Spring 2012 - 4-H Ontario

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IN BRIEF local stories Peel 4-H Volunteers Recognized by Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Submitted by Carol Williams Each year the Peel 4-H Association nominates a select group of their Volunteers for the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Ontario Volunteer Service Awards. The Ontario Volunteer Service Award recognizes individuals for five to 60+ years of continuous service in a given organization. This award celebrates the people who make Ontario a better place to live and recognizes the contributions of volunteers of all ages from seniors to youth. The ceremony held in Mississauga on April 2 recognized Betty Brander, Bob Early, Brenda Bebbington, Tim Boughen, Ashley Brander, and Deborah Judge. Congratulations! Betty, of Caledon, was recognized as a Leader of 4-H youth for 20 years. She is active in the Association as an organizer for fundraising, provincial opportunities and she is also a Peel 4-H Association Director. Bob, of Caledon East, was recognized for being the Livestock Coordinator for 15 years. He is also a Director of the Peel 4-H Association. Brenda, of Caledon, and Ashley, of Caledon, were recognized for being 4-H Leaders for five years. They are both also Peel 4-H Association Directors. Tim, of Bolton, and Deborah, of Caledon East, were recognized for being 4-H Leaders for five years. Thank you to Peel 4-H Association for recognizing their Volunteers in such a special way! Carol Williams has been a Peel 4-H Volunteer for 20+ years and is the current Vice President of the Association. Thimblina Quilters “Tie It Up” Submitted by Jane Buchanan, North Perth Thumblina’s Club On Saturday March 3, the North Perth Thimblina’s met again at the North Mornington Presbyterian Church. We began with some organizational details and received some extra information for our Achievement Books. President Tracy Stark opened the meeting with the 4-H pledge. Members shared how they were progressing with their individual ‘quillow projects’ for the roll call. Secretary Emily Skinner shared the minutes from the last meeting. Leader Joanne Elg led the Members in a discussion about the progress of our quilting projects, and we talked about any problems or areas we needed some help. Members were then given some time to work on their quillows. After awhile, some Members were able to go and work on tying on the large quilt. Yummy snacks were enjoyed by Members thanks to Emily MacKay. All Members then were given the opportunity to judge five different pieced quilts. We learned about ranking them, and giving good supporting reasons for our decision to place them. Some factors that we talked about in our ranking were the colour coordination and design combinations. A big thank you to our wonderful Leaders, Joanne Elg, Carolyn VanderHeiden, and Nancy Rothwell for continuing to teach us more about how to tie, stitch, and judge quilts. We look forward to our next meeting on Saturday March 10, at 6:30. (Posted on 4-HOntario.ca on March 4, 2012) Grenville Pizza Club Submitted by Connor Halpenny, Grenville 4-H Dough Heads This is the first time the Pizza Project has been run in Grenville County. Our Club, The Dough Heads, has 31 Members who love all kinds of pizza, from pepperoni to meat lovers and everything in between. We have had pizza for every meal, even four different breakfast pizzas and dessert pizzas with fruit and pudding on top! Next meeting we’re off to a local restaurant to learn how they make their pizza and to get to use a real pizza oven! The best part of each meeting–eating the pizza we make! (Posted on 4-HOntario.ca March 17, 2012) Wrap of Potato Club Submitted by Mitchell Drysdale, Carleton 4-H Fallowfield Mashers My name is Mitchell Drysale, I am a Member of Carleton County 4-H Clubs. There are many Clubs you can join when you’re a Member and one of the Clubs I am in now is a Potato Club. We’ve made up a name for our Club... “The Fallowfield Mashers”. In the Club we are learning all about potatoes. Did you know that PEI is Canada’s leading potato province Every meeting we are split into groups and we are given a recipe to make. All the recipes use potatoes in different ways like potato pizza which uses grated potatoes and potato chocolate cake which uses mashed potatoes, my favorite was scalloped potatoes which uses sliced potatoes. Each Member is asked to make potato recipes at home for their families too. Older members are suppose to make six recipes and younger members are supposed to make three. When we get together for our meetings we have a final project which is to make a recipe at home and bring it to the meeting for everyone to Leadership In Action • Spring 2012
try. At this meeting (Achievement Day) our parents can stay and try some too. This Club was a lot of fun just like all the 4-H Clubs. I learned a lot about cooking and I met new people too. (Posted on 4-HOntario.ca on March 28, 2012) 1st Dufferin Dairy 4-H Club Meeting Submitted by Charlie Illick, Dufferin Dairy Club We opened the meeting by judging November Jersey heifer calves followed by five-year-old Jersey milking cows. George VanKampen then placed the cows and gave his reasons. Following the judging, we convened in the VanKampen’s house to hold the annual elections for the 2012 Club positions. This year our Club plans to go on a farm tour either to a unique dairy farm or a dairy processing plant. Dawn VanKampen distributed PAI Forms and the Leadership in Action. The PAI forms are due before the end of May. We hope to hold our next meeting on May 9th at 7:30 p.m. at the McCannell’s farm (Orangeview). Jessica thanked the VanKampen’s for holding the first dairy meeting of 2012. Alicia closed the meeting with the 4-H pledge. (Posted on 4-HOntario.ca on March 31, 2012) Power Tool Knowledge Submitted by Caitlin Gaudet, Durham East 4-H Woodworking South Club measurements in an inch. Most Members chose their projects as well. The options are a round end table or a bread box. Some Members found their own plans for a different project. At the end we ate chocalate chip oatmeal cookies:) Tee-Hee. (Posted on 4-HOntario. ca/club-reports on April 12, 2012) My first ever 4-H meeting... and it was GREAT! Submitted by Lauren Churchill, Essex 4-H Vet Wild Mustangs Club As I approached the Wild Mustangs (AKA the 4-H Vet Club) on April 3 rd at the Essex Civic Center, I was warmly welcomed by the Club Leaders Susan and Anne. Since it was my very first time in 4-H and since this was the Club’s first meeting of the year, we played a game to get to know each other. In the game one of the Leaders would stick a Disney animal character’s name on your back, and then you had to go around to other Members and ask them three “yes or no” questions to help you figure out what your character’s name was. Once you figured out which character you were you had to find someone else from the same movie (i.e. Belle and the Beast, Woody and Buzz, Pooh and Piglet). When everyone had paired up we sat down and started to get to the serious business of nominations. Once the ballots were all counted and we had the positions for our Club executive filled the results were as follows: President - Emma, Secretary/ Treasurer- Nic, Press Reportermyself, Photographers - Darin and Alexandra. When we got all the politics out of the way we were informed that our wonderful and brilliant Leaders Susan and Anne had booked us an exciting and informative trip to visit the University of Guelph Animal Hospital in July. With how much fun we had at the meeting and with all the great participants in the Club I am excited about the new experiences I will have through this club and through being involved in 4-H. (Posted on 4-HOntario.ca on April 15, 2012) New Verner 4-H Goat Club Submitted by Jessica Leonard, Sudbury 4-H New Verner Goat Club The first meeting of the Verner 4-H Goat Club took place on April 22nd, 2012 at the Emiry Farm in Verner. Twelve of the thirteen participants are new 4-H Members and were eager to start the meeting. We began with presenting our homework on researching different breeds of goats. Then we introduced our guest speaker We had a great 4-H woodworking meeting on April 10th. This year 20 kids joined. First we had elections for President, Vice President, Secretary, and News Reporter. Then we made our Judging and Go For The Gold teams and decided who will make the project board to show at the fair. Everyone had fun looking at some of the power tools such as a drill press, jointer, chopsaw, tablesaw, sander, and routers. We also talked about some safety when woodworking. Our Leader showed us all the different Leadership In Action • Spring 2012 The New Verner 4-H Goat Club Members and Volunteers. 7
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