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Harrison 4-H banquet includes honors

4-H is honored by all clubs at the close of the year, and the advisers, 4-H committee, horse committee and small animal committee leaders are honored for the time they put in to make the best better for the youth in the program.

Harrison County 4-H held its volunteer banquet at the Harrison Community Hospital Cafe with a very nice attendance.

Tim Tanner, Extension adviser and 4-H development leader, had a program  that told the metaphor of the fishing net or the Assiniboine fishing net activity.

Standing in the center of the room holding a fishing net, he asked for volunteers to come forward for the experiment. Grace Dulkoski, 2016 junior fair princess, was the first to step forward. Then older 4-H members, advisers and other leaders came to take  part in an unknown experiment.

Tim first told the participants to all stretch and pull the net out, shake it and try to move as a unit. It didn’t work. It was a complete struggle. Then he told the lead 4-H member to pull and for all others to move in the same direction. It worked — they could walk forward as a unit.

“When you are working together, all going in the same direction, you can walk whereever you chose,” he said.

He gave the State of 4-H Address, explaining that patience, mastery, courage, leadership and resilience are attributes of the 4-H Foundation.

“You will find that people want to be around good things. We are blessed with a strong volunteer base and people want to be around good things,” he said

Lorissa Dunfee, Extension program assistant, gave the welcome and post meal invocation.

The adviser recognition was given to the first-year participants and then in five-year increments.

First-year advisers were Drew Christman, New Rumley 4-H; Amy McLeod, Shamrock 4-H; Diedra Mizer, Cadiz Ranchers 4-H; and Danielle Shively, Silver Spurs 4-H.

Five-year advisers are Jimmy Cline, Country Friends, and Bill and Mindy Miller, Horses and Such. Twenty-year advisers are Barb Blazeski, Shamrock 4-H; Heidi Shaw, Green Valley 4-H; and Tena Stine, Freeport Friends. A 25-year adviser is  Ronald Caldwell, Germano Community, and a 30-year adviser is Missy Birney, Hopedale Town and Country 4-H.

Of course there are advisers who have been in the business of working with youth, helping to conduct meetings and encouraging project completion for many years as well. Listed are those who have served more than 20 years: Tillie Heavilin, Green Valley 4-H, 63 years; Dolores Spragg, Shamrock 4-H, 54 years; Loretta Pickens, Stitch and Hitch 4-H, 43 years; Lois Wright, Country Cousins, 37 years; Karolyn Wright, Country Cousins, 23 years; Doug Caldwell, Germano Community, 22 years; Barbara and David Cunningham, Green Valley 4-H, 22 years; Tammy Gilchrist, Royal Riders, 22 years; and Jay Bardall, Blue Ribbon General, 21 years.

The Shooting Sports group which instructs youth in safe shooting and archery skills are Greg Tullis, Jody Hyde, Mike Conrad and Robert Brooks.

Youth camp staff who helped build essential life skills at 4-H Camp Piedmont are Abby Keller, Addie Edwards, Alexis Corder, Andrew Mizer, Bailey Eberhart, Brandi Ryser, Elizbeth Henline, Gabee Fisher, Grant Sproull, Greg and Jeff Fogle, Joelle Jones, Joyce Barr, Karissa Bardall, Katherine and Riley Eberhart, Kealy Ghezzi. Morgan Garrett, Ryan Peters, Samantha Raber, Sarah Garczyk, Stephanie Birney, Zackary Matusik, Zakk Kelley and Zeb Fisher.

CARTeens is a traffic safety program conducted by 4-H teen leaders and their program partners for juvenile traffic offenders and is led by Joseph Shuss.

Depending on what project is taken, some 4-H members will be starting their work early next year to be ready for the July fair where awards for work well done are given.

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We have a recipe in the cookies and candy category, on page 24 of the Holiday Cookbook, that needs an addition. Bobbie McLean apologizes for leaving out two eggs in the recipe for Pecan Fingers that I will reprint here. It also slipped through a proof reading. Polly Modranski called to question what was left out. She is a thorough gal for noticing this with all the veterinarian work she has each day. And thank you, Bobbi, for sending in recipes.

Pecan Fingers

Crust:

3/4 cup shortening, half butter

3/4 cup powder sugar

1 1/2 cups flour

Filling:

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 tablespoons flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

2 beaten eggs

1 cup chopped pecans

Mix ingredients for the crust and press in a 9-by-13-inch greased pan. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Mix rest of ingredients and pour over hot layer. Bake 20 minutes longer. Cool. Cut into 1-inch bars. Makes 32.

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Jeanne Roberts and many of the Jefferson County Farm Bureau promotion and education committee members will be busy cooking this week for the annual Christmas luncheon to be held at noon Friday at the Farm Bureau office gymnasium, the former Bantam Ridge Elementary School. Reservations can still be taken through Monday for members and their guests to attend. The number to call is (740) 266-6603. They have a fun gift exchange, kind of like a “swap a gift with your neighbor.” Any opened gift is fair game for the one who has received a gift, still wrapped and wants to trade it. A gift that everyone likes can get traded many times before it is over.

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The Ron Retzer Trio will be giving a Christmas performance at the Smithfield Presbyterian Church at 6 p.m. on Dec. 11. This is for the Smithfield community and all areas beyond. It’s a great way to get the Christian Christmas spirit. The Smithfield Council of Churches is the sponsor.

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Today is the last day for the McCook House Civil War Museum Christmas open house on the square in Carrollton. The lives of the young men who were called to war with little training are shown, along with many of the instruments of battle and existence on the battlefield. It will be open from noon to 4 p.m. today. The Ashton 5 & 10 Cent Store in Carrollton is open during the week for an experience such as in your youth, if you are older than 55. It is a store that takes you back in time, with candy scooped up and weighed, many types and colors of fabrics in large bolts and many things not found in stores today.

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The McCoy and McHugh families will be kept in venison through the winter. Darin got a 191-pound buck with a 15-point rack while hunting with a bow several weeks ago in the Plain City area. My nephews, Garren, Mason and Morgan McHugh, all got outstanding size deer during huting season as well. There is this little contest on who gets the biggest deer. I think Darin got it this year.

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The next 21 days will be a race to make a joyous Christmas, but remember that all it really takes is family and friends to be together in fellowship, love and praise to God.

(McCoy, a resident of Smithfield, is food editor and a staff columnist for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times. She can be contacted at emccoy@heraldstaronline.com.)

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