"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 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.
