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Other exciting events during Congress include competitions, community service, share-fair, congressional games and issues forum. Units with 10 or more delegates will be recognized during the week. Make sure your unit is represented.
Registrations are due by May 8 to your district office. Cost is $120. Each unit has a first time scholarship worth $60 and a volunteer scholarship for $50. See you there...
Dorothy Freeman
There will be three age groups in the contest: junior, intermediate, and senior. Every entry will receive a
participation award. First, second, and third place winners will receive ribbons at the local level. Each unit may submit the top three posters in each age group for further competition to the state contest held at State 4-H Congress in June. State winners in each age category will receive cash prizes (first = $30, second = $20, and third = $15). Those receiving an honorable mention will be awarded a rosette ribbon.
A contest flyer is being mailed to each unit office. Please photocopy it and use it to promote the contest locally. The contest format is the same as in previous years. To order buttons and ribbons needed for the program in your unit, please complete the on-line request form at the following URL: http://www.dasc.vt.edu/forms/posterform.html. The deadline for ordering contest supplies is May 15.
Encourage your young people to display their posters in prominent locations to promote June Dairy Month. I look forward to seeing outstanding posters from your unit at 4-H Congress in June. Please let me know if you have any questions.
David R. Winston
Be sure to share this information with your club members. The Dog Show is a big event each year during the fair.
Barbara Ford
Two of Virginia's Congressional delegation (Representatives Goode and Moran) have signed on as cosponsors. I would encourage you to have 4-H members, alumni, and volunteers contact their respective members of the House concerning this pending legislation.
John Dooley
It is important to note that young people today are not without conscience or goodwill; many young people are people of character; however, far too many youth are not exercising character, as evidenced by the above facts. These facts should make us concerned about the moral character of our youth. This is why 4-H is joining the public education system in emphasizing the practice of exercising character.
Bob Meadows
The arrangements have been made, the menus selected, and the curriculum has arrived to support this training effort, scheduled for Monday - Friday, April 26-28. We are excited while experiencing great anxiety about this training and hoping for success with this opportunity. Ms. Hager, wife of Virginia's Lt. Governor and Honorary Chair of the Virginia 4-H/CHARACTER COUNTS! program, is sending a brochure to each superintendent of schools throughout the Commonwealth. She addresses the need for this program, and provides information that we have 12 teams ready to assist school systems. Evaluation instruments are being developed by Dr. Mike Lambur to assist teams with their involvement of this program within public schools.
Bob Meadows
Joan Elledge
Virginia's 4-H Educational Centers are unique, to say the least, as no other state has an educational center in each of its geographic areas. These centers serve as the facilities in which a strong 4-H camping program occurs during the summer months each year, involving hands-on learning opportunities for thousands and thousands of youth. We are, in fact, growing each year in the numbers of youth we attract to attend and participate in this quality educational experience.
The following explains why we conduct 4-H camps with units at their own respective 4-H educational center:
The above reasons apply to our junior 4-H camp (9-13 years of age) program only. At state and special interest camps, 4-H center recruitment and participation across geographic boundaries is employed and encouraged, as most of these events involve older youth.
Bob Meadows
Bob Meadows
We plan to provide some scholarships for salaried and volunteer staffs wishing to attend from the state; however, we will be requiring an application and commitment to employ back-home educational programs with 4-H camps as part of this scholarship package. Full details will be forthcoming.
To provide you with an update as to costs, the NCI V Planning Committee, at their most recent planning meeting, determined the costs for the 5-day event. This will cover all costs for meals, lodging, snacks, and educational programming (except for any educational tour, and the cost of Saturday evening dinner). The costs are as follows:
| Early Bird Registration | ||
|---|---|---|
| Prior to December 1, 1999 | $225 per person | |
| Late Registration | ||
| December 2 - January 5 | $250 per person | |
| Very Late Registration | ||
| January 6 - Conference | $275 per person | |
[NOTE: Registration form and check or money order must be postmarked on the date or before registration deadline].
The registration form will be sent in a future article, as well as to each unit office. The most up-to-date, revised schedule is enclosed with this article.
Bob Meadows
Prior to the establishment of Jamestown 4-H Camp, early district short courses were conducted on the campus of William & Mary College for units located in the northeast district. A short course conducted there August 29-25, 1923, reported that "...110 club members, 6 club leaders, and 10 farm and home demonstration agents attended...the largest delegation was brought from King and Queen and King William counties..." During this event, girls were given instructions in room improvement, poultry, and break making. Boys were involved in dairying, rope tieing, poultry, gardening, and stock judging. "The recreation consisted of baseball, basketball, boxing, etc....club members were taken to Jamestown Island one afternoon and to Camp Eustis and Yorktown another afternoon...club members gave a public program on the William and Mary campus Friday afternoon at which a number of very interesting demonstrations were given in gardening, bread making, poultry selection, etc." (Agricultural 4-H Club Letter, 1923, October, p.4).
The first camp to utilize Jamestown 4-H Camp was a group of 250 4-H'ers, agents, and volunteer leaders from fifteen counties during the week of June 18-23, 1928. These represented the counties of Goochland,
Louisa, Hanover, Henrico, king William, King & Queen, Lancaster, Charles City, New Kent, James City, York, Warwick, Elizabeth City, Accomack, and Northampton. "Times were allotted in the daily program for recreation...and instruction in such things as how to conduct club meetings, nature study, safety, gardening, forestry, pottery, music, food conservation, and table service" (College of the Fields, 1987, p. 26).
Today, Jamestown 4-H Educational Center serves the counties and cities of the northern neck and Richmond area of the state that include Charles City, Chesterfield, Essex, Gloucester, Goochland, Hampton, Hanover, Henrico, James City, King & Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent, Newport News, Northumberland, Powhatan, Richmond County, Richmond City, Westmoreland, and York.
Jamestown is the smallest 4-H educational center in the state with only 16 acres of property. The facility can accommodate 208 campers per week.
1) Virginia Polytechnic Institute. (1923). Agricultural 4-H Club Letter. Vol. VI, No 6, October, p. 4.
2) Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1987). College of the Fields:
Some Highlights of the Virginia Cooperative Service, 1914-1980., p. 26.
Bob Meadows
I Pledge my HEART to encourage and support my child no mater wheter he has successes or disappointments.
I pledge my HANDS to hep my child's club, if I cannot be a leader, I can help in many equally important ways.
I pledge my HEALTH to keep my child strong and well for a better world through 4-H, for my child's club, our community, our country and our world.
(adapted from: Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, Publication 4-H685 "Parents)
| Airfield 4-H Educational Center | |||
| June 21-25 | Dinwiddie/Isle of Wight 4-H Camp | ||
| June 28-July 2 | Prince George/Suffolk 4-H Camp | ||
| July 5-9 | Northampton/Southampton 4-H Camp | ||
| July 12-16 | Accomack/Norfolk 4-H Camp | ||
| July 19-23 | Chesapeake 4-H Camp | ||
| July 23-25 | Summer Cloverbud 4-H Camp | ||
| July 25-31 | District 4-H Horse Camp | ||
| July 26-30 | Greensville-Emporia/Surry 4-H Camp | ||
| August 2-6 | Petersburg/Sussex 4-H Camp | ||
| August 9-13 | Virginia Beach 4-H Camp | ||
| August 16-20 | District 4-H Camp | ||
| Holiday Lake 4-H Educational Center | |||
| June 7-11 | Family Camp | ||
| June 15-19 | Appomattox/Nelson 4-H Camp | ||
| June 21-26 | Forestry Camp | ||
| June 28-July 2 | Buckingham/Prince Edward 4-H Camp | ||
| July 4-8 | Fluvanna/Green 4-H Camp | ||
| July 12-16 | Amherst/Charlotte/Cumberland 4-H Camp | ||
| July 19-23 | Campbell/Lynchburg 4-H Camp | ||
| July 26-30 | Louisa 4-H Camp | ||
| July 30-Aug 1 | District Cloverbud 4-H Camp | ||
| August 2-6 | Brunswick/Lunenburg/Mecklenburg 4-H Camp | ||
| August 9-13 | Albermarle-Charlottesville/Amelia/Nottoway 4-H Camp | ||
| August 18-22 | Shooting Education 4-H Camp | ||
| Jamestown 4-H Educational Center | |||
| June 21-25 | James City/Essex 4-H Camp | ||
| June 28-July 2 | Westmoreland/King & Queen/King William/Middlesex 4-H Camp | ||
| July 5-9 | Mathews/Lancaster/Northumberland 4-H Camp | ||
| July 9-11 | Cloverbud 4-H Camp | ||
| July 12-16 | Richmond City/Newport News/Hampton/Charles City 4-H Camp | ||
| July 19-23 | Chesterfield/New Kent 4-H Camp Ironman I Teen 4-H Trip | ||
| July 26-30 | Gloucester 4-H Camp | ||
| August 2-6 | York 4-H Camp Ironman II Teen 4-H Trip | ||
| August 9-13 | Goochland/Powhatan/Hanover 4-H Camp | ||
| August 16-20 | Henrico/Richmond County 4-H Cam | ||
| Northern Virginia 4-H Educational Center | |||
| June 20-24 | Orange/Madison/Caroline 4-H Camp Warren/Culpeper Y.E.S. 4-H Camp Wilderness Adventure: Ironman 4-H Trip | ||
| June 27-July 1 | Loudoun/Fauquier 4-H Camp Wilderness Adventure: Backpacking 4-H Trip Shooting Education 4-H Camp | ||
| July 4-8 | Frederick/Page 4-H Camp Wilderness Adventure: Beginning Caving 4-H Trip Horse 4-H Camp | ||
| July 11-15 | Fairfax/Alexandria/Arlington 4-H Camp Shenandoah/Spotsylania Y.E.S. 4-H Camp | ||
| July 16-18 | Parent/Child Cloverbud 4-H Camp | ||
| July 18-22 | Warren/Clark 4-H Camp Wilderness Adventure: Whitewater Rafting 4-H Trip | ||
| July 25-29 | Prince William/Stafford 4-H Camp Top Brass Camp | ||
| August 1-5 | King George/Spotsylavania 4-H Camp Wilderness Adventure: Canoeing/Climbing 4-H Trip | ||
| August 8-12 | Shenandoah/Culpeper/Rappahannock
4-H Camp Wilderness Adventure: Ironman II 4-H Trip Diversity 4-H Camp/Fauquier County DARE Camp | ||
| August 14-22 | Camp Fantastic | ||
| Smith Mt. Lake 4-H Educational Center | |||
| June 7-11 | Floyd 4-H Camp | ||
| June 12-13 | Summer Cloverbud 4-H Camp | ||
| June 14-18 | Pittsylvania/Patrick 4-H Camp | ||
| June 21-25 | Henry/Danville 4-H Camp | ||
| June 28-July 2 | Roanoke County/Roanoke City 4-H Camp | ||
| July 5-9 | Alleghany/Rockbridge 4-H Camp | ||
| July 12-16 | Bedfore/Pulaski 4-H Camp | ||
| July 19-23 | Craig/Giles/Montgomery 4-H Camp | ||
| July 26-30 | Augusta/Rockingham/Botetourt 4-H Camp | ||
| August 1-5 | Franklin/Bath/Highland 4-H Camp | ||
| August 9-13 | Halifax 4-H Camp | ||
| August 16-20 | Roanoke DARE Camp | ||
| Southwest Virginia 4-H Educational Center | |||
| June 7-11 | Scott 4-H Camp | ||
| June 14-18 | Dickenson/Lee 4-H Camp | ||
| June 21-25 | Tazewell 4-H Camp | ||
| June 28-July 2 | Smyth 4-H Camp | ||
| July 5-9 | Buchanan/Bland 4-H Camp | ||
| July 12-16 | Wythe 4-H Camp | ||
| July 19-23 | Washington 4-H Camp | ||
| July 26-30 | Carroll 4-H Camp | ||
| August 2-6 | Russell/Wise 4-H Camp | ||
| August 9-13 | Grayson 4-H Camp
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Bob Meadows
