In the February meeting for Porter Gang we introduced ourselves because we had a new person there who was interested in 4H. After that we went over old business and new business. We talked about the upcoming favorite food competition and past entries submitted by our members. Finally we thought of designs for our littler barrel.
Porter Gang reporter, Colby
Summit Bridge 4-H Club has been busy! One of our members, Elijah Roberts, participated in the Public Speaking Contest and won a blue ribbon! At our December meeting, we collected food for the Food Bank of Delaware, hats/scarves/gloves for Friendship House and gift cards for the Neighborhood House in Middletown. We played a game (building an “indoor” snowman), made Christmas crafts and enjoyed some delicious snacks provided by Mrs. Somers.
Happy holidays and we look forward to 2022!
The next round of NCC Links Grants will be awarded in February.
Grants are awarded to groups up to $100 and individuals up to $50.
Apply at: http://www.udel.edu/009039 by January 30.
As we are finishing out this year and beginning to ramp up in the 4-H world with events, contests and activities this is a reminder that you must be enrolled in Delaware 4-H by March 1, 2022 to be considered an active 4-H member (and ASAP to participate in any winter events like Winter Fun Day and Favorite Foods).
If you haven’t done so already, please enroll HERE
This month in our meetings, we did the encryption portion of the STEM activity and had a fun relay race to do the words. We took pictures of fall leaves and made turkeys out of brownies and candy corn for our snack For our other meeting, we made bags of snack mix and learned some napkin folds.
Every other Friday the 4-H club meets in Mr. Warner’s classroom. We begin with our President leading us in the Pledge. We do activities like taking pictures, crafts and make snacks. We all work well as a team and independently. We take time out of Fridays to learn and try new things. We have lots of fun in our tiny group and we always make the best of it.
-Neve Taylor, Club Reporter
This will be a valuable training for newer members and a great refresher for older members. All newly elected club officials are strongly encouraged to attend.
For more info, please email Kaitlin.
On Saturday (4/17) the Meado-Larks 4-H Club converged on the upper parking lot at Skyline United Methodist Church. The members and their families cleaned up the debris and leaves around the parking lot, mulched the playground, stained the picnic tables and benches and mended the fence as one of their service projects for the year. A job well done.
Do you love the outdoors? Do you want to get outside and hike the Delaware State Parks Trail Challenge? Do you want to learn more about the animal and plant life around you? If you answered yes to these questions, then this club is for you. Join the New Castle County Outdoor Adventures Club. This is a county wide club open to all NCC 4-H’ers ages 8 and older.
The first meeting will be held at Lums Pond State Park April 11 at 1 PM. Meeting location will be sent after registration.
Stump Corner is hosting Archery project meetings in May. These meetings are for 4-H members ages 8-19. Please keep a look out for more information including dates, times, and location.
Register here: http://www.udel.edu/008232 to be notified when dates are set.
December:
At today’s meeting, we had an exciting activity planned. Before the meeting, Mrs. Schaffer gave us all black canvases, a selection of paints, and paintbrushes. But before we could use anything
we went over some old and new business. Two of our members, Elijah and Stacy went to St. Paul’s church and presented them with a check funded by money that the club had raised to support them. After we thanked and congratulated them, we started on our activity. Mrs. Schaffer found an online tutorial on how to paint a magical snowman. After some technical difficulties,
we were able to start painting, and everyone had such a fun time! The video was very descriptive so it was easy to follow along and make our canvases come to life. Unfortunately, my hands were covered with paint at the time so I couldn’t get a good picture of everyone’s masterpieces, but pictured below is my finished product.
January:
At today’s meeting, we had limited time so we quickly went through old business then moved on to our activity. We did a scavenger hunt where we had to find different things related to 4-H throughout our home. For example, we had to find a green marker, a piece of paper, and even something with the 4-H logo on it. We weren’t keeping score, so everyone was a winner at the end! After our game, we went over when our next meeting would be and then said good night.
-Daisy Timney, Club Reporter
The 4-H Culinary Club is celebrating their one-year anniversary. When we are able to be in person, we meet at the Route 9 Library Innovation Center. Now, we gather our ingredients and tools and prepare the recipes together in our own kitchens connected through Zoom. In September, we began using 4-H Cooking 201 as our source of inspiration. During the month of November, we focused on making recipes using pumpkin. One club member, Francesca, grew, cleaned, and pureed the pumpkin she used in the recipes – her pumpkin pie is pictured.
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Ruby’s grandmother told us “she absolutely LOVES coming over Wed nights to cook/bake! Thanks so much for that! Her mom and great-grandmother aren’t sorry about that either, I can tell you! They’re always eagerly awaiting the results – for taste testing, of course! I just wanted to say how thankful we all are for this opportunity.”
In December, every week a member led the class and demonstrated their favorite Christmas cookie recipes. Many of these recipes had a memory associated with them. All the cookies were delicious, and we could not pick a favorite.
New members are welcome, we accept youth between the ages of 8 and 13. If you have a desire to learn to bake or cook or have a passion for trying new recipes, please contact Ms. Jenny at jtrunfio@udel.edu. We will resume our weekly meetings on Wednesday, January 6.
At today’s meeting, we started off by discussing healthy living with a healthy snack. Healthy living is important for your mind and body because if you aren’t putting in good food, then you aren’t getting good energy out. After talking about healthy foods and healthy lives, we started planning for the pumpkin decorating contest! In the photo above you can see Mrs. Shaffer depicting all the fun ways to use stuffing which included; making a Santa pumpkin, using it as crazy hair, adding eyes and making it a ghost, or even as a cottontail for a bunny pumpkin! As some finishing business, we had an update about our canned food drive and so far we have collected 91 cans to donate!
– Daisy Timney, Club Reporter
Porter Gang has been a general interest club in New Castle County since 1965. It was founded by Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Moore, who lived on Porter Road in Bear-hence the name “Porter Gang”. Over the years, our club members have participated in livestock, foods, clothing, woodworking, fishing, and environmental projects, as well as camping trips to Mallard Lodge, County and State camps, State fair, demonstrations, Public Speaking, and many other project areas and activities.
Our members have collected canned goods, gloves and hats for the needy, packaged boxes for the Seaman in the Port of Wilmington at Christmas, and made pull toys for the SPCA. We like to give back and stay active in our community.
4-H is an excellent opportunity to make new friends and experience new adventures while having fun learning.
Our club welcomes new members from the ages of 5
– 18. We meet currently at the New Castle County 4-H office on the second Wednesday of each month. If interested please feel free to contact Kimberly Klair by emailing her at swimmomklair@gmail.com.
Legacy 4-H Club in Kent County was founded in 2013 by Joy Gooden Sparks’ family in her honor. What better way to honor a memory and leave a legacy than to be involved in 4-H?
Dana Sharpe (Joy’s sister) and her nieces (Sherry Kijowski, Jessica Flaherty, and Heather Coverdale) served as the club’s founding organizational leaders.
The club currently has 28 members, with ages ranging from 5-16. The club has an active “tween” leadership group, along with monthly project meetings for foods, textiles, woodworking, archery, horticulture, and goat projects. The monthly meetings are held at the home of Sherry & Mike Kijowski and focus on “themes” related to upcoming 4-H events. For example, all Legacy members came to the meetings prior to the county public speaking and demonstration events ready to orally share a “life hack” so they can receive feedback about their public speaking and demonstration skills.
Legacy 4-H Club has also been involved in a variety of community service events, such as preparing meals and bagged lunches for Code Purple, Adopt-A-Family during the holiday season, nursing home bingo visits, “Sock-tober” sock collection for the homeless, and porch demonstrations at Fifer Orchards. Legacy 4-H Club annually participates in the Kent County Basket Auction, with every member donating items to the themed basket. We’re looking forward to September when the “Baker’s Delight Basket” will be auctioned off to benefit the Delaware 4-H Foundation.
Stump Corner 4-H Club is based in Townsend Delaware. We meet the first Tuesday of the month September through June at the Immanuel United Methodist Church in Townsend. Our members are mostly from the Middletown, Odessa, Townsend, and Smyrna area, but members are welcome from across the state. We are a general 4-H club, so our members are involved in diverse project areas. We have members who work on projects in Clothing & Textiles, Foods & Nutrition, Hiking, Wildlife, Forestry, Technology/Computer Science, Sheep, Dairy, and Swine. We are always open to other interests!
We currently have members from aged 5 through 17 and always welcome new members. During our meetings, we have completed science projects, made cards for the local nursing home, programmed robots, and created edible food art.
Our members participate in the Demonstration contest, Favorite Foods, Clothing & Textiles Showcase, Jr Council, Interstate Exchange, State Camps, and Judging contests and serve as camp counselors.
Community service opportunities include a yearly park clean-up, serving meals at Our Daily Bread in Middletown, and playing games with the residents of Broad Meadow nursing home in Middletown.
Our club year starts right after Labor Day. Late September brings the Townsend Town Parade and Fair. Our club members put together a float and provide a petting zoo at the town fair for the town residents. We hold a hayride in November at one of our member’s farm. In December, we have our annual family potluck dinner and craft night. April brings Ag Day where we participate with an educational booth.And we close out the year in June with a family picnic and litter clean-up at our local park.
We are always welcoming new members. Please email jltrunfio@gmail for more information.
Lord Baltimore Helping Hands 4-H club began 65 years ago, as an offshoot from an afterschool program at Lord Baltimore Elementary School. Carlene Jones began as a parent volunteer, and when the original leader stepped down, Carlene took the reins. She began the 4H club as we know it now and continues to attend every meeting and club event!
Because Lord Baltimore Helping Hands has members from both farm and residential areas, the youth are involved in many different project areas. The youth have worked in Foods and Nutrition, Photography, Computer Science, Leadership, Community Service, Clothing and Textiles, Dance, Woodworking , Small Animals, Horse and First Aid to name a few. There have been club members who have gone to the national level and won for their projects in Horse and Photography. Members are active on local, county and state levels. There have also been opportunities in the past to participate on national (Habitat for Humanity build in Toas, NM) and world (4 years of the Bosnia-Herzegovina exchange) levels.
Presently, the club is young and small- but mighty. Our 9 members are working in a variety of project areas. Our monthly community service project is to make cards/tray favors for approximately 180 Meals on Wheels clients out of the Ocean View and Roxana CHEER centers. The club meets at the Roxana Fire Hall, typically on the 2nd Sunday of the month, from 2-4 PM. For more information, contact the club leader, Kathy DiSabatino @ 539-8485.
Wool available!
If you’re interested in doing a felting project with your club (ala the Winter Workshop), there will be wool available in the NCC Office. Please contact Maureen if interested.
Houston Cardinals 4-H Club
Houston Cardinals 4-H Club was founded in 1915 by Dewey Sapp and is known as “The First Club in the First State”. We are a traditional 4-H club with eight Cloverbuds, ages 5-8, and twenty-one regular members, ages 8-19. We meet at the Cedarfield Ruritan Club on Tub Mill Pond Road in Milford on the first Tuesday of the month. Members participate in hands- on personal growth lessons that begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by our monthly business meeting starting at 7:00 p.m.
Houston Cardinals members participate in many project areas, such as: archery, public presentations, foods and nutrition, photography, and wildlife conservation. We have become a healthy living club, promoting healthy choices in both food and lifestyles. This year we will be learning about different types of electricity.
Our club participates in the Kent County’s Litter Barrel, Window Display, and Trim a Tree Contests. Members also participate in various Judging competitions as well as the Kent County Archery Contest.
The Houston Cardinals perform community service projects that include Adopt the Highway Program, collecting and making items for pet shelters, food banks, and homeless shelters. Members make thank you cards for veterans and Christmas cards for seniors. In the spring and fall, members assist kindergarten students with crafts during at Morris Early Childhood Center’s Reading Nights.
You will often find our club’s members promoting 4-H by selling clovers at Tractor Supply in Milford during its spring and fall 4-H Fundraising Event. We volunteer at Fifer’s Orchards during their Customer Appreciation Day in August. We have seasonal craft days, where member learn how to use various types of mediums and recycled articles to create new and creative pieces of art.
Our club loves the State Fair! Houston Cardinal 4-H members first participate in transforming the ice rink into a 4-H showcase then to bringing their entries to be judged. They enjoy being participants in Archery, Judging and other fun competitions. We assist in the Delaware Farm Bureau’s food booth completing orders and making yummy milkshakes.
Houston Cardinal members often become involved in national 4-H events, as well as take part in State and Day Camp activities, thus making and growing 4-H friendships throughout the entire state of Delaware and the USA.
Being a member of the Houston Cardinal 4-H Club has made them excel not only in high school, but in college and years beyond.
