PET THERAPY VISITATION
We want to thank all of the 4-H members, parents, and volunteers who went on Monday, December 5, to Shady Acres for Pet Therapy Visitation. Participants included: Broxton: Glenn O’Steen. CCA: Jolie Cleveland and Ethan Kramer. Eastside: Javonte Davis and Glenda Grantham Indian Creek: Abygail Harper. Junior 4-H Club: Ashton Ates, Muskan Minhas, Alexandra Rivero, and Ishika Sadarangani. Nicholls: Haley Redden. Satilla: Sophie Bird, Kylie-Shaye Dean, Nyauna Lampkin, and Iris Sanchez. Senior 4‑H Club: Savannah Cothern, Asia Davis, Abby Hamilton, Bethany Land, Micheal Woods, Evie Woodward, and Kimberly Wright. Adults: Liz Batten, Charlotte Bird, Jennifer Diliegros, Joey Fussell, Merideth Kramer, Michelle Lucas, Maggie Medders, Jean O’Steen, Rosa Ruiz, Kathy Vickers, Chalanda Woods, and Patty Wright.
Our next visitation will be on Tuesday, January 17, at Manor House from 4 to 4:30 p.m. Please remember pets must be current on vaccinations and must be friendly. Group photo at 4:30 p.m. (25 points.)
SAFE COACHES TRAINING
The 4-H target sports programs are dependent on volunteers to organize and run them. If you know of an adult who would like to help with one of the programs, please have them contact the 4‑H office at 384-1402. A Certified Coaches Training will be held at Rock Eagle on January 20-22, and we need to get them enrolled as soon as possible for the workshop.
OPERATION GRATITUDE
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is January 16. We are planning to give back to our soldiers in honor of this day. We will be writing letters and making care kits to send and encourage our soldiers. Here is a list of items that we are collecting to send: small plush toys (6 inches or smaller and may be lightly used), socks (preferably black, brown, green, tan; not white), screen printed T-shirts, baseball style caps, gloves, hand and foot warmers, commercially sealed lip balm, toothpaste, toothbrushes, roll-on deodorant, individual packets of moist towelettes, travel size containers of foot powder, mini-battery-operated fans, energy bars, beef jerky, healthy snacks, single serving boxes of cold cereal; individual packets of hot cereal, commercially wrapped individual packets of trail mix, nuts, energy bars, sunflower seeds, candy, and/or packets of powdered hot or cold beverages.
You can bring these items to your next club meeting or to the office before January 13. Please do your best to help us with this service project, and we will give you 10 points for donating.
FALL FORUM
Fall Forum has come and gone and this year’s participants had a blast. This year’s theme was “4-H Vacation: Paradise at the Rock”. The conference was held last weekend at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center. Micheal Woods put up an exhibit in the exhibit fair, and Evie Woodward was selected as one of the workshop presenters and she was serving in her leadership role as Vice-president of the Southeast District Junior 4-H Board of Directors.
Participants enjoyed a wonderful show by Clovers & Co. as well. Participants included Rian Hill, Korinda Johnson, Kyya Johnson, Bethany Land, T.K. McIver, Maggie Stevens, Olivia Thomas, Micheal Woods, Evie Woodward and Mrs. Chalanda Woods chaperoned the trip.
CHRISTMAS BREAK
As schools begin their break for the Christmas holidays, I wanted to remind you of the 4‑H/Extension office holiday schedule. We will be open our regular business hours (8 a.m. to noon, 1 to 5 p.m.) through Thursday, December 22. We will be closed Friday, December 23 through Monday, January 2. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 3, for our regular business hours. Please hold all samples (such as soil, tissue, etc.) until after the holidays as the lab will not be able to run them at this time.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the UGA Extension staff in Coffee County.
If you have questions about the Coffee County 4-H Club program, or questions around the farm or home, please feel free to contact the Coffee County Extension office at (912) 384-1402. Remember, we are YOUR local connection to the University of Georgia.
4-H members visit residents at Shady Acres for Pet Therapy Visitation.
Evie Woodward, Senior 4-H member, teaches a workshop at Fall Forum conference at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center.
Micheal Woods shares his 4-H exhibit during the Fall Forum Exhibit Fair at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center.
– Submitted by Kevin D. Tatum, Coffee County Extension Coordinator