CARIEVALE - The Carievale 4-H Beef Club held its reorganization meeting earlier in the fall with 20 members present.
Our executive for this year is president Marisol Gilliland, vice-president Tenley Dyck, secretary Kenzie White, treasurer Ryan Cowan and club reporter Ryder Gibson.
Our general leader this year is Jessica Buchanan. Leaders are Teresa Cowan, Eion Kennedy, Kevin Taylor and Amy Taylor.
We have four cloverbud members, nine juniors, nine intermediates, and five seniors for a total of 27 members. We discussed our bottle drive that would happen on Oct. 15. The district meeting was Oct. 18 in Maryfield with Amy, Jessica, Dane, Ben, Bella and Teresa attending. Jessica asked us to write down some ideas of what we want to learn this year.
Our second meeting was held Oct. 3. Twenty-four members were present at this meeting. Jessica gave us a handout on judging beef cattle. We practiced our skills by judging four types of chocolate chip cookies. Yummy!
Our third meeting was held on Nov. 14 with 19 members in attendance. The district rally in Glen Ewen was discussed, as were the highlights from the district fall meeting and how our bottle drive made out. Megan Turton was our presenter for the evening. She discussed vaccinations and needling animals. We then each got an orange and gave the orange two injections – one intramuscular and one subcutaneously.
We then peeled our oranges and looked at our injection sites. We finished off our meeting with a treat of sugar cookies.
The next meeting is Dec. 12.
