Cleaning roadsides, building rockets and more

Posted 6/7/23

HONESDALE, PA — My name is Logan, and I am the news reporter for the Cherry Ridge 4-H Club.

Currently, our meetings are held monthly at the Cherry Ridge Municipal Building on Route 191. …

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Cleaning roadsides, building rockets and more

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HONESDALE, PA — My name is Logan, and I am the news reporter for the Cherry Ridge 4-H Club.

Currently, our meetings are held monthly at the Cherry Ridge Municipal Building on Route 191. The club has 12 members who range in age from eight to 18. We have one Cloverbud member—the Cloverbuds are aged five to eight. 

The leaders of the club are Diane Rickard and Jessica Kjera.

During our meetings, we do a variety of things. We work on club projects, have guest speakers and do demonstrations. 

A big part of our 4-H duties is doing community service projects. One of the largest ones that we do is roadside clean-up. 

We met on April 23 and divided into groups. The groups then went their way to accomplish the task. We gathered approximately 15 bags of garbage and other debris. 

We then went back to the municipal building and did some spring cleaning for the township supervisors.

They allow us to use the building all year long.

Other community service projects that we do are helping at the Honesdale Woman’s Club antique show in the summer, making crafts to give to nursing homes, and collecting canned goods for local food pantries. We also donate items to the Dessin Animal Shelter and local nursing homes.

The members of our club keep busy. Our 4-H year starts October 1 and goes on to September 30. We take on many other projects, from raising market animals to doing breeding projects, as well as completing dairy and poultry projects. 

If members are not into livestock projects, then there are plenty of projects to pick from that they could enter in the red metal building at the Wayne County Fair. Those projects include photography, vegetable-growing, growing flowers, baking, cake decorating and woodworking. There are projects on cats, dogs and rocketry (which is our club project this year), just to name a few. 

The list is never-ending. There is something for everyone.

In closing, we hope that these articles that are being published monthly will encourage more children to come and join in the 4-H fun. As the 4-H motto states: “To Make The Best Better.”

For more information about 4-H, contact the Wayne County Penn State Extension Office at 570/253-5970 ext. 4110.

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