Club Reports

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Submitted by Mary-Evelyn
Essex 4-H - Spice Club
(Posted May 7, 2012)

The second meeting of Spice Club took place at the Matthews home on Sunday April 29 at 2:00pm. With the topic of eastern European spices ‘Around the world in 80 spices’ began with cooking and baking.

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- Glencoe 4-H Sheep Club
(Posted May 7, 2012)

Updates from the first two meetings of the Glencoe 4-H Sheep Club

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Submitted by Kendess Mass and Friends
Essex 4-H - 4-H Sheep Club
(Posted May 3, 2012)

Essex 4-H Sheep Club update

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Submitted by Emma Lockley
Essex 4-H - 4-H Popcorn Club
(Posted May 3, 2012)

On April 25th, Mr. Poppers Popcorn People met in Leamington for the fourth meeting of the 4-H Popcorn Club.

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Submitted by Emma Lockley
Essex 4-H - 4-H Popcorn Club
(Posted May 3, 2012)

On May 2nd, the 4-H Popcorn Club ventured across town to Star Theatre to watch The Pirate Movie and snack on some hot and fresh movie theatre popcorn.

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Submitted by ALEXANDRA SALTER
Essex 4-H - Essex County 4-H Quilting Club
(Posted May 1, 2012)

Update on the fourth Essex 4-H Quilting Club meeting.

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Submitted by Kaitlin Cavanagh
Carleton 4-H - West Carleton Community Club
(Posted April 27, 2012)

A new journey has begun again for the West Carleton Community Club with our first meeting being held on Tuesday April 24/12 at the Galetta Community Center.

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Submitted by Nicole Clermont
Essex 4-H - 4-H Heritage Club
(Posted April 26, 2012)

Essex 4-H Heritage Club meeting updates by 4-H Member Nicole Clermont.

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Submitted by Rachel Balkwill
Essex 4-H - 4-H Fitness Club
(Posted April 23, 2012)

After a few months of training and lots of determination, the Essex County Fitness 4-Health 4-H Fitness Club completed and went beyond achieving their goal of walking in the 5km MS Walk Sunday April 22nd at 10 am.

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Submitted by Alexandra Salter
Essex 4-H - 4-H Quilting Club
(Posted April 23, 2012)

Essex County 4-H Quilting Club, held their 3rd meeting on Wednesday April 18th at the Essex Civic Center at 6:30.

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Submitted by Jessica Leonard
Sudbury 4-H - Verner
(Posted April 22, 2012)

The first meeting of the Verner 4H Goat Club took place on April 22nd, 2012 at the Emiry Farm in Verner. Twelve of the thirteen participants are new 4-H members and were eager to start the meeting.

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Submitted by Emma Lockley
Essex 4-H - 4-H Popcorn Club
(Posted April 18, 2012)

On Wednesday April 11th the ‘Mr. Popper's Popcorn Club’ gathered at for our second 4-H Popcorn Club meeting.

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Submitted by Alexandra Lockley
Essex 4-H - 4-H Swine Club
(Posted April 16, 2012)

On March 29th the 4-H Swine Club held their first meeting at 7pm at the Essex Civic Center. We started off with the 4-H pledge, and then held elections. Emma as President, Rachel is Vice President and Photographer, Abby is Secretary & Treasure, and Alexandra is Press Reporter.

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Submitted by Emma Lockley
Essex 4-H - 4-H Popcorn Club “Mr. Popper’s Popcorn Club”
(Posted April 15, 2012)

On Wednesday April 4th 2012, ten members gathered in Leamington for the first meeting of the new 4-H Popcorn Club.

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Submitted by Lauren Churchill
Essex 4-H - 4-H Vet Club “Wild Mustangs”
(Posted April 15, 2012)

A first year 4-H'rs experience at her first ever 4-H Club, The Wild Mustangs.

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Submitted by Caitlin Gaudet
Durham East 4-H - Woodworking South
(Posted April 12, 2012)

4-H Woodworking Club update

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Submitted by Charlie Illick
Dufferin 4-H - Dufferin Dairy
(Posted March 31, 2012)

We opened the meeting by judging November Jersey heifer calves followed by 5-year old Jersey milking cows. George VanKampen then placed the cows and gave his reasons.

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Submitted by Kendess Mass & Friends
Essex 4-H - 4-H Sheep Club
(Posted March 30, 2012)

We held our first meeting of the 4-H Sheep Club on March 20th, 2012 at the Essex Civic Centre. The purpose of our first meeting was to elect our executive and to pick a name for our club.

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Submitted by Rachel Balkwill
Essex 4-H - Fitness 4-Health 4-H Fitness Club
(Posted March 30, 2012)

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Submitted by Mitchell Drysdale
Carleton 4-H - Fallowfield Mashers
(Posted March 28, 2012)

Update from the Carleton 4-H Potato Club by 4-H Member Mitchell.

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Essex 4-H
(Posted March 26, 2012)

On March 23-25th five representatives from the Essex County 4-H Leaders’ Association travelled to the Waterloo Inn & Conference Centre to attend the 4-H Ontario ‘Volunteer Conference & Annual Meeting (CAM). This year’s theme “The Future Looks Bright” was a perfect selection for a very positive, fun and active 4-H year in our county.

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Submitted by Hanna Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Farm Safety Club
(Posted March 19, 2012)

The 4th meeting of the 4-H Farm Safety club was held on March 15th at the Essex Civic Centre. Juliana opened the meeting and the members recited the 4-H pledge.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - “The Rolling Stones” 4-H Curling Club
(Posted March 19, 2012)

The fifth meeting of the 4-H Curling Club was held on March 18th. The meeting was opened and the members recited the pledge. The members practiced throwing rocks, sliding and sweeping.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - “Monkeys in Stitches” 4-H Art Club
(Posted March 19, 2012)

The second meeting of the ‘Monkeys in Stitches’ 4-H Art Club was held on March 16th in Leamington. Nic opened the meeting and lead the members in reciting the 4-H pledge.

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Submitted by Aexandra Salter
Essex 4-H - 4-H Quilting Club
(Posted March 18, 2012)

The Essex County 4-H Quilting Club, held their second meeting on Tuesday March 12th and Wednesday March 13, 2012 at the Essex Civic Center in Essex at 6:00pm.

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Submitted by Essex 4-H
Essex 4-H - Junior Beef Expo participants
(Posted March 17, 2012)

Local Essex 4-H Members Cody and Brandon Rogers as well as Jackie Wismer participated in the 2012 Junior Beef Expo March 10th and 11th at the Western Fair Agriplex in London Ontario. There were over 250 head of cattle being shown by 4-H members from across Ontario.

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Submitted by Connor Halpenny
Grenville 4-H - The Dough Heads
(Posted March 17, 2012)

This is the first time the Pizza Project has been run in Grenville County. Our club, The Dough Heads, has 31 members who love all kinds of pizza, from pepperoni to meat lovers and everything in between.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - The Rolling Stones - 4-H Curling Club
(Posted March 17, 2012)

The fourth meeting of the ‘Rolling Stones’ 4-H Curling Club was held on March 11th at the Kingsville Curling Club. The meeting opened with the reciting of the 4-H pledge.

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Submitted by Rachel Balkwill
Essex 4-H - Fitness 4-Health: 4-H Fitness Club
(Posted March 16, 2012)

his weeks meeting was our first at an actual fitness centre where we would be getting to know our professional fitness trainer Jen Moore, as well as a thing or two on how to exercise properly and get ourselves into shape. Of course before we got to the fun part of our meeting we first started off with measurements and weigh-in's privately with Jen, as well as getting a little business out of the way.

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Submitted by Julianna Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Knitting & Crocheting Club
(Posted March 7, 2012)

The 4th meeting of the 4-H Mad Hatter's Knitting & Crocheting Club was held on March 5th at the Essex Civic Center. Emma opened the meeting and led the members in the 4-H pledge.

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Submitted by Rachel Balkwill
Essex 4-H - 4-H Fitness Club
(Posted March 6, 2012)

Have you been keeping up your news year resolution? The 4-H Fitness Club has, by holding their very first meeting "ever" on Monday February 27th at the Essex County Civic Center.

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Submitted by Jane Buchanan
Perth 4-H - North Perth Thumblina's
(Posted March 4, 2012)

On Saturday March 3, the North Perth Thimblina’s met again at the North Mornington Presbyterian Church.

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Submitted by Mary-Evelyn Lee
Essex 4-H - Spice Club: Around the World in 80 Spices
(Posted March 2, 2012)

This year Spice Club kicked off at 1:50 pm with the 4H pledge. Mrs. Matthews then touched on a few kitchen safety and etiquette rules. Next the executives were nominated and elected: Emma L. as President, Jacob as Vice President, Joelle as Secretary, Darren as Treasurer and Mary-Evelyn as Press Reporter. Last to be discussed was an outline of this year’s activities.

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Submitted by Hanna Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Safety Club
(Posted February 29, 2012)

The 4-H Safety Club helped with the Essex County Farmers' Meeting at the Essex Legion on February 28th at 7pm for their third meeting.

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Submitted by Danielle Pear
Essex 4-H - 4-H Quilting Club
(Posted February 29, 2012)

The members of the 4-H Essex County, Quilting Club, held their first meeting Thursday, January 23rd, 2012 at 6:30pm at Sew&Craft in Essex, led by leaders Sue Morris and Anne Conrad.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H “Mad Hatters” Knitting & Crocheting Club
(Posted February 28, 2012)

The members of "The Mad Hatters" 4-H Knitting and Crocheting Club held their third meeting on February 27th. Emma opened the meeting with the 4-H pledge; Jessica gave the secretary's report followed by the treasurer's report given by Samantha.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Curling Club
(Posted February 28, 2012)

The Members of the "Rolling Stones" 4-H Curling Club held their third meeting on February 26th at the Kingsville Curling Club. Hanna opened the meeting and the members recited the 4-H pledge. Then the Members went out onto the ice. The Members practiced sliding and throwing rocks.

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Submitted by Hanna Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Farm Safety Club
(Posted February 24, 2012)

The second meeting of the 4-H Farm Safety Club was held on February 23 at the Essex Civic Center. Read the details here.

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Submitted by Unknown
Durham West 4-H - Beaverton 4-H
(Posted February 22, 2012)

The Beaverton 4-H club has taught me alot in my years so much that I wanted to let my entire class about it so I wrote my speech about it. So far it is really good, I am going to talk about how it was established and grew, what it is and what programs you can join.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Curling Club
(Posted February 21, 2012)

The second meeting of the 4-H Curling Club was held on February 19th at the Kingsville Curling Club. Our leader Miss Glenda welcomed everyone to the meeting.

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Submitted by Shyann Kirkpatrick
Essex 4-H - Poultry Club
(Posted February 19, 2012)

On Thursday, February 16th, the 4-H Poultry Club held our first meeting at the Essex Civic Centre. We played Bingo to get to know each other and we learned about the club requirements.

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Submitted by Sam Grant
Essex 4-H - Baking Club
(Posted February 19, 2012)

The first meeting of the 4-H Baking Club was held on Saturday February 18, 2012 at the Agriculture Building at 10:30 am. We began the meeting by reciting the 4-H Pledge. Once we introduced ourselves we started to work.

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Submitted by Hanna Willemsma
Essex 4-H - Safety Club
(Posted February 19, 2012)

The first meeting of the 4-H Farm Safety Club was held on February 16th at the Essex Civic Centre. The leaders, Miss Bonnie and Miss Mary welcomed the members.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Art Club: Sock Monkeys 2012
(Posted February 19, 2012)

This year's project is making “Sock Monkeys”. We will be donating the monkeys to an organization such as a hospital or orphanage. “Monkeys in Stitches” was chosen as the club name.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Knitting and Crocheting Club
(Posted February 19, 2012)

The Essex 4-H Knitting and Crocheting club will now be called the “Mad Hatters”.The club name The Mad Hatters was picked from about 20 suggestions.

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Submitted by Jane Buchanan
Perth 4-H - North Perth Thimblinas
(Posted February 12, 2012)

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to quilt a beautiful pillow panel? Well, the North Mornington Church was busy with the sounds of a sewing machine, scissors, stitching, and laughter as the North Perth 4 H quilting club met for the second time on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at the North Mornington Presbyterian Church. The meeting was called to order by President Tracy Stark. Tracy led the 13 members present in the 4-H pledge. Secretary Emily Skinner read the minutes from last weeks me

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Curling Club
(Posted February 10, 2012)

The first meeting of the 4-H Curling Club was held on Feb 5th at the Kingsville Curling Club. First we learned some curling terms like button, house and hammer. We also learned that curling is the only sport where it is okay to steal points and throw rocks at houses.

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Submitted by Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Knitting & Crocheting Club
(Posted February 10, 2012)

The first meeting of the 4-H Knitting and Crocheting Club was held on Monday, Feb 6th at the Essex Civic Center. The meeting was called to order and then we said the 4-H pledge. Then our two youth leaders, Meghan and Jennifer lead us in a game where we each pulled a piece of yarn. The pieces were different lengths.

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Submitted by Kimberly Heaton
Essex 4-H - Essex 4-H Leaders' Association
(Posted February 10, 2012)

The Essex County 4-H Leaders’ Association held its Annual General Meeting at Colosanti’s Tropical Garden’s in Ruthven on Wednesday, February 8th. 4-H Volunteers were treated by the Essex 4-H Association to a buffet dinner prior to the AGM in appreciate of all of their hard work and dedication to our members over the past year; special thanks goes to the amazing staff at Colosanti’s for their wonderful hospitality.

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Submitted by Danielle Dales
Middlesex 4-H - Beechwood
(Posted January 25, 2012)

After all of last years fun in the "great chicken and egg project" and the "home for the holidays club", a new year of 4-H fun presents its self. Last year was great and we learned loads. Now were back for more.

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Submitted by Kelly Johnston
Frontenac 4-H - Frontenac Material Girls
(Posted January 11, 2012)

Ok, 14 girls is too many in one sewing club. Everyone learnt about buying fabric and showed their individual creativity and style while selecting the material for their club project. All members completed their Bodacious Bags by doing some long-arm machine quilting, machine sewing and hand stitching.

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Submitted by Mitchell Clermont
Essex 4-H - Essex Spice Club
(Posted December 13, 2011)

At this meeting of the spice club we were to get a taste of the Caribbean. Yea mon! When we arrived we immediately split into teams. The dishes that were cooked were as follows: jerked chicken, curried goat, curried lamb, and curried rice.

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Submitted by Hanna & Juliana Willemsma
Essex 4-H - 4-H Art Club
(Posted December 13, 2011)

On Oct 19th we held a 4-H Art Club meeting at Mrs Kimberly and Mr Marshall's house in Leamington. We decorated shoeboxes for “Operation Christmas Child”. At the end of the meeting we had 25 colourful boxes completed. Members took home a box to fill

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Submitted by Alexandra Lockley
Essex 4-H - Grow it Big Club
(Posted December 13, 2011)

At the 4-H Halloween Party the "Grow it Big" Club had their achievement. Our achievement project was to grow a giant pumpkin from a seed that we planted last spring in a coffee can. Everyone had different experiences with their plants.

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