2008 - 2009 Average Joe's 4-H Club
COMMUNITY SERVICE PARTICIPATION
Celebrate Easter 4/11/09 Mease Continuing Care Center, Dunedin, FL
Our club enjoyed participating in an Easter Egg Hunt with the residents and then organzing crafts to work on with the residents. We were helping the residents paint stained glass window decorations and assembling personalized door hangers for their rooms. The number of residents wanting to work on crafts with our club was so great, there was a line of residents in the hall waiting for their turn to come in to work with Matthew, JD, Erin, Tommy and our special guest, Ashley. The residents shared cookies and punch with us.
Air Potato Pick-Up 1/10/2009 Hammock Park, Dunedin, FL
This is the fourth year we helped remove air potatoes from Hammock Park. The air potato plant is an invasive vine with a “potato” which came from Southeast Asia and threatens to take over native vegetation in Hammock Park.
District IX Toy Drive and Christmas Party Potluck 12/12/08
Pinellas County Extension Office, Largo, FL
Submitted by JD, Club Reporter Almost the entire Average Joe's 4-H Club attended the District IX Christmas Party/Dinner on December 12, 2008 at the Pinellas County Extension Office. We (as in my family) got to the extension office early and we, my parents and I, helped set up along with Erin (the Average Joe's only girl member). After helping, some other clubs had arrived. The rest of the "Joe's" that had planned on attending came. Matthew, Sam, Erin, Cole, and I all enjoyed the first ice-breaker activity in which we had a card taped to our backs with a Christmas related item written on it we then asked people yes or no questions to see if we could guess what it was. Everyone laughed when we looked at Matthew’s because it said "Mrs. Claus." Then we did a game where we had to guess a Christmas song by listening to the music only. We enjoyed the wonderful dinner made by the attendees of the party and a game of snap ball, (a game I invented where you pretend you are throwing a ball back and forth and you snap every time you throw and catch it). Then it was time to wrap the presents everyone brought as their admission price to the party! Sean, District 9 Council President, first went over where the gifts were going and who’s Christmas we were going to change. Then we started wrapping, and at my table musically rapping. I wrapped around four or five gifts and two songs. After we were done, we counted the gifts and found out we had reached and surpassed our goal of 100 gifts! We then celebrated and took a group picture. Finally, to finish out a great night, we went outside and looked at the Christmas lights at the Botanical Gardens. I know everyone had a great time, especially the Average Joe's, and we can't wait until next holiday season comes around!
