THE ACORNICLE

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President – Haley Grigsby	Vice-Pres. - Chelsea Smith & Safari Fabrizio
Secretary – Rachel Bradley	Corresponding Sec. – Jessie Krempp
Treasurer – Christina Dietzer	Reporter – Jannettie Krempp
Supply Officer – Rachel Bradley	Historian - Chelsea Smith & Forest Sallee
Teen Council Rep - Haley Grigsby	Recreation – Lindsey Smith
Sgt. at Arms - Savannah Donston	Clover Buds - Jessie Krempp
Song Leaders – Jack Sullivan, Liam Sullivan, & Adam Madla

Another 4-H year is wrapping up and we are in the midst of the San Diego County Fair at Del Mar. I hope everyone has a great time at the fair and that you do your best! No matter how you place, I hope you learn something in the process and that you demonstrate good sportsmanship. Cheer on your fellow Jamul Chaparros and be there to help each other. That’s what 4-H is all about!

As we wrap up this year, I feel the need to let you know that next year will be my last year as the Community Club Leader. My daughter, Rachel, will be graduating from high school next year, and I do not know what our family plans will be after her graduation. Family commitments may take us out of southern California for a few years. With that in mind, I hope that someone will step up to be the Assistant Club Leader this coming year, and that they will take over as the Community Club Leader the following year. Please consider doing this so our club does not face possible closure in 2012-2013, because that would really be a shame. We have one of the best clubs in county, and I’m not just making that up, I have been told this by our SD County 4-H Office. Parents, please give this some prayerful consideration. Please call me to discuss this if you have an interest is running the club.

I hope everyone has a great summer and that you will be back again next fall!

Thanks to everyone who came to our potluck! I hope everybody had fun at our last meeting of the 4-H year! Congratulations to everyone who participated at the East County Junior fair and good luck to all those participating at the San Diego County Fair, and Ramona Junior Fair! Remember to always represent our club with good sportsmanship, and most importantly HAVE FUN!! Make it a good experience! :)

It is with a heavy, albeit grateful heart that I’d just like to say a special thank you to Dana Fletcher. Dana is stepping down as our club’s quilting instructor. She has led the group for many years and will be sorely missed! It was Dana’s quilting project that inspired Rachel and I to get involved with 4-H in the first place (along with a few nudges from Gene Peterson), and look where that has taken us! It opened up a whole new world for us. We’re doing things, learning things, and experiencing things we never dreamed we would do!

The ballots have been tallied and the election results are in! The 2011-2012 board members are as follows:

President - Chelsea S.
Vice President - Forrest S.
Treasurer - Christina D.
Secretary - Miriam L.
Sgt. at Arms - Hope G.
Historians - Ashley W. and Taylor D.
Reporter - Jannettie K.
Supply Officer - Rachel B.
Recreation Leader - Jessie K.
Song Leaders - Katie R. and Alex D.
Cloverbuds Leaders - Tess P. and Rebecca D.

Congratulations on being elected!

If you turned in your clover points forms and have not picked your prize from the 4-H Mall catalog, please give Mary a call.

The Ramona Jr. Fair will be here before you know it! The Premium book rules are on their website; however, the entry forms and the actual Premium book is not there as of this writing. In the premium book rules it states that the entries must be mailed by July 16^th; however, I will be going out of town before this, so I need your entry forms and fees no later than Friday, July 8^th. I will need to mail them out the morning of July 9^th along with the club check. They do not accept personal checks or entries turned in individually, our entries must come in as a club. So please check the website listed below and get your entries ready and to me by July 8^th.

Also, please note, our club is not eligible to show market animals at their fair. They have set up boundaries for the clubs that are eligible to show market animals at their fair. We can do pretty much everything else – home arts, small animals, breed animals, dogs, and horses, just no market animals. Also, Jannettie Krempp and Chelsea Smith have attended several meetings to address issues that have come up at the Ramona Jr. Fair horse shows, and they have succeeded in getting them to change their rules to be in line with 4-H horse show rules. So if you are in the Horse and Pony project, I hope you will make an effort to attend the RJF horse show this year.

Yes, it’s record book time again! The county sent out the following message earlier this week:

Record Books are due to the County Office August 26, 2011 by 5:00 PM for all clubs wishing to submit record books to be evaluated at the county level. Each club needs to provide 1 evaluator for every 10 books or less submitted. Each record book will be critiqued by at least 3 evaluators.   Evaluators will need to attend brief (1.5 hr) training when they come to check-out record books at the County Office. Evaluators will be divided into groups of 3-4 based on area. It will be the responsibility of the evaluating groups to decide when and where they will meet to evaluate the assigned books. All Evaluated record books will then be returned to the County Office by September 30, 2011. The record book timeline is as follows.

  Record books and club evaluator contact information due to County Office - Friday, August 26, 2011 by 5:00 PM
  Evaluating Groups Assigned - After Record Book Deadline
  Record book training and check-out (Evaluators can attend either day and need to be prepared to stay for approximately 1.5 hours) - August 23, 2011 6:30 (Please email me, if this date will not work for you)
  Evaluated record books turned back into the County Office - September 30, 2011 by 5:00 PM

Please call the County Office if you have questions.

Supporting 4-H Youth to Thrive,

Carol Roberts ( clroberts@ucdavis.edu )
4-H Program Representative
San Diego County 4-H Office
New address as of July 22, 2011: 9335 Hazard Way, Ste 201
San Diego, CA 92123

Office: 858 495-5190
General Office Number 858 694 2861
Fax: 858 694 2849

For those of you who are fairly new to 4-H, a record book is your way of tracking your accomplishments, your projects, and many other aspects of your 4-H year. There are several reasons why you should do them:

First, if you want to receive credit for your 4-H year, you need to do at least 1 project report. If you turn in a completed project report to me, you will receive a stripe to put on your 4-H hat.

Secondly, if you want to earn your stars, i.e. bronze, silver, gold, or platinum, you need to fill out the full record book. This requires filling out the Personal Development Report, and project reports for all of your projects.

And a third reason to do it…$$$, yes, that’s right $$$! In the future when you apply for college scholarships, college applications, or even a job, your record book will come in handy. It is a portfolio of your hard work, and your willingness to take on new challenges. You will be able to take your record book with you and can show it during college or job interviews.

The bottom line, please take the time to create a record book. There are forms you can download and print out, and also those you can fill out online and then print out. I will make myself available to help you with questions regarding the record book process. The forms can be found on the CA 4-H website:

Parents, if you’d like to help evaluate record books, please contact me. I did this one year and it was a very interesting experience, and I mean that in a nice way! Evaluating other 4-H member’s books will also help you to learn what you can do to assist your child with their record book.

Attention High School 4-H’ers – State Leadership conference is held at the end of July. It is at UC Davis. If you are interested in this, please check the county’s 4-H website for more information. The date to turn in your registration is coming up soon!

Please be sure to check the online calendar <www.jamul4h.org/calendar> to make sure your meeting dates and times are listed and correct. Please send any corrections to our webmasters at: webmasters@jamul4h.org.

Remember, if you have any questions about something you have read here or anything else 4-H related you can call Mary. Also, please be sure to check our club’s website calendar. Dates and times of meetings are subject to change. Your project leader’s will make every attempt to contact you if there is a change, but you will also need to be proactive by checking the calendar and your email account for changes and up-to-date information!