Next Regular 4H Meeting- Nov 14

Sorry about the musical meetings in November. WE need to go back to the
14th of November for our meeting.

This meeting is a combined meeting: we are doing our annual service
project for Operation Christmas child AND we are having a guest speaker.
I got a note from the guest speaker yesterday that he can NOT come on
the Nov 7th date due to a meeting he has to go to in DC.

"I was supposed to be in Washington last week for meetings at the
National Endowment for the Humanities, but the meetings were postponed
due to the government shutdown.The new meeting dates include November
7th. Sorry about the change. It's been extra frustrating as I had
non-refundable airline tickets."

So we will go back to the original meeting date of Nov 14 (since Rich
Strum can come then) and since the Congressional Science Fair was
postponed until the spring.

Sorry for all the changes.

Annual 4H Cheese Sale

The cheese sale is the annual Clinton County 4H Fund-raiser. The requirement for 4Hers is to sell one bar of cheese per child. The form this year came with a white paper on top. Most of the info really was for the cheese coordinator.

The important things you need to know

1) Bring your cheese papers BACK to the next meeting on Nov 14. If you are not going to be at this meeting--please get them either to me or to Dawn H.

2) Dawn H. (Caili, Reece, and Vaughns mom) is our cheese queen this year. She will be collecting the forms and the money. Dawn will be making our ONE CHECK to the 4H office. If you get checks from customers, please have the checks made out to Dawn or yourself (and then you write a check to Dawn!)

3) Cheese pick up will be the week of December 9th. Dawn will call/email once she has collected and sorted the cheese. As we get closer to cheese delivery, the 4H office will let us know the actual day it is coming in.

4) For those out of the area-- you can email me your cheese order.

5) There are two additional spreads this year as well as 2 types of encrusted cheese.

• 8 oz blocks
  • $3.50 each block
  • Flavors: XXSharp Adirondack, XSharp Cheddar, Sharp Cheddar, Empire Monteray Jack, Muenster, Pepper Jack, Horseradish Cheddar
• 24 oz blocks
  • $9.00 each block
  • Flavors: XX Sharp Adirondack, XSharp Cheddar, Sharp Cheddar
•  8 oz spreads
  • $3.50 each
  • Flavors: XSharp Cheddar, Horseradish, Hot Habanero
• 8 oz encrusted bars
  • $4.00 each bar
  • Flavors: Everything Bagel, Hot Buffalo Wing
• Other Items
  • 3lb. Cabot Hunter XSharp Cheddar ($17)
  • 8oz Cheddar Shaker ($5)

Operation Shoe Box Service Project

Our first service project for the year will be THURSDAY November 7 at the North Country Alliance Church from 1-3.

We will be packing 12 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. We will be doing this project this year as a GROUP.  We have been doing this service project each year since we started as a group. But we have always packed our boxes at home and brought them in. This year we will be packing boxes as a group. We are asking that your family donate at least 10 of "something". We will arrange the items in the groups on the table and pack boxes/write notes of greeting in small groups. (We will be doing other things this day so this will only be a portion of our 4H meeting.)

I am asking that each family sign up for one or more types of items. I made a page on our blog to record who is bringing what. If you email me and let me know what you want to bring, I will add your last initial to the list. :-)
http://chatteringchipmunks.blogspot.com/p/operation-christmas-child-shoeboxes.html

Along with the items your family chooses to supply, each family needs to bring one plastic shoe box + $2.00 per child for shipping. (Each box is $7 a box). I really encourage each member to EARN their $2 by doing something. We will be "tracking our boxes as a group to see where they end up.
(As we have 15 families and we are only making 10 boxes-- I will ask 4 other families along with mine to bring an extra 10 items rather than a box)

We will be packing boxes to reflect the ages and genders of our group, so.....

2 Boy Box age  5-9
1 Girl Box age  5-9
3 Boy Box age 10-14
4 Girl Box age 10-14

Here is a list to get started, but there are many things you could bring. You can choose to bring a subset of an item, just let me know how many you plan to bring-- for example, 4 toothbrushes or  4 puzzles, ect. This lets me know if I need to bring anything to fill in at the end.

Personal Hygiene
Toothbrushes
Tooth paste
Soap
Washcloths
Hand sanitizer
Combs
Brushed
Barrettes, hair elastics

School Supplies
Pencils
Pens
Crayons
Markers
Paper Pads
Stickers
Pencil Sharpeners
Rulers (metric ones)

Special Gifts (rather than 10 of each type, bring a selection)
toys, puzzles,
craft
tools (hammers, sewing kit, ect.)
balls
jump ropes

Clothes
Tshirts
socks
ball caps
hats
sunglasses
flip flops
shoes

Other
Hard candy
Drinking glass or water bottle