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Sonoma County 4-H Reporter
It’s hard to believe it’s
August already!
Sonoma County Fair is
in full swing and the
new 4-H year is right
around the corner! Our
annual leader training is
August 23rd – get it on
your calendars now. We
will have all the commit-
tee signups available at
the meeting and hope we
can get some new faces
to join in the fun!
Camps are over for the
year and I heard from all
the kids how wonderful
and fun each camp was!
Thank you to all the
leadership of the Camp
committee that keep
providing such a won-
derful fun, learning ex-
perience to our youth.
With enrollment just
around the corner – it’s
time to think about what
wonderful projects to
enroll in or better yet be
adventurous and try
leading or being a
Jr/Teen leader of a pro-
ject. Lots of young
members to help inspire
and what a wonderful
opportunity for you
teens to expand your
leadership and
communication skills
Hope everyone is enjoy-
ing the fair season. It
gives us all an opportu-
nity to see what a great
group of 4-H members
we have and how well
they do with all the pro-
jects they have. It also
allows our Teens to ex-
pand their leadership
roles by helping the
younger exhibitors be-
come successful in their
endeavors. It is always a
very proud moment for
me to witness our teens
becoming productive
young adults.
CCC meetings will be
starting again on Sep-
tember 2nd. Please re-
member the meetings
for September, October
and November will be
held at the 4-H office.
January through May
will be held at the 4-H
Center in Rohnert Park.
Please plan on attending
the meeting and meeting
the new CCC officers:
President-Diana Stor-
netta, Vice President-
Program – Rebecca
Nystrom, Vice Presi-
dent-Membership –
Matt Schaefer, Secretary
– Sara Glashan, Treas-
urer-Stefanie Stornetta,
Special Accounts Treas-
urer-Lisa Jack, Corre-
sponding Secretary-
Dodie Peterson, Past
President-Cheryl Mohr-
man, Historian-Patrick
Hinde and our At Large
members-Kris Cover,
Janet Cipriano, Theresa
Bartlett and Kelly
Hinde.
On behalf of the CCC
Board we hope you have
a wonderful summer
filled with project fun
and fair blue ribbons!
See you in September!
~Diana
From the President...
Sonoma County 4-H Reporter
From the President 1
Shooting Sports 2, 3
Leader Training 3
CCC Meetings, New Leader Orientations
4
Countywide Projects, Healthy Living Officers
5
ORB 6
State Field Day results 7
Inside this issue:
Save the date for Achievement night October 25, 2014. More info coming
Safety First Shooting Association - Atwater, CA
Saturday, August 16, 2014 – 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 17, 2014 – 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Upon successful completion of this course, 4-H leaders will be certified in the
shooting sports discipline of muzzle loading. They will be certified as leader
trainers and are eligible to serve as shooting sports leaders for clubs or counties
and they may also instruct and certify volunteers in muzzle loading. Class size is
limited. There is no fee for the course. To get more information or register for
the class contact Jim Atherstone at: [email protected] telephone 209-993-
7971. For directions to the facility visit this link: http://
www.safetyfirstshooting.org/
Shooting Sports Workshop - Muzzle Loading Discipline
Shooting Sports Leaders – Mark Your Calendar!
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4-H Shooting Sports Workshop - Pistol Discipline
Safety First Shooting Association - Atwater, CA
Saturday, September 6, 2014 – 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 7, 2014 – 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Upon successful completion of this course, 4-H leaders will be certified in the
shooting sports discipline of pistol. They will be certified as leader trainers and
are eligible to serve as shooting sports leaders for clubs or counties and they may
also instruct and certify volunteers. There is no fee for the course. Participants
must attend both days of training to receive certification. To register for the
course or receive more information, contact Jim Atherstone at:
[email protected] or telephone 209-993-7971. For directions to the facility,
visit this web link: http://www.safetyfirstshooting.org/
Please submit proficiencies to the 4-H office. The proficiencies will all be handled at club level now, with notation within the program of Achievement Night, as the stars are now. Pins will be given to the Club Leaders. We will continue to give out recognition for Gold, Platinum, and Emerald Stars at Achievement Night.
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A State 4-H Shooting Sports Leader Meeting will be held October 18 & 19,
2014 at the River Oaks Range (Safety First Shooting Association) in Merced
County. This event is open to teen leaders and adult volunteers involved with the
shooting sports program. It will include training tips, policy, information shar-
ing, hands-on activities and more. Save the dates on your calendar; more infor-
mation will be provided at a later date. To receive the most current updates, enter
your email address in the list serve located at: http://4h.ucanr.edu/Projects/SET/
ShootingSports/
Attention!
Attention!
Shooting Sports Archery Certification Workshop
Inside Story Headline
October 4, 2014, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
October 5, 2014, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Safety First Shooting Association
River Oaks Range
11584 Shaffer Rd
Winton, CA (Merced County) If you have an interest in sharing your archery skills with youth, how about becoming a 4-H Archery adult vol-
unteer or teen leader. There will be a 4-H archery leader certification training offered in October 2014. The
class will be held Saturday, October 4th, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday, October 5th, 9 a.m. - 12 noon, at the
Safety First Shooting Association, River Oaks Range, 11584 Shaffer Rd, Winton, in Merced County. This
class is being hosted by Merced County 4-H. You must be a 4-H leader or member and attend both days to re-
ceive certification to teach archery at the project, club and camp levels. The course will include a PowerPoint
lecture, review of equipment, practice shooting and teaching, and a written test. The cost is $35 per person to
include a resource binder, and Saturday breakfast & lunch and Sunday breakfast.
Junior and teen leaders are invited but must attend with an adult or have a certified archery adult leader they
will be helping back home. If you are already a certified volunteer archery leader and would like to become a
trainer, contact Jeanne at 530-524-7278 or email [email protected] to discuss options.
Driving directions to the range are at http://www.safetyfirstshooting.org/html/directions.html . Dry RV camp-
ing is an option.
To register, please complete and mail the “CA 4-H Shooting Sports Training Request and Registration Form”
available at http://www.ca4h.org/files/2123.pdf, and an adult or youth 4-H medical release form and a $35
check payable to “Merced County 4-H Council” and mail to UCCE, 2145 Wardrobe Ave, Merced, 95341.
Registration is due Friday, September 22nd and space is limited. For more information call Darlene McIntyre at
209-385-7418or email her at [email protected] or contact Jeanne at the contact information above.
TURN IN DATE FOR ALL
RECORDBOOKS, OFFICER’S
BOOKS, AWARDS, etc will be
August 23, 2014 at Annual Leader
Training.
Contact Judy Ludovise with questions
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Save the Date… Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 for Annual Leader Training from 9:00 am – noon at the 4-H Center in Rohnert Park. Let me know if you have topics that you would like dis-cussed. For example: tips on selling ChickenQue tickets, recruiting parents tohelp, how to do more outreach, fun ideas for club meetings, parent contracts, etc. etc.! This training is for club leaders and enrollment lead-ers from each club. Please RSVP with 4-H secretary
Our next CCC meeting will be on September 2nd at 7pm at the 4-H office
conference room. Please remember the meetings for September, October and
November will be held at the 4-H office. January through May will be held at the
4-H Center in Rohnert Park. Please plan on attending the meeting and meeting
the new CCC officers:
President-Diana Stornetta
Vice President-Program – Rebecca Nystrom
Vice President-Membership – Matt Schaefer
Secretary – Sara Glashan
Treasurer-Stefanie Stornetta
Special Accounts Treasurer-Lisa Jack
Corresponding Secretary-Dodie Peterson
Historian-Patrick Hinde
Past President-Cheryl Mohrman
At Large members-Kris Cover, Janet Cipriano, Theresa Bartlett and Kelly Hinde.
On behalf of the CCC Board we hope you have a wonderful summer filled with
project fun and fair blue ribbons! See you in September!
New project/club leaders: Mark your calendar and attend ONE New Leader Orienta-
tion.
• ALL ORIENTATIONS ARE 6:30-8:00 pm at 4H Office in Santa Rosa. 133 Aviation
Blvd Santa Rosa
August 20, 2014 -10 people minimum ONLY if there are a minimum of 10 people
willing to attend
Please call or email Judy at the 4-H Office to confirm and leave your contact info. I
will call you a few days before, if I need to cancel due to low sign-ups.
Orientations will be held monthly in the fall, no minimum:
September 23 (Tuesday)
October 9 (Thursday)
November 12 (Wednesday)
January TBA
Volunteers….Please do not start working with youth until you are fully enrolled…
fingerprints, orientation, online enrollment and fees paid. See your club leader for
more information. Fall dates are subject to change if the SF Giants go to the World
Series.
CCC Meetings to resume September 2 at 7 pm
One time Leader Orientation required for all new leaders.
At the
4-H
Office
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New Countywide Projects
Congratulations to all our newly elected Healthy Living Officers!
The Healthy Living officer will serve as the club’s ambassador for health! By choosing to elect a Healthy Living officer your club is taking an active role in promoting healthy lifestyles. The Healthy Living officer will be the leader-ship for all health activities including: Providing ideas on how to incorpo-rate physical activities and healthy eating into each club meeting, write Healthy Living articles for the club newsletter, and adopting and promot-ing a club Wellness Plan. Please help ensure that the health “H” of 4-H is
at the forefront of all our meetings, consider elect-ing a Healthy Living offi-cer! The Choose Health Offi-cer Guide was devel-oped by Cornell Univer-sity Extension. To receive your Healthy Living Officer pin please email the name of your Officer and club to Judy at [email protected]
For a list of upcoming events, activities and deadlines, visit our 4-H Calendar Please send any requests to have events added to the calendar to [email protected]
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Would you like to take your project to the next level? As our new year begins we are always lookin for new Countywide Pro-jects. Are you a leader who would like to expand your club project and provide knowledge to a larger group? Are you a volunteer who would like o start up something new? In the past few years we have had a wide variety of projects start up: financial literacy, lapidary, EMS, just to name a few. Contact the County Office, 565-2681, if you have an idea and we will get you started! Sonoma County 4-H has awesome volunteers!
Over the past year we have seen an explosion of growth in the number of people using the 4-H
Online Record Book (over ¼ of all 4-H youth across the state). As a result, the need to provide a
clear and efficient path to ask a question, report a problem or make a suggestion has become nec-
essary. The following represent the procedures for getting help navigating your 4-H Online
Record Book.
1. Check out the 4-H Online Record Book Help Website at http://4horb.weebly.com/ beginning
June 15, 2014. This site has both text and video helps on how to use different features of the 4-
H Online Record Book and is a good place to start to learn how to use the system.
2. Also available is the opportunity to bring the 4-H ORB Internet Café workshop to your county.
The ORB Internet Café is provided to give staff and volunteers both individualized and group
instruction on using California 4-H’s Online Record Book System. The café is designed as a 3-
hour workshop that combines presentation, hands-on practice and group discussion.
Participants will need to bring a laptop or tablet with them to the café.
To find out more about the training and it’s cost, please visit:
http://4h.ucanr.edu/Resources/Members/Online_Record_Book/4-
H_Resources/Members/RecordBook/4-H_ORB_Internet_Cafe_Training/
3. If you feel that ORB is not functioning correctly, you have a question that wasn’t addressed from
the help website or have a cool idea that you think would improve the 4-H Online Record Book
System, please fill out an ORB Request Form at
http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=11078. This allows everyone who is
working on the 4-H Online Record Book to get the same information at the same time so that
the issue can be addressed in the quickest amount of time. When reporting an issue, it is
important to be as detailed as possible so that we can get a good idea of the challenge that you
are facing. Upon receiving a request for help, a personal response will be sent within 5 business
days of the submission to give an update on the request.
As ORB continues to grow and expand, we are working hard to expand our help resources to provide a
high quality customer service experience for those using this system.
We thank you in advance for your patience as we navigate these growing opportunities.
Sincerely,
Scott Mautte
4-H State Office
A note or two about ORB
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State Field Day Results are in!!
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There were 419 participants at State Field Day at UC Davis this year! Of those 419
youth participants, the following Sonoma County Youth returned home with the
following awards for their hard work:
Cassia Bermender, Gold
Caitlin booth, Gold
Ella Bratton, Gold
Alexis Fischer, Gold
Shelby Giannamore, Gold
Bailey Glashan, Gold
Melanie Hanlon, Blue
Cole Schafer, Gold
Amy Schafer, Blue
Anna Schmidt, Gold
Kaynen Schuldt, Gold
Kaia Stites, Gold
Ashley Talbot, Blue
Brittney Talbot, Blue
Nick Uebel, Blue
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR HARD-WORKING YOUTH FOR
A JOB WELL-DONE, AND THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING SONOMA
COUNTY AT THE STATE LEVEL! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!
Sonoma County
4-H
Makes the Best Better
Every Day!!
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133 Aviation Blvd., Suite 109
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
Phone: (707) 565-2681
Fax: (707) 565-2623
Judy Ludovise
4-H Program Representative
4-H Secretary
WEBSITES
Sonoma County 4-H:
http://cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/Youth_Development/
California State: 4-H: http://ca4h.org
4-H Foundation: www.4hfoundationofsoco.org
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Upcoming 4-H Events…Articles for the September newsletter are due by Au-
gust 5th …. Email to Judy at [email protected]
August
15…Jr Ambassador apps due to 4-H Office
20…New volunteer orientation 6:30 4-H Office (10 minimum)
23…Annual Club Leader Trainining…required 9:00am 4HC
26…Exec CCC meeting 7:00 4HC
September
2…CCC mtg 4-H OFFICE SANTA ROSA 7:00pm
13..4-H Foundation Barbeque
23…New volunteer orientation 6:30 4-H Office
24…Record Book Judging
27…Sectional Citizenship Retreat
30… Exec CCC meeting 7:00 4HC