Summit Bridge

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!

Porter Gang

Holy Angels 

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.

Holy Angels 4-H Club

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

Meado-Larks 

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.

Summit Bridge

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

Route 9 Culinary Club

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..

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.

Summit Bridge

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 Club Spotlight

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

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 2^nd 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.

Summit Bridge

The Summit Bridge Club enjoyed helping others by ringing the bell for the Salvation Army in December. They then had some fun at the club’s holiday party at Sky Zone.