4-H Winners

At the Utah State 4-H Contests last week in Logan, Nicole, Chelsea and Lauren each returned home with blue ribbons for their demonstrations. Nicole & Chelsea were in the Quick Meals contest, and made a delicious fruited chicken salad served with hot fudge cake for dessert -all from scratch and all under 47 minutes from start to cleanup. Lauren participated in the Quilt contest, demonstrating a technique used to make her quilt - in her case, quarter-square triangle units. Lauren wowed the judges with her expertise and her beautiful quilt, winning first place and a trip to Denver next January to compete nationally. Notice that she even made a skirt to match her quilt...

4-H has been a wonderful thing for these girls - now 4th generation 4-Hers. Grandma Hacking was a leader when the program was first introduced, and Mom participated in her youth with cooking and sewing projects, and winning a trip to a 4-H convention in Chicago for raising the most sugar beets per acre that year. Then she was our leader through hundreds of projects in cooking, sewing, horse, health, photography, forestry, art, geology, money management...and I can't remember what else, but I do remember that Renee', Annette and I usually had about a dozen projects each for fair time. I think some of you other kids did a lot of horse 4-H - Renee' and Janine each won a Morgan Horse. Cool stuff. Not too many years from now, it will be another generation's turn.

The legacy continues...