- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The farm animals taking part in the Yolo County 4-H Spring Fair this weekend will be monitored for symptoms of flu and other diseases, according to UC Cooperative Exension director Kent Brittan. Brittan's comments were in an unbylined article in yesterday's Woodland Daily Democrat..
"All animals will be checked by a veterinarian upon arrival at the fairgrounds. Only animals that pass these health checks are allowed to be shown at the fair," Brittan was quoted. Brittan also said in the article that animals will be kept at a safe distance and will have no direct contact with visitors.
Health monitoring is of particular importance this spring...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
A news release about UC Cooperative Extension's involvement this year in "Operation: Military Kids" was picked up by the News Blaze, a northern California community newspaper. The story said UCCE's 4-H Youth Development program has teamed up with the Operation: Military Kids once again this summer to host camps throughout California for the children of military men and women deployed all over the world.
Operation: Military Kids was launched in April 2005. Since its inception, OMK has touched 88,000 military children. The summer camp is just one part of a support system for military youth. Camp participants are enrolled in 4-H and local 4-H...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The news media attended yesterday's Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors meeting in force to cover a variety of cuts the board is considering to balance the county's budget, currently $58 million short. Most of the media attention seems to be focused on a plan to cut out preventative health care for illegal immigrant adults, elimination of 58 sheriff's deputies and 18 deputy district attorneys.
Media outlets that covered the session included:
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors will be met by 4-H youth and volunteers at their 9:30 meeting this morning if a call to action issued by UC Cooperative Extension county director Shelly Murdock is followed, according to a story in the Martinez News-Gazette.
According to the article, Murdock wrote the following to 4-H constituents in the county:
“4-H in our county is in imminent danger of being dissolved and we need your help to show your support of the Cooperative Extension Office. Our entire department has been slated for elimination from the county budget. Not next year…this...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Salinas Californian, a six times weekly newspaper serving the Monterey Peninsula, ran a feature story today about the UC Cooperative Extension 4-H program representative in Monterey County, Wendy Grennan. Almost 18,000 copies of the paper are distributed on weekdays.
The story reads like a brochure for the local 4-H program, noting that Grennan oversees clubs involving 800 youth and 300 adult volunteers in activities that range from animal science and family and consumer science projects to environmental education and plant science.
In addition to explaining 4-H roots in the area - where clubs started forming in the 1890s -...