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December
1: #GivingTuesday
7: 4-H enrollment and payments due. Clubs must meet requirements: 5 youth from 3 families + 2 volunteers
24-25: Winter Holiday (UCCE closed)
30-31: New Year Holiday (UCCE closed)
January 2021
1: New Year Holiday (UCCE closed)
18: Martin Luther King Day (UCCE closed)
28: ChickenQue Representative Mtg.
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*Email your club leaders to get the passcode for the CCC zoom meeting links above.
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🦠NEW COVID-19 Update: Stay Home Order
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Hello Sonoma 4-Hers,
Sonoma County has issued a “Stay Home Order” going into effect tonight (12:01AM), December 12 through 11:59PM January 9, 2021. UCCE has directed that no in-person 4-H meetings may be held (indoors or outdoors). 4-H meetings may only be held remotely (virtually). Please move any planned meetings from tomorrow, December 12 through January 9 to an online platform.
This is a critical time in the fight against COVID-19. These additional restrictions are needed to “bend the curve” yet again, to bring down the rate of infection in the community and reduce the strain on our healthcare system.
Thank you all for your continued involvement in 4-H. It’s been a rough nine months and I’m crossing my fingers for 2021 to bring a fresh new dawn to our 4-H clubs, communities, country, and world.
Stay healthy, and happy holidays,
Steven Worker, 4-H Youth Development Advisor
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Happy Holidays, everyone! Time is flying by, and life is busy, but I hope this month’s Reporter finds you and your families together as able and happy, enjoying everything around you! All the colors around us changed, and with one windy night, most of those leaves are now down on the ground! I’m going to try to keep it short (don’t laugh!) because I know we are all busy and likely scrambling this time of year.
Who got one of those gorgeous poinsettias from the Youth Ag and Leadership Foundation's sale? I got a red one and a white one and they are more beautiful than I even imagined! Next year I might have to order more than two…
What are your clubs doing this month for your holiday “gatherings”? We did a “Home for the Holidays” Zoom meeting with each family getting a doorstep delivery of a “Take and Bake” pizza, hot chocolate fixings, gingerbread men and goodies to decorate them, a holiday bingo game, and we all watched the movie Elf to prepare for our “Elf Kahoot” Trivia game. It was so fun! We even had a photo contest of pets dressed in holiday costumes. The committee did a great job organizing and creating a gathering for us all to have fun together and just enjoy time laughing and smiling. Our club is relatively small, so the delivery of "party boxes" wasn't too overwhelming. I hope your clubs each found ways to celebrate and relax a bit while abiding by the now-normal safe-distancing practices we have all come to know.
The new year is right around the corner and many of our favorite events are forging on, if in different ways than usual. I heard the Citrus Fair has a plan for exhibitors…stay tuned for that info!
Presentation Day is coming up in February, and the committee has already updated the registration form which should be available on the county website now. Take note that the Manual was updated, so look carefully when guiding your members in preparing for the event.
The Youth Animal Science Drive-Thru Event at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds on February 20, 2021. This will have drive-through stations on the Concourse in agriculture “tracks” that are species-specific with time slots in order to accommodate our safe-distancing policies. A special thank you to Suzanne Amaral the Napa 4-H Program Coordinator (and a Sonoma County 4-H alumnus!), Steven Worker and Allison Keaney for putting this all together and thinking (again) outside the box to keep things happening despite pandemic conditions.
Also, keep getting ready for Fashion Review in April; planning is in full swing. Check the county website for the current flyer, I know Heidi has it ready!
(I know I said I was going to keep it short…) so please accept my sincere wish for you all of a happy, healthy holiday season, celebrating safely and looking forward to what 2021 may bring us. Take care of each other and your neighbors, smile as often as possible, and enjoy! Thank you so much for everything you do!
Warmly,
Sara
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🌟 All Star Ambassador Highlight🌟
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On behalf of the 2020-2021 All Star Ambassadors, I want to wish everyone Happy Holidays! This year has been hard and unfortunate for many families, especially throughout the holidays. If you’re unable to see your family and friends, you can facetime, send letters, even send them a gift. If anyone is struggling, please reach out and we would be happy to help in any way possible. My favorite part about the holidays is watching Christmas movies, picking out toys to donate to kids, and of course, decorating! What’s yours? If you’re like me and find a special kind of joy by helping others especially throughout the holidays, then our community service project is for you! All 4-H members, parents, leaders, and volunteers are encouraged to participate in a drive for our local Children’s home, Valley of the Moon. They are in need of stuffed animals, infant clothes and toys, teen items, and anything else that we can get them. They can only accept new, and unwrapped items (As safety precautions). There will be contact-free pickup options as well as drop-off. If you want to donate, but are unable to go out and shop, I am accepting Venmo's of any amount and unless otherwise specified, will be spent on items the kids are short on, like earbuds and headsets for distance learning. These are not only foster kids, but kids who are less fortunate, have had traumatic experiences, and in many cases do not have a stable home-life. By donating, we will not only brighten up the holidays, but make them feel loved and help them have a sense of normalcy this year. More specific information will be posted on our Instagram account: soco4hallstars. I will also be posting about a giveaway for every 50th item received, where I will be giving a $50 gift card of your choice to spend on the kids. The Christmas items will be accepted until January 1st, and the stuffed animals will be accepted until February 1st to ensure that Valley of the Moon and the children they take care of, are taken care of! Thank you, and Happy Holidays!
My contact information is Kiley Andersen @ (707) 322-0441 and kileyandersen19@gmail.com. Feel free to call, text, or email me about any questions you have or if you would like to donate! (If you are interested in the Venmo option, any amount is appreciated, and please specify what items you want it spent on, or if you’d like me to put it towards what they are short on. Kiley-Andersen-1)
-Kiley Andersen, Sonoma County 4-H All Star Ambassador
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📢 SoCo 4-H Club Shout Out: Warm Springs 4-H
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Warm Springs is one of the oldest 4H clubs in the Healdsburg area, founded in September 1968. Our members mostly raise market animals for the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair but some members also exhibit at other fairs. Having been around for a long time we have a lot of fun traditions. One of our favorite traditions is selling ice cream bars at the fair that we dip in chocolate and nuts. All of the money from these sales goes back to the club and we budget some money to outbid the competition at the fair's cake auction. We like to celebrate our hard work by eating cake! Lots of cake!
As a club, we participate at the Healdsburg Future Farmers County Fair with our Market and Breeding Animals, our Arts and Crafts projects, and our Culinary projects. We go to the Sonoma County Chicken Que and help out by doing our shifts. Other events that members attend are the Sonoma County Fair, Achievement Night, Presentation Day, the Citrus Fair, and the Agriculture & Animal Science Field Day.
Our club is very active in the community service project. This year we are working with Farm to Pantry as part of our first Service Learning Project. We have also done many things in the past such as adopting a family, hosting canned food drives, making dog biscuits for animal shelters, and more recently gleaning olives for olive oil.
We have several animal projects offered in our club including Swine, Sheep, Poultry, Rabbits, Rabbit Royalty and Showmanship, and Dog. We also have projects that offer a creative outlet including Arts & Crafts, Cooking, Vine Pruning, Sewing, and Ornamental Horticulture.
Entry written by:
Maren Neumiller, Club Reporter
Sidney Sheehy, Club Historian
Grace Perkins, Club Historian
Hayley Davis, Club Historian
Fiona Davis, Club Corresponding Secretary
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🍀 Sonoma County 4-H Updates 🍀
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All 4-H enrollment and payments were DUE by December 7, 2020!
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On December 15 all pending enrollments will be inactivated. If you have members that would still like to enroll please contact the office.
Attention RETURNING adult leaders!
If your enrollment has not been submitted and approved by December 7, 2020, then starting January 1, 2021 you are not authorized to perform any 4-H adult volunteer duties (conduct 4-H meetings or activities, etc.) until you have been approved.
Attention NEW adult leaders!
Until your enrollment is approved, you are not authorized to perform any 4-H adult volunteer duties at any time.
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Camper Dates Shifted
- Week 1: June 28- July 3
- Week 2: July 12- July 17
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Registration form and details at:
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New significant edits to the UC 4-H Presentation Manual!
Check out the new
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2021 Youth Animal Science Drive-Thru Event |
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Event Description
The 2021 Youth Animal Science Drive-Thru is an educational event for youth (and their adult leaders, teachers, and mentors) who raise, care, breed, show, or are interested in learning more about livestock animal production in the areas of (1) beef cattle, (2) dairy cattle, (3) small ruminants (sheep and goats), (4) swine, and (5) poultry.
Invited Participants
Youth (any age) and adults from youth organizations who provide animal science education, including 4-H, FFA, and Grange.
Event Layout
- Drive-thru stations: the concourse will be lined with stations; each station will have presenters who share information/provide demonstrations on a topic (participants will remain in their vehicles)
- Individual, species specific, agriculture tracks will be offered; each will have their own set of stations and individual time slot
- Stations will take youth through the specie’s life cycle/stages of development or stages of production, touch on biosecurity protocols, and end with a commodity connection
- Additional non-interactive displays and visuals will be setup between each interactive station for participants to read/observe on their own as they approach the next station
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The 2020-21 Record Book Manual for Members and the related forms are available on the State 4-H website. The Adult Volunteer version of the RB Manual will be available in early October. There are moderate changes to the Leadership Development Report. We added more specific instructions on how to write goals and strategies and added some minimum word requirements to the written sections. There are other minor edits related to the sunset of the Online Record Book. A minor instruction addition on the Annual Project Report about making the "what I learned" statement their own. Record Book Resources
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Due dates for the 2020 Record Book Competition are yet to be determined.
The State Record Book Evaluation for the 2019-2020 program year will likely occur after the beginning of 2021. The Sonoma 4-H Office will send out more details when they are available or you can continue to check back on the state website.
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Save the Date!
2021 Virtual Youth Summit
March 26-28, 2021
Ages 11-13
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The California 4-H GroundSwell Visa Debit Card is now available!
Start the holidays and your new year with a card that gives to your local county 4-H every time you shop!
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1. SIGN UP YOURSELF
Go to bit.ly/ca4hcard and fill out the form at the bottom of the page. Look for an email invitation with a private link to apply for the 4-H Card. Complete the application right away. Card arrives in 7-10 days!
2. CHOOSE A MONTHLY AMOUNT TO PUT ON THE CARD
Team up with other 4-H families in your county. Make a monthly spending and RoundUp group goal to win together!
3. FRIENDS AND FAMILY WILL LOVE TO SUPPORT
Get others to join in - the more cards and spending, the merrier for your local 4-H! Available to anyone in the U.S. age 18 or older
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4honline Update
The company that developed 4hOnline has worked on a major update to improve functionality and ease of use. For simplicity of communication, the original 4hOnline system will be referred to as 4hOnline 1.0 and the new system 4-H Online 2.0.
Working within the period given by our vendor, the 4hOnline 1.0 system will shut down at noon on June 30, 2021. Families and volunteers will not have access to either system from June 30- August 15, 2021. Families are encouraged to delay reenrollment for the 2021-2022 program year until the system is open and they can complete the online self-enrollment process when 4-H Online 2.0 opens enrollment after August 15, 2021.
Please note all dates listed are subject to change based on our vendor and UCANR 4-H needs. Any changes will be broadly communicated by the State 4-H Office.
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Diamond Clover Application
Now completed online.
Applications are available year round and open for youth members who are at least 17 and adult volunteers not older than 25 years.
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