Statewide 4-H project to make blankets to donate
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BROOKINGS — Brookings County 4-H made and donated 77 blankets, during the 2017-2018 state-wide Blanket Buddies service project — the most blankets donated of any South Dakota county
“Service to community is among the core values upon which 4-H is built,” explains Hilary Risner, SDSU Extension Regional 4-H Youth Program Advisor. “It states in the pledge 4-Hers recite each club meeting, “I pledge my hands to larger service …’”
And service to their community is the reason the Bruce Honey Bees 4-H Club set aside time during their club meeting to make 13 blankets to donate to a local nursing home, the Estelline Nursing & Care Center.
“It shows the members that if we all come together as a team, we can make a much larger impact than working on something by ourselves,” says Bobbi Shultz, the club’s leader.
Character-building traits, like service to others, are among the reasons Shultz and her husband, Chad, wanted their three children, Elizabeth, 14, Trevor, 11 and Zachary, 9; to become involved in 4-H.