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4-H Clovers, Lenhartsville, bake 500 cookies for Keystone Military Families

  • Kolleen Long - Digital First Media Members of the 4H...

    Kolleen Long - Digital First Media Members of the 4H Clovers display some of the cookies they made at a meeting last month. The cookies were packed into tins and sent to soldiers serving overseas.

  • Kolleen Long - Digital First Media The 4-H Clovers baked...

    Kolleen Long - Digital First Media The 4-H Clovers baked multiple batches of homemade treats, including iced Christmas cutouts, which were then packaged in tins and sent to active duty soldiers via Keystone Military Families, Shoemakersville.

  • Kolleen Long - Digital First Media Flour, butter and lots...

    Kolleen Long - Digital First Media Flour, butter and lots of sprinkles covered every surface in the kitchen at Salem EC Church's fellowship hall in December during a 4-H club meeting. The group gathered at the Lenhartsville facility to baked hundreds of cookies for a good cause.

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The 4H Clovers, who meet twice a month at Salem EC Church, Lenhartsville, baked double batches of eight varieties of cookies, from iced cutouts and peanut-butter blossoms to Michigan rocks and chocolate crinkles and more. The group, assisted by leader Karen Mohn and parent volunteers, baked and decorated more than 500 cookies. They sampled a few, but packed up most of the cookies into tins to send to active duty soldiers serving overseas via Keystone Military Families in Shoemakersville.

The Clovers are a part of the greater Berks 4H-Penn State Extension. Find out more at extension.psu.edu/4-h/counties/berks/clubs.