Posted on August 14, 2012
It was love at first sight when Rehanna Stepnoski came face to face with a llama on a trip to visit her uncle’s quarter horse farm.
The 18-year-old from Buckingham set out to own one. Borrowing a small horse trailer from another member of the Bucks County 4-H Club, she and her mother trekked to a llama farm in Gap, Pa. “We spent Mother’s Day picking out an alpaca,” she explained with a giggle.
Today, as president of the 4-H’s leadership-oriented Teen Council, she is the proud owner of two lamas, Dolly and Coco.
Rehanna will be busy showing off alpacas that can open gates and walk over see-saws at the Middletown Grange Fair in Wrightstown this week.
Like Rehanna, Elizabeth Wiltshire, 17, of Doylestown has been an active member of 4-H and divides her time between several clubs. She is vice president of Teen Council and a member of the Swine, Paw Prints, Little Rascals and Fuzzy Critters clubs.
The kids are taught in Paw Prints how to groom and control their dogs while working them in training circles. At the Grange Fair on Sunday, Elizabeth will be demonstrating her skills with her dog, Abby, a 6-month-old collie mix.
This year marks the 100th Anniversary of 4-H in Bucks.
“4-H is the largest and oldest youth organization in Bucks County,” said Nancy Stephenson, 4-H educator in the Doylestown office. ”There are over 8,000 youth in the organization. It is bigger than the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.”
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