Dear HCE Friends, My husband and I returned home in time so I could attend the North District Meeting on April 22. We enjoyed spending six days in Branson, MO on the way home so we could see some shows. The weather was 80 degrees every day, the best we have had in four years. We were able to rent a spacious two bedroom log cabin in the woods which we shared with friends from Webster. Happy Days because spring time is here in northern Wisconsin. We can walk outside early in the morning and hear the birds singing and watch them building nests. Starting in April our lives become busier as we attend more HCE meetings and family events. Several of us attended the North District Spring Meeting in Hayward and International Evening with foreign exchange students. The Harmony Club is busy planning a fun BCAHCE Recognition Luncheon for us on Thursday, May 20. Note the change of date and new location announcement in this newsletter. We are busy planning our flower and vegetable gardens. What a pleasure to “play” in the dirt again! It is a good excuse to spend time outside after spending too many hours inside during the winter months. Enjoy the bright sunshine and extended hours of daylight. It is so good to be home again. We do not miss the noisy jet airplanes and city traffic. There is “nothing like home” and living in the woods. In HCE Service to You,

Muriel Anderson, BCAHCE President

Burne t t Coun ty Assoc ia t i on fo r Home and Communi ty Educa t i on News le t t e r

Newsletter Editor: Marilyn Kooiker

Newsletter Design: Marleen Seul

Letter from President 1

Letter from HCE Advisor BCHCE Needs Secretary HCE Craft Day Report

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Club Notes 3

Upcoming Events Wisconsin Bookworms™ Milestone

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International Report on Belize by Carole Newman HCE Scholarships Awarded

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Report for North District Spring Mtg Brain Aerobics Program

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3rd Annual International Dinner 6

Agenda for Spring Membership Mtg 7

Subscription “Building Through Communication”

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Dear HCE Friends: What a delightful time of year! The flowers are blooming. The birds are singing. Spring is in the air! We have had some unseasonably warm weather the past couple months, so hopefully you have been able to get outside to enjoy it. Coming up are several important HCE events: May 20, our Recognition Luncheon and Spring Meeting (see notice elsewhere in the newsletter); June 15, Brain Aerobics program by Gail Peavey, Polk County Family Living Agent, also cultural arts judging. Kudos to Amy Kopecky and Carole Newman for planning and hosting the International Dinner for local foreign exchange students and their host families. It was a wonderful evening filled with great food, good fellowship and interesting presentations by the students. A busy summer is ahead for us. Be sure to take some time for yourselves, and to enjoy family and friends. I recently spent some time in Florida with my brothers and my father. We were busy cleaning out his house (filled with stuff from 60+ years!). We laughed at old photos, and were exhausted from throwing out accumulated stuff. We are hoping my father will be moved to an assisted living facility in the near future. Also, I have a family reunion scheduled in Michigan the first weekend of August, which I’m looking forward to attending. Feel free to contact me anytime with HCE news or events from your club. I am always happy to join your members for a club meeting or program. Happy Spring! Marilyn Kooiker Family Living Agent/HCE Advisor

BCAHCE NEEDS A SECRETARY

Burnett County HCE Executive Board still needs a secretary. Sincere thanks to Diane Medaglia for recording the minutes for the two board meetings that have been held in 2010. Responsibilities of the position is to attend six meetings during the year, record the minutes and submit them to the Extension Office to be printed in the next published BCAHCE newsletter. The term lasts for two years, 2010 and 2011. Please help us out. Call Muriel Anderson 349-5461 and say “Yes, I WILL TAKE THE POSITION.” “I WILL BE THE NEW COUNTY SECRETARY.”

HCE Craft Day Report

Six Odds ‘N’ Ends club members enjoyed the

HCE Craft Day on April 10. Two crafts were

made. Their favorite was a colorful beaded

butterfly sun catcher in a Monarch pattern.

Extra kits were purchased to be made at the

May club meeting. One member also made

garden wind chimes from a birch stick, wire,

small washers, fishing line and silverware. This

is the fourth year the BCHCE members have

attended this event.

3-7 Wisconsin Bookworms ™ Reaches 500,000th book read in Wisconsin 6 Wisconsin Bookworms™ reading at Head Starts 11 1 pm Odds ‘N Ends Club meeting 20 HCE Recognition Luncheon, Yellow River Eatery (Harmony Host) 20 HCE Spring Meeting 25 10 am Harmony Club meeting

1-3 College Days, Madison 5 Odds ‘N Ends Bake Sale – Big Gust Days, Grantsburg 8 1 pm Odds ‘N Ends Club meeting 11 Alpha Dairy Days, Burnett Dairy 15 HCE Program, Brain Aerobics, by Gail Peavey, Polk County Family Living Agent 15 HCE Cultural Arts Judging, Room 165, Government Center 19 Dairy Breakfast, Doug & Laura Coyour farm, Frederic 23 Harmony Day Trip

Club Notes

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HCE Upcoming Events

April meeting was held at Margaret Britton’s home with 8 members attending. Barb C. and Margaret B. led a lesson on beading butterfly suncatchers. New member, Davena Sherman was welcomed into the club. Sorry to lose Ruth Frazee as member due to health reasons. Report was given by Barb and Margaret on the Craft Day at Poplar attended by 6 Odds ‘N Ends members. Members shared the crafts they made through “show and tell.” March meeting was held with 7 members attending. Amy K. discussed the International dinner for exchange students on April 29th. Recipes were distributed and assignments made. Diane M. led a program on window sill Easter baskets and distributed a program in a box on soups. At the April meeting, the Spring meeting on May 20th was discussed. International dinner, April 29, was discussed. Karen B. attended the District meeting in Hayward, April 22. A District secretary/treasurer is still needed. The Spring Recognition luncheon was discussed. The Club trip for June was discussed and suggestions made. Muriel Anderson came to discuss the new proposed by-laws.

Twelve years and 500,000 books later, Wisconsin Bookworms™ is still bringing the joy of reading to young children around the state and Burnett County. We have been involved with this partnership since 1998. In Burnett County we read to 100 children each month at Mina Copeland Head Start, St. Croix Tribal Head Start in Hertel, Grantsburg Library and Burnett Community Library (Webster). Each child receives their own Scholastic book, along with an activity sheet to enhance related activities at home. Each school year the children (ages 3-5) receive a set of 8 books. Cost of each set of books is $23.00. Readers this year included HCE members: Muriel Anderson, Jane Menge, Karen Brooks, Jan Frazee, Fran Krause, Judy Marek, Irene Peterson, Dorothy Wellman. Community volunteer readers were Buck Gooding, Charlotte Heidel and Judy Pearson. Mary Poretti serves as the Bookworms ™ coordinator and Karen Brooks heads the fund raising activities. The book which was distributed in May this year was “Grow Flower Grow”. Congratulations and Thank You to all the dedicated HCE and community volunteer readers throughout the years! Great job!!

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Three HCE Scholarships for 2010 have been awarded to: Allison Betz (Spooner High School) – Pat Johnson, grandmother (Harmony Club) Kelly Herman (St. Francis (MN) High School) – LaVonne O’Brien, grandmother (Harmony Club) Karl Fluegel (Stillwater (MN) Area High School) – Maxine Fluegel, grandmother (Odds ’N Ends Club) Congratulations to all scholarship award winners! They will be receiving their certificates at their local high school awards ceremonies this month.

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Eight BCAHCE members (six from Odd ‘N’ Ends Club and two from Harmony Club) attended the North

District Spring Meeting in Hayward. Thank you, members, for taking time to participate in this

important meeting. Approximately 25 district members attended from four counties: Sawyer, Douglas,

Washburn and Burnett. We missed seeing members from Bayfield and Price counties.

Betty Helwig from Stone Lake conducted the business meeting in the absence of District Director, Wendi

Kroll. Yearly reports were given. Information was given on service activities, educational programs,

fund raisers, reading books for Bookworms™ and current membership numbers.

There was a round table discussion on how to secure candidates for the positions of

secretary/treasurer, District director elect for 2011-2012 and committee chairs. No one came forward

to accept the District secretary/treasurer position for the three year term and someone is needed

immediately. There are only two meetings per year The county presidents have a description of the

responsibilities, so if interested, please call your county president for details. LEADERS ARE NEEDED at

the District levels. Someone is needed to pay a few bills!! The experience of a new position teaches you

more about HCE.

A delicious baked chicken dinner was enjoyed and then we were entertained by

James J. Bishop, WI DNR, who showed a Cedar-Strip Canoe and presented a

slide “tour” of the new canoe museum in Spooner. The grand opening of the

new Canoe Heritage Museum will be held on May 29, the day the State of

Wisconsin has declared as the 1st Annual Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Day.

A collection on 25 canoes will be on display, one that was used by President

Calvin Coolidge when fishing at Cedar Island near Brule, WI. Many volunteer

hours have been spent on this new museum, making it a good place to take

summer visitors. The museum is next to train depot in Spooner.

Submitted by Muriel Anderson

Pre-register by June 11 – call the UW-Extension office, 349-2151. Using your mind in a wide variety of perhaps new and challenging ways can activate cells throughout your brain. By attending this program, you will learn to stimulate your mind to stay at its peak for as long as possible. Come to laugh, stretch, move, and get your brain engaged!!

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On Thursday evening, April 29, Burnett County Home & Community Education (HCE) honored five foreign exchange students and their host families at their third annual international dinner. The students honored were: Onwara (Jan) Likitworawan from Thailand (attending Webster High School) Mohamad Akef Elkasir from Egypt (attending Webster High School) Tais Figueira from Brazil (attending Grantsburg High School) Nicola Schiesser from Austria (attending Grantsburg High School) Laura Melzer from Germany (attending Webster High School) Ethnic food dishes from the countries were prepared by the HCE members. Approximately 50 people attended the event held at the Government Center in Siren.

BURNETT COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR HOME AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION SPRING MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 11:00 am Yellow River Eatery, Webster, Wisconsin

Meeting Call to Order Muriel Anderson, President

OPEN WITH HCE CREED

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Fall Meeting, November 17, 2009 Diane Medaglia

TREASURER REPORT

December 31, 2009, 2010 Budget

2010 year to date, Present Bills Adeline Ingalls, Treasurer

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Historian Carole Newman, Chair

International/Family Life Amy Kopecky/Carol Newman, Co-Chairs

Marketing/Membership Irene Peterson/Dorothy Wellman, Co-Chairs

Program/Community Outreach/

Cultural & Textile Arts Diane Medaglia, Chair

Scholarship Karen Brooks, Chair

Wisconsin Bookworms™ Mary Poretti, Coordinator

Wisconsin Bookworms™ Karen Brooks, Finance

ADDITIONAL REPORTS

Family Living Educator Marilyn Kooiker

North District Spring Meeting Muriel Anderson & attending members

ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL REPORTS

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

Revised By-Laws, May 2010

Haiti Donations

Select Nominating Committee

President, Treasurer, Program/Community Outreach/Cultural & Textile Arts,

International/Family Life, Historian

WAHCE State Conference, Eau Claire, September 15-17

ANY OTHER NEW BUSINESS

CLOSE MEETING WITH WAHCE PRAYER

FUTURE MEETING DATES - Executive Board Meeting, July 20, 10:30 am

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