JANUARY 4-H MEETING SCHEDULE
We will be holding our in-school 4-H club meetings the week of January 9-13. The schedule is as follows: Monday-CCA (5th-8th grades), Indian Creek and Westside (5th grade); Tuesday-Eastside and Satilla (5th grade); Wednesday- Coffee Middle School C, D, & E Clusters (6th grade); Thursday-Ambrose (5th grade) and Coffee Middle School A & B Clusters (6th grade); and Friday-Broxton, Nicholls, and West Green (5th grade) and First Academy (5th & 6th grades). We will also have our after school 4-H meetings that week in the 4-H office. The Senior 4-H Club (9th-12th grades) will meet on Monday, January 9, at 4 p.m., Home School 4-H Club (4th-12th grades) on Tuesday, January 10, at 2 p.m., and the Junior 4-H Club (7th-8th grades) will meet on Thursday, January 12, at 4 p.m. Please remind your 4-H member about their meeting time.
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 13th. Please do your best to help us with this service project, and we will give you 10 points for donating.
PET THERAPY VISITATION
Our monthly visitation for Pet Therapy will be held on Tuesday, January 17, from 4 to 4:30 p.m. at Manor House Assisted Living Center. 4-H members are invited to come and bring a friendly pet for visitation. Please make sure that the pet is current with its vaccinations. Animals should be brought in the door at the rear of the building so as to not take them through the dining areas. Please don’t leave Manor House until we get our group photo at 4:30 p.m.
HOG SHOW MEETING
The Coffee County Swine Boosters will hold a hog show meeting on Monday, January 9, at 6:30 p.m., in the lunchroom of Coffee Middle School. All hog show participants and at least one of their parents are required to attend. The board of directors will hold their meeting at 5:30 p.m. that day in the same location. Please contact Terry Morgan, President of the Swine Boosters, if you have any questions or concerns relating to the Swine Boosters Club meeting.
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.
– Submitted by Kevin D. Tatum, Coffee County Extension Coordinator