Reminiscences of and for the Family

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And then there was 4-H. Mom was our leader and we had a new club project every year, starting with something called "Cooking I." We had many county-wide affairs and Mom made the uniforms for the entire club-- from white bedsheets, with green embroidery and double-breasted fronts up and down which marched the name of our club-- "Willing Workers." One time the County Agent, Rex Warren (he's still living in Corvallis), came out and Mom proceeded with the meeting as planned with Dorothy Bronson and someone else doing a demonstration on making homemade biscuits. Doubt it Dorothy had watcher her mom at home, and to Mom's horrory, she stirred in just a little milk, moistened a little wad of dough in the center of the bowl, carefully extracted it, and made TWO biscuits and carefully bakes the two precious morsels and served them to Mr. Warren! But Mom didn't give up-- one time Dorothy (Morrisey, this time) and I were the demonstration team who went to the County Fair with our subject, "Washing Dishes." Won at the county and ended up at the Sate Fair for a week, staying in the dorm and having a marvelous time! But the clinger was the time we were at the Yamhill County Fair (held in the lower part of the McMinville Park) and watched Lois Magnuson (your Aunt Lois) and her partner doing a camp cookery lesson on strawberry shortcake. They even went down to the little stream as part of their lesson and washed their strawberries! Mom was thinking about that later as she watched the judges (who, of course, gave them first prize) eating those strawberries knowing that the stream was a swere runoff-- things weren't so carefully monitored in those days, even in city parks!

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