ANOKA COUNTY 4-H CLUB BIOGRAPHIES

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1 ANOKA COUNTY 4-H CLUB BIOGRAPHIES Joining an Existing 4-H Club Each Anoka County 4-H club is unique! Check out the attached biographies to help you decide what clubs you would like to contact. **NOTE: All Clubs do not have a bio below. For a complete list of our 4-H clubs: Once you have found a few clubs that you are interested in: Call or the club leaders for more information about joining the club and to confirm their upcoming meeting. Feel free to shop around with multiple clubs to find the best fit for your family. Phone interviews or in person visits are both good options! Once you have chosen the right club for you, be sure to select that club on when you enroll so you show up as a member. Starting a New 4-H Club Creating a new club is encouraged! You need three families and a willingness to explore 4-H. No previous 4-H experience is necessary. Contact Anna Gilbertson annag@umn.edu for info on how to get started. Welcome to 4-H! 2012 Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. University of Minnesota Extension is an equal opportunity educator and employer. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, this material is available in alternative formats upon request. Direct requests to the Extension Store at Printed on recycled and recyclable paper with at least 10 percent postconsumer waste material.

2 ANOKA NORTHERN STAR 4-H CLUB Hi! We are Kendra and Ruth who co-lead the Anoka Northern Stars 4-H club for homeschoolers. We usually meet on the 2nd Friday of each month (although a few times during the year it flexes to the first or third Friday) at the Bunker Hills Activities Center. Sometimes we meet at an offsite location to incorporate different experiences for our club. Our meetings begin with an ice breaker activity and then move into a business meeting, followed up by an activity for the kids to either have fun or explore a project area. We end with some snacks and social time. Although we are not new to 4-H, we are new leaders. The vision we have for our club is to create a welcoming and friendly environment where kids and families can come explore 4-H together through hands on activities focusing on 4-H project areas, have fun team building activities, serve the outside community through 1 or 2 service projects a year, and gain leadership and speaking skills. We ask that families be responsible for coordinating one meeting or offsite activity for the year and bring a snack once during the year as well. Hope you can check out our club and see if it is a good fit for your family. Contact: Ruth Brinker, , jimmundane1@yahoo.com Meetings: 2nd Friday/Month 1:30 pm Location: Bunker Hills Activities Center, Andover (091)

3 AWESOME FIRE DRAGONS 4-H CLUB 4-H Club targeted to youth with special needs and their families. Contact: Alisha Eads, , Location: Call for meeting information. (093)

4 CHEERFUL CHUGGERS 4-H CLUB The Cheerful Chuggers 4-H Club conducts an official meeting once a month and is dedicated to provide children with hands-on learning, a place to develop strong friendships and relationships within our community and to grow as a person with increased self-esteem. We work as a team on various community service projects and make a difference with volunteering and providing support in our local community. Our Club Officers, who are youth in 5 th grade and up, lead each monthly meeting and assist younger youth with the monthly themed activity. Monthly activities are on various subjects to introduce and inspire a new project area, future leadership and handson learning. Our meetings are designed to involve youth in long-term, structured programs and assist with physical, cognitive, social and emotional needs. We encourage every youth to conduct one demo on any subject area in front of our club. This allows them to share with others on what they are passionate about and to become more comfortable talking in front of others. As a group, we volunteer at two county events each year and also participate in a winter fun event, summer fun event and club fundraiser. The favorite activity for the year is presenting a project at the Anoka County Fair. Members can demonstrate their knowledge in their project area and a judge will listen, ask questions, provide feedback and award a ribbon. There are many opportunities within our club for youth to develop an assortment of skills, build lasting relationships and learn about the world in which they live. Website: Contact: Carmen Kastner, , ckkastner@aol.com Meetings: 4 th Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Location: Ramsey Municipal Center, Alexander Room (004) Club Leader: Carmen Kastner

5 CLOVERLEAF 4-H CLUB Hi, welcome to 4-H. We, Lara and Theresa, co-lead the Cloverleaf 4-H Club along with some great youth leaders and incredible family members. We meet the 2 nd Thursday of each month at the Oak Grove City Hall from 7-8:30 pm. Our club membership consists of a variety of ages from k-1 year post high school. We plan a Cloverbud project at each meeting. We also try to have a demonstration or project are shared by our members at each meeting. Our club members are involved in a variety of projects including Large Livestock, Shooting Sports/Wildlife Management, Horse, Rabbit, Clothing, Foods, Poultry, Crafts & Fine Arts, Photography and Youth Leadership. We try to do a winter and spring social that are pot luck meetings. Each year we do a variety of youth leadership and community service activities. We typically do a Share The Fun Skit, Club Camp and Club Olympics. We have many members who participate in Communications Arts Contest, Demonstration Day, Arts-In and more. Our leaders are very involved in county and statewide projects as well. us and we will be happy to talk with you. Contact: Theresa Brostrom, , tbrostrom@usfamily.net Meetings: 2 nd Thursday/Month 7 pm Location: Oak Grove City Hall (018) Club Leaders: Theresa Brostrom, Lara Newberger

6 COLUMBUS CAVALIERS 4-H CLUB The Columbus Cavaliers 4-H Club meets the 2nd Sunday of the month from 2 4 p.m. Please call to confirm our location if you plan to visit us. Our club membership consists of a variety of ages from Cloverbud through high school. Our members are involved in a variety of projects including livestock, horse, and various exhibit project areas. Website: Contact: Maryjane Hommes, , hohoduck@aol.com Meetings: 2 nd Sunday/Month 2 pm Location: Call for meeting location. (052) Club Leader: Mary Jane Hommes

7 DANDY LINOS 4-H CLUB We are the Dandy Linos 4H club, and we just celebrated 15 years as a 4H club. Our members range in age from early elementary through post high school. We meet on the 1st Friday of each month at the Falkers home. We start our meetings with a 1/2 hour Cloverbud project led by our Youth Leaders, followed by a regular meeting where we review projects and activities that members have been involved in as well as plan for upcoming events. Each meeting is concluded with a demonstration provided by one of our members in a project area of their interest. We have a strong youth leader group and each member takes responsibility for planning one service project or club activity per year. Service projects that we are involved in include collecting a Thanksgiving basket for needy families, caroling at a local senior townhome complex, collecting trash for Earth Day, baking cookies and making cards for soldiers, and volunteering at a local horse shelter. Many of our members are active in the horse project and we meet twice weekly during the warm weather season for horse riding, but our members are involved in many other project areas as well, including dog training, clothing, communication arts, poultry, small pet, crafts and fine arts, photography, and acts. We spend one weekend at Camp Salie, generally in the spring, and camp together as a club at a horse camp once in the fall. We participate in the Blue Heron Days parade and lead pony rides at the Waldoch Farm Fest. We welcome new members and invite you to contact us through phone, or on our Facebook page to learn more about us. Contact: JoAnn Falkers, , dandylinos@aol.com Meetings: 1 st Friday/Month 7 pm Location: Leader Residence, Lino Lakes (048) Club Leaders: JoAnn & Steve Falkers, Laurie Nelson

8 HORIZONS HOMESCHOOL 4-H CLUB I am Lori Lammert-Arndt, leader for Horizons Homeschool 4-H Club. We meet at Coon Rapids United Methodist Church on the second Friday of each month from 10:30 am 12:30 pm. We have youth from the very, very young up to age 16. Many of our youth have grown up with us. We are always looking for more to join our monthly fun. Our group focuses on the project areas and each month a different project area is presented and explored. Our youth take on most of the meetings and share their experiences. Almost every month youth leave the meeting with a project started or an idea to expand on. We also promote county and state level events participation. We meet all year long. We take field trips and also do some community service projects as well. Contact: Lori Lammert-Arndt, jpalel@midco.net Meetings: 2 nd Friday/Month 10:30 am Location: Coon Rapids United Methodist Church (930) Club Leader: Lori Lammert-Arndt

9 LAMPLIGHTERS 4-H CLUB Welcome to 4-H! I am Rikki Popsun the leader of the Lamplighters 4-H Club. Our club has been around over 50 years! We meet the 1 st Sunday of every month September to June at the Andover YMCA/Community Center from 4 6pm. We are still active in July and August promoting 4-H and our club. Currently, a large population of our club is elementary/middle school aged, but all ages are welcome to join! In 4-H, we encourage parents and children to participate at meetings. Some of the things we do throughout the year is snow tubing, bowling, highway clean up, Coon Creek clean up, donate blankets to Anoka County Child Protection and Feed My Starving Children. One of our highlights in the last 5 years was our club project. We built a Solar Electric Vehicle (SEV). We took it to the County Fair, State Fair, Andover Fun Fest and we were even on TV. During this project we had all ages participate. Some helped build the SEV, some did the scrapbook, and others sewed the seat covers. It was great project and the kids had a great time. We would love to do another club project based on the interests of our group. Our group has a variety of interests and skills. We are welcoming new members! You can contact me by phone or if interested. Contact: Rikki Popsun, , rrpopsun@comcast.net Meetings: 1 st Sunday/Month 4 pm Location: Andover Community Center (065) Club Leaders: Rikki Popsun, Nancy Hornsby

10 LINO LAKERS 4-H CLUB Welcome to 4-H! Christy Joyer and Micaela Smith are Co-Leaders of the Lino Lakers 4H club. We meet the 2nd Thursday of the month at St. Joseph Catholic Church of Lino Lakes at 7:00pm. Our meetings consist of a game, song or activity to start the night, updates on the programs available, demonstrations done by 4H members and of course a snack! During the business portion of the meeting the Cloverbuds (k-2nd grade) break off from the group and do their own set of activities (games, craft projects, etc). Our meetings are typically an hour with snack after. The Lino Lakers are active in community service. We have a Fall Fundraiser of picking pumpkins which allows us to buy supplies to make fleece blankets for the children in the Anoka County Foster Care program and bake cookies for the Food Shelf during the holiday season. For fun each year we enjoy Family Camp at Camp Salie which is a wonderful opportunity to get to know Camp Salie and each other. We also typically schedule an outing to Wargo Nature Center to have outdoor fun and learning. As a club we participate in county wide programs such as Club Olympics and Share The Fun. Individually our members are active in a variety of projects and take part in a multitude of county and state events. We'd be happy to answer any questions you may have! Contact: Christy Joyer, , christy@jeffjoyer.com Meetings: 2 nd Thursday/Month 7 pm Location: St. Joseph s Church (050) Club Leaders: Micaela Smith, Christy Joyer

11 LOGANBERRIES 4-H CLUB We are the Loganberries 4-H Club. We meet on the second Sunday of the month from 1:30-3pm at the Fridley Community Center. We have a variety of ages in our club and draw members from as far as Maple Grove! Our meetings are led by families and youth leaders. We also host social events, as well as participate in county wide events such as Share The Fun. Every year, all 4-H ers have a chance to give input as to our focus for each meeting and also to choose some of our events. We have some volunteers who lead project meetings for members as well. Contact: Kirstin Delp, , dkrdelp3@msn.com Meetings: 2 nd Sunday/Month 1:30 pm Location: Fridley Community Center (078) Club Leaders: Kirstin Delp

12 RAPID RASCALS 4-H CLUB The Rapid Rascals have been a 4-H Club for approximately 30 years. We have members in all age groups, Kindergarten through high school with the majority of our members being elementary and middle school age. Some activities we participate in are Share The Fun, County Arts-In, County Fair and Dog Training along with many others. Some project areas we have members in are dog, clothing, shooting sports and rabbits to name a few. Contact: Marlene Keller, , marlene_keller@yahoo.com Meetings: One Sunday/Month 3 pm Location: Bunker Hills Activities Center, Andover (069) Club Leaders: Tracie Ball, Denise Keller, Marlene Keller

13 RIVER RAIDERS 4-H CLUB The River Raiders 4-H club was formed in the fall of 1986 with the combination of two 4-H clubs, the Anoka Greenhorns and the Two River Rascals. Members range in grades from Kindergarten to one year past high school graduation. We hold monthly meetings during the school year on the second Monday of the month at 7:00 pm at the Coon Rapids Methodist Church. Meetings usually last until about 8:30 pm. Summer meetings are held at other locations to work on club projects. There are many additional 4-H activities to get involved in throughout the entire year. Contact: Rita Everhart, , Meetings: 2 nd Monday/Month 7 pm Location: Coon Rapids United Methodist Church (014) Club Leaders: Rita Everhart

14 SPUNKY SPELUNKERS 4-H CLUB The Spunky Spelunkers 4-H Club is led by co-leaders Kim Ferguson & Lousinda Tatley and many parent volunteers. Our members range in age from Kindergarten to one year past high school. Our meetings start out with a guessing game challenge and a game or song. Members get the chance to report on any 4-H activities that they have participated in since we last met. We cover upcoming events and plan our club activities. We have an educational activity and a demonstration by a club member and end our meeting with social time and snack. Our members are involved in a variety of projects including Shooting Sports, Horse, Crafts & Fine Arts, Lama, Photography, Goat & Foods. Outside of our club meetings, our club plans some activities just for fun and are very active in community service. Our members have really enjoyed adopting a family for the holidays. We go to Camp Salie for family camp each year and have a club outing in both the winter and spring. Our club is very involved with 4-H Clover Dash (5K & 2 mile walk) which is our main county-wide fundraiser. For the past 3 years we have won a free bowling party for our club for having the most participants and volunteers at this event. Our members are very active at the club, county and state level. We are always accepting new members so feel free to check out one of our meetings or contact us for additional information. Contact: Kim Ferguson, , fergu029@umn.edu Meetings: 2 nd Thursday/Month 6:45 pm Location: St. Francis City Hall (016) Club Leaders: Kim Ferguson & Lousinda Tatley

15 WEXFORD 4-H CLUB We are comprised of mostly young elementary boys and girls. The club crosses the lines between schools, sports, churches and other involvements to provide a community that will grow up together and develop lifelong relationships. We meet monthly and will schedule 2-3 activities in the year outside our normal club meetings. All grade levels are welcome. Parents of members assist each other with educational activities and chaperoning. Our club meetings generally open with sing-a-long songs and icebreaker games. We recite the 4-H Pledge. Then we learn about a leadership character for the month. After a snack break, we do a hands-on educational piece. The remaining time is left for socializing. Contact: Rick Craig, , rick@theyouthroom.com Meetings: One Sunday/Month 2 pm Location: Bunker Hills Activities Center, Andover (950) Club Leader: Rick Craig

16 WHISTLING WORKERS 4-H CLUB The Whistling Workers 4-H club is based out of East Bethel. We have a variety of interests from woodworking to foods to poultry to rabbits. We enjoy spending time together through our annual hay ride, game nights and any new ideas our members have. We do a variety of community service projects as a club. Our club is very friendly love inviting and welcoming new people into our 4-H family. Contact: Heidi Wyatt, , heidiwyatt1@gmail.com Meetings: 2 nd Monday/Month 6:30 pm Location: East Bethel Senior Center (023) Club Leaders: Heidi Wyatt, Tony Paulus (not pictured)

17 WRANGLERS 4-H CLUB The Wranglers 4-H Club is led by co-leaders Holley Smith, Julie Froiland and Steve Nagel along with many parent volunteers. We meet the 2 nd Tuesday of each month at Bunker Hills Activities Center at 7 pm. Our members range from Kindergarten to one year post high school. Our Club focuses on learning about Horses. You do not have to have your own horse to be part of our program. We have an excellent Horseless Horse Program. Our meetings start with the Pledge of Allegiance and 4-H pledge. Our Club Officers, who are youth 6 th grade and older, then lead us through the meeting discussing upcoming events and plan our club activities. We either play a game or do an activity at each meeting and then end our meeting with a snack and some social time. We participate in the Make a Difference day by giving back to someone in the community. We put on three Horse Fun Shows a year at the Anoka County Fairgrounds to raise money for our club. Outside of our club we do group activities such as trail riding, open arena, and various field trips. We are always accepting new members so feel free to check out one of our meetings or contact us for additional information. Contact: Holley Smith, , holleys@americanagencymn.com Meetings: 2 nd Tuesday/Month 7 pm Location: Bunker Hills Activities Center (038) Club Leaders: Steve Nagel, Julie Froiland, Holley Smith,