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About Us
County Impact Statements - Cleveland County
Extension Homemaker Clubs Provide Valuable Service to the Community
EHC Mission Statement: The mission of this organization shall be to
empower individuals and families to improve their quality of living through
continuing education, leadership development, and community service.
The Cleveland County Extension Homemakers take community service seriously.
Each year they volunteer hundreds of hours to provide services that enrich the
lives of our people. Projects in 2001 included:
- Making caps and pillows for cancer patients at UAMS
- Sponsoring The Right Bite cooking school
- Organizing "A Day at Mark’s Mill" featuring county historians
- Sponsoring Money on the Bookshelf reading program for the county library
- Serving as superintendents and hostesses at the Cleveland County Fair
- Organizing and sponsoring the Miss Cleveland County luncheon
- Participating in and completing Fair Judging School
- Serving as judges at other county fairs: Bradley, Drew, Grant, and
Lincoln
- Sponsoring and providing monthly nursing home birthday parties
- Making pillows, blankets, booties, and other items for Children’s
Hospital
- Donating flowers and assisting with the courthouse landscaping project
- Donating money to the Cleveland County 4-H Fund
- Sponsoring and organizing countywide craft workshops
- Assisting with the Farm Safety Day Camp
- Donating gifts to limited resource families at Christmas
Fair Judging School attendees, (left to right) Arlene Orton,
Marie Brown, Diane Clement, Virginia Norton, Mary Baresch, Annie
Lou Puckett, Maxine Powers, Sara Davis, Beverly Harlow, Kaye
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Impacts
- 47 county residents, attending The Right Bite cooking school, learned
healthy cooking techniques
- "A Day at Mark’s Mill", historic lectures and tours, met with such
success that this will become an annual EHC sponsored event
- Several hundred patients at UAMS and Children’s Hospital were recipients
of usable handmade items
- Limited resource children and adults learn resource management from
Money on the Bookshelf
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