Jams and Jellies

Just a reminder to get your fruits on! We start Jamming this Thursday at the Polichetti's - first night will be our award winning fruit medley mix jam.

we'll be starting at 6:30 pm - finishing up about 8:30 and once we are cleaned up we all get a dip in the pool to cool off.

Bring 1/2 pint jelly jars. We will need strawberries, rasberries of any sort, mulberry etc. bring them if you have them!

Call Mrs. P. with any questions

Hiking & Letterboxing

Hiking and letter boxing will start back up tomorrow. 1pm at the Polichetti's. Bring your hiking book and letter stamp book. We will complete the hiking book for the grange and start a poster for the letterboxing for the grange. We will also look up letterboxes in the area and decide where to go on our next hike.

Hiking and Letter boxing will meet monthly until the weather gives out on us, most likely November will be our last hike. (Unless we have brave souls that want to keep going) We will travel to local parks and search for these treasures in the forest. Other plans include having a guest leader plan a day to fill other 4-h projects relating to insects and birds in the wild. We will also make a trail mix at one of the meetings. Everyone is welcome to join and always welcome to bring a guest! Our walks also provide beautiful scenery for photographers.

There is no cost for the project, just wear comfortable walking shoes and bring water to keep hydrated.

Please email Mrs. P. if you are interested and haven't yet signed up.

Fabulous Fridays!

The extension office is offering day projects on Fridays throughout the summer. What a great way to coll off and keep busy with 4-H projects!

6/25 - Candy Concoctions - what a sweat treat!
7/2 - Paper Potpourri - paper making, marbling and crafts and outdoor games!
7/9 - All about Accessories - Design and make jewelry
7/23 - Sew much fun - summer canvas bag
7/30 - Make it with mixes - cooking fun!
8/6 - Hollywood comes to Doylestown - Hollywood Costumes and tour michener Museum

Each class is $20, bring your own bagged lunch. Held rain or shine. Call 215-345-3283 for questions or to get form to sign up. (Copy was included with the last county clover)

Reminder - Monthly Meeting

Hi everyone. Our next Hilltown 4H meeting is this Tuesday at 7 p.m.


We will be doing lots of things:
Business meeting, with class sign up that start immediately for the summer.

A surprise speaker, who you all know (sort of).

An amazing activity that will be lead by the teens.

Be there for all the fun, and to get ready for some classes to present at the Grange Fair.

Questions? Just give us a call or shoot an email.

Toastmasters

Toastmasters had 25 teens enrolled in the January-February eight weed public speaking class. The leadership program was taught by Doylestown Toastmaster's volunteers Ralph Crance and Mike Powers. The following teens graduated from Toastmaster's on March 3, 2010: Michael Allan, Seth Crance, Neha Gupta, Tyler Hughes, Samantha Jaffe, Lindsay Jordan, DJ Kim, Sarah Markiewicz, Patrick Meadows, Madison O'Brien Jones, Chelsea Pick, Samantha Polichetti, Josh Powers, Danielle Sherman, Sydney Sherman, Kathleen Troy, Garrett Trucksess and Sandy Vogel.

Sandy Vogel and Samantha Polichetti, both from our club, were selected to do a speach at the Doylestown Toastmasters Club, Sam won the table topics competition and won a book mark for it. Yay Sam and Sandy for being selected out of them all!

Member's Only Website

I am creating another website to manage members and project sign up events. This is being done through Big Tent. I ask ALL members to sign up for an account or contact me to send you an invitation to join so you can keep track of your membership and projects that are coming up. I am hoping this will help keep everyone in the loop as to what projects are being offered and leaders to know who is interested in participating in the projects. The link to the buzz page
http://www.bigtent.com/group/buzz . You may need to sign up for an account to view the Hilltown Buzz page. If you have any problems at all, please email me at iamcpa@accountingmgt.com for assistance.

Mrs. P.

Archery, Air Rifle, Air Pistol

Bucks County offers Shooting Sports each year for Archery and Air Rifle for youth that are 10 to 18 years of age. The cost is $15 for current 4-H members. The cost for archery members that have their own bows and arrows is $10. Non 4-H members need to include$15 for 4-H membership. Send in fees with the registration form which is included in the tear off section. The location is at Shelly's, 2114 Swamp Rd. (Rt. 313), Fountainville. Return the registration form by April 23. Classes are ten consecutive weeks. All equipment is supplied; however you may bring your own.

The schedule for this year starts early and is:
All Archery and Air Pistol-- Wednesday evenings, beginning April 28, 6:15-8:15 p.m.
Advanced Air Rifle-- Wednesday evenings, beginning April 28, 6:15-8:15 p.m.
Beginning Air Rifle-- Thursday evenings, beginning April 29, 6:15-8:15 p.m.

-County Clover

Shelly's Farm

Sam, Emma, Jack, Mr. and Mrs. Machesic, Joe, Nick P., Mr. and Mrs. Polichetti, Rachel, Kelly Tony, Nick G., Laura and her father all went to the Shelly's Farm on the 18th to help clean up. The Shelly's farm got hit pretty hard with all the winter storms we had. They needed all the help they could get. There was going to be another help out today but due to the rainy weather it was postponed to a later date. That date will be posted on here once it is verified.

Thanks to all the help we got! It was a lot of fun and the Shelly's really appriciated all the help.

Rachel

Plant Science Projects

Not to overwhelm you with extreme inacitivty to extreme activity, but we are passing the torch onto the youth leaders to keep the site up to date and keep everyone informed.

The extension office has a Plant Science Project offered for members to grow their own plants to be jedged at the grange fair. This is self disciplined and no required meetings. Fill out the form provided in the county cloer and return by May 1st. Include $ per project and select from 3 bean, Herb, Tomato or pollinator project.

Teen Leadership Programs

Bucks County sent 20 delegates to the State Teen Leadership Conference held at the Penn Stater in State College, January 29-31. The following Hilltown 4-H teens traveled by motor coach bus to attend the motivating leadership conference: Emma Machesic, Drew Moyer, Samantha Polichetti, Rachel Quiring, and Sandy Vogel.

Thanks to the Teen Council Advisors, Melissa Newton and Greg Guerriero for chaperoning STLC!

Welcome :D

Hey Everybody,

It's Sam here, assuming if you didn't know who this was by the awesome username, I'm here to inform you of all the beastly news within our little jungle called Hilltown 4-H. We'll call my blogs "The 4H Report." Clever huh? I think so :D

Oh, and I am President of the Hilltown 4-H :D

Tuff huh?

I am pretty pumped to be doing this, arent you?!

Updating Website

I am Rachel, your news reporter!

I plan on bringing you updated news on the Hilltown 4-H group activities and news. Starting with, volunteering at Shellys Farm has been postponed due to the weather, further updates will be posted later.

And to add on to what "President_Awesome" said, why yes, yes i am pretty pumped about doing this! Hope to see you all soon!

New Buzz Page

We are in process of setting up a membership forum through BigTent. This should allow us to track membership of all the 4-h members and track sign ups for events. PLease check it out and provide feedback. If you shoudl receive an invitation, please accept it.
Please bear with us as we are working on improving our site and our communication with all the members.
http://www.bigtent.com/group/buzz - look for Hilltown 4-h

and if you don't know, we have a facebook page now. It's the Hilltown 4-H club. Come check us out and become a fan.

Tami