2005 Year in Review

Whiteside County Youth Celebrate National 4-H Week

Source: Karen Atkinson, Community Worker, 4-H-Youth, 815-772-4075

October 2-8 is National 4-H Week, and Whiteside County is celebrating with a variety of different ways. During National 4-H Week grocery bag stuffers will be throughout the county. Whiteside County Public Libraries will have 4-H bookmarks available. 4-H Ambassadors will deliver cookie jars decorated with 4-H to local dignitaries and there will be numerous windows decorated throughout the county with “4-H…The Building Blocks as a Great Foundation” as their theme.

If you ask any 4-H’er what has 4-H done for them they say it provides a lifetime of leadership skills, communication skills and friendships that they will treasure forever, according to Karen Atkinson, Community Worker, 4-H-Youth in Whiteside County. Whiteside County 4-H’er Tobi Drilling of Tampico states “4-H has done so much for me. It has given me great knowledge and life-long friends.”

In Whiteside County, approximately 300 4-H members and 75 volunteers are involved in 4-H.

You can join the 4-H community today. To learn how to become a 4-H member or volunteer leader in Whiteside County, contact Karen Atkinson, Community Worker, 4-H-Youth, at the Whiteside County Extension Office, 100 East Knox Street, Morrison, IL 61270 or by phone at 815/772-4075. Also check out the new look of the Whiteside County Extension website at University of Illinois Extension.

4-H is a community of more than seven million young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. Learn more about the 4-H adventure at 4-HUSA.org.

by  Editor, theCity1.com
September 27, 2005