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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • AUGUST 2017 Fair season! Summer is always the highlight of the 4-H
year. It’s fair season! BC 4-Hers have been training, fitting, washing, clipping and getting ready for show season all year.
The summer season is also a busy time in the 4-H BC provincial office in Vernon, gearing up for summer programs. 4-H BC
4-H BC GINA HAAMBUCKERS
had the opportunity to send a
team of delegates to the Global 4-H Network Summit in Ottawa in July. The summit brought together more the 500 4-H leaders and members from across the world to empower them to increase resources, share ideas and develop solutions to change our world. Each of the four days centred around one of the four 4- H themes: science and technology; communication and community engagement; agriculture and food security; and environment and healthy living.
4-H BC hosted its first community fun day at
Nosy! Cloverbud Chelsea Allen fields an inquisitive look from Elsie Rawlings’ grand champion Char-cross steer at the Okanagan Stock Show in Armstrong, July 8. This summer’s sale was among the best ever, with 26 head averaging $4.62 per pound and grossing nearly $160,00.00. Another $3,000.00 was raised to help support club members from the Horsefly 4-H Club displaced by the Cariboo wildfires. LINDSAY BARTKO PHOTOS
the new Westgen office in Abbotsford on July 15. The event was well attended and attendees enjoyed a free barbecue hot dog lunch, face painting, bouncy castle, games and meeting Frisco, 4-H members and their projects. 4-H BC is busy planning our next 4-H community fun day on August 12 at the Armstrong IPE Fairgrounds in conjunction with the Armstrong Farmer’s Market. Be sure to visit the 4-H barns at the fairs this
summer. 4-H members are always willing to show and tell you about their 4-H projects!
Scribe Lynnette Kies of Pritchard, far left, gets a wary look from North Okanagan 4-H Beef Club member Gage Rawlings during the judging rally at the Okanagan Stock Show in Armstrong, July 6. Leah Mitchell was one of 60 4-H beef and 55 horse club members attending stock show this summer. Cache Clemitson led the high selling steer, which weighed in at 1,405 lbs and sold for $6.25 per pound to Kelowna veterinarian Teresa Jacobsen.
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Are you prepared? As fires rage in parts of our province, it’s a question that concerns me. Some of my family members in Williams Lake, 100 Mile House and environs have been evacuated safely and for that, I am incredibly grateful. Closer to home, the dense bush and trees that thrive just two streets away from our front door
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Farmer LINDA WEGNER
moves the question from being merely theoretical to, “Wow, that’s too close for comfort!” Being prepared doesn’t always come to mind but this sure is a wake-up call. Even being prepared, though, isn’t a guarantee we’ll always know what to do when the unexpected comes our way. Take this morning, for instance. Though of little importance when placed beside raging forest fires, catching my toe on a sidewalk crack was something I wasn’t planning or anticipating. I tripped and on my way down, I had enough foresight to aim as carefully as I could. Instead of landing on my head, I hit my knee and upper arm with great force but I didn’t crack my skull. Fortunately, there were trained medical people who quickly came to my rescue. I’m bruised and sore but doing fine. (An unexpected benefit of
the size and colour of those bruises is that they have been great sources of sympathy, something I rarely have occasion to solicit.) Less visible scars that life leaves on all of us
are different: Be they unexpected illnesses, loss of loved ones, abuse of every kind and loneliness deep enough to drive people to despair, those scars become part of who we are. So in lieu of my inability to come up with the right words, here’s something written on a mug my brother gave me while I was going through cancer: “When things go wrong as they sometimes
will, when the road you’re trudging seems all uphill. When the funds are low and the debts are high, and you want to smile but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit. Rest if you want, but don’t you quit.” (Anonymous) In the midst of this emergency, there is some good news in our corner of the world. The local farmers’ market recently celebrated 30 years of operation in Powell River. As interest and demand for locally grown food continues to grow, the number of young people launching farm operations also enjoys a steady increase. Finally, the only appropriate thing to do is
to extend great thanks to all those firefighters, emergency workers, local volunteers, military and police officers and everyone else who is part of attempting to control fire while saving lives and property. Now let’s continue to hope and pray for rain.
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