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"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.

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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 June 6-7, 2008

The annual Deer Park community-wide garage sale will take place on June 6-7. For those planning a sale on these dates, garage salers can contact Char Croes or Lola Fouks of the HCE. Your sale will be included in a newspaper ad by the homemakers and a map of sale locations will be available at some sale points.

The fireman's ball/Lion's chicken dinner was Saturday April 12. The HCE sold pie pieces again and the money is going to help the Lion's pay down the bill on the park concession stand. Some funding will go towards a memorial in memory of Mary V. Peterson who passed away in March 2008; Mavis Croes and Diane Cook in the past year and in prior years Betty Erickson, Mary Lou Peterson, Kathy Krogh, Delores Peterson, Alice Thompson, Ann Johnston and Myrtle Krampert.

In HCE this spring another project we're doing is filling 12 "Love Bags" with items for foster children in St. Croix County. These bags can be taken with them when they get put into a home...they will contain items like age-appropriate books, stuffed animals, maybe a little quilt, toothbrush, etc. It's a county-wide project and clubs can participate if they want.

In May 2008 we're having our monthly meeting at the Taylor Home Inn Bed and Breakfast just east of Clear Lake.

February and March 2007 Events

We are having the Swedish exchange student speak at our March 15 meeting at 7 p.m. at the community center. At our February meeting one member spoke on heart health and took our blood pressure.

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