Rutherford County NC ECA

09/18/2025

We had such a wonderful time in Greenville yesterday, even though we were missing some of our members. What an amazing group of volunteers here at Rutherford Cooperative Extension!

09/18/2025

Come by the Extension Office to sign up for this fun night of painting! We will use proceeds from this fundraiser to help support our projects focused around foster care here in Rutherford County!

06/06/2025

Tomorrows the day! Yard Sale starts at 7am. Hope to see you there.

06/02/2025

We still have a few spots open to sell! If you're interested, stop by the Rutherford County Family and Consumer Sciences or give us a call at 287-6010 to reserve your spot!

02/23/2024

We had the best time at our meeting Wednesday. Brenda Atchley did a presentation on Bow Making and each member got a chance to make their own bows. Thanks to Brenda for showing us how to elevate our packages and wreaths.

02/21/2024

Was asked to share with you. These are members Janis and Roy Byers.

Community Member Shoutout!

Reverend Roy Byers (far right in picture) of Caroleen Methodist Church of Ellenboro, NC, challenged church members to a SOUPer Bowl Competition. Two teams competed to collect the most canned food items as a friendly competition to later donate to ICC's Patriot Pantry. The two teams collected 250 items to donate. Janis Byers, Reverend Byers's wife, baked 23 fresh loaves of bread that were offered to members for a donation to the cause. They donated $60 of these proceeds to ICC's Patriot Pantry to purchase needed items. Members including Jacob, Finnley, and Jamieson Clue (pictured), assisted in this project. Thank you to these community members for supporting the students and employees of ICC.

02/05/2024

Good Afternoon!
Our next ECA Meeting is coming up on Wednesday February 21st at 12:30pm. This month Brenda Atchley will be at our meeting showing how to make different size bows. If you have any extra ribbon you have lying around, bring with you, both wired and unwired. We will also exchanging secret sister names (if you’d like to take part), we will be voting on a donation amount for the Boys & Girls Club, and Janis Byers will be doing a brief presentation on the Soda Tabs donation. Also, don’t forget, if you’ve not paid your county ECA dues they are due at the February meeting. The county dues re $12.00.

At our March meeting we will be having a cooking demo, having a discussion about our upcoming cookbook release, and will be discussing District Day.

Mark your calendars for our ECA District meeting which will be on April 19th. If you have any suggestions on a theme or speaker, please let Kelly know.

Our County Cultural Arts Contest is coming up next month and we’d love every member to participate. We have so many talented members and there is something on the Cultural Arts list that everyone can make/enter. I’ll attach a list to this email so you can see all the options and if you don’t see an option for something you’d like to enter….there’s a miscellaneous category! If you need help or need an idea of something you could enter, please contact Kelly or Kay and we are happy to help. All entries for this years contest are to be dropped off at the Extension Office on March 27th from 10:00-12:00. Judging will be on March 28th. All first place winners entries will be held at the office for the District Day which will be held just three weeks later. All non first place winners need to be picked up the afternoon of the 28th. If you need earlier drop off or later pickup, please let Kelly or Kay know.

And finally, don’t forget about our community service projects! You can bring Bingo Prizes for the Nursing Homes, Children’s books (new/used) for the Health Department, Soda Tabs for the Ronald McDonald House, or bring your extra change to “feed” Ruthie the Pig.

11/16/2023

Good Morning Everyone! This year we agreed to donate food items to the Food Bank at ICC. Meredith sent me a list of items needed for the food bank currently. Please bring any of these items you can to our Christmas Party in December:

- Chef Boyardee microwavable cup meals
- Hormel Compleats microwavable meals
- Canned Fruit (preferably in 100% juice)
- Toilet Paper
- Flushable Wipes (Fragrance Free preferred)
- Handheld Can Openers

08/16/2023

ECA fun day was a “fun” day. We celebrated all of our Birthdays.

05/17/2023

We had a wonderful time today at our outing to the Lake Lure Flowering Bridge. Plants were in full bloom and the weather was great!

04/26/2023

2023 Spring District Day was held today and a fun time was had by all!

03/22/2023

We were so blessed to be able to celebrate one of our members 90th birthday this past week at our monthly meeting.