4-Hers sign-up for centennial projects

Newsboy photo/Charles Kerr LANE HOWARD AND JA SHAE HORN sign in at the first 4-H meeting of the year last week. Different groups have many special projects planned for the year.

The Jasper Community 4-H Clubs met to plan projects for the upcoming Centennial Year of 4-H.

4-H is best known for teaching kids responsibility by raising and showing animals, but they are involved in a great many more projects, according to adult leaders Dru and Jimmy Miller.

This year the group will tackle a soils project, hold photography classes, and continue with their shooting group, in addition to community service, food, fashion and leadership programs.

Both 4-H and the younger Clover Buds kids meet the third Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Catholic Church on U. S. Highway 190.

The shooting group will meet the fourth Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at a place to be announced. Dru Miller says they will hold a workshop in October to train adult leaders in safe shooting supervision.

The photography group, who will be assisting with the soils project, meets the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the Texas County Extension kitchen in the courthouse annex at 271 E. Lamar.

The first photography class will be Oct. 2, with a makeup date Oct. 6 at Fall Fest. For more information, call Charles Kerr at 489-0487.

Jasper participants will help man the 4-H booth at the YMBL (Young Men's Business League) South Texas State Fair Oct. 13.

For more information, call Dru or Jimmy Miller at 384-9900.