For over 50 years, the Yorkton Creators 4H Club has been giving kids ages 6 to 21 options for something to do in the area.
The club offers many different programs, including cooking or crafts, photography, sewing, woodworking, a horse program, and the typical 4H projects.
“You learn a lot of things,” Vi Protz, with the club, said. “I joined when I was 12 years old, and it’s served me well.”
Protz has been part of the club for over 30 years, ever since moving to Yorkton, being a project leader and general leader since 1991. For her, sewing, knitting and curling have been her projects, all things she loves.
While 4H is focused on kids, Protz said it’s for everyone.
“It’s good for them to learn. The motto is learn to do by doing, and I’m still learning to do by doing, even though I’ve got this thing [a walker] now. I’ve told the kids, as long as you need me, I’ll stay, and they keep needing me.”
She noted that membership has been going down and believes that a lack of interest from youth and COVID is part of the problem. She is hoping that as the restrictions and guidelines ease up that membership will go up.
The club recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019, and while the milestone in Yorkton has been half a century, 4H itself has been around for over 100 years.
