Lancaster County 4-H presents a Heart of 4-H Award to a Lancaster County 4-H volunteer each month in recognition of outstanding volunteer serice. The purpose of this award is to recognize volunteers who are, indeed, the heart of 4-H.
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Anne has been co-leader of Joe's Clover Knights 4-H club for five years. A Nebraska 4-H Club of Excellence, Joe's Clover Knights currently has 55 4-H members. The club works on many projects together, including rockets, food & nutrition, clothing, and quilting. Club community service projects have included creating meal bags for low-income families (for which the club received a Governor's Agricultural Excellence Award to support), making quilts and blankets for donation, and school and church grounds clean-up.
"I like being a 4-H volunteer because it gives me the opportunity to share the gifts I've been given and skills that I learned as a young 4-H'er," says Anne. "4-H was a huge part of my life and taught me many life skills. You learn life lessons and skills about how to effectively communicate to others, how to plan and organize, how to work through frustration, and more. 4-H can build your self esteem in unimaginable ways. I have MANY favorite experiences in the 5 years of being a leader of our 4-H club. They are as small as the hugs that I get from the youngest members saying how much they love 4-H, and as big as seeing our amazing group plan, provide, and hand deliver 55 nutritious meals to the less fortunate with love pouring from the 4-H'ers big smiles. I loved creating our first club quilt and working through all the frustrations of patterns that don't match, seams that needed ripped out, and then to have the beautiful results and exuberant faces of success."