Its time for the annual 4H
Cheese sale. This is the main Clinton County Fund-raiser. Every child
in 4H has to participate in one fund-raiser. (The other option we
have right now is an on going printer cartridge recycling project.)
This is an easy fundraiser to participate in. Each
child ONLY needs to sell ONE bar to
meet the requirement. If possible, it helps 4H with their budget if
each child can sell closer to $45 worth of cheese :-); although
any amount purchased will help 4H. With this fund-raiser, a portion
of the funds also comes back to our group.
Each
family can use one form for all children-- just be sure to sell at
least one bar for each child in your family. :-)
You
can purchase the cheese yourself-- it freezes well. Or you can sell
it to your neighbors and friends. Each bar costs $3.50. This is
comparable to the food stores but a little more than the discount
stores. We sell Cabot/McCadam cheese-- we are supporting the farmers
in our area. One such farm is Dimock in Peru just past the Peru
school. So we are supporting local farmers and a regional cheese
making facility. There is one new product this year --cheese
spread.
The finer details:
1)
All cheese forms are due to our group NO
LATER THAN NOV 17- at the 4H meeting.
You are welcome to bring it in earlier. We will be happy
to take all completed forms on 10
NOV.
(this date is highly encouraged) We will be turning
the completed forms and money to the 4H office on the 18th.
2)
You must collect the
money for the cheese you sell up front.
Cash or checks are
fine. All checks must be made out to Melissa
Sayward as I have to write ONE
check for the group. * There is a little bit
of flexibility this year such that if someone you are selling really
will only write a check to Cornell Cooperative Extension, 4H will
permit this. But they ask that as much as possible to each group to
only submit one total check.
3) Any questions
can be directed to either me or the 4H office.
4)
A reminder that Cloverbuds are not allowed to go door-to-door to sell
WITHOUT a parent present. 4Hers in grade 3-8 should be in sight
of adult.
5) Cheese will arrive either the
last week of November or first week of December.
For
those who have not been with us in the past--the cheese is good and
sells itself :-)
