura Smith

1964 Elizabeth Stetson Margaret Reeves 1965 Muriel Stetson Margaret Reeves 1966 Fausta Stetson Jessie Drummond 1967 — —

1968 — —

1969 Adelma Reeves —

1970 — —

1971 Grace Stetson May Gauthier 1972 Marion Drummond May Gauthier 1973 Marion Drummond May Gauthier 1974 Eunice Simmons May Gauthier 1975 Eunice Simmons May Gauthier 1976 Florence Reeves Laura Smith

1977 Louise Drummond Laura Smith

1978 Louise Drummond —

1979 Louise Drummond Joyce Drummond 1980 Laura Smith Joyce Drummond 1981 Laura Smith Joyce Drummond 1982 Marion Drummond Joyce Drummond

People Helping People

In twenty years, the ladies

Of Freetown South have rolled A record of achievement

That still remains untold.

A Red Cross group with powers To live up to the creed

Of neighbour helping neighbour And strangers in their need.

At each fortnightly meeting

The work goes on apace

On everything from buttons

To fine Chantilly lace.

Their patchwork quilts and blankets,

‘ With stitches placed just 50,

Have warmed more grateful couples Than Spain and Mexico.

These favored bedtime items

Have yardage and to spare

And neither she or his’n

Need tussel for a share.

They’ve hid more cams and bunions,

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