Ruth Dickie has a good idea. Now the New Brunswick woman needs people to help her out.
Dickie is a member of her province’s women’s institutes and is chair of the national WI unity committee. She suggested WI members across Canada list their names with her if they are willing to host a fellow WI member for a fee.
Dickie said the idea is not to set up official bed-and-breakfasts but to have a way that travelling WI members can get to know each other.
Since putting out her appeal for names this spring, Dickie has received a few, including some from the West. However, she is hoping to repeat the call at a July meeting of the board of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada.
Ontario used to have a list in the province and the British WI has a national one as well.
To contact Dickie, phone 506-755-6084, fax 506-755-6077 or e-mail nils@nbnet.nb.ca.