By EIAN PRACHT
Smoky View 4-H Club reporter
The Smoky View 4-H Club decided on a fair theme suggestion for the Tri-Rivers Fair and Ottawa County Fair. The club had many fair themes to choose from, some of which were “Sunflower Showdown” and “Sew It, Show It, Grow It.” In the end, the club members decided that their fair theme suggestion would be “Blue Jeans and Country Dreams.”
The suggestion will be submitted to the Tri-Rivers Fair Board and the Ottawa County Fair Board by the club’s Central Kansas District (CKD) 4-H Council representatives at the council’s next meeting. The fair boards will consider the club’s suggestion in making a decision about the fair themes for the Tri-Rivers Fair and Ottawa County Fair this year. The club chose its fair theme suggestion at its January club meeting on Sunday, Jan. 16 at the Salemsborg Fellowship Center. Some 4-H members joined virtually.
Kayla Norberg gave a demonstration to the club on how to make gnomes with hot glue, Styrofoam cones, wooden balls, fake fur, and socks.
The Smoky View 4-H Club will be meeting again on Feb. 27 at the Salemsborg Fellowship Center.
In other Smoky View 4-H Club news, Smoky View 4-H Club members Acacia Pracht, Maia Pracht, Eian Pracht, Aspen Trautwein, Audrey Trautwein, Adison Trautwein, Kayla Norberg, and Eddie Littich, along with 4-H leader Jodie Norberg, competed in the CKD model meeting competition on Jan. 22. Model meeting is a competition in which different 4-H clubs present a practiced 4-H meeting to a judge. The judge then decides how well each 4-H club did in running its meeting with parliamentary procedure. Normally, 4-H clubs would present to the judge in-person, but the competition was done virtually this year because of COVID-19 concerns. The Smoky View 4-H Club model meeting members recorded their meeting on Zoom from home and the Soderstrom Elementary School in Lindsborg. Then they submitted a video of it for the competition. The club got a blue ribbon for the competition. The team qualified for the regional competition.