The next event was Group Interpretation of the story “The Gingerbread Girl” performed by Alyssa Zasada, Brianna Moore and Tiffany Lange. The girls had many wonderful characters to portray with their voices and gestures, while reading their script. The story was about the Gingerbread girl, who outran and escaped the elderly couple who baked her, some farmers, a pig, an artist, a cow, 3 dogs and their walker, kids and teachers on a playground, and eventually the fox who had previously eaten her brother. The happy ending included her befriending the fox and rehabilitating him, and returning home to bake more gingerbread cookies for the elderly couple.

The last event was Storytelling by Phoebe Moore. In her event she has to memorize 4 stories and do whichever one is chosen for her to do. She must tell the story from a chair, as if she’s presenting to young children. Phoebe gave a great animated telling of “The Beginning of the Armadillo” by Rudyard Kipling—a clever tale about a not-so-clever baby jaguar who is learning to hunt from his mother and differentiate between a tortoise and a hedgehog, who manage to outsmart him repeatedly for fun. In the end, the tortoise and hedgehog learn to imitate one another and while the hedgehog becomes smoother and learns to swim, the tortoise stretches his back plates and learns to curl up. End result? A clever armadillo of course!

Thanks for the wonderful speeches and demonstration!

UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

Diane Van Natta was the lucky one selected. She drew the Queen of Spades and won $2. Good Luck to next week’s winner.

Milt Rewey and the Scholarship Committee (Maxine Lane, Duane Borgen, Ernie Thalmann, Angie Udelhofen, Eileen Engelke) finished and turned their results in to the High School.

The Nominating Committee is working toward holding elections for next year’s slate of officers on April 16. If you have a desire to serve your club, please contact Tom.

Winners from the local contest got their awards and pictures taken with club presidents this week. Sumaia and Saafia Masoom 1st place, and Angela Drefcinski 2nd place. The Masoom sisters will compete April 17 at the Zone contest in Platteville from 9am-12pm at the Mound City Bank Motor Branch.

The District Tri-Star Basketball contest was on March 20. Of our 5 representatives, 3 received Gold for 1st Place in their Age group – Cassie Hamer – 13 year old Girls, Rachael Emendorfer – 12 year old Girls, and Maranda McCarthy – 10 year old Girls. Cassie and Maranda are 3 time champions! Blake Noel - took Silver for 2nd Place in the 11 year old Boys category.

Tri State Taste of Barley Apr 10th in Platteville.

Arboretum Burn – those interested in helping, contact Hap Daus.

Thank you to ace reporter Holly Cook for filling in for me. Editor Emeritus John Dutcher took the photos. Any errors are mine.

The next Board Meeting will be on Thursday, April 8th at 7 AM at Badger Brothers.