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18 THE RURAL VOICE
included a ski club and a diversity
club, teaching members about other
lands and their cultures.
The changing courses are helping
attract new members, says Haynes.
"We're getting more kids from the
city coming to 4-H now," she says.
Opening the doors of 4-H to more
new members is one of the tasks of
Murray Needham. When he speaks in
a school to make kids aware of 4-H,
he has to get the message across that
4-H is for everybody, not just farm
kids, he says.
Finding leaders for 4-H
programs continues to be a
problem right across the
province, ,says Haynes. Needham
says part of his work has been trying
to encourage new leaders to get
involved.
Kuntz says the leadership vacuum
makes the Youth Leader program
important. It allows 4-H members 15
years of age and over to help lead 4
their clubs. "It can be a great amount
of help to the leaders," he says. "We
hope they'll eventually become full
leaders. We do have some leaders
coming on, some who weren't even
involved in 4-H."
Even if they don't get involved in
their home county, the Youth
Leaders may go on to help in their
new homes after theNy finish college,
Kuntz says.
There's no stronger example of
what 4-H can do for you than Bridge
herself. She has been involved in 4-H
since she was 12, either as a
participant or a leader. She was
caught up in the first controversy
about changes in the program when
the Iifeskills and agricultural clubs
were melded into one organization.
She was there when the awards
system was changed but she realized,
she says, that despite the fact she
didn't get her pie -lifter, the reward
for 12 clubs under the old lifeskills
program, she had received something
much more worthwhile from 4-H.
Later, when she married and
moved to the Kincardine area, she
used 4-H as a way to get involved in
her new area, first as a participant in
some of the lifeskills courses, then as
a leader. Later still, she became the
regional representative on the
Ontario 4-H Council and worked her
way up through the Council to
become president.0