• Demmer Center provides multitude of shooting sport opportunities for community

    Published on March 4, 2011
    The Demmer Center serves as a training site for future national championship caliber collegiate shooting sports teams, as well as provides space for public shooting sports education courses and extramural enjoyment opportunities for the public.

  • 4-H Youth honored by Governor Granholm

    Published on March 4, 2011
    It's not every day that someone gets asked to have lunch with the governor. According to Debra Dix, "We weren't even planning on going to the U.P. State Fair, and then we received these tickets in the mail!"

  • 4-H Citizenship Washington Focus

    Published on March 2, 2011
    Leadership. Citizenship. Civic engagement. These are just some of the things Southwest Michigan teens learned during their week of 'learning by doing' at the 2010 4-H Citizenship Washington Focus in Washington, D.C.

  • Sault Ste Marie home to 4-H youth from Japan

    Published on March 2, 2011
    The family of Carl and Joy Anderson literally brought the world into their home this summer when they hosted a 4-H Japanese exchange student for one month.

  • Michigan 4-H does make a difference!

    Published on March 2, 2011
    In a 2007 study by the National Center for Higher Education, Michigan 4-H high school and pre-college students-especially those involved in pre-college programs-attend college more often than their same-age state and national peers.

  • 4-H Camp Ready-SET-Go!

    Published on January 17, 2011
    Michigan State University Extension in Alcona, Montmorency, Otsego and Presque Isle counties pooled local and 4-H participation fee resources to provide a 2010 summer camp for both 4-H and non 4-H members focused on science, engineering & tech.

  • 4-H teens try their hands at social entrepreneurship

    Published on January 17, 2011
    4-H teen citizenship, leadership and service workshop helps teens generate a generous donation of bunk beds and bedding to Newaygo County families in need.

  • Washington trip offers practice in leadership

    Published on January 17, 2011
    Citizenship. Leadership. Civic engagement. These are just some of the things Southwest Michigan teens learned during their week full of 'learning by doing' at this year's 4-H Citizenship Washington Focus.

  • New 4-H worm farming program expands inch by inch

    Published on January 17, 2011
    The 4-H Worm program introduces youth to raising worms for entrepreneurial projects. 4-H'ers raise red wiggler worms in household bins to either sell the worms to anglers or sell vermicompost to farmers and gardeners.

  • Youth enjoy packed weekend at Kettunen Center during 4-H Mentoring Weekend

    Published on December 2, 2010
    Nearly 40 people came together for the annual 4-H Mentoring Weekend this July. Twenty match-ups of 4-H mentors and youth, as well as 15 volunteers, spent a weekend at the 4-H Kettunen Center in Tustin, MI.