Cheese Sale

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 :-)