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Susan Jenna and Abigail R. reflect on decades of 4-H leadership and community teaching.
From sewing with neighbor kids to enrolling her five children, Susan Jenna and Abigail R. have helped lead Warner’s 4-H Club for decades. Her story shows how crafts, cooking, and community service empower generations—and how Warner fosters youth leadership.
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Warner | 4-H Leadership and Community Teaching
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From sewing with neighbor kids to enrolling her five children, Susan Jenna and Abigail R. have helped lead Warner’s 4-H Club for decades. Her story shows how crafts, cooking, and community service empower generations—and how Warner fosters youth leadership.
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I'm the organization leader for the Warner 4H Club Well, we're a small community club, in Warner the club has been in existence for many, many years.
When I moved to Warner in 1986, actually, the club was in existence and I made an effort to kind of seek out the 4H Club because I grew up in 4H and wanted to continue working in 4H So I met Mrs. Johnson and she put me in touch with, my neighbor girl, actually, and I did some sewing with her.
Then I started having children, and I enrolled my kids in 4H, all five of them to 4H in the Warner Club.
They did sewing, arts and crafts, cooking.
At one point, they, even the older ones made a toboggan.
Adirondack chairs.
We had a woodworking leader.
So we've done lots of really cool projects over the years.
All sorts of different kinds of projects that, kids can enroll.
And we it really depends.
It's all volunteer.
So it depends on the, the volunteers that, are part of the community.
And I know in Warner we have many, many people who have been, in 4H there.
Alumni of our 4H club, and they've done, a ton of different kinds of projects.
So our club focuses on sewing, arts and crafts.
Cooking, outdoor education, community service is a big part of, what we do in 4H Our club has done lots of things like donate baked goods to bake sales.
We've participated in various town events.
One of the big things that we do, and this has been tradition in the for in Warner 4H is the Warner Fall Foliage Festival parade every October.
And my kids were part of the float building excitement.
And, our club in recent years has, created a float for the parade.
That's always been a big hit.
It usually starts September.
The kids start planning and, brainstorming some ideas because we want to fit with the theme.
This year is this past year it was Warner's 250th birthday.
So we wanted to be part of that.
And they kind of had an idea of loosely, pinata idea.
So we had a rainbow.
We had, Clover pinatas, the kids dressed as candy, and, the day of the day before we scrounge around, finding as much foliage as we possibly can and cover the trailer bed.
I recruit a lot of my family.
So my son in law drove.
Drove the truck that pulled the 20ft trailer that belonged to my daughter and her boyfriend.
So 20ft.
It's a lot to cover with all of those leaves and twigs and berries and flowers and everything.
But we did.
And, the big hit this year was the bubble machines.
So the kids had, we had bubble machines going on the float.
And so I think we were quite a hit on the parade route with bubbles going everywhere.
And it was lots of fun.
The kids had a great time with with, the float.
So I do a lot of fun events.
in 4H I work with a group, and I like 4H because they let you work in the group and, then and and my Cub Leader never says no to a new idea for the float.
We used a big trailer and chicken wire, and we had, branches.
We filled it up, with branches on the chicken wir but the chicken wire and, then we had hay bales on the inside and just, just decorated the outside and then we'd bring bubble machines after, and we'd be dressed up as candy any particular type of candy.
Skittles, you were Skittles.
That's a good one.
I feel like a part of the club when, we do fun activities because, we all get to work together and you can share things so you feel like you have a place in that.
It is a fun place for kids.
to interact with a lot of different communities 4H I think it started in like 1902 or something like that.
In Ohio, in New Hampshire.
I actually have a little history book, I think, and it's been, you know, since 1914 or something.
And so it's been around for a long time.
In Warner, I think it was 1938 or something.
There was evidence that we had clubs, in town.
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