MONDAY LIST October 22, 2012
A huge thank you to All Star Advisors, Cheryl Mohrman and Karyn Pulley and to our Sonoma County All Stars for providing all of us a wonder evening, Saturday night at Achievement Night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CLUB LEADERS: Will we see your primary youth and their friends on Saturday at the 4H Center for our new Science and Healthy Living Field Day?????????? I HOPE so. 12-4. Drop in for an hour or two. Call Bonnie if you know you can come. We are trying to get a head count for food. We only have about 11. I am hoping for 50!
CAL Confence applications are on the website. Clubs that send youth, need to communicate and select chaperones. One adult per 8, per gender.
Annual Community Service
We still need help with this…please contact me if you can help
The Starcross organization (check them out online) has asked if 4-H could again help with the Twistee project. They are so appreciative! I have the materials ready to give out to clubs and will go out of my way to get them to you if you need to get started soon. We need to have all 3000 complete by Nov 15. Please contact me if your club is interested in doing some of these. ALL ages 5-100 can do them. It takes me 30 minutes to do 100.
I have them separated into bags of 250 or 500. If you can participate, just let me know how many you would like and how I can get them to you.
4-H SHOWCASE – coming soon to the 4-H Center!
Now that the 4-H Showcase has been moved to Saturday, November 3, your club and project members have more time to enter the contests.
The deadline for entry forms (not the actual entries themselves) is Friday, October 26. Make sure that you mail your paperwork to Lisa Jack at 194 Center Rd, Petaluma 94952 by 10/26. You can also mail or walk your completed forms into the 4-H Office on Aviation Blvd but the paperwork has to be delivered to the office by 4 pm by the due date.
There are contests to appeal to all age levels – model rockets, cupcake decorating, educational poster or display, aluminum foil sculptures, creative sewing poster, Lego sculptures, birdhouses, place settings, jewelry or recycling sculpture where entries can be a small appliance (like a toaster or a radio) that’s taken apart or any recycled materials that are then reconfigured into an original sculpture.
The Crafter’s Challenge contest is an exciting competition where members will be given craft supplies at the Showcase, a set amount of time and the theme for their craft entry. The clock will be started and the fun begins as crafters use their imagination & crafting skills to make the winning creation! Ribbons are awarded and competitors will be able to keep their artwork.
Another fun contest to enter will be the Club Chili Cook-off. Clubs pull together a team of four 4-H members and one adult advisor, conjure up their incredibly delicious chili recipe and bring it to the Showcase on the event day. The judges and public will get to taste their chili and vote on their favorite. One club will walk away with BEST CHILI bragging rights for the year and have their club’s name engraved on a perpetual trophy to be on display at the 4-H Center. So, dig up your grandma’s, uncle’s, or mother’s amazing chili recipe and get cooking!
You’ll find all the forms and contest descriptions on the Sonoma County 4-H website. For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact Lisa Jack at sonomagoat@comcast.net
Corner Grain Feeders
Hello, We have two older (but still very usable) corner grain/feed tubs that we used when we had horses. These require some hardware (which we do not have) to bolt them into place. Is there anyone in your program who could use these? Here's some more information:
1) Approximate dimensions are: 23" sides, 23" front to back, 35" between front "corners", 6" for the short run across the back, 12" deep
2) Look something like this, no hay rack: http://martinranchsupply.com/content/corner-feed-tub
3) I think they are made of rubber.
4) I have no way to transport them, so someone would have to pick them up (near Twin Hills School, Sebastopol). They are sure to have spiders, maybe even black widows, especially under the "lip" on the inside of the feeder. Thus, it would be best if these could be transported in a truck bed. Otherwise, they might fit into large, 33 gallon size trash bags.
5) They were in our shed for a long time, but I have pulled them out and now they are outside. I was going to try to clean them up and sell them, but am just not up to that. So, they reflect the fact that they been outside (dirt, dust, creatures of the outside world, etc.).
If you can't use these but can refer me to someone else who might like to have them, that would be grand.
Thank you! Christie Reid From: flowers4joy2 [mailto:flowers4joy2@yahoo.com]