Ranch House 4-H members are encouraged to "be the best you can be" and to have fun doing it! Success is not judged by being #1, nor taking the most projects... success is knowing that "I did the best I could", I finished what I started" and "the results are because of my effort"!

Meetings & Leader Info

Meetings are the FIRST MONDAY after the FIRST WEDNESDAY of each month @ 6:00 p.m. at the Hayden High School. (If the Monday is a Holiday, then the meeting is the following Monday)

Leaders:
Kristen Hockaday, Organizational Leader, 276-4579 or 629-0349, healthierlife21@hotmail.com
Shannon Valora, Organizational Leader, 276-7243, bslwvalo@hotmail.com

Alaine Montgomery, Project leader
Shari Yeager, Project leader
Hattie Yeager, Project leader

Brian Valora, Project leader (shooting sports)

Chris Miller, Project leader (shooting sports)

Shawn Hockaday, Project leader (shooting sports)

Lysa Valora-President
Abbey Engle-Vice President
Sammi Cless-Secretary/Reporter
Tyler Hockaday-Treasurer
Belle Mazzola, Jewel Vreeman-Historian/Scrapbook
Abbey Engle & Sammi Cless -- Council Reps.

Ranch House History

The first 4-H Clubs in Routt County were created in 1929. Until the mid 1950's, clubs were mostly single project and sometimes even single year (ie: 1st year sewing, 3rd year cooking, beef, sheep, etc.)

Ranch House 4-H club, officially chartered in 1956, combined the livestock, sewing and cooking clubs of the upper Elk River Valley area. The majority of it's members have lived north of Steamboat Springs along RCR 129 to the Clark area, although recent years have the seen the club move to the Hayden area with some Oak Creek members also.

Ranch House was traditionally a livestock oriented club, but have had members that excelled in projects such as sewing, ceramics, cake decorating, breads, cooking, macrame and entomology. One member even did a "pilot project" of video photography which is now a national project!

Ranch House members have been active participants at the local, county, regional, state and even national levels through judging teams, exchange trips, demonstration teams, leadership trips and individual projects.

Community Pride Projects

Ranch House Community Pride projects have included such things as; cleaning the highway, serving meals, making baskets for less fortunate families during the Holidays,colecting food for the Food Bank and decorating a Christmas tree for the Tread of Pioneers Museum

Fundraising & Fun

Annual fundraising for Ranch House usually comes from concession stands at the Yampa Valley Cutter & Charriot Association races. However a few years ago, we compiled a cookbook called 'Ranch House Cookin'.

Funds are then used to pay memberships, and do fun activites! We've done everything from sledding, bowling and swimming parties to day trips to Dinosaur National Park and the Chew Ranch, or weekends in Denver (zoo, museum, stock show, Bronco games, Elitches, hotels, dinners), or camping at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah... all expenses paid by the club! Ranch House is currently a club of about 13 members but we'd love to have more members of any age!!! Come join us!