Author: FarmAdvisor1

DECEMBER 2012

Make the best better

INSIDE:
Camp: 4
Club News: 2
Presentation Day: 2
Update Your PDR: 2

Marin County 4-H Newsletter
Marin County 4-H
Youth Development Program
1682 Novato Blvd., Suite 150-B
Novato, CA 94947
Phone (415) 499-4207
Fax (415) 499-4209
Marin County Cooperative
Extension website: http://cemarin.ucdavis.edu
State 4-H website:
http://ca4H.org

Mark your Calendars!

December
Dec 6 Grant Review Committee
Meeting
Tbd Camp Leadership Meeting
January
Jan 10 County Council Meeting
6:30—4-H Office
Jan 16 CAL Conference County
Delegate Meeting
7:00 pm Marin 4-H Office
Jan 25-27 CAL Conference
March
Mar 10 Presentation Day
Vallecito Elementary School
1:00—4:00 p.m.
Mar 21 Farm Day
Marin Civic Center
May
May 25 State Field Day
U.C. Davis

The newsletter is sent to all 4-H families with completed and approved registration. A digital version of the newsletter is available on our website. To discontinue receiving a paper copy, call the office at 415-499-4207.

Presentation Day and Fashion Review —Update
Presentation Day will be on
Sunday, March 10, 2013 from 1:00—4:00 p.m.
At Vallecito Elementary school.
We need many hands to make that day work, beginning with Judges. Any parent may be a judge. Clubs are required to send 1 judge for every three members who are entered.
Categories and guidelines for presentations by be found in the 4-H Presentation
Handbook found at http://www.ca4h.org/files/2193.pdf
Fashion Review also takes place during Presentation Day. Participants may enter a garment or outfit from a variety of categories. They will discuss their entry with a judge, and model their creation during our Fashion Show. Participants who receive a gold award are eligible to compete at State Fashion Review on May 25, 2013 at U.C. Davis.
Entry forms for both Presentation Day and Fashion Review will be available in late January or early February.
Favorite Foods is a well loved category of Presentation Day. Members create their favorite recipe for tasting by judges. They present their dish in a pleasing manner with serving utensils and table settings. While your are making all those great yummy recipes for the holidays, consider what might make for a good entry!
New for 2013 will be our Master Chef category.
More details to come!

Update Your PDR
December is a big time for community service for many of our clubs. Be sure to log your Community Service activity on your PDR! Citizenship and Community Service activities go in section 5.
You may also get to count these activities in one other place! Did you help plan the event during your club meeting or get sign ups? Then you may count these activities in Section 4: Leadership as well. Did you stand up at your club meeting and explain the event, encourage volunteers and answer questions? Then you can count this as a Section 6: Communication Skill.
You may also count up to two Community Service Activities that are done outside of 4-H. If you have a service activity that you do with your church, other youth group or club, you may count them here.
Keep on using your hands for larger service and making the best better!

Club News

Tri Valley Community Service Project
By Gavin Harding
In October our 4-H club, Tri Valley, drew pictures of pumpkins and delivered them to the Petaluma Post Acute and Rehab Center. The people who live in this home enjoyed our visit so much that they asked us to come back often. We have decided as a Club to try and plan something each month that will bless the people who live at this home. In November the Tri Valley 4-H club made pine-cone turkeys and several of our members delivered them to the Petaluma Post Acute and Rehab Center. In December we are gathering as many people as possible from our club to go and visit the people and sing Christmas carols! Meanwhile, are Community Service leader and committee are thinking about other things that we will do for this home in the new year. As a member of the Tri Valley 4-H club I will enjoy meeting these people and doing these fun activities, I know that it blesses both them and us!

Toys for Tots Drive
Morning Sun 4-H
Our club will be doing our annual Toys for Tots drive. If you are in the Novato area, and your club is not doing a Toys for Tots drive, you may donate a toy by dropping it off to the Marin County 4-H office at 1682 Novato Blvd. Ste. 150B.
We have a donation box there and you can just place your unwrapped toy donation in the box. Please drop them off by
December 14th.
Thanks for helping!

Tri-Valley Pumpkin
Community Service Project
By Gavin Harding
The Tri-Valley 4-H meeting on Monday October 8 was held at the Union School house. Everyone dressed up and brought two small pumpkins to decorate. We had a lot of fun and made competitions for the cutest, scariest, most creative, and people’s choice costumes. The first and second place winner’s received prizes. At the end we colored pictures of pumpkins and decorated the pumpkins that we brought to give to the residents of a retirement home in Petaluma. Several members volunteered to deliver the pumpkins and drawings. The meeting was adjourned, and refreshments were served.

Annual High School
4-H Snow Camp
Open to all High School 4-H members.
Hosted by the Stanislaus County Hi 4-H
January 18—21, 2013
Held at Camp Sylvester, Pinecrest, CA
Ski-Snowboard-IceSkate-Sled-Dance-film-Hike and create great memories
Space is limited. Cost is $32 per night.
Transportation is on your own.
To find out more, contact Diana Connacher at 209-534-7572

MULTI-COUNTY ADVISOR
The statewide Cooperative Extension organization is transitioning towards multi-county clustering, resulting in the grouping of Napa/Marin/Sonoma. Serving as the academic youth development advisor for the group of counties will be Jane Chin Young. She looks forward to the opportunities that the reorganization brings to the program.

Marin County 4-H Summer Camp 2013
July 13-20, 2013
Las Posadas State Forest
Angwin, California
We have our official dates for Camp. It is time to start looking forward to the best part of Summer!
The adult and staff application packets will be available after January 1, 2013 and the camper applications will be available beginning April 1, 2013. You will be notified closer to those dates and directed where to obtain your applications.
This notice is just to let everyone know when Camp is, so other vacation plans people may need to make around Camp can be done. If you have had a change in mailing address since last year, please let me know so you do not miss any post card notices. Looking forward to seeing everyone next July!! I hope you all have a wonderful Winter and before you know it, Camp will be here again! If you have any questions, please feel free to respond to this e-mail address and I will do my best to answer them for you.
Thanks, Eileen Castelli,
Marin County 4-H Camp Clerk Marin4Hcamp@aol.com

The Marin County 4-H Staff wishes you and yours the happiest of holiday seasons!
Jane, Allison & Vicki

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