Forest Lake Rangers. Town of May

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1 Forest Lake Rangers The Forest Lake Rangers 4H Club is located in northern Washington County in Forest Lake, MN. Our club meets on the second Monday of every month at the Forest Lake Library. We have members from ages 5-18 from Forest Lake and surrounding communities such as Hugo, Linwood area, Wyoming, Scandia. Our club has experienced a lot of growth recently especially in the younger Cloverbud kids. Our older members enjoy taking a leadership role teaching Cloverbud activities at our meetings. Besides monthly meetings, our club enjoys taking part in community building events such as serving meals at the First Covenant Church Homeless Shelter in Minneapolis, playing bingo at the Birchwood Senior Care facility, helping out at Hugo Good Neighbor Days, and packing meals for Feed My Starving Children. We enjoy hosting events like the Dress A Girl Sewing Event every year. We've participate in the Share the Fun program and have gone to the State Fair several times with our short skit, a fun experience! We have members with wide ranges of interests, including Shooting Sports, Sewing, animal agility, STEM, arts and crafts, Food Revue and more. Feel free to contact our leader Krista Hoekstra at forestlakerangers4h@gmail.com with any questions about our club! Town of May Greetings from the Town of May 4-H Club! Our 4-H club is over 85 years old and serves the north end of Washington County. We meet the second Monday of every month at the Scandia Community Center. Our members are interested in a wide variety of project areas such as: beef, swine, rabbit, clothing, photography, horse, goats, dog, and so much more. Service projects are an important part of our programming. We visit nursing homes, plant trees, make charitable donations, and create holiday treats for our community members. We regularly participate in Scandia Taco Daze and Forest Lake's Fourth of July Parade. We often leave the community center to go on "field trips" to member's homes or such places as Poplar Hills Goat farm and Autumnwood Farms. Feel free to stop in and visit!

2 Wranglers Wranglers currently meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month in the Stillwater area. Age ranges from Kindergarten to graduates!! We have about 5 traditional meetings a year where we get together and do our pledges, go over important info, vote on upcoming events and activities, play a game where we get to know each other more, and eat snacks! We also get to bring in our animals and present them to the club along with things we are learning about them or ways we are working with them. You can share other things with the club as well such as favorite school projects or other hobbies you have! We also do two or three community events a year. This past year we did Christmas caroling at a little nursing home in Stillwater and brought the residents and workers some treats! We all had such a great time! We also packed Snack Packs for students who attend local schools at the food shelf. We have an upcoming trail ride where we are all meeting at Lake Elmo park to hang out, eat, and go horse back riding! Whether or not you love animals, if you join our club you would be sure to meet some new friends and maybe explore some other things you may be interested in!! Silver Spurs Silver Spurs 4-H Club meets in the Lake Elmo area on the third Tuesday of most months. Our members range in age from 7-19 years old. We are a small club but have very active members who participate in a variety of project areas including Horse, Dog, Lama, Photography, Vet Science, Health, Leadership, Wildlife Biology, and Arts and Crafts, just to name a few. Some of our members are active at the county level of 4-H also. We have participated in community service projects such as Feed My Starving Children, Salvation Army Bell Ringing, the Humane Society and Operation Christmas Child. As a club we have had fun bowling, snow tubing, and fund-raising. We try to find fun things to learn about and try at each meeting. We would love to welcome new members to our club and hope you would consider joining us. No matter what your interests 4-H has something for you!

3 Valley Shamrocks Valley Shamrocks 4H currently has 25 members ranging in age from years old. Our members are involved and show in many 4-H projects including horse, cow, lama, chickens, dog, drawing, cooking, photography, fine art, sewing, and many others. Each of our current members rides and shows horses in English, Western, Dressage, Hunter Jumping, Eventing, and even some games for fun. Although we have horses in common, we are animal lovers as you can see by all of the projects we participate in. We also like to serve our community and do so through volunteering our time to events like Feed My Starving Children, Toys for Tots, Salvation Army Bell Ringing, and writing letters to deployed military veterans. We have fun events throughout the year, like snow tubing, bowling, an all-night party we call Horse-A-Palooza, and horseback riding clinics. We participate in Washington County horse camp, County and State Fair. We fundraise to pay for most of our activities, which is fun! We get to tell people about our club and what we do, spend time together, and raise enough funds for the entire year s events in just 2 days. We currently meet in Woodbury at a member s home approximately 8 times per year for meetings in addition to our events. 4H gives you an opportunity to explore your interests, take leadership roles, and make new friends. We d love to have you visit one of our meetings or events. If you are considering 4H and love animals (especially horses), Valley Shamrocks is a great place to pursue your passion. Have fun at the fair and come by the barn and say hello, we hope to see you soon! Lucky Aces Lucky Aces meets on the third Monday of most months at the Baytown Community Center. Our club consists of members from several communities in Central Washington County, such as Baytown, Oakdale, Stillwater, Lakeland, Lake Elmo and Woodbury. We have a broad variety of interests from animal projects (dog, rabbit, cattle, and poultry) to general projects (clothing, gardening, STEM, and more). We are a growing club, with a fabulous Cloverbud program. We enjoy spending time together at meetings, service projects, and social gatherings. We have participated in the Share the Fun program for most of the last several years. We are also proud to have many members who have branched out and become active at the county level, and even the state and national level. We LOVE our club and we hope you will consider joining us!

4 Country Cousins The Country Cousins 4-H Club has about 50 members ranging in age from Kindergarten to 12th grade. We are a very active club that stresses family involvement. Our club does several community service projects throughout the year. Some of our favorite events are family game night, a Christmas party and a summer picnic. In the past we have had guests from the MN Zoo, Gerten s, Remarkable Reptiles and the MN Raptor Center. Our members are involved in a wide variety of project areas from aerospace to vet science and from Arts-In to Shooting Sports. We also have members that show or train pigs, lamas, dogs, rabbits, goats, ducks and chickens. Riverside Routers Our club has a wide range of ages and interests. Species exhibited at the fair include sheep, pigs, cattle-dairy and beef, chickens, turkeys, rabbits, and pigeons. Members participate in both County and State Arts-In. Non-animal project span the Premium Book. We try to have 4-6 activities per year and hold monthly meetings, excluding August. Activities include Halloween Party, Fall Hayride, summer picnic, and ski day at Afton. Our community service project include roadside clean up, Bingo and Valentines at a Retirement home, Christmas gifts to family service, and Feed my Starving Children.

5 Sunnyside The Sunnyside 4H club is a small club located in southern Washington County. We meet once a month at members' houses for different activities and service projects. Our club has around 15 youth members who are dedicated to growing our club and teaching others about their projects. We are always excited to have new members. Our service projects include: making blankets for the Hope Lodge, helping clean up the fairgrounds and repainting the buildings. Activities that our members participate in are poultry, rabbits, horses, preforming arts, clothing, veterinary science, goats, sheep, pigs, dogs, and robotics. Each meeting contains fun activities that range from a horse fun show to cupcake decorating to a corn maze and hay ride. Our club is unique in that each year, as a club, every member tries a new project. This year our club discovered the poultry project. So look for us at the poultry show! Feel free to contact our leader, Sonja Peterson, at with any questions about our club. Happy Hornets The Happy Hornets 4-H club is one of the oldest and longest running clubs in Washington County. We meet on the first Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm at the Cottage Grove Government Center off of Keats and the Ravine Parkway. Our club members range in ages from 6 years old to 19 years old. We have approximately 25 members. The fair projects that our club members are involved in are very diverse: photography, horse, arts and crafts, fishing sports, science, exploring animals, child development, foods and nutrition, consumer education, wood working, flower gardening and Rube Goldberg to name just a few! Other volunteer activities that are club is involved in are Feed My Starving Children, collecting items for the local food shelf, buying presents for children in need at the holidays. We also have an annual pajama and game night meeting, picnic and holiday party. If you have any questions about our group please contact Jeff or Jolene Abelson at jabelson617@gmail.com. Visitors welcome!

6 St. Croix Clovers The St. Croix Clovers 4-H Club has members ranging in age from Kindergarten to Freshman in college. Meetings are held on the first Friday of every month at Baytown Hall. At these meetings, business is covered as well as "Project Engagement" (where different people come to meetings to show new and creative ideas of projects and project areas they have done through 4-H), "A One Minute Look At the Premium Book" (where a junior leader discusses one county fair project area for one minute), "Recreational Activities" (where everybody has the opportunity to play games or sing songs), and a "Monthly Activity" (these activities can range from '4-H Club Olympics' to making valentines for the nursing home). At each meeting, new and visiting members are always welcomed and encouraged to participate in the fun. Some county fair-related activities St. Croix Clovers 4-H Club members participate in includes: performing arts, photography, fashion review, robotics, STEM, shooting sports, rabbit judging, dog project, horse project, and others. In addition to the many county events, our club offers many club opportunities, to name a few: Service Projects: Books for Africa, Valentines for Vets, Salvation Army Bell Ringing, Monitoring bluebird trail, Performing our "One Act Play at Boutwells" Workshops: Bluebird house-making, baking, wool processing, broomball stick-making, and monarch workshops Social events: Annual broomball tournament, camping, movie night, game nights! The St. Croix Clovers Club also focuses on youth leadership development opportunities. Some members of our club will also be going to the Minnesota State Fair with their 1st place Share the Fun Skit to complete against other county winners. The St. Croix Clovers 4-H Club creates strong leaders while having fun and serving the community! 2016 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. University of Minnesota Extension is an equal opportunity educator and employer. In

7 WOODBURY 4-H CLUB EVERYONE IS WELCOME! LEADERSHIP CLOVERBUDS FOOD SCIENCE ROBOTICS CRAFTS WHEN Third Monday of every month 6:30-8 p.m. WHERE Woodbury Estates 2825 Woodlane Drive, Woodbury Lower Level CONTACT US ROCKETRY FOOD/NUTRITION SERVICE FINE ARTS GARDENING SHOOTING SPORTS CLOTHING SCIENCE FAMILY FUN AND MORE!