Estill County Extension Family & Consumer Sciences
November 2024 Edition
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Hi everyone,
I hope everyone is doing well. The holiday season is almost here. I have will be doing a Homemade Décor, Gifts, and More Workshop on November 19th. If you would like to attend, please sign up early. It will be limited to 16 participants.
The Homemaker’s Holiday Extravaganza will be on December 3rd. We will have a planning session on November 6th at 6:00 p.m. If you can’t attend the planning session but have some ideas, please let me know. The theme is Gingerbread.
The 2025 enrollment form for Estill County Homemakers is in this newsletter again. If you are not a part of Homemakers, please consider joining. The deadline for dues will be November 17th. We have two new clubs. One meets at the Irvine School Apartments and the other one is Acts in Motion. Acts in Motion is collecting items for the Blessing Boxes around town. You can bring donations to the Estill Extension Office through November 18th. The next meeting for both of these will be in January due to the holiday seasons.
If you have any questions or program ideas, you may contact me at my e-mail judy.vaughn@uky.edu or by calling the Estill County Extension office at 606-723-4557.
Have a great November.
Judy Vaughn, County Extension Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences
Dates of Interest
- November 5th—Election Day, Extension Office will be Closed
- November 6th—Not Your Momma’s Homemaker Meeting 4:45
- November 6th—Planning meeting for Homemaker Extravaganza 6:00
- November 9th—I’d Rather Be Quilting 12:00 at the Extension Office
- November 12th—Sugar and Spice, El Ranchito 12:00
- November 17th—Last day for Homemaker Dues ($10)
- November 18th—Last day for Blessing Box Donations
- November 18th—Homemaker Houseplant Group 5:30
- November 19th—Homemade Décor, Gifts, and More 9:00-12:00
- November 26th—How to get out of the Mealtime Rut 4:00
- November 27th—Laugh and Learn at the Estill County Library 10:30
- November 28th and 29th—Office Closed
- December 3rd—Homemaker Holiday Extravaganza, registration starts at 5:30
Homemaker's News
Hello Estill Homemakers,
We have been busy this fall! Our clubs have met in October and going strong.
Not Your Momma’s Homemakers Club started the month off with their meeting on October 1st. We brought items for the Bluegrass Area silent auction basket, discussed business, started planning for our annual Christmas Extravaganza, and Judy demonstrated making homemade Alfredo sauce. The next meeting for Not Your Momma’s group is scheduled for Wednesday November 6th @ 4:45p.m. We will have our normal business meeting, craft, and plan to have Nacho’s for a snack. We will also be collecting snacks for the Hospice snack cart at the November meeting. We would like to finalize the plans for the Christmas Extravaganza, so everyone please join us on November 6th @ 6:00pm for a planning meeting.
The Bluegrass Area Homemakers had their annual meeting in Powell County on October 11th. We had 9 in attendance. There was a business meeting, lunch and the speaker was the Executive Director of Powell County Tourism, Slade Welcome Center. Scott County extended the invitation for next year’s meeting with details to follow closer to the date in October.
KEHA(Homemaker) Week was October 13-19. We kicked of the week with Judy hosting a breakfast Monday the 14th. We saw several of our county homemakers and had a good time eating and socializing.
Our other groups are meeting and planning their year. We have started a couple new groups. The Irvine School Apartment Homemaker group met Thursday October 24th at 4 in their auditorium. Cheyenne Lamb taught us how to create bud vases and we made Halloween treat bags for the residents. The “Acts in Motion” Homemaker Group also met Thursday October 24th at 6 at the Extension Office. They had a business meeting, snack, and made care bags for Breast Cancer patients/survivors. They will be collecting things for the county Blessing Boxes. Items can be dropped off at the Extension Office from now to November 18th. The next meetings for both groups will be in January.
Any ideas for activities/trips/community service projects please let us know. Judy is planning some workshops and learning seminars. Our County Annual Christmas Extravaganza is scheduled for December 3rd with registration starting at 5:30. Please join us! More details to come.
The annual State KEHA meeting is in Lexington this year on May 6-8th 2025. More details to come. We are planning to go as group and hope to have many join us. Information and sign up information will be available closer to that date. Also, Bluegrass area will be the host area for the State Meeting in 2026 and it will be in Lexington too.
Hope to see you all at many of our exciting events!
Rebecca Lamb
Estill County Homemaker - President
Download the PDF for more details and flyers of upcoming events.
