Hampden County 4-H

🍀Calling all youth artists!🍀 We need your creativity to design 73rd Hampden County 4-H & Youth Fair cover. This year it’s all about Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary and 4-H as An American Tradition! 🇺🇸

Open to youth in Hampden County 4-H clubs only. Download the attached cover design. Be creative with images of your experiences with
4-H and how they relate to America and this special anniversary. Draw them in the flag.

Please follow these rules for your design:
🍀Black felt tip or ink for final line drawing. No pencil or shading. No color.
🍀No licensed characters allowed. Disney, etc.
🍀Images should be drawn in the flag shape.
🍀Put your name, address, club name and age in pencil on back.
🍀Return your submission: Please send original in large envelope. Do not fold. Make a
copy for yourself if you want.
Mail in a large envelope; do not fold, to:
Hampden County 4-H/Youth Fair Association
P.O. Box 62
Chicopee, MA 01021

Deadline for submissions is 4/1/2026
Selected designs will receive a gift card.

🍀Mark Your Calendars! 🇺🇸 The Fair is set to return for its 73rd year and planning is underway. Our festivities will be themed around red, white, and blue, along with green, to commemorate youth achievements and our proud American culture.

🍀Western MA 4-H Families🍀
The Hampden County 4-H Youth Fair Association invites you to a field trip to Good Pickin’ Farm, open to 4-H members in Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire counties, as sugar tapping season approaches. The tour includes a hayride, mini goat hike, maple syrup tapping demonstration, and photography opportunity. Due to limited space, early registration is encouraged at link below.

Every bag has been zipped tight, filled with love, and another Cruiser Care Packs is complete!

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the remarkable volunteers and youth from 4-H Clubs, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, law enforcement agencies from across Massachusetts and Northern CT, and Robert Charland “Bob the Bike Man” for their invaluable contributions towards bringing comfort and warmth to those who need it most.

Thanks to your efforts and the support of community donations throughout the year, over 800 winter coats, 20,000 Bomba socks and 1,000 backpacks filled with necessities are on their way and the timing couldn’t be better.

This project has become an integral part of our 4-H story, underscoring the community’s capacity for kindness and generosity - life skills that truly make the best better.

Photo credit to HCSO

Cruiser Care Packs are coming to your community and the timing is right on. Thanks to our friends FOX61 for sharing the story.

Cruiser Care Packs return with winter help for homeless in Connecticut, Massachusetts Among the biggest benefits of the Cruiser Care Pack program is the teamwork it builds between youth groups and police officers.