Homemaker Happenings April 2016

Upcoming Classes & Events 2

Scholarship & Mini Grant Applications 3-4

From The Presidents Desk 5

Adult Health Bulletin: Alcohol Awareness 6-7

Inside this issue:

April 2016

Homemaker Happenings

Cooperative Extension Service

Hardin County 201 Peterson Drive

Elizabethtown, KY 42701-9370

Phone (270) 765-4121 Fax: (270) 769-0426

www.ces.ca.uky.edu/hardin

Next

Council

Meeting

Monday, May 2

10:00 a.m.

Remember to turn in your forms by May 1 to ensure you receive your certificate (s) at the

Annual meeting. We need forms for Attendance, Scrapbooks, Reading, Homemaker of the Year,

Homemaker Club of the Year, Homemaker Volunteer of the Year. Please also complete the Officers & Chairmen for 2016-17 Club Year.

Remember you need to do this before the summer, before your clubs don’t meet anymore.

Hey Homemakers!

I hope you all had a blessed Easter weekend and are starting to enjoy this weather! I’m loving these breaks of pretty days and am

ready for some consistent sun. Spring is my favorite season because of all the new life it brings: flowers, grass, baby calves and

more. I love the sun in the spring time. It’s not too hot like it is in summer, but it can warm up even cool days. But I also love the

rain because it makes me appreciate the sun. Plus, like everything else in life, the two have to work together for us to get any of the

things we enjoy.

I will fully admit that this season has been a hectic one for me. Between a death in my family, trying to work through my first spring

here, and trying to finish my thesis, I haven’t been the attentive agent I should be. Bear with me. I’m almost in the home stretch! I

should be (if you’re the praying type and would like to add me to your list, I’d take it. If you’re not and you could just send some

good vibes my way, I’ll take those too!) graduating this May. There’s a few more steps I have to reach first, but that’s the current

plan and all of my free time is going towards making sure that happens!

Before we get there though, I’ll be getting to spend the week with some of you in Northern Kentucky and I’m so excited about that!

Excuse me that week if I seem crazy, I actually give my major presentation that Thursday morning (so I’ll have to the miss the

breakfast with you, please don’t hold it against me!) and I will probably be a ball of stress and anxiety. But, while we’re there, I’m

so excited to see some of your talents on display as we’re taking TWENTY THREE area cultural arts winners with us. That’s

incredible. I can’t wait to see how many blue ribbons we bring home. There are some talented Homemakers across this state, and I

have no doubts that many of you are at the top of that list.

If you have a cultural arts entry that you’d like me to take and enter (even if you’re attending the meeting!), just drop it off here by

Friday, April 15th. I’ll leave Sunday night or early Monday morning as I have an early training there that Monday, and will take any

or all cultural arts items with me. We’ll tag them for you as well and bring them home at the end! Good luck to each of you.

Thanks for all each of you do,

Dayna

Dayna Parrett , Hardin County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences

Homemaker Happenings April 2016

Upcoming Classes & Events

T The Gardeners’ Toolbox

Conifer for Kentucky Gardens - April 20, 6 p.m. - $5

Boxwood Blight, Needle Cast of Spruce and the Pine

Sawfly, oh my! Conifers and needled evergreens have

a tough time in Kentucky with the hot, dry summers and

erratic winters. Come and experience the diversity of this

plant group and find the right evergreen for your gardens.

Payment for each of the Gardener’s Toolbox classes are

required TWO WEEKS prior to the class date. You will be

registered on a first pay, first registered

basis. Cancellations will be fully refunded TWO WEEKS

prior to the class date. Please let us know as early as

possible if you have to cancel, we probably have others on a

wait list.

All Classes are held at the Hardin County Extension Office

201 Peterson Drive, Elizabethtown

Open Sewing Day

Visit Open Sewing Day on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at the Hardin County Extension Office, 201 Peterson Drive, Elizabethtown, (from 8:00-4:00 p.m.). You don’t need a reservation—just show up, bring a project and have fun! *Note: On the 1st Thursday of the month we will have a Master Clothing Volunteer available between 1-4 p.m. to assist with your sewing projects. If you have any comments or concerns that you would like to address, please contact the Extension Office at 270-765-4121

Tuesday, April 26 10:30 a.m.

at the LaRue County Extension Office

May

Class Is Open To Everyone!!

Presented by: Jennifer Bridge FCS Agent Meade Co.

Class is held at the LaRue County Extension Office, 807 Old Elizabethtown Rd. (Hwy 210), Hodgenville, KY 42748 Directions: The office is on Hwy 210 coming from E-Town (approx. 10 miles). You can also take Lincoln Pkwy (Hwy. 61) over to Hodgenville and take a left on Hwy. 210 at the Industrial Park or the connection road (3204). They are located near the Pizza Hut across from the Magnolia Bank. Office sign is next to the road.

Sensational Salads: Goodbye Iceberg! – Today’s

salads are packed with a variety of greens and oth-

er nutritious ingredients to add texture and taste.

Salad dressings are also lowering the fat and heavy

ingredients. Will focus on new trends in salads and

how they can add variety to family meals.

Remember to bring in your items that won a blue ribbon at the area meeting to the Extension office to Fran . Dayna will be happy to take them for you. Deadline to drop off your items is April 15.

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Join the Extension Office on Facebook at

www.facebook.com/hardinext

Sincerely,

Dayna Parrett

County Extension Agent for

Family & Consumer Sciences

We hope to see you at the

KEHA State Annual Meeting

“Winning With KEhA”

April 18-21, 2016 Covington, KY

Dear Homemakers,

Spring is popping up all over! Beautiful s-o-o-o-o beautiful! We must give thanks for the beauty that surrounds us.

And speaking of thanks… We must give thanks to you, Homemakers, for all that you have accomplished. You are all the

best! We especially thank:

Martha Thomas (Rineyville) for helping with the Hardin County Fair board for twenty-one years!

Darlene Chenault (Stitchers) for accepting the role as the new Homemaker member of Hardin County Fair

Board.

Lisa Curl (West Point), International Chair, for taking charge of our International day, February 25.

Anna Miserindino (Vine Grove) for her “Tour of China” on International Day.

Vine Grove Homemaker members who prepared a wonderful Chinese meal dur ing the International Day.

Lavinda Curl (West Point), Bazaar Chair, and her Bazaar committee who made ar rangements and

finalized preparations for Spring Bazaar at Extension Office.

Carol Parrett and Renie Phillips (Rineyville) who organized Spring Bazaar lunch goodies to sell.

All Homemakers who helped with the Spr ing Bazaar lunch.

All homemakers who brought in cakes, cookies, brownies, pies and, of course, those delicious rolls that

everyone always waits in line for.

Byrle Thomas, her husband and family (Cecilia) for purchasing a Bazaar banner and setting it up.

Homemaker Club Presidents, please turn in all forms that you received in the mail by May 1. Those forms are:

Applications for Scholarship and Mini Grants, Homemaker of the Year, Homemaker Club of the Year, Volunteer of the

Year, Reading Award, Attendance Award, Scrapbooks.

HCEH Council did vote to contr ibute to the Library in Ghana. If your club wishes to donate to the fund, you

may do so up until the end of August. All donations will be sent to the Lincoln Trail Area Treasurer. Please send your

money to Fran Hodges at Extension Office prior to August 31. She will collect all the money and send to Ms. Michelle

Lawson who is the Lincoln Trail Area International Chair.

Our Hardin County Homemaker Annual meeting is May 26 in the evening at Cecilia Baptist Church. Vice President,

JoAnn Taul (Cecilia), is making plans for our annual meeting, and I know she will cher ish any help you are will-

ing to give. JoAnn will be providing more information at the Hardin County Homemakers Extension Council Meeting

May 2.

I hope to see you at the KEHA State Meeting April 18-21.

Dates to Remember:

April 10 - 15 Lincoln Trail Area First Place Cultural Arts Projects should be taken to Fran Hodges at Extension

Office anytime from April 10-15 so that Fran can prepare the cultural arts projects to go to State meeting.

Dayna Parrett has agreed to take items to state meeting.

April 18-21 KEHA State Meeting, Covington, KY

May 1 Homemaker Presidents, please turn Forms in to Fran Hodges at Extension Office

May 2 Hardin County Homemaker Council Meeting 10:00 AM at Extension Office

May 26 Hardin county Homemaker Annual Meeting in evening, Cecilia Baptist Church

Happy Easter!

Diane McCamish, Hardin County Homemaker President

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