East Hills 4-H Newsletter

December 2012
(Online Edition)

In this issue
Members News Alameda County Officer Training American Girl Archery Project Are you Clover Buds Poetry Project Clover Buds Poetry Project Collage Art Did You Know? Engineering Challenges November 16, 2012 Engineering Challenges Environmental Stewardship Environmental Stewardship Its That Time of Year Again! Outdoor Adventures for Teens Presidential Community Service Award 2012 Safeway Holiday Food Drive Sausal Creek Environmental Stewardship Sketching Song Singing Song Singing The Chemistry Project Officers Corner Classified Ads Information Upcoming 4-H Events Page 16 Page 2 Page 15 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 11 Page 1 Page 12 Page 13 Page 8 Page 8 Pages 9 10 Page 4 Page 14 Page 6 Page 7 Page 3 Page 11 Page 12 Pages 5 6 Pages 16 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 19

Did You Know?

There are lots of community service opportunities this month including Holiday Caroling, gift drives, and more! Get involved!

Are you
working on your Super Member Award Form? You can find the form on the club Yahoo group. Be sure you have the right age group!

Members News
American Girl
First we talked about the book, Kirsten's Surprise. Then we did the craft. We made paper stars out of 12 strips of colored paper. I made mine out of red, green, blue, orange, yellow, and pink. I liked the craft. It was fun.

Clover Buds Poetry Project

The second meeting of Clover Buds Poetry Project was Monday, November 5th. We learned all about ONOMATOPOEIA! Our teen leader read us lots of poems that had lots of great sounds. Then our adult project leader explained to us what onomatopoeia is, and how you can use it to write a poem. By then we were all thinking of words that are good sounds, words that sort of sound like what they are. Examples would be words like CRASH, or BOOM. Then we all spent a few minutes working on our own poems. After we were done writing, everyone had a chance to read the poem they had written out loud to the group. They were all very great poems. One member wrote about his pet snakes. Two other members, who are sisters, both wrote about time, and my sister and I both wrote about horses! None of the sisters knew ahead of time that we were going to do that! Writing poems using onomatopoeia is really fun. Try it!

Clover Buds Poetry Project

Clover Buds Poetry Project met for the second time on November 5th. We learned to write poems using onomatopoeia! Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the thing that it is. For example, if you are describing what a horse sounds like when it is trotting, you might say, "clippity-clop clip" or, "clip clip clop clop." If you describe a horse whinnying using onomatopoeia, you might say, "Neigh!!!" First, our project teen leader read two Halloween poems: 12:01 A.M., by Lee Bennett Hopkins, and On Halloween Night, by Nancy White Carlstrom. She also read a poem that was not a Halloween poem, If You Were Onomatopoeia by Trisha Speed Shaskan. All of these poems include many examples of onomatopoeia. After that, our adult project leader gave each of us a sheet of paper with a list of animal sounds in different languages. The cat's meow, cow's moo, dog's woof woof, donkey's hee-haw, duck's quack, pig's oink, et cetera. It was very fun to see how other languages have different words to describe the same animal sounds. For example, in Spanish, the dog's "woof-woof" is "gua-gua," and in Greek, the duck says "pa-pa-pa." Then, after we had learned ALL about onomatopoeia, we wrote our own poems using onomatopoeia words, and we took turns sharing the poems in class. We had a great time and a lot of laughs. I really had lots of fun!

Sketching
This month in the Sketching project, we talked more about Perspective. We also learned how to bring depth to a drawing by using multiple Vanishing Points. We drew simple buildings to illustrated this. If you look at a building facing one of the corners, you see one of the walls going off in one direction (Vanishing Point number one) and the other wall going off in another direction (Vanishing Point number two). We enhanced our buildings by adding more stories and a roof to our drawings, giving us more practice with Vanishing Points. We also added doors and windows because they emphasize the principles of Vanishing Points as well.
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Outdoor Adventures for Teens

During Outdoor Adventures for Teens, we went to the Cogswell Marsh Loop. We saw a weird windmill thing. Later, we found out it was an invention where a little windmill was attached to a large screw and would spin the fan and that in turn would turn the large screw and pull out water and the salt, the water and salt would fall into this gutter thing and then the water would evaporate and would leave some crystallized salt.

The Chemistry Project

The second meeting of the Chemistry Project was on November 12th. Our project leader put out sheets of black paper for every person, each with four different samples of white powders. Each powder was labeled, so we knew what it was. We talked about the powders: salt (NaCl), sugar, MSG, and magnesium sulfate (MgSO4), and examined their different properties. Then our project leader poured another white powder in the middle of our paper. She called the powder the mystery powder, because we didn't know what it was. The powder was one of the other powders that we already had on our papers, and by examining those powders that we knew, we were going to try to figure out what the mystery powder was. First, we looked at the four powders through a magnifying glass, and compared. Then we decided to crush our powders with a spoon, (including the mystery powder), to see if they looked different, or alike. After that, we thought that MgSO4 looked the most like the mystery powder, but we still weren't positive. Our project leader said that we should conduct a test, and then we should examine more. Our project leader asked us what sort of test we should do. We thought about it. We decided that maybe the powders would all look different if we dissolved them. Our project leader handed out test tubes with the four known powders, NaCl, sugar, MSG, and MgSO4, in each individual test tube. The mystery powder was in a test tube, too. Our project leader said that we should put five ml of water in each test tube. So we did. Then we had to wait. We decided we should take a break and eat lunch. (Continued on next page)

(Continued from previous page) When we came back in the lab, we examined the powders. We looked at every test tube and tried to see which one had dissolved the most. At first, everyone was saying different names of the powders at once, and we couldn't tell which one had dissolved the most. After some discussions, we finally made a decision what the mystery powder was. MgSO4. We had guessed right all along! But, guesses are not always right. You need to examine, and observe, and do tests to figure out what it really is. But our project leader was not done. She handed out two samples of crystals on our papers. We crushed them, and compared them to the four powders. The crystals were also one, or two of those powders we knew. We did not have a lot of time, but we made a quick guess. Some kids guessed that it was MSG; I guessed it was NaCl. Our project leader told us what it was: NaCl, salt. I guessed right! Chemistry Project was very fun. I liked doing the experiments!

2012 Safeway Holiday Food Drive

A big Thank you! to all of you who came out on a cold, rainy Saturday to help out with the 2012 Safeway Holiday Food Drive to benefit the Alameda County Community Food Bank. East Hills 4-H worked at the Safeway in the Greenhouse Shopping Center in San Leandro on November 17th from 10-4 and it made a huge difference having us there. During the hours we worked, we collected 87 of the $10 pre-packed bags of food and many individual cans and boxes. We also collected $85 in cash donations which were mailed in to the food bank. Not a single bag of food was collected at that Safeway location outside of the time we were there. We had one amazing donor who came and purchased 20 bags of food to donate! To thank us for our help, Safeway gave East Hills a $20 gift card. That money will be used to purchase food to donate to the food pantry at St. Paul Lutheran Church at the December club meeting.
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Sausal Creek Environmental Stewardship

On Environmental Stewardship project day in November, we did not meet at Sausal Creek. Instead, we met at the Native Plant nursery up in Joaquin Miller Park. Our main reason for going there was to choose plants to plant in our restoration area at Sausal Creek. A lady who works at the nursery was our leader for the day. We sat down on benches and listened to her tell us about the nursery. Then she took us on a tour, starting with the greenhouse. After the tour, she told us the right way to propagate certain plants, and our whole group helped with the planting. For some plants, you put soil in the pot half way, then put the baby plant in, and make sure all the roots go in the pot, and then you fill up the dirt the rest of the way. If you push around the plant gently, and your finger makes a hole, it means you need to put more dirt in. For other plants, like Yerba Buena, you can just take a cutting and clip off the tip, and then pull off enough leaves to have at least three little growth nodes on the cutting. Then you put the cutting straight into the soil, with no roots! The end where you pull off the leaves is the end that goes into the soil. The roots will start to grow from the spots where you pulled the leaves off. After you plant the cutting in the soil, you pull a few leaves off the top of the stem, because the fewer leaves it has, the less the plant has to work to support the leaves. One important thing to remember is to water the baby plants, and to keep the soil moist. Then our leader gave us a choice of activities to do. We each chose an activity, and she put us together in little groups. My first activity was seed-collecting. The seeds were kind of like dandelion seeds, only with smaller puffs. My next activity was drawing pictures of different native plants in the nursery. The first one I drew was called Juncus. Next I drew Bee plant, then Thimbleberry. Then I drew Gooseberry, and then Gold Flowering and Pink Flowering Currant. Our leader explained to us that the nursery was divided into two main areas. One area had a shade cover over it, and the other area was in full sun. The plants we chose for Sausal Creek all came from the shady area of the nursery, since they will fit the environment best at the restoration area. Everyone got to pick a plant to bring home to take care of. We have them outside so they can have fresh air, and because the plants would rather be outside than inside. Our leader also explained that they like rainwater better than tap water. I learned a ton.

Environmental Stewardship
This time in environmental stewardship we went to the native plant nursery and they had a lot of plants. We transplanted Yerba Buena and California Ninebark and we also collected some seeds. They had wood strawberries and we brought some home and now they're flowering. They're invasive if you give them a lot of water in the summer. We took some of the Yerba Buena and a plant called a Bee Plant home too. Later, I'm going to display them in the fair and then transplant them into Diamond Park.

Environmental Stewardship
Environmental Stewardship was not held at Sausal Creek this time; instead, it met at Joaquin Miller park, on November 15th. The reason that we started at Joaquin Miller park was to choose plants at the native plant nursery there to take home to grow. When the plants get big enough, we will plant them in our restoration area. First, we walked a short distance along a path to the native plant nursery. There our guide, brought us to a place with benches for us to sit on while she talked about Sausal Creek watershed and the nursery itself. After the talk, she showed us the green house, where she said that they grow lots of plants, including baby trees or saplings. When they get big enough, the nursery's staff members transplant them into bigger pots, and then either put them in the sunny area of the nursery to grow, or the shady part. After the tour of the green house, our leader brought the group to two tables. We spent some time transplanting small plants and clippings into little pots of soil. After the transplanting, we could choose from different activities, such as seed collecting, or drawing and observing different kinds of plants in the nursery. At the end of the meeting, our leader brought lots of little pots of California Bee Plant, Yerba Buena, and Wild Strawberry out near the benches for us to choose from. Everyone got to choose a plant to bring home and take care of. The plants are outside, so they have fresh air and enough water. Lately they have been getting plenty of rainwater, which is what they like best. It's exciting to have the plants at home to take care of!

Its That Time of Year Again!

Hi there! Im the chair of this years Shriners Toy Drive. For those of you who do not know what the drive is, its something my parents started a long time ago. Several people I know have been cared for in Shriners Hospital for Children in Sacramento, so my parents decided to return the favor. Once my siblings and I were old enough, we helped out with it as well, and now we have East Hills 4-H involved. Some of the patients in the hospital cant receive family visits due to travel cost or distance, or sometimes patients have to spend Christmas at the hospital (for reasons such as surgery). So we do what we can to give them something for the holidays. What we do is collect hospital-appropriate toys and pack them in huge bags. After that we drive them down to Shriners Hospital (usually around December 24th or so) and deliver the toys we have.

Some excellent ideas for toys are: Board games Stuffed animals (for little ones going into surgery) Puzzles Coloring books

However, we cannot accept the following items for the following reasons: Outdoor toys such as jump ropes or pool toys chances are some kids might not be able to walk/do outdoor activities easily. Battery operated toys this will be a problem, since the nurses are going to have to find batteries and keep replacing them. They might also make lots of noise, which would drive the nurses crazy. Toys that create a lot of noise, such as toys that clank or whirl loudly again, this will drive the nurses crazy. Toys that involve lots of small parts those small pieces might get lost. Very simple Lego sets are alright, but something with hundreds of small pieces will be much harder to deal with. Puzzle pieces can be small, but are easy to find. Lego pieces and I include many different types are a different matter, since they will disappear in the blankets or under the mattresses. (Continued on next page)

(Continued from previous page) All toys must be new and unwrapped to be fit for donation. You can donate toys or money to buy toys. Any money donations are tax deductible. Please ask us to acquire the tax deduction number. We will be collecting toys and donations through December 23rd. If you have any questions, you can ask us. Thanks a lot, everyone. We hope to see a lot of happy hospital kids this holiday season! SOME PICTURES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS DRIVES:

The two photos at the right are with the toys collected for the Shriners Hospital for Children.

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Collage Art
In Collage Art, we learned about frottage. It is a type of collage developed by a painter named Max Ernst. You rub with the side of a pencil, a crayon or charcoal on a piece of paper that is on top of a certain textured object to produce the picture. You can also use different textures to produce the pictures. Ernst's first frottage was of old floorboard grains. He also did a series called Natural History, which consisted of frottage pictures of unusual birds, leaves, insects and then some.

Part of the Natural History series by Max Ernst.

At the project meeting, we did some of our own frottages. I did a rubbing with Japanese characters, and made frottages of the TARDIS going forward in time and an active Stargate (from the media franchise Stargate). We used pencils, colored pencils, paper and different objects with different textures. Some of the textured objects we used were leaves, circular lids (actually, I used them for my Stargate frottage), LEGO pieces and a LEGO board. We also did that as the mid-meeting activity.

Song Singing
Song Singing was on November 15th. We only had a short time, but I learned a lot from our project leader about chords. I'm learning to play piano. So, our project leader told me I could practice what he taught me when I got home. I had a lot of fun learning with our project leader, even though it's really hard, and sometimes I don't understand everything he says. When I got home, I loved practicing with the chords our project leader taught me, and then Daddy showed me the chords to play the blues. So then I made up my own blues! Our project leader showed me so much about chords that day, and that made me want to learn even more.
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Song Singing
Song singing in November was very short but fun. We met on November 15th, right by the practice area at Bowmen archery range. We squeezed it in, after Environmental Stewardship and before Archery projects, all on the same day! Our project leader focused on different aspects of music theory, and I sure learned a lot! He explained a lot about: whole notes, and half notes, and quarter notes, and eighth notes, and sixteenth notes, and intervals, and passing neighbors, and upper neighbors (UN), and lower neighbors (LN), and incomplete neighbors (IN), and scales, and all the keys, and the chords, and triads. I understood most of it, but it's very complicated. Even though I could kind of understand him, it's too complicated to try to explain! It got more and more complicated as he went along. He gave us several pages of theory that he had written up for us to bring home so that we can have it to look back over. I'm looking forward to our next meeting. This project leader is very fun to be around!

Engineering Challenges November 16, 2012

At the beginning of todays meeting, our project leader showed us a piece of rubber with two paper clips pressed into it. The clips had a loop made of copper wire in between them, which was spinning above a small magnet. She explained that it was a motor. In order to make the loop, you wrap wire around a battery and pull the loose ends so the loop rotates from the center. Then she gave us yardsticks, duct tape, store-bought motors, batteries, battery holders, and popsicle sticks to build a contraption that can kick a ping-pong ball. Building the homemade motor was easy. The only difficult part was getting the loop to spin. Da Stick, as I call it, consists of the yardstick with a battery hooked to a motor by copper wires. The motor was duct taped on one end of the yardstick. It faces forward along the longitudinal axis of the yardstick. A popsicle stick was taped to the output shaft of the motor. This popsicle stick acts as a propeller. With the motor spinning the propeller, the ping-pong ball
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(Above) Da Stick

traveled several centimeters.

Engineering Challenges
This month in Engineering Challenges, we focused on motors. We started out by learning how a motor actually works inside its casing. We built simple, electro-magnetic motors using: a piece of foam, two paper clips, a coil of magnetic wire, a strong magnet, a battery holder, and a AA battery. First we had to wrap the magnetic wire around the battery several times to form a perfectly round coil. Then we took the two ends of the wire and wrapped them around the coil to hold it together. We scraped the protective coating of the tops of the two ends of the wire so they would have a direct connection to the paper clips when the motor was assembled. We had to make sure that the arms of the wire coil were kept straight so that the coil could move freely. Once our coils were ready, we straightened out one side of each of the paper clips so that we could insert them into the piece of foam to form the structure of our motors, making sure they were close enough to be able to string the coil of wire between them, but far enough apart to allow free movement. We hung the wire coil from the loops of the paper clips and placed the magnet on the foam in the center of our structure. We had to adjust the height of the paper clips to allow for optimum use of the magnetic pull. When we connected the battery holder and inserted the battery, the electricity magnetized the wire coil causing it to spin on the paper clips. At this point, we were ready to start building something with motors. We took some small hobby motors and were told to design a device that would kick a ping pong ball across the floor. To do this, we would have to take what we had learned about electrical circuits from the previous month and figure out how to add a switch to turn the circuit on and off. We were given yardsticks, tape, cardboard, and several other everyday items and had to use our creativity to find a way to make them work together. It was hard because we had to find a design strong enough to kick the ball, but also light enough that the small motor would have the power to move it. We all worked hard, but were eventually successful. Those of us who had time left over tried to find a way to modify our kicksticks into a tabletop game that would sound a buzzer when the ball landed on a target. Engineering was definitely a Challenge this month, but it was also a lot of fun!
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Presidential Community Service Award

With all the community service activities you are doing during the holidays, you know what its like to volunteer. Usually its with other 4-H members from your club all working on one project, like helping at the Dunsmuir House Holiday Petting Zoo. You have fun while doing some thing that benefits others in your community. Some of you might volunteer at a Soup Kitchen with your family every month or volunteer each year to help clean up trash on Earth Day. Volunteer opportunities are everywhere, though some organizations do have to put an age limit for safety reasons. In 4-H, members are encouraged to record their community service activities and hours in their 4-H record book. If you are a new 4-H member and need help figuring out how to fill out your 4-H record book forms just ask. East Hills 4-H is registered as a certifying organization with the Presidential Service Award program to recognize members for performing community service. Members track their hours for the year (which will follow the 4-H year of September-August). Depending on the members age and number of community service hours performed, he or she will earn a bronze, silver, or gold award. The official Presidents Volunteer Service Award lapel pin will be accompanied by a personalized certificate of achievement and a congratulatory letter from the President of the United States. Members may go to http://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/ to set up an account to track their hours and get information on the levels and awards. When creating the account, members can enter CFH-45527 under Record of Service key to connect the account to the East Hills account to be verified. (East Hills 4-H Member Handbook, page 23) At the end of the 4-H year, our club leaders will approve your hours and get your Award for you. Its a lot of work to earn this award, but its also a pretty cool pin! The levels of service are at the right. Last year two East Hills 4-H members received Presidential Service Awards!

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Archery Project
The third Archery Project meeting took place at Bowman Archery Range on November 15th. The project leader taught me how to string a bow, using a bow stringer made out of string! The month before, he taught us how to tie the knots to make a homemade bow stringer. He also gave me the bow stringer to take home. To string a bow, first you take the bow string, and put one loop on a nock, and have the other loop taped to the bow at the other end of the bow, below, but near, the other nock. You then take the bow stringer, and put one loop of the stringer on the nock at one end of the bow where the bow string is hooked onto the bow. Then put the other end of the bow stringer on the bow, and slide it down below where the bow string is taped to the bow. So now bow stringer is hanging loosely from the bow in mid-air, right? Now you hold the bow low so that the bow stringer touches the ground, and you step on the string with both feet. Then spread your feet as far apart as you can. You then pull the bow upward to bend it. This takes some strength. Our project leader can string a bow by himself, but since I am littler, I need help. Another person comes along and takes the tape off the bow string while the bow is still bent, and hooks the other loop of the bow string onto the other nock. Then you take the bow stringer off and...Ta-da! You have strung a bow! I went through this process to string a bow that I was going to use to shoot with. However, by the time I was finished stringing the bow, it was almost dark! So I only had a short time to actually practice shooting. It was still really fun.
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Alameda County Officer Training

Are you interested in learning how to work with the rest of your officer panel to be a great leadership team for your club? Then the Alameda County Officer Training may be for you! On January 17th, 2013, this event will be hosted for all 4-H members who are currently an officer or planning to hold a position in the future! Come on in to learn about how to complete your expected duties, and how to have a dynamic cooperation and communication between yourself and the rest of your club officers so you all can work to the best of your abilities. Learn the duties of a club president, the fun of being a Sergeant At Arms, the importance of being a Hospitality officer, and more! This event will be held at the Farm Bureau in Livermore, CA. In order to prep supplies for all of our participants planning to attend, visit acofficertraining.webs.com to register for the event before January 1st, 2013. We hope to see you there!

Officers Corner
A Note From The Historian
It's hard to believe it's December already. I hope you all are enjoying your projects and have had the chance to participate in some of the events we've had already. I hope you're taking lots of pictures for your record books, too. Don't forget to submit some of those photos to the club scrapbook! Do you have some shots of Achievement Night or Skate Night? Maybe the National Science Experiment? How about something from a project meeting or a club mid-meeting activity? You can give me your pictures any time; you don't have to wait until the end of the year and give them to me all at once. You can bring hard copies of your pictures to any club meeting. I'll have a box for photos near the sign-in sheet. Please write the names of the people in the picture on the back, as well as when and where it was taken. If you don't have hard copies of your pictures, you can email them to me anytime.
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Sign up for committees!

Vice President Hi everyone, Just a quick reminder about signing up for committees. There are many slots still open, and they need to be filled! Signing up for committees counts for your Super Member Award and your Record Book. Also, if you sign up to chair a committee, that counts as extra points, so be sure to put that down in your Record Book.

From the Editors Desk

Newsletter Editor Hi Everyone! Its great to see all of your awesome articles and photos! Please keep writing articles for the newsletter. You can even include a 4-H related photo or two with your article. Remember to include who or what is in the photo and what they are doing. Send all newsletter articles and photos in by the 1st of the month. When you write a 4-H newsletter article it counts on your Super Member Award form and in your 4-H Record Book. Do you have something you would like to sell? Would you like to advertise a service, like babysitting? Our newsletter has Advertising Space Available. For $5 per ad each month you can place an advertisement in the next edition of the newsletter. Funds raised will go to the East Hills 4-H Club. We reserve the right to refuse ads.
Photos and images not mentioned in the following list were submitted by various club members and parents. Clip art is from www.Clker.com except the 4-H clover on pages 1 and 17 (from www.ca4h.org); the record book cover on page 15 (from the East Hills 4-H Member Handbook); the table of Presidential Service Award Levels (from an informational email); and the pigs on page 3(unknown).

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Information
Talk at the January Club meeting Arts and Crafts Collage Art Fiction Writers Workshop Lego Engineering NaNoWriMo Outdoor Adventures for Teens Photography Teen Photography Project Sewing Intermediate Square Dance Yoga and Meditation Write an article for the January newsletter Art-History in the Making Cake Decorating Chemistry Explorations in Chemistry Chess Instruction Community Service Clover Buds Poetry for Primary Members Communication Horseless Horse Project Drama Junior Master Gardening Poultry Poetry American Poets Sausal Creek Community Service

Upcoming 4-H Events

East Hills 4-H Club:
East Hills 4-H Club Meeting, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Oakland, December 10, 2012, 2 PM East Hills 4-H Officers Meeting, San Leandro Main Library, January 7, 2013, 2 PM

Alameda County 4-H:

All Star Info Night, Farm Bureau, Livermore, Some time in January, 2013, TBC Officers Training, Farm Bureau, Livermore, January 17, 2013, 5:30 PM Camp Academy Meeting, Farm Bureau, Livermore, January 23, 2013 Leaders Council Meeting, Farm Bureau, Livermore, January 29, 2013 Presentation Day, Canyon Middle School, Castro Valley February 2, 2013 Swine Field Day, Sunol Glenn School, February 9, 2013 Junior Leader training, TBA, February 23, 2013 Skit Night, Canyon Middle School, March TBD, 2013 Fashion Field Day, St Paul Lutheran Church, Oakland, April 27, 2013

North Central Section 4-H:

High School 4-H Snow Camp*, Camp Sylvester, Pinecrest, January 18 21, 2013 CAL (Create A Leader) Conference*, Walker Creek Ranch, Petaluma, January 26 27, 2013 Sectional Leaders Council Meeting, Napa County, February 16, 2013 Sectional Presentation Day, UC Davis, March 30, 2013

California State 4-H:

4-H Archery Certification and Training for Adult Volunteers and Junior/Teen Leaders* Livermore-Pleasanton Rod & Gun Club, 4000 Dagnino Road, Livermore, January 19, 2013, 9 AM 5 PM - January 20, 2013, 8 AM- 12 noon
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