Woodmore Women's Institute News
(Submitted by Deb Melosky - Woodmore WI Secretary)
On Thursday, October 3 the Woodmore W.I. held their monthly meeting with 17 members. Our roll call for the day was "My favorite and least favorite chocolate bar". We had 1 lady join as members at this meeting.
As a fundraiser we will also be hosting a soup and pie supper October 25 at Roseau River Park from 5pm - 7:00pm.
A seed saving workshop was held September 11 at the Ridgeville Hall. There were 26 in attendance. It was a very informative evening followed by a seed-exchange. We also collected garden produce which we donated to Helping Hands in Steinbach. We are hosting a hands-on sourdough workshop on October 29 at Roseau Valley School; pre-registration is required.
Our Children's Gardening Project wind-up was held on September 18, this was a cooking class where the participants made veggie pizza.
We are hosting a Nature and Neighbors program sponsored by Southern Health's Health Together Now grant. The third "wellness walk" was at Fort Dufferin in Emerson on September 28. There will be another walk in the winter.
On Thursday September 26 we co-hosted a speaker on the topic of women's pelvic floor health.
Our like interest groups are starting up again. These groups are: knitting & crocheting, movie and lunch. These groups get together monthly for a social time. This year our knitting & crocheting group will be making baby blankets for Villa Rosa in Winnipeg.
We are gathering information to do a Resolution on the effects of microplastics on the environment.
Woodmore WI had written a letter to our MLA in regards the difficulties one of our members had in going through Manitoba's Foreign Trained Nurses program. We received an update on this program from the Minister of Health.
At our October meeting we do an annual food bank drive. All member donations of non-perishable items were delivered to the Emerson Food Bank.
Our next meeting will be November 7, guests are always welcome. If you are interested in attending this meeting or any of our other activities, please contact meloskydebbie@gmail.com.
