Sheridan Lake Livewires 4-H Meeting Report

By Vincent Koeller

Reporter

November 14, 2003

The Sheridan Lake Livewires 4-H club met on November 4, 2003. The following members attended the meeting: Cassie Harris, Lana Weber, Megan Linder, Shelby Harris, Vincent Koeller, Katie Sanders, Lauren Weber, Tyler Harris, Natalya Weber, Pete Rohlman and Gail Koeller.

The Treasurer’s report was given by Shelby. Vincent gave the Kiowa County Council Report and he handed out the District VI Night Owl registration papers to all members present, these forms are due November 10 at the Extension Office. The Night Owl will be November 15 at 8:00 p.m. at the Lamar High School.

The Program Cover Contest was rescheduled for our next meeting.

The 4-H Christmas Party Committees were appointed as follows, the first name on each committee is the person head of the committee: Food/Paper Products: Vincent and Gail Koeller, Lana; Decorations: Lauren, Natalya and Bob Weber, Katie, Lana; Gift Stealing Exchange: Tyler and Debbie Harris and Lana; Background Music: Shelby, Cassie and Kim Harris, and Lana. The Nursing Home Party Committee: Craft Decorations: Megan, Tyler, Pete and Lana; Bingo Committee: Pete will get back with a date and time.

Our Club voted to send Ronald McDonald a $50.00 donation. Also, our club decided to collect pop tabs for Ronald McDonald. Lana Weber was appointed to keep the jug of pop tabs for our club and to mail them to Ronald McDonald in June. If anyone in our community would like to collect pop tabs for our club please contact one of our 4-H members.

Our club has a tree at the Enchanted Forest in Lamar and every year we decorate it for Christmas. The following members were appointed to the Decoration Committee: Lauren, Natalya, Katie, Gail and Lana.

For the Christmas season we decided to go to Sandhaven Nursing Home in Lamar and do some Christmas Caroling after decorating the Enchanted Forest Tree. The Committee to get songs and set a time and date to match the Tree Decorating are: Shelby, Megan, Tyler, Kim Harris and Lana.

We decided to look into what it would take to help provide a CPR Clinic for our club and the community. The following members were appointed to investigate: Cassie, Lana and Pete.

The Adopted Grandparent Program went over really good last year so it was decided to choose names again at our next meeting in December. Pete was appointed to call community senior citizen members to see who was interested. Pete will then have a list of Adopted Grandparents to draw from at our December 7th meeting. If you would like to participate please contact Pete at 729-3369.

The 4-H Project Enrollment Papers were passed out and asked to be returned at our December 7th meeting. Please return papers to Gail or Pete.

The next Kiowa County Council meeting will be November 24 and our club appointed Lana and Megan to attend as well as Vincent, Gail and Pete.

Our next club meeting has been changed to Sunday, December 7 at 6:30 p.m. This meeting will be a potluck provided by the Sheridan Lake Livewires 4-H families for all the Adopted Grandparents, Grandparents, Leaders and Senior Citizens. Also, we will be doing a "Gift Stealing Exchange". If you want to participate the following are the guidelines. Everyone who wants to participate needs to bring a $5.00 gift, wrap it and place it into a brown paper bag. The gifts will be placed all together and everyone will get a number as to when it is your turn. The gift can be stolen only 3 times. We had tremendously too much fun doing this last year. Be prepared to do some laughing!!!

Announcements: November 15 – District 4-H Senate/Leader Meeting/Night Owl Party-Lamar. November 17 – 4-H Executive Council – Eads - 7:00 p.m. November 24 – 4-H Council – Plainview – 7:00 p.m. November 28-December 2 – National 4-H Congress.