4-H Canada, with the help of 4-H Manitoba, hosted a 110-year celebration in Roland at the 4-H Museum on Nov. 1 with help from the Roland 4-H Club and RM of Roland.
“Each year, we celebrate 4-H month in November and Nov. 1 is Show Your 4-H Colours Day,” said Karen Olafson of 4-H Manitoba. “So we wanted to host this celebration in Roland and went live on social media to start the Wave of Green across Canada.”
Roland is known as the birthplace of 4-H in Canada, with the first club in Canada starting up in 1913. So this year’s celebration was extra special as it was celebrating 110 years of 4-H in Canada.
“We had 55 to 60 people attend our celebration in Roland enjoying free hotdogs/smokies prepared by Smoke’n Bob’s, and also the opportunity to walk around and check out the 4-H Museum,” said Olafson.
At the celebration, greetings were given from MLA of Midland Lauren Stone, the Reeve of Roland and leader with Roland 4-H Club Jodi Gaultier, Director of Marketing 4-H Canada Lori Barron, and President of Manitoba’s 4-H Council Philip Fenez.
“We ended the evening by making a human 4 and H and starting the Wave of Green across Canada by going live on 4-H Canada’s Instagram account. It was a wonderful time had by all that attended.”
4-H also puts out requests for town buildings and/or landmarks to be lit up green for the first week of November. Here is a link to what is being lit up in Manitoba: https://showyour4hcolours.ca/landmarks/?utm_source=4-H+Canada+Communications&utm_campaign=c952c5c9f7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_10_14_03_59_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_11a4296150-c952c5c9f7-142197769&mc_cid=c952c5c9f7&mc_eid=b59f023220
