The Avon Community Busy Bee Club was begun in the 1920's. This was an era when children rode their horses to a one room school house and automobiles, if you had one, navigated country roads only in the best of weather. Women spent all day Monday doing laundry by hand with water warmed on a wood cookstove and soap they made themselves. A family ate what it raised and traded or bartered to round out its pantry. Much food was canned during the summer months.

Officially the first Club Rules and By-Laws were signed by President Nellie Blackmer and enacted on May 1926. The Articles of the club were drawn up by a committee composed of Ina Axtell, Edith Howell, and Mary Hamm and after a very prolongued discussion the Articles were adopted in January, 1937. Some believe the club to be the oldest of its kind in Latah County.

Husbands and friends have always been welcomed to the Busy Bee's potlucks and other activities. Over the years the husbands have proven to be a helpful and valuable asset to the Avon community.
After what was apparently an active beginning, the club's activities somewhat dwindled during the years of World War II, and it was not until November 1945 that regular meetings again began at the teacherage at Stanford School. In 1949 the Stanford School District dissolved and its buildings were sold.


Meetings were then rotated among the homes of members and focused on The Home Demonstration Program (jointly sponsored by the USDA and the University of Idaho), until that program was discontinued in 1984.