Edmond Light Horse 4-H Club meets Tuesday

Old members and individuals interested in joining are invited to attend the Edmond Light Horse 4-H Club meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at New Covenant United Methodist Church, 2700 S. Blvd., Bldg. 100, Room 109.

Guest speaker and local trainer, Karen Rogillio will be speaking on “Setting your Goals and Preparing to Achieve Them”.

Individuals must be between nine and 19 years of age to join, and do not have to have a horse to join. Club dues are $7 a year.

Refreshments will be served.

Camp Fire USA is blasting into the next century

In 2010 Camp Fire USA will be celebrating 100 years as one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit youth development organizations, serving nearly three quarters of a million participants annually. In 2009 the Heart of Oklahoma Council will be celebrating 80 years of serving families in the greater metropolitan area and surrounding communities. Camp Fire USA Heart of Oklahoma Council is a youth organization for boys and girls in pre-kindergarten through high school. If you have children in public or private school systems, or a home school parent, you are invited to an Information and Sign-Up Meeting where there will be a Camp Fire USA representative to answer questions. Meetings will be held at the following times and places: 6:30-7:30 p.m., Sept. 4, Camp Fire USA Information and Sign-Up Meeting at Edmond Public Library; 6:30-7:30 p.m., Sept. 9, Camp Fire USA Information and Sign-Up Meeting at Quail Springs UMC, 14617 Penn Ave.; 6:30-7:30 p.m., Sept. 18, Camp Fire USA Information and Sign-Up Meeting at St. Monica’s Catholic Church, 2001 N. Western Ave., Edmond; and 7-8 p.m., Sept. 30, Camp Fire USA Information and Sign-Up Meeting at the Edmond YMCA, 1220 Rankin St.

The Heart of Oklahoma Council is looking for volunteers to be club leaders. Adult volunteers are needed to guide the children through the program curriculum. Training and support materials are provided. For fun, friends and learning that lasts a lifetime, call Camp Fire USA at 478-5646 or e-mail: infor@campfireusa-ok.og.

Local youth earn top-10 finish at Ford AQHA World Championship Show

Edmond students Evan Hamlin, Alexandra French and Alexis Pfeiffer were top-10 finalists at the Ford American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) World Championship Show in Oklahoma City.

Hamlin won in Hunter Hack with Valentinos Vaquero, a 1999 Bay American Quarter Horse gelding, while Alexandra French was a top-10 finalist in Working Hunter with Hesa Cool Kid, a 1992 Bay American Quarter Horse gelding.

Alexis Pfeiffer was a top-10 finalist in Aged Mares with CR Eclipse, a 2003 sorrel American Quarter Horse mare.

“It is the premier event for AQHYA members,” said Bill Brewer AQHA Executive Vice President.

The show featured 2,748 entries from around the world competing for 22 World Championship titles. To qualify for the invitational event, exhibitors along with their horses must have earned a specific number of points in AQHA-approved shows from May 1, 2007-April 30, 2008.

For more information and full coverage of the Ford Youth World, visit AQHA.COM.

Essay contest for Oklahoma High School juniors, seniors

The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association is proud to sponsor the new Oklahoma George Washington Essay Contest, “How Did George Washington Shape the Presidency and the Nation?” This essay contest is a part of a two-year initiative, The George Washington Oklahoma Teaching Ambassador Program, funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. The contest, which accepts submissions exclusively from Oklahoma students until Sept. 17, awards four students with a trip to Mount Vernon, Va., to attend a national distance learning broadcast, Shaping the Presidency, with historian Joseph Ellis and ABC journalist Cokie Roberts on Oct. 14.

The top essay winner’s teacher will have the option to either attend a week-long program, all expenses paid, at Mount Vernon’s George Washington Teachers’ Institute in 2009 or to accompany his or her student to Mount Vernon for the Shaping the Presidency broadcast.

For more information concerning the contest, please e-mail Jan McClaren, George Washington Oklahoma Ambassador, at jmcclaren@mountvernon.org.