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The Rock Creek Fairgrounds was crawling with young 4-H Club members, their parents and siblings (it is a family program, after all) last Saturday and Sunday as four clubs came together for Boundary 4-H District Rally Days. Usually it is Rally Day—singular—but this year is the 100th anniversary of 4-H in B.C. and the clubs wanted to do some extra celebrating by hosting a dinner and dance for 4-H alumni on Saturday night. So the program carried over until midday Sunday. Rally Day is an annual event that offers the 4-H kids the chance to prepare displays, give presentations and demonstrations and, through the judging competitions, to learn how to look at the world with a critical eye. “Learn to Do by Doing is the motto of 4-H,”
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explained Boundary C 4-H Club Leader Greg MacDonald. “We’ve had practices, we’ve studied, we’ve read our manuals and we’ve had classes where they can practice judging. This is kind of their big competition. “This is the third biggest day of the year,” he said, behind the provincial winter fair (PWF) in Barriere and the Rock Creek Fall Fair. And the alumni came out in huge numbers too. 4-H has been going in the Boundary for 68 years now. In the 1960s there were 300 calves coming out of the Boundary area to the PWF each year. Tim Dumont is a more recent alumni. He was a member for nine years and then continued for two more as a 4-H Ambassador, a job he defined as, “wearing a fancy shirt and go around and putting a face on 4-H.” He went to two fairs on the coast as an Ambassador. His advise to younger members was to learn how to dance while they are young—it is critical so when you get to the ambassador program you have that knowledge. “It is good to have all these little kids here because if they stick to it—when I started I was
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pretty shy and by the end of it I was pretty outgoing and went across the country and across BC and met a lot of people I am still friends with today,” said Dumont. Norma Howes is District Key Leader for the four clubs in the district. She is the resource person who acts as a mentor for the project leaders. She also organizes Rally Day each year. She is in fact only the second Key leader the Boundary clubs have ever had. Joanne Eek held the position for 15 years before Norma took it on. The hall at the Rock Creek Pavilion was draped with banners and signs from 4-H clubs over the years. The Nelson 4-H Club is the newest of the four, it was started in 2011. They have Cloverbud, mini horse and Parelli horsemanship projects. Nelson has 13 members and five leaders. The Boundary Multi 4-H Club from Grand Forks was originally known as the Boundary Bit and Bridle Club. It was revived n 2012 under the leadership of 4-H alumni Christie Wheaton and they now have dog and Cloverbud projects. The Borderline Lamb Club is a local club that
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