Sending a reminder out that we are having a hike/letterboxing today at Peace Valley Park. We have found out that there are some Henson muppets hiding in them there park.
We will be meeting at 1pm at the nature Center. go down Rt 313 towards Doylestown and turn right onto New Galena Rd (where Nova is) then turn left onto Chapman Rd.
We will be making some potpourri trail mix - bring some ingredients that you would like to mix up and we'll see what kind of assortment we can gather. Usual ingredients are nuts, raisins, cranberries, m&m's, mini marshmallows, granola, cereal, etc.
Bring your stamps and note pads. If you don't have one yet, we will bring supplies for you to make your own. Bring your hiking trails book so we can review what we have done and mark the dates of our hikes since we have not done that yet.
For those that haven't joined us before - you are most welcome to join us for the day ro to start joining in on the project. You are also welcome to bring a friend! This is a hiking project as well as a self determined project for letterboxing. There is a link on the site that tells you more about letterboxing, but in short it's a treasure hunt to collect handmade and unique stamps hidden by other letterboxers. Come for the hiking or for the letterboxing or both!
Please call Mrs. P (215) 795-0174 if you have any questions or need a ride.
Mrs. P.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Roll Making
Thanks for everyone coming up with ideas for a kitchen. We got alot of ideas, which were so helpful.
Mrs. Neuman got permission from the Plumstead Grange for their kitchen for roll making. They were very nice to donate their big kitchen space for us.
The address is: Rt. 611 and Keller's Church Rd., Plumsteadville (practically across the street from the Plumsteadville Inn).
We will be making 30 dozen rolls, from 9 a.m. to about 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 25th.
We will need everyone to bring supplies.
First off we need LARGE mixing bowls and cupcake tins. Please label your tins, because they all tend to look alike. Measuring cups and measuring spoons. Aprons and dish towels would help.
If everyone could please bring some ingredients, we can divy-up what we need. Just email me and let me know. I will probably have to send out multiple emails to make sure we have enough of each thing, so please be flexible. Or hit REPLY ALL so that everyone can see what is still needed.
30 packages of fast-rising yeast
30 lbs of flour
3 lbs of sugar
3 gallons of milk
8 packages of sweet butter
3-4 boxes of 2 gallon plastic ziploc bags
For those of you who haven't done this before, it's really a fun opportunity for all of us to get together and have fun baking on a LARGE scale, and do something for our community. We look forward to hearing from all of you.
**** Jess, there is some down time when the yeast is rising. Can you come up with one or two games for everyone while we wait?
Ann Machesic
Hilltown 4H leader
**** PLEASE COMMENT BELOW IF YOU ARE BRINGING ANYTHING****
Mrs. Neuman got permission from the Plumstead Grange for their kitchen for roll making. They were very nice to donate their big kitchen space for us.
The address is: Rt. 611 and Keller's Church Rd., Plumsteadville (practically across the street from the Plumsteadville Inn).
We will be making 30 dozen rolls, from 9 a.m. to about 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 25th.
We will need everyone to bring supplies.
First off we need LARGE mixing bowls and cupcake tins. Please label your tins, because they all tend to look alike. Measuring cups and measuring spoons. Aprons and dish towels would help.
If everyone could please bring some ingredients, we can divy-up what we need. Just email me and let me know. I will probably have to send out multiple emails to make sure we have enough of each thing, so please be flexible. Or hit REPLY ALL so that everyone can see what is still needed.
30 packages of fast-rising yeast
30 lbs of flour
3 lbs of sugar
3 gallons of milk
8 packages of sweet butter
3-4 boxes of 2 gallon plastic ziploc bags
For those of you who haven't done this before, it's really a fun opportunity for all of us to get together and have fun baking on a LARGE scale, and do something for our community. We look forward to hearing from all of you.
**** Jess, there is some down time when the yeast is rising. Can you come up with one or two games for everyone while we wait?
Ann Machesic
Hilltown 4H leader
**** PLEASE COMMENT BELOW IF YOU ARE BRINGING ANYTHING****
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
tonight's meeting
Hilltown 4H Meeting - Tuesday, Nov. 10th
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
We will welcome in our new officers with the official 4H candlelight ceremony.
Drew and Jack will be kicking off the Hilltown 4H teams.
We will be concentrating on our support of Tony Polichetti's army squad serving in Iraq. We will be making cards and taking pictures for Tony Polichetti's squad in Iraq. At the last meeting we gave everyone a list of donations you can bring, that we'll send over to the soldiers.
They really need: aspirin (advil, tylenol, aleve, aspirin), snacks (all sorts, not candy), scotch tape, pencils-pens-pencil sharpeners, and soft toilet paper.
Please bring to the meeting all of your BonTon fundraiser money and leftover coupon books. We need to account for all of it to BonTon. Thanks to everyone who volunteered on that rainy Saturday.
Hold the dates:
We will be baking dozen-and-dozens of dinner rolls for the Zion Mennonite Church's Table of Plenty Thanksgiving meal. Our annual, marathon cooking session is Wednesday, Nov. 25th, 9 a.m. to about 1 p.m. All info will be available at the meeting. http://www.zionmennonite.org/tableofplenty.html
The December meeting is the presentation of our Drama Club's play. We will be meeting at a special date and time - Wednesday, December 9th at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Bedminster, 6:45 PM. If everyone could bring a desert or snack to enjoy after the play that would be great. We will have a short meeting before starting the play.
Ann
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
We will welcome in our new officers with the official 4H candlelight ceremony.
Drew and Jack will be kicking off the Hilltown 4H teams.
We will be concentrating on our support of Tony Polichetti's army squad serving in Iraq. We will be making cards and taking pictures for Tony Polichetti's squad in Iraq. At the last meeting we gave everyone a list of donations you can bring, that we'll send over to the soldiers.
They really need: aspirin (advil, tylenol, aleve, aspirin), snacks (all sorts, not candy), scotch tape, pencils-pens-pencil sharpeners, and soft toilet paper.
Please bring to the meeting all of your BonTon fundraiser money and leftover coupon books. We need to account for all of it to BonTon. Thanks to everyone who volunteered on that rainy Saturday.
Hold the dates:
We will be baking dozen-and-dozens of dinner rolls for the Zion Mennonite Church's Table of Plenty Thanksgiving meal. Our annual, marathon cooking session is Wednesday, Nov. 25th, 9 a.m. to about 1 p.m. All info will be available at the meeting. http://www.zionmennonite.org/tableofplenty.html
The December meeting is the presentation of our Drama Club's play. We will be meeting at a special date and time - Wednesday, December 9th at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Bedminster, 6:45 PM. If everyone could bring a desert or snack to enjoy after the play that would be great. We will have a short meeting before starting the play.
Ann
From the archives - Just found this!
We made the paper and I missed this article, but just found it on the web!
4-H clubs offer countless benefits
By: DALE MACHESIC
The Intelligencer
Local 4-H head honcho Bob Brown asked me this week if I could help spread the word about the upcoming Shooting Sports programs. I didn't hit send and started to write this.
If you read this column, you know how much I support the 4-H organization and the various 4-H programs. Over the years my family has gotten so involved that my wife Ann is now the parent organizer of the Hilltown Club. By the way, we can use more youngsters - the old "Hilltown High" building has a little more room for your son and daughter!
Today, 4-H is a national youth program with over 6.5 million youngsters learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. There are 3,500 full-time staff members, more than a half million volunteers and more than 60 million alumni that make up the 4-H family.
Attached at the hip to Penn State University, the 4-H program is in every county in the state. Last year as a chaperone at the state competition in Happy Valley, I enjoyed the company of over 500 of the greatest kids I've ever been associated with. These kids had qualified for the state level competition in county programs around Pennsylvania.
You have no idea how proud these kids made us parents while they showed their varied talents on the big central PA campus. From judging livestock to operation of agricultural equipment; from fashion design to food and nutrition; from public speaking to horse judging; from photography to physical fitness and dozens more, the activities are nearly endless.
Our local Bucks County chapter of 4-H recently spent a Saturday touring the facilities of Delaware Valley College. The tour was the final class of the animal science course youngsters from 13-18 can take on the beautiful Doylestown Township campus. Dr. Pamela Reed navigated the youngsters through the course. Through the winter months, she had them participating in a schedule of learning activities that ranged from dissecting minks to learning what makes a healthy family pet.
The day these youngsters spent touring the barns at DVC was something you should all experience. The graduate students that served as our guides have bright futures. I thanked one of them for very delicately and professionally taking the kids through every detail in artificial breeding done at DVC's state-of-the-art facilities.
Can you imagine the giggle factor if they hadn't?
The best part of the day was the look on the kids' faces. The conversations of the junior and senior high schoolers about their futures were fascinating. Kids that before the course might not have known the difference between beef cattle and dairy cows or that a pig is actually a very clean animal, were discussing their intentions of careers in animal sciences. Dr. Reed had my attention when she described the "bad press" regarding the production of the milk we drink.
One of the many questions I get from parents constantly is how can they get their kids started in the shooting sports.
It's unrealistic to think you have to go to the local sporting goods store and plunk down hundreds of dollars only to find out that junior has no interest or loses any interest rather quickly.
That's where 4-H can fill the gap.
Archery, air rifles, air pistols and shotguns are available for any area youngster that wants to "give it a shot." If your son or daughter has never picked up a gun or bow before but would like to, bring them out and join us for an experience they can take with them for the rest of their lives. Certified instructors take over the minute they arrive on the farm owned by the man that is a hero to every regional 4-H alum, Jack Shelly, in Hilltown.
It will set you back $11 for your son or daughter to join 4-H. Much of the equipment is free and available for use. And don't think it's not good equipment. The countless hours of volunteer efforts of many have stocked the barn with top shelf equipment. Archery, air rifle and air pistol equipment is available or you can bring your own. Shotguns and shells are on you but the clay birds will be provided.
If your son or daughter is between eight and 18 and would like to shoot at targets and learn safe firearms handling, they are all welcome. If they'd like to learn more about the dozens of other 4-H activities they should take advantage of the start of spring and get involved now.
"I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living; for my club, my community, my country and my world."
That's what every 4-H kid pledges at all major 4-H events.
Works for me.
The shooting schedules start next week so you need to call right away if you want to get involved. Call Brown's staff at 215-345-3283 to register and get more information.
The winner of the Coghlan's camping equipment was difficult to choose. Thank you for all the terrific e-mails and letters I received telling me your favorite family camping adventures. Every one of them brought back memories for me. Seniors and kids all wrote in. I loved all of them.
Greg Leven of Southampton told me he loves to take his kids camping and usually relies on the kindness of friends for the gear. Well, he has a little of his own now. He said the article last week inspired him to "make some quality time for my family." I'll have to see what else Coghlan's will throw in.
Dale Machesic can be reached at 215-345-3019 or dmachesic@phillyburbs.com.
April 20, 2009 09:17 AM
4-H clubs offer countless benefits
By: DALE MACHESIC
The Intelligencer
Local 4-H head honcho Bob Brown asked me this week if I could help spread the word about the upcoming Shooting Sports programs. I didn't hit send and started to write this.
If you read this column, you know how much I support the 4-H organization and the various 4-H programs. Over the years my family has gotten so involved that my wife Ann is now the parent organizer of the Hilltown Club. By the way, we can use more youngsters - the old "Hilltown High" building has a little more room for your son and daughter!
Today, 4-H is a national youth program with over 6.5 million youngsters learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. There are 3,500 full-time staff members, more than a half million volunteers and more than 60 million alumni that make up the 4-H family.
Attached at the hip to Penn State University, the 4-H program is in every county in the state. Last year as a chaperone at the state competition in Happy Valley, I enjoyed the company of over 500 of the greatest kids I've ever been associated with. These kids had qualified for the state level competition in county programs around Pennsylvania.
You have no idea how proud these kids made us parents while they showed their varied talents on the big central PA campus. From judging livestock to operation of agricultural equipment; from fashion design to food and nutrition; from public speaking to horse judging; from photography to physical fitness and dozens more, the activities are nearly endless.
Our local Bucks County chapter of 4-H recently spent a Saturday touring the facilities of Delaware Valley College. The tour was the final class of the animal science course youngsters from 13-18 can take on the beautiful Doylestown Township campus. Dr. Pamela Reed navigated the youngsters through the course. Through the winter months, she had them participating in a schedule of learning activities that ranged from dissecting minks to learning what makes a healthy family pet.
The day these youngsters spent touring the barns at DVC was something you should all experience. The graduate students that served as our guides have bright futures. I thanked one of them for very delicately and professionally taking the kids through every detail in artificial breeding done at DVC's state-of-the-art facilities.
Can you imagine the giggle factor if they hadn't?
The best part of the day was the look on the kids' faces. The conversations of the junior and senior high schoolers about their futures were fascinating. Kids that before the course might not have known the difference between beef cattle and dairy cows or that a pig is actually a very clean animal, were discussing their intentions of careers in animal sciences. Dr. Reed had my attention when she described the "bad press" regarding the production of the milk we drink.
One of the many questions I get from parents constantly is how can they get their kids started in the shooting sports.
It's unrealistic to think you have to go to the local sporting goods store and plunk down hundreds of dollars only to find out that junior has no interest or loses any interest rather quickly.
That's where 4-H can fill the gap.
Archery, air rifles, air pistols and shotguns are available for any area youngster that wants to "give it a shot." If your son or daughter has never picked up a gun or bow before but would like to, bring them out and join us for an experience they can take with them for the rest of their lives. Certified instructors take over the minute they arrive on the farm owned by the man that is a hero to every regional 4-H alum, Jack Shelly, in Hilltown.
It will set you back $11 for your son or daughter to join 4-H. Much of the equipment is free and available for use. And don't think it's not good equipment. The countless hours of volunteer efforts of many have stocked the barn with top shelf equipment. Archery, air rifle and air pistol equipment is available or you can bring your own. Shotguns and shells are on you but the clay birds will be provided.
If your son or daughter is between eight and 18 and would like to shoot at targets and learn safe firearms handling, they are all welcome. If they'd like to learn more about the dozens of other 4-H activities they should take advantage of the start of spring and get involved now.
"I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living; for my club, my community, my country and my world."
That's what every 4-H kid pledges at all major 4-H events.
Works for me.
The shooting schedules start next week so you need to call right away if you want to get involved. Call Brown's staff at 215-345-3283 to register and get more information.
The winner of the Coghlan's camping equipment was difficult to choose. Thank you for all the terrific e-mails and letters I received telling me your favorite family camping adventures. Every one of them brought back memories for me. Seniors and kids all wrote in. I loved all of them.
Greg Leven of Southampton told me he loves to take his kids camping and usually relies on the kindness of friends for the gear. Well, he has a little of his own now. He said the article last week inspired him to "make some quality time for my family." I'll have to see what else Coghlan's will throw in.
Dale Machesic can be reached at 215-345-3019 or dmachesic@phillyburbs.com.
April 20, 2009 09:17 AM
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