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Homemaker's Involved In Many Different Activities

Who are Extension homemakers?

Keep your eyes open -- a good place to see them in action is at the Clark County Fair in September.

If you enter a craft, furniture or baked goods, or if you just walk through the building to look at the exhibits, you will see them. If you have a snack or meal in the EHC building, or if you take a chance on winning the beautiful Christmas quilt, you will meet them. You may see them working behind the scenes at the Fair Queen and Little Miss Pageant.

Or you may have read about some of their activities this year, or seen their pictures in the paper. Remember reading about the upholstery workshop? The new quilters workshop? Craft activities? Their club meetings with educational programs on topics such as home-based buisness, family ties or pest control? Maybe you remember seeing reports of the trips they made to a flower show, a home tour, or their state meeting.

You may have heard about some of their community service activities.

They have made cot sheets for head start children, birthday cakes for nursing home residents, and aprons for senior center food service workers.

They participate in special school events and suport other community efforts. You may be using one of their Bytes of Love cookbooks developed as a fundraiser.

Any adult, who wants to know timely information about individual, family or community life can become a member of an Extension Homemakers Club.

EHC members are young homemakers, working moms, grandmothers and retired men and women.

EHC clubs meet once a month and learn together. Membership-at-large is available to persons who do not have a club in their neighborhood or who are unable to meet because of scheduling conflicts. A member-at-large receives the monthly newsletter and may particpate in county, district and state educational activities.

Yearly dues are minimal. Club members pay only a dollar; members-at -large pay two. Contact the president of a club in your neighborhood if you would like to join, or just want to visit.

Call the Clark County Extension office at 246-2281, or drop in at 423 Clay Street to get more information or to sign up for membership. A group of potential members who would like to start an EHC club should talk with the county agent-family and consumer sciences who is the EHC advisor, or call Carolyn Trieschmann (366-4271), president of the Clark County EHC council.

Clubs meet in members' homes or other sites. A call to a club's president should provide current information. Local EHC clubs, their presidents and meeting times are:

CaddoDeGray Club: Clara Joiner, 246-2962, second Wednesday, 1 p.m.;

Hartsville Club: Betty Lambert, 246-8100, second Thursday, 1:30 p.m.;

Joan Club: Lynn Wingfield, 246-6515, second Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.;

Manchester Club: Joyce Palla, 366-4487, third Wednesdays, 1 p.m.;

Oakland Club: Melvia Arnold, 246-4953, second Tuesdays, 10 a.m.;

Palestine Club: Kathleen Fulmer, 246-5972, third Thursdays, 2 p.m.;

Pioneer Club: Ruby Rollins, 246-4091, second Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.;

Red Springs Club: Kathryn Burchfield, 274-3214, second Thurdays, 10 a.m.;

South Central Club: Mary Sue Thomas, 246-6842, second Thursdays, 7 p.m.;

South Fork Club: Betty Jo Wells, 353-6415, second Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.;

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Whelen Springs Club: Lynn LeMay, 353-6301, third Thursdays, 10 a.m.

Groups of EHC members who have special interests in common also meet monthly. These include: Quilters Guild: Debbie Page, 246-6290, and Terri Tumlinson, 246-8925, First Thursdays, 1 p.m.; Community arts and crafts: Phyllis Hughes, 246-7788, first Mondays, 7 p.m.

If you are looking for a friendly group of people who like to keep up with what's happening and make things happen themselves, check out Extension homemakers.