The May meeting for the Town and Country Women was held at the home of Vie Flaten, with nine members attending. President Margaret Lukey opened the meeting the reflections about Mother's Day.

A total of 16 colourful crocheted and knitted lap robes had been collected during the past year and will be distributed to nursing homes around Weyburn.

A card and bouquet of flowers had been given to honourary member Susie Klippenstein for her 95th birthday.

The club history with pictures has been compiled by Ruth Prost and Margaret Lukey for the Trossachs History Book.

The thought for the day was, "Life is like a good book; the more you get into it, the more it makes sense."

The club ode was sung with duet pianists, May Crump and Kathryn Groshong.

The roll call required members to tell about a change in education in Saskatchewan in the past 100 years. Many changes were cited, from the one-room school with many grades and one teacher to the present system: the introduction of calculators, radios, televisions, computers, copiers, etc. as learning aids; the electric light replaced the coal oil lamp for doing homework; writing was a special subject with fine penmanship stressed; music and art appreciation and geography were subjects; the teacher boarded with a family in the district; water was hauled to the school; a hectograph was used to copy seatwork for the pupil; boxes of library books were sent out by the Wheat Pool; students worked for their room and board while attending high school away from home.

The program was on education, given by convenor Edith Jacobs, and she read an article by Paul Spasoff, his "Back to the Past" column from the Weyburn Review. The article explained about policing in Saskatchewan from the early days until the RCMP resumed their duties in 1928.

She also said a new book, Saskatchewan - A New History, written by Bill Waiser, will be available this Centennial year.

This was the last meeting for the ladies until after the summer months.

The ladies reported on an interesting trip to the Shand greenhouse southeast of Estevan on May 6. They were impressed with the size of the greenhouse operation and the fact it uses waste heat from the Shand generating station.

Their tour guide was Heather Pyra, and she explained the system of growing and watering the plants. Many native species are being grown there, including buffalo berries, chokecherries, white spruce, Eastern red cedar, jackpine and many others. The Western Red Lily, which is native to Saskatchewan, is being propagated there now. Thousands of tree seedlings are sent throughout the province on a non-profit basis.

The lunch after themeeting was served by the hostess, Vie Flaten.