- Posted By: Mandi Bottoms
- Written by: Posted by Liz Kane (Mountain Democrat) on Aug 16 2011.
Placerville mom Chandra Schreck was late this year filling out paperwork to participate in the 4 H International Exchange Program that would bring a Japanese student to her home for a month this summer.
The program, in conjunction with Japan’s Labo progam, pairs students with families in both countries. The exchanges are on an alternating basis. In 2012, students from the United States can apply to visit Japan.
Schreck, the mother of two girls, Maddie, 11, and Calista, 7, was hoping to host a girl but they had all been placed much to her disappointment. But then Sana Kobayashi, 13, from Matsuyama in Southern Japan, who was originally slated to go to Texas, was relocated to California and the Schrecks’ home...
- Posted By: Mandi Bottoms
- Written by: Ventura County Star
The California 4-H Youth Development Program awarded six counties with $1,000 grants to implement healthy living projects within their communities. The grant proposals were written by 4-H teens, and successful projects may involve 4-H members as young as 5 years old.
The Ventura County 4-H All Stars, youth leaders within the California 4-H YDP, received funds to build a walking trail at Ormond Beach, south of Hueneme Road in Oxnard. Ormond Beach is the largest continuous wetland in California and is an EPA superfund site — a former hazardous waste site that has undergone extensive clean-up in order to be re-established for safe...
- Posted By: Mandi Bottoms
- Written by: Allison Eckhardt, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture on April 12, 2011
“I pledge my Head to clearer thinking, my Heart to greater loyalty, my Hands to larger service and my Health to better living, for my club, my community, my country, and my world.” This is the pledge that 300 4-H youth and volunteers gave on Monday when the 2011 National 4-H Conference kicked off in Bethesda, Md. Youth and adults from 47 states and territories, as well a delegation from Canada, took part in an event that has happened in the Washington area since the 1920s, when 4-Hers slept in tents on the Washington Mall in front of the USDA headquarters. USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, is the parent organization to 4-H National Headquarters. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Education...
- Author: Mandi Bottoms
Created: 03/22/2012 08:03:05 AM PDT
Woodland Montessori elementary students have been awarded $2,000 in grants to help their fellow classmates eat more fruit.
They won a $1,000 UnitedHealth HEROES Grant from Youth Service America and UnitedHealth Group and $1,000 from California 4-H Revolution of Responsibility, according to a news release from Marcel Horowitz with UC Cooperative Extension.
This project teaches their classmates how to eat healthier by adding more fruit to their school day. The funding provides weekly deliveries of fresh organic fruit to the children's school, where students can snack on apples, oranges, pears and mangos when they get hungry.
The...
