The presence of 4-H Clubs at the Estevan Farmers’ Appreciation Evening grew, with the number of clubs going from three to five. Speakers from all five clubs made their presentations at the event at the Beefeater Plaza on March 26.
Steelman and Crossroads Clubs participated in the event for the first time, while Outram-Madigan, Benson and Browning Clubs were long-term Farmers' Appreciation Evening’s presenters.
Cheyenne Lake, a junior with Crossroads Club of Stoughton, talked about what matters for her a lot – horses. She was the one to open the 4-H part of the Farmers' Appreciation evening, which put extra pressure on her shoulders. The speech was about her personal experience with the 4-H that started about three years ago, and about what she has learned about horses so far. She told the audience what horse parts she knows, what she learned about taking care of horses and riding them, and what one needs to have a horse
“I don’t have my own horse yet, but would like to get one someday,” Lake concluded.
A junior with Outram-Madigan Club, Sierra Mantei presented an energetic and filled with humor speech named LLB. The nine-year-old admitted that she wants to be a lawyer when she grows up. She talked about different types of law she knows and what kind of problems each lawyer has to deal with. She explained the difference between a criminal lawyer and a prosecutor, and talked about the duties of a real estate and a family lawyer, stating that she can’t wait to have LLB after her name.
“So if you are needing a lawyer service, meet me at the courtroom in about 20 years,” Mantei said in the end making everyone in the audience laugh.
A cloverbud with Benson Club, Ellie Hayes inspired the women present in the audience with a speech about girl power. She tried to explain how she understands what being a strong girl means. She suggested that it includes treating everyone the same, waking up the first time mom calls her name, patience, being responsible, helping others and sitting at the rink through all her brother’s hockey games.
“And finally being a strong girl means standing up here and giving a speech to at least 50 people. I’m learning, sometimes you just have to be doing some things even if it’s something you don’t want to do, I think it’s going to make me a stronger girl,” Hayes summarized her encouraging speech.
A cloverbud with Browning Club Bella Tedford introduced her favourite food – potatoes. French fries, hash browns, and even homemade chips, shredded, cubed or sliced, mashed, boiled and baked with sour cream and bacon bits – Tedford knew everything about cooking potatoes. Smothered with gravy with corn on top was Bella’s favoutrite way of making potatoes. She also noted that there are many other things except eating that potatoes are good for.
“You can play hot potatoes. You can make your own potato-head person. You can remove stains with a potato and light a light bulb with a potato… And also did you know, potatoes have eyes?” joked Tedford in the end.
The last 4-H speaker of the night was a junior with Steelman Club Sophia Fleck. Her speech was about slime. She explained that besides being a messy substance slime can be fun. It turned out there were over a dozen of types of slime that Fleck named. Her favourite was icebreaker slime and she even shared a recipe of making and activating blue icebreaker slime. Fleck noted that the process of slime making can go good or bad, depending on the ingredients' proportions.
“Just don’t let your parents see the mess. And remember, it looks awesome, but don’t eat it,” Fleck advised wrapping up.
