Husky 4-H’ers have a ball serving their community

By CASH CAMPERELLI
Husky 4-H’ers Club Reporter

On March 11, the Husky 4-H’ers started our meeting out with a pizza party! This wonderful event included pizza, carrots, chips, and cookies.

After that, we started things out with a little bit of exciting news: Two of our 4-H’ers, Lauren Happel and Addison Mann, got scholarships! Lauren got a scholarship to Purdue University for vet school, and Addison got a full ride to IU for business school. They told us about how they got to where they are (newsflash: It wasn’t easy!), then we got down to business.

Colton Hoane did the Secretary’s Report: Our meeting went pretty well last time. Then Stella Hartwick gave the Treasurer’s Report: We’re doing pretty well. Zuri Ebigbo did Devotions on rejoicing God, which is always a good message. Then Sophia Camperelli gave a Health and Safety demonstration on how to eat healthy so you can stay healthy (again, another good message).

Our guest speaker was Lisa Hanni from the Purdue Extension office. She told us about one of her many jobs for 4-H: Camp Shakamak. Camp Shakamak has been a 4-H camp for a long time, and she told us all about it. She told us about all the perks, details, and all that happens at Camp Shakamak. Then Addison Mann told us what it was like to be a junior director at the camp.

After our guest speaker, we had our trivia contest: What was the missing “H” in the original 4-H pledge? Health, Heart, Hands, or Head? The answer was health. Nathaniel Leonard got the answer right and won a gift card from Chick-fil-A.

Then Levi Small led us in song as we sang Happy Birthday to all the Husky 4-H’ers who have a birthday in March.

After that, we had more demonstrations. Abby Martin demonstrated the parts of a tennis racket and how each part affects the game. Natalie Allen and Stella Hartwick gave a demonstration on how to braid hair in different ways. Brooklyn Hoane and Colton Hoane demonstrated how to tell one pig apart from another by the number of notches in its ear and then gave some 4-H’ers a chance to practice on paper pigs.

Then our Recreation Leaders Chiamaka Ebigbo and Natalie Knapp taught us how to play the game Silent Ball. In this game, players must stand in a circle and toss a ball to each other – but there’s a catch: If you talk or throw a snake eye (look one way and toss the ball the other way), you are out. The last one standing is the winner. After a couple rounds of that, our meeting ended.

But that doesn’t mean this report ends!

Now for a new feature, The Dirt, where I get the “dirt” on how people think our meetings have been going:

“Pretty good. The first meeting was especially fun because of the skits.” – Levi Small, Song Leader

“Honestly, I feel like it’s gone pretty well. I think there’s a lot of new people, and that’s good for making connections.” – Chiamaka Ebigbo, Recreations Leader

“I think we’ve been doing good. We’ve been using our money well and donating. We have enough to up our scholarships to three a year.” – Stella Hartwick, Treasurer

And speaking of donating, the Husky 4-H’ers finished out the week by meeting up at Cicero Christian Church on March 14 to pack 15,168 meals for International Disaster Emergency Service.

All in all, it was a pretty good week to be a part of 4-H.