2003 Year in Review

National 4-H Week

Cottonwood 4-H Club's window display at Karen Bramm Insurance Agency.

The “Power of YOUth” is the theme of this year’s National 4-H Week celebration. During the week of October 5-11 local 4-H clubs are promoting the event by wearing their club or 4-H t-shirts, promoting 4-H in the classroom, and making window displays throughout Whiteside County.

There is a county competition between clubs for the best window display. Locally Cottonwood dressed up the Karen Bramm Insurance window with the county theme, “Putting the Pieces Together”

Club members also competed by decorating cookie jars. The winning jars receive a prize but all the jars are filled with cookies and distributed to local dignitaries.

There are over 300 members and seventy 4-H volunteers and staff in Whiteside County, including two clubs in the Morrison area, Cottonwood and Spring Valley Hayshakers. Cottonwood meets the second Saturday at St. Peters Lutheran Church and the Hayshakers meet every second Thursday at the Whiteside County Farm Bureau Building.

Girls and boys from age 8-18 years are invited to experience more than 175 different project areas including animal projects, food & nutrition, photography, art, and horticulture. Members use their Head for learning, their Heart by being loyal to their clubs, community, and country, their Hands by doing community service projects, and their Health by learning and doing. But most of all 4-H is fun!

For more information about 4-H contact Karen Atkinson at the University Illinois Extension (772-4075).

by Barb Benson, theCity1.com
October 9, 2003