Harbor Lights 4-H Club – Elise Goehringer, Reporter
The Harbor Lights 4-H club kicked off the first meeting of the season with a bang! After a joyful reunion we sat down to discuss the important topics of the meeting. Our outstanding former president led the club into conversations about county record books, diamond clover reports, and exciting upcoming 4-H events we don’t want to miss! Our club is pleased to announce that we are going to be involved in many community outreach and service projects this year. These amazing projects give our club opportunities to participate in Delaware coastal cleanup taking place September 17th and adopt a highway. The Harbor lights 4-H club smiles at the chance to give something back to our community.
After the meeting was adjourned our club elected new officers who will boldly lead us into this new season of greatness. We are confident they will teach and encourage our club to reach it’s full potential in doing what we love to do: making the best better. At our next meeting our club will compete in a fun Mac & Cheese Cook Off, we will start our service projects and we will plan future events.  Exciting things are happening for our club and you don’t want to miss out!

Hollymount 4-H Club
Hollymount 4-H Club welcomed 9 new members at our first meeting of the new 4-H year. Congratulations to Colleen, Bailey,Gia, Lily, Beth, Sarah, Sundene, Trey, Sam, Taylor, Kyle, Savannah, Daniel and Ainsley for completing their project books. They are now eligible to be club officers. We are making plans to participate in Coastal Clean Up again this year and some of our older members will also be volunteering at the Lewes Library Carnival event. Plans are being made for Hollymount to participate in the Window Display Contest. At our next meeting we will have two guests. Clyde Mellin will provide woodworking judging training. Our other guest will be showing us how to do nail art so that we will be prepared to paint nails at a nursing home. Thank you to the West family for hosting our first meeting!

Sussex 4-H Jr. Council – Matison Smith, Reporter
The first meeting of Jr. Council began with agent notes. Tiffany had a baby boy in June and Jill is expecting a boy in November. Tiffany also discussed upcoming events happening in October like Trunk or Treat and Science Saturday. After that the DAR discussed Constitution Week and the event they have planned in order to celebrate. Then the new Jr. Council officer’s were elected. Collen Anderson was elected President. Shawn Mitchell became Vice President and Taylor Wroten assumed the position of Treasurer. Jenna Anger accumulated the most votes and won the position of Assistant Treasurer. Matison Smith became Secretary and Madison was nominated to be Reporter. Collen then started the meeting quickly discussing old business like State Camp and new business like Coastal Cleanup. The meeting ended with Colleen reminding everyone to start thinking about ideas for Fall Overnighter.

Cypress Heart & Hands 4-H Club
We held our first meeting of this 4-H year and elected our new officers. Rebecca will be President, Brynn will be Vice President and Secretary and Katelyn will be Treasurer! There are lots of events and activities that our kids will be participating in this year; including Coastal Cleanup, Nursing Home visits, Adopt A Family, Bowling Fundraiser, Halloween and Christmas Parades, Window Display; just to mention a few. We adapted new Bylaws for our club; which everyone agreed on and signed. State Fair and State Camp were discussed with only positive comments. We ended our meeting by making a 4-H Club Mix; which was a big hit with everyone.  I think we are off to a great start of a GREAT year!!

Clover Knights – Ashlyn Elliott, Reporter
The Clover Knights held their first meeting of the 2016/17 4H year on Tuesday, Sept 13.  During this meeting we elected our new club officers, which are: President-Rebecca Lenhart,  Vice President-Emma Sparpaglione, Secretary/Reporter-Ashlyn Elliott  and Treasurer-Aron Carrow.  In addition to elections, several members shared their State Fair highlights and summer accomplishments.  We also discussed upcoming events and projects.  We closed out the meeting by making a monogram initial woodwork craft (see pictures attached), which was enjoyed by everyone.  The next meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 11.

Sussex 4-H Dairy Club
What is hardware disease? We learned the answer to this and many other questions at our September Dairy Club meeting. This month we focused on the digestive system. After an interesting PowerPoint presentation by Noah Gesford, we broke up into two groups and played Cow Digestion Jeopardy. Although they were neck and neck for a while, the final score was: Sparkling Guerillas 500, Elephants -60!

This year we will be learning about topics such as embryo transfer, technology  in dairy farming, breeding and artificial insemination, and metabolic diseases. We also discussed possible field trips to the University of Delaware dairy farm for a tour and cow anatomy lesson along with a potential trip to a cow sale sponsored by Delaware Valley University.

If you are interested in learning about dairy science please email the club leader at sc4hdairyclub@gmail.com and plan to join us at our next meeting on Wednesday October 19, 6:30 pm @ the REC.  Please visit:http://sc4hdairyclub.blogspot.com/

Hickory Tree Bluebirds – Jasmine Collins, Reporter
We had our first club meeting on September 9, 2016. We have our first president, vice president, secretary, reporter and treasurer. Our president is Aniyah Collins and Vice Prsident is Bre’oja Dixon. Our secretary is Nizair White and our reported is Jasmine Collins. Our very own treasurer is Jasmine Simmons. We are glad to be part of 4-H!

Phillips C. Showell 4-H Afterschool – Taylor Miller, Site Coordinator
This summer, our PCS 4-H program had so much fun. We took many field trips including the Delaware State Fair, a day at the movies, Assateague Island to learn about the wild horses and enjoyed a day of fun in the sun. We also took many walking trips to the Selbyville Library and enjoyed all of there amazing summer activities. Our students created, designed and analyzed wonderful steam projects. We had a great first summer!