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Extension Homemakers highlight their activities by decorating window at downtown business

Rita McCabe, left, and Edie Fulton organize items in the window of Rodger and Vivian’s Income Tax Service on North Jefferson Street for the Extension Homemakers. Extension Homemakers Week is Oct. 19-23.
Rita McCabe, left, and Edie Fulton organize items in the window of Rodger and Vivian’s Income Tax Service on North Jefferson Street for the Extension Homemakers. Extension Homemakers Week is Oct. 19-23. Photo by Jessica Williams.

Extension Homemakers Week is Oct. 19-23 and a storefront window is being used to highlight the activities for Huntington County.

Rodger and Vivian's Income Tax Service on North Jefferson Street owns the window.

Committee members Glenna Brown, Edie Fulton and Rita McCabe organized items in the window to showcase activities of the Huntington County group.

On Oct. 8, four members of the Extension Homemakers read books to the preschoolers at Head Start. In preparation for this first reading, Extension Homemakers made 72 book bags to give to the children at the first reading to keep their books in. They are encour-aged to take the books home to have them read to them again. The purpose of the pro-gram is to encourage reading by the students, as well as their caregivers, says McCabe. The organization reads to the children four times during the year.

On Friday, Dec. 11, the county organization will sponsor its annual holiday cookie and candy sale at the Huntington County Courthouse Annex Building at 354 N. Jefferson St. in Huntington. Cookies will sell by the dozen and individual pieces and the candy will sell by the pound. All the different cookies and candle will be homemade by Extension Homemakers in Huntington County.

The Extension Homemakers are involved in the 4-H Fair by sponsoring Ladies Day at the fair on the first Monday. They present four education programs for fair goers to enjoy. Door prizes are given out at each session.
Following Ladies Day, the Touch of Class Extension Homemakers club sponsors a pie-baking contest. The entered pies are judged and then sold by piece and enjoyed by those attending the fair.

The Extension Homemakers group also sponsors the Open Class Exhibit for adults. All entries are judged and given a ribbon and then a best of show is chosen from each category, McCabe goes on to say. Many of those items are showcased in the window display.

Educational lessons are presented at various times throughout the year for the members to enjoy and take the information back to their local clubs. Besides sewing book bags for the Head Start reading program members also made teen pillows and saved pop tabs for Riley Hospital. The organization has made turbans, pillows and lap blankets for cancer patients at Parkview Huntington Hospital.

The Piece Makers Quilt Club is always busy making quilts and donating them to worthwhile organizations around the county, including the pediatric ward at Parkview Huntington Hospital, McCabe says.

Several members attend the Home and Family Conference at Purdue University each June. Many interesting speakers are enjoyed and many interesting lessons are attended to take back to their local clubs. Several members also attend the Northeast Indiana Homemakers Camp, held at Camp Mack in August. Once again members enjoy speakers, lessons, enjoy making crafts and work on a community project. This year, lap robes were made and given to the Norwood Health and Rehabilitation Center.

The county group enjoys a trip each year. In May the group traveled to Nashville, Indiana and toured a sock factory. Then they had lunch and shopping in Nashville before attending a hand bell pro-gram. On the way home, they stopped at a popcorn factory and saw how different flavors of popcorn were made.

The Huntington County Extension Homemakers are involved in international activities. They have joined the Associated County Women of the World (ACWW). The purpose of this organization is to raise the standard of living of rural women and families through education, training and community development programs.

The group is also involved with the National Volunteer Outreach Network, Inc. (NVON), which brings together organizations that are members of ACWW to promote friendship and understanding between member organizations for better communication in the United States and the world.

For more information concerning the Huntington County Extension Homemakers Organization, call the Huntington County Extension Office at 358-4826.