- Author: Lennis Arriaga
MONTEREY COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL FOOD BOOTH DONATIONS
Let's start planning for the Monterey County Food Booth at Monterey County Fair to raise the maximum amount of money for our county's 4-H events. NOW is the time to start soliciting for donations! All donors names will be listed on a recognition banner. Click here to download the letter for financial donation requests. Please have check made payable to Monterey County 4-H Council and mail them to the 4-H Office, 1432 Abbott St., Salinas, CA 93901 - ATTENTION: FOOD BOOTH CHAIRMAN, by Wednesday, August 24, 2012. Meeting this deadline will ensure all names are listed on the banner for sponsor recognition. Please call JoAnn at 831-320-5507 if you have any questions.
Food Booth Meetings:
June 19 - 6:30pm mandatory meeting for schedules
July 17 - 6:30pm at the 4-H Office
August 21 - 6:30 cash register training
Monterey County 4-H:
Attention 4-H High School Seniors!
Each year Monterey County 4-H Leaders Council Awards up to $4,000 in scholarships of up to $1,000 each. You must be a Monterey County 4-H member graduating senior or not yet 19 years of age as of January 1. Scholarship applications are available on the county website. The website has a detailed list of qualifications for the scholarships. The scholarship applications are due Wednesday, August 1, 2012. There will be a mandatory in person interview on Friday, August 3, 2012. The interviews will be approximately 15 minutes and will be held at the county office. More specific times will be announced when the number of applicants is known.
Record Book Judging
This is the busiest part of the year… Fairs, Camps, Parties and of course your RECORD BOOK! Now is the time to get ahead of the game and start fi lling out your record books. The 4-H member’s County record book deadline this year will be August 8th, 2012. All members that would like to compete in the County Record Book competition must have their Record books turned into the County Office BY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8th, 2012. All record books that are turned in by the deadline will be judged on Saturday, August 18th, 2012. Record Book Judging will be held at the County Office on August 20th, 2011, @ 9:00 am. Reminder to all Club Leaders, you must provide 1 adult judge for every 5 books submitted (ex. 1-5 books submitted= 1 judge, 5-10 books submitted= 2 judges, 10-15 books submitted= 3 judges etc.) Please DO NOT send books without adequate number of judges. Clubs that do not meet the judging quota WILL NOT be judged. Judges are required to stay on the judging day until their assignment is complete. Here are a few more reminders of what is required in a County ready Record Book: Record Books must receive a Gold Seal at the Club level in order to
be entered in the County competition. Please DO NOT send books that have not met that requirement. 1st year members only are allowed to use pencil.
Record Books may be typed or written in ink. (1st year exception, pencil)
All Record Book forms must have ALL required signatures or the book will be disqualified. All books must have the required forms. Any missing forms will result in a disqualification. County Awards application (with all required signatures) Personal Development Report (with all required signatures) Missing Forms (any missing forms will result in a disqualification) Do Not include your ribbons, awards, or check stubs but write about them in your 4-H story & project report.
All record book forms can be found on the County website. If you have any questions, problems or concerns regarding record books, please feel free to contact Staci Wilkins at (831) 385-4917 home, cell (831) 596-1542 or via email staci_wilkins@hotmail.com your calls to the 4-H office will be directed to Staci. Thank you.