Home Community Education Club, Deer Park, Wisconsin

"HCE" under the house without walls confirms a commitment to membership open to all, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, handicap or national origin.

Home Community Education Club

Deer Park, Wisconsin 54007
formerly Deer Park Homemakers

The Wisconsin Association for Home and Community Education, Inc., is a non-profit educational organization comprised of member associations in 59 counties in Wisconsin. The organization is unique in that members extend the information they receive from the University faculty and other reliable sources to the membership and community. Program planning and leadership training are provided by a collaborative effort of WAHCE, Inc. and the UW-Extension Family Living Program. The UW-Extension faculty serve as advisors to both the state and county HCE Associations. Education programs are developed after careful study of statewide concerns.

Our Goals are:: To provide continuing education for members and others on issues that will strengthen families and communities.; To develop and improve leadership skills of members.; To build coalitions with other organizations and agencies having similar objectives and concerns as WAHCE, Inc.; To promote friendships and understanding with all people of the world.

HCE member Char Croes works on HCE's adopted highway, County Road H.

About Deer Park's HCE

Deer Park's HCE has 12 members.
Originated and participate in the Holiday Fair the first Saturday in December.
Pick up ditches along County Road H.
Do the advertising for community-wide garage sales, which we are planning for the first weekend in June of this year.
Sell pies at the Lions spring dinner with proceeds of the pie sales usually going to help with a Lions' project, this year it will be to help pay for the new concession stand the Lions are planning to build in the park.
Donate money to charitable organizations, including the Deer Park Library and Community Center.
Take in cultural events such as going to plays, etc, as a group.
Meet the third Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. usually at the Community Center, but sometimes whichever member is serving may decide to hold the meeting in her home.
Go on tours.
Exchange craft ideas.
Attend St. Croix County HCE events and learning sessions.
Our members range in age from a new mother to great-grandmothers, and we have fun learning from each other and socializing.
Activities and events are provided to all clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, national origin, creed or economic circumstance.

Community-wide Garage Sale May 29-30, 2009

"Several people in the Deer Park community will hold garage sales on the weekend of May 29-30. Some may open already Thursday evening, May 28. The price of the joint ad will be paid by all the people participating and they will have their sale location printed on a map to be distributed the days of the sales. Participants may contact Char Croes to be included on the map and in the ad to be placed in the newspapers.

HCE members will again serve pie at the Lions spring dinner in April, with proceeds going to help pay down the park concession stand debt.

A spring or summer tour is being planned by the members to southern Wisconsin. The annual state HCE convention will be held in Superior in September 2009. "