Morgan Knull of Armena 4-H Beef club stays calm in the show ring during the steer class. | Mary MacArthur photo
4-H members’ activities continued despite COVID-19, and achievement days went virtual, but normal is back
BASHAW, Alta. — After two years of 4-H achievement days modified by COVID-19, the Camrose District’s Interclub Show and Sale is “back to normal,” said beef committee member Christy Van De Voorde.
“It feels great,” said Van De Voorde, leader of the Bashaw 4-H Beef Club and mother of members at the show.
“The kids had a fire and a dance and are back to some normalcy,” she said.
Five 4-H clubs from Armena, Bashaw, Camrose, New Norway and Rosalind attended the two-day show and sale, held at the Bashaw Agricultural Grounds. Members showed 14 females and 50 steers at the show.
“These two days are what it’s all about. I am very proud of the kids and how far they have come,” she said.
Van De Voorde said friends made through 4-H last forever, noting she still has good friends she made in 4-H 30 years earlier.
“They’re my friends forever and its been 30 years.”
In true 4-H achievement days form, there is always one show calf that spots greener pastures. A group of parents guide a loose calf into a corner of the Bashaw Agricultural Grounds to get its halter back on. | Mary MacArthur photoJudge Stan Skeels slaps the steer belonging to Adilane Bleakley of Bashaw 4-H Beef Club indicating the steer as Grand Champion of the Camrose District Interclub Show. Reserve calf was owned by Addisyn Weinkauf, of Rosalind 4-H Beef Club. | Mary MacArthur photoSophia Feitsma, of Kingman, Alta., with the Armena 4-H Beef Club leads her steer out of the ring with the calf giving her a little push. | Mary MacArthur photoNatalie Kroetsch, of Rosalind 4-H Beef Club leads her calf out of the show ring. | Mary MacArthur photoThe five clubs at the Camrose District Interclub Show line up their Pen of Five calves, a uniform group of steers. In the photo are clubs from Armena, Bashaw and Camrose. | Mary MacArthur photoReese Marshall, of Bittern Lake, with the Armena 4-H Beef Club leads her calf, Karen. Marshall is a Cleaver, a younger member of the 4-H club. Karen is an orphan Highland calf and Marshall had it at the at the Camrose District Interclub Show in Bashaw. | Mary MacArthur photo
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