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Ai The Era Knwick Wed June recognize WI groups on 75th anniversary NEWMARKET Adelaide Hoodless and Lee would barely recognize them Grace Burns sees the change and shes been around them years As the Federated Womens Institutes of Ontario kicked off Womens Institute Week this Monday it was honoring a different sort of organization than the club that Mrs Hoodless and Lee founded years ago And in York where four of the provinces branches and members are found the local institutes have followed a similar change in their makeup It was back in Stoney Creek in that farmer Lee and Hoodless first hatched the idea of an association for rural women says local member Grace Burns The idea was to provide a forum for the women to meet exchange on the then- monumental task of high school girls going on to study in the areas of agriculture or home economics Other celebrations will be held through the H clubs in York which the women sponsor in their efforts to provide fellowship and education for rural youngsters But more than anything as the hundreds of institute members in York take this week to reflect on their associations it will be the change from the past that they will think of With a motto that reads For Home and Country the institutes were formed to help women in better But has changed greatly from its management function of the past even for the rural women that the institutes serve Housewives once acted as organizers of the home handling the familys finances working with their running a rural household husbands at farm labor and broaden their and seeing lo the horizons by learning household needs which more aboui the world then included cooking their duties sewing for the A festival is being entire family and often held at the original Lee minor medical attention homestead in Stoney With the movement Creek this week where of women into the work rural crafts including force and the subsequent quilling weaving and spread of laborsaving will be devices housework has demonstrated changed greatly in In York it will fall to nature each branch of the four The institutes area institutes to catering rural women celebrate the week in its once dealt with in- own fashion in agricultural Most will use the techniques essential occasion to award their home crafts and annual scholarships to perhaps most important Town man killed Mr Preston walked behind the bulldozer while working on con struction on Cherry St at UK 3 Stouffviltc at approximately am Mr Preston was pronounced dead on arrival at York County Hospital to the women provided a forum to talk about issues in the community Across the province rural areas are growing smaller In York for example the rural base has all but disappeared Those lands that appear to be farms are for the most part being held for sale to developers or are horse estates So the emphasis in the education sessions is not as heavily weighted toward agriculture Instead the institutes have standing com mittees on agriculture and Canadian industry citizenship and world affairs family and consumer affairs and education and cultural activities Through the com mittees members hear speakers and keep up to date on events in their communities A historian for each chapter keeps an area history In York where the Kettleby Institute founded in is the provinces third oldest a history of the entire area has been preserved And the groups run an active volunteer program of visits to hospitals and shutins What has the change in rural population meant lo the institutes As access in rural areas to other forms of entertainment increases young women no longer turn to the groups for social activities Even ihe craft planned for June Day at Sharon Temple Stuart is No says the teeshirt and so thinks 15yearold Greg Wilson who presented Liberal leader Stuart Smith with the per sonalized gift Gregs father Jim Wilson Liberal candidate for York North and Paddy Ken Kerr photo Smith Mr Smiths wife look on with ap proval The group spent Friday night on a handshaking tour of the Aurora plaza and Upper Canada Mall SHARON Whos the best spltter of pum pkin seeds in Ihese parts That and many other interesting things will be determined this Sunday during the annual June Day Festival at the 150- yearold Sharon Temple Museum here York Pioneer and Historical Society and The Sharon Committee hosts of the event are planning horseshoe pitching and bean jar guessing competitions as well as the seedspitting making and drag and contest a raffle for a shingle sawing Hose of Sharon quilt and i historical displays in l museum and on the nT Grounds antiques will be on display and York The Georgian Steam County genealogist will Clubs steam engine he there display will be set up on and weavers will be century demonstrating their House and crafts There will also be will be displays of corn husk P dolls chair rushing open- The festival will run hearth cooking harness from pm Development grant hikes despite budget NEWMARKET the region makes use of The regions ad- the board and pays for the ministration committee has been convinced that its grant to the Toronto Area Industrial Development Board should be upped from 3000 to 10000 At its budget meeting last week council in committee decided that the boards request for 10000 would be met with only a grant An appearance at the service by means of grants The board arrived at the figure based on a formula used for both York and Durham Metro Toronto is billed at six cents per capita The region had rejected the higher grant request because of doubts about the boards ef fectiveness in attracting A recommendation will come before council tomorrow as it courses that are open to proves the budget nonmembers in the hope recommendations that A Newmarket man was killed here Friday when he was crushed by a bulldozer on a con struction site Dead is Christopher Preston 21 of 3 Newmarket According police of interesting them in institute activities no longer draw the number of young women they used to And as the York institutes celebrate this week it will be the lack of nine municipalities in new blood that concerns York Region has its own them most industrial commissioner administration com- mittee Monday by board ndu rv lo re representatives John Monday s and Bill meeting the represen- Willson convinced argued that members that the board SU was being shortchanged s i would be interrupted In many cases negotiations with in dustries take place over several years and the interruption could be serious they said Board figures show that four firms were brought to the region through its effort in and that one further firm has been located here this year A- further in dustries were brought to the grant be a full The development board acts a promoter for industry seeking to locate in the Metro Toronto- YorkDurham area Because none of the YOUR ALTERNATIVE IN YORK NORTH i JUNE VOTE JIM WILSON LIBERAL FOR INFORMATION OR ASSISTANCE CALL 7271347 7271348 A die area by its efforts in the past the board members said Those occupy 2842622 feet of factory space and paid a total of 1373720 in municipal taxes in Mayor Margaret who supported the reduced grant last week said that she had been suspicious of a reserve fund the board established several years ago In a time when all groups are tightening their belts the board should be willing to dip into its reserves she said Monday Seemingly convinced by the arguments for more money the com mittee or rather the three of the nine mem bers present Monday voted to recommend that lhe higher sum be paid Park lor illustrate ara rates or write us it 4 Road Toronto rates ines i