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The Carroll County Family Community and Education (FCE) Council meeting was held on January 16 in the conference room of the County Complex with 12 members present. The meeting was opened with the thought, ‘Attitude is everything. Make positive choices.’ The first item on the agenda was updating personal information of members. A cluster meeting will be held in Waverly, Tennessee, at the fairgrounds on January 27th. Register for this meeting by January 20 and $15 will be collected at the door for the meal. Every FCE member has to be registered as a volunteer and instructions were given on how to do so. Contact Lacy, the extension agent, for more info or questions.
The importance of reporting earned CVU hours were covered. West Tennessee turned in a total of 1,497,500 hours. This data is used to fund programs in our county. Hours accumulated will count toward 2024. CVUs are turned in by 500-hour increments. You can go back as far as two years when recording hours in addition to the current year for a total of three years. Anything you do for someone else that is not family or church related counts including the hours spent driving to and from meetings or preparing for meetings.
When someone asks FCE means, what do you say? Family Community and Education is what FCE stands for but what does it mean? How do you explain what our club does? Some say we are like an adult version of 4-H. But are we? Do we do poster contests? Speech contests? Animals? No, we are a service organization that helps in the community. Get the word out!
Yearbooks are still waiting on some dates to come down from district and state, but will be available before February club meetings. We need to review our goals for 2023. Spring Rally this year will be April 27 at 10 a.m. in the kitchen at the County Complex. Hostess will be Bethel/Eastside FCE. A chairperson is needed for the Cultural Arts and Fashion review. It has been suggested that as a county group (both clubs), that we host a larger event to raise awareness of FCE and funds for our account to support those wanting to attend more leadership opportunities. A Christmas Bizarre or Heritage Craft Days were a couple of quick mentions. Additional ideas will be discussed at a later date.