Minnie Whinnies Model Horse 4-H Club

Minnie Whinnies held their August meeting on Wednesday, August 11, 2010, at the Huntingdon County Fair. They completed an exercise in writing down as many horse colors and breeds as they could think of. Then they went on a tour of the horse barns and found more to write down. The exercise helped them learn many new different breeds and some rare colors like a grulla appaloosa, a perlino paint, and a champagne appaloosa.

Minnie Whinnies held their September meeting on Sunday, September 19, 2010, at the Extension Office. A short business meeting was held before a model horse show. The members showed their models and were able to borrow up to two additional models from the leaders in order to have two entries in each class. Members had a lot of fun winning candy bars for prizes and trying to pick their next winner. The judge picked a grand and reserve from the winners of the divisions. The grand for the day went to Heather Rearick who won a model horse blanket embroidered with “Minnie Whinnies”. The reserve for the day went to Carly Rudy who won a small model horse.

Minnie Whinnies held their October meeting on Sunday, October 17, 2010, at the Extension Office. After a short business meeting, members chose their project kit for the upcoming year. The kits will be ordered and should arrive in time for the next meeting. In addition to their project kits, members will be making a “trail” obstacle. Some examples offered were a bridge, a mailbox, a jump, a hedge or flower jump, etc. In the next few months, members can be looking for items that may be used for this project.

The next meeting will be Sunday, November 21, 2010, from 2 – 4 p.m., at the Extension Office. Club officers will be elected at this meeting. New members are welcome to come to any meeting which are held on the third Sunday of each month.


Submitted by,
Carly Rudy

Southern Pride 4-H Club Celebrates National 4-H Week

Southern Pride 4-H Club Members: Brandon Beam, Kalee Anderson, Katie Anderson, Camden Woodward, Elizabeth Scott and Keith Anderson.

The Southern Pride 4-H club was excited to share and celebrate National 4-H week October 3rd -9th. Several of the club members visited all four of the Elementary Schools in Southern Huntingdon County on Friday October the 8th. The reason for their visit was to share the meaning of the 4-H program and also to educate the grade school students about what 4-H is. At each grade school Leader Carrie Anderson spoke to students about National 4-H week and how children and youth ages 8-18 can get involved. Carrie stressed the importance of finding the right club to join by selecting a project and then finding a club close to their home. Huntingdon County has a wide variety of clubs offering several projects from Livestock, to gardening, to small crafts. Parent Volunteer Jessica Whitsel prepared a mini slide show for students to view while members explained and talked about projects and skills learned. The slide show had pictures of Community Service project (adopt-a-highway), Community awareness (parades) and pictures of several members with their club projects at the fair. Member Kalee Anderson spoke to students about the 4 leaf clover with the four H’s meaning Head, Hands, Heart, and Health. Kalee also talked about the club pledge and its meaning, of being involved with our community and youth. Members Elizabeth Scott and Camden Woodward spoke to students about leading meetings and being an officer of the club. They explained their duties as officers and that the club is run and decisions are made by the members/youth. Member Brandon Beam explained and talked about his Dairy Beef project. He talked to the students about what he needed to care for his livestock project and how he got involved at the Fairground with cleaning the barns and getting involved with community projects. Members Katie and Keith Anderson showed students some other options for projects other than livestock. Katie talked about her sewing projects and the club Motto, “To make the Best Better”. Keith Anderson showed the students his ceramic projects. Keith also talked about his sheep project and how he can use the wool for a non-livestock project in making wool items and crafts. Kalee Anderson also shared her floral arrangement project and explained different options for that project. At each of the four Grade schools Elementary students that are members of the Southern Pride 4-H Club had the opportunity to share their 4-H experience and projects. From Spring Farms School the following members shared projects, Hanna Booher – flowers; Brooks Walker and Mckenzie Yohn – Rabbits; Kolton Gaff – Sports Fishing and Mikara Anderson – Vet Science and Public Speaking. Trough Creek – Joce Whitsel – Computer Science, Forestry, Family Strengths and Rabbits; Raven Booher – Goats and new member Sarah Morris will be doing sewing projects. Rockhill – Chance and Scotty Goshorn shared about Swine and Dairy Cows. Shade Gap - Rebecca Parsons – shared what equipment you would see at the fair to get a Dairy cow ready for show ; Shavonna Fegan – Sheep and her experiences the past year as a member and new member Paige Parsons will be doing Dairy and Rabbits. If you are interesting in the 4-H program and want to learn more about 4-H opportunities please contact the Extension Office at 643-1660.

Trough Creek Adventurers 4-H Club

Members of the Trough Creek Community Adventurers 4-H Club helped the Trough Creek Valley Fire Company serve dinner to the community at the Cassville October Fest on September 25-26, 2010. Pictured above L-R back row: Shelly Waite, Madeline Subba, Kayla Morgan, Kelsey Morgan; Bottom row L-R: Kane Waite, Katrina Bliss, Cora Waite, Macie Hicks, and Jodi Cresswell.

The Southern Pride 4-H Club

The Southern Pride 4-H Club held their regular scheduled meeting October 5th, 2010 at the Out Reach Center in Orbisonia. President Libby Sarra called the meeting to order, Secretary Liz Scott took roll call and Treasure Keith Anderson gave a treasures report. Volunteer Jessica Whitsel updated the club on the edata enrollment and gave the deadline dates for completion. Game leader, Derrick Cramer handed out prizes and awards from the camping and fishing trip that was held in September. Leader Carrie Anderson gave updates from the September Livestock meeting and reminded members of the tag date set for November 20th for the Market Steer projects. Annual Fall Club banquet will be held October 17th and members were reminded to invite sponsors and livestock buyers along with grandparents and other family and friends. The club finalized plans for a Ham Sandwich sale and fundraiser. Leaders Lori and Shannon Cramer will be in charge of this fundraiser. Plans were discussed to participate in the Mount Union Halloween Parade. All members wanting to participate need to meet behind the Mt. Union High School between 5:30 – 6:00 to decorate the float. Leaders Shannon Cramer and Wayne Anderson will be in charge of parade details. Sign up sheets were available for 2011 snack, pledges, Share-a-Project and Leader/volunteers. Community Service Project is being planned for the December meeting. The club will be making up small gift bags for the Veterans Hospital to be delivered for the Christmas Season. Nominations and election of officers was held for the 2011 year. Leader Carrie Anderson reminded club of the super Saturday training for all Leaders, and new elected officer training. The annual County Banquet is scheduled for November 6th; please send in RSVP if planning on attending. Snack was provided by Jocelynn Whitsel. The next meeting will be held 4:30 on November 2nd at St. Mary’s Catholic Hall to make the ham sandwiches. Meeting was adjourned at 8:45p.m.