We’ve been pretty busy here in the Delia 4H beef Club. We are holding a fund raising Travel Voucher Raffle. The draw date will be June 30 and each member is selling tickets. Please contact one of them if you’re interested in purchasing a ticket.
    The club held our annual mini show on Sunday, April 17 at 3MC Stock Farms. We began our day by each member leading their steers or heifers into the riding arena where they tied them up to be used for a show clinic later in the day. We had two members of the Shiloh Cattle Company show team Blake Morton and Alisha Minchau, out to put on our grooming, judging and show ring clinics. They put on a fantastic grooming demonstration for the members and their parents and answered any questions we had. I think everybody could walk away saying they learned something new from these two. We then took a break to enjoy a delicious beef on a bun lunch. We carried on with our day and did a judging exercise with all the members from seniors to cleavers. Next up we moved outside to a ring for our show practice. We started with the seniors and worked our way through everybody right down to our cleavers (with the help of their parents of course!!). The McDougald families are very gracious to host these event for us each year. They allow us to use their scale and get all our animals weighed. The Hanna UFA Farm & Ranch Store donated some grooming products to our club which will be used for Show & Sale day.
    We would like to take this opportunity to send a special Thank You to Alisha Minchau, Blake Morton, The McDougald families and Darcy Tudor along with the Hanna UFA Farm & Ranch Store. Thanks for making our day so successful!!
    We have a few upcoming activities. Our community service project along with the Communities in Bloom Committee of Delia will be doing our annual village clean up on Monday, May 2. Mark this date down on your calendars, our District 4H Show and Sale will be held in Delia on Monday, June 6. We will fill you in on times as the date gets closer.

The valley is looking a whole lot cleaner today thanks to the help of the over 300 volunteers who came out to clean up on Earth Day 2016 today. "It's been amazing," said organizer Heather Colberg. "I can't say it enough: this community is amazing." Pictured from the top is Mrs. Koller's Grade 4 students at Greentree School, Kevin Aulenback getting right into the bush looking for trash on Riverside Drive, Kathy Augey and Barb Campbell having a good time cleaning up downtown, ATCO's Kevin Hunter and his son Kooper cleaning up the industrial park, Canalta's Ryan Semchuk and Ramada's Theresa Vyevy roasting hot dogs for Greentree School, and Ryan Storch and Chloe Hodgson enjoying them for a hard-earned and tasty lunch.