Post Banquet Report

There is a lot of info... so please bear with me and be sure to read all of it. :-) There are only 4 things to respond to ASAP, they are numbered.

The club banquet was wonderful. Awards were given, people were recognized, games were played then we chowed down on the AYCE pizza & salad buffet! Not too sure how many of the 4H members even noticed the salad on the salad bar.

Now to work on wrapping up this year in anticipation for the start of 2012!
1. First order of business is the election: Since I forgot the ballots at the banquet for the election everyone needs to vote electronically. How are we going to do this? I have looked at many ways but none have quite impressed me.
So I am asking each family to email to me their choices for the following two offices.
President: Skyler Klinedinst or Nathan Simms
Historian: Aria Flynn or Nathaniel Witmer
Please only select one for each office and only one vote per member per office.
We have 13 registered 4-H members at this point in time so I expect only 13 total votes per office.
The office of Treasurer will be held by Devin Hightman and the office of Secretary will be held by Desiree Witmer as they both ran unopposed. Congratulation!
Votes need to be to me by December 1st.

2. Last meeting of the year: I would like to have a meeting in December to announce our new officers, go over the club calendar for 2012 and see what all we as a club would like to do for next year. Here are dates I am offering up for the last meeting of the year, please pick one and if you would rather do it online in my online classroom or face to face(a location is to be determined, suggestions welcomed) Wed. Dec 14 @ 6:30, Fri. Dec 16 @6:30 OR Sat. Dec 17 at 2:30pm Please select one.

3. H.O.P.E. December Donation- Some members forgot to bring their H.O.P.E. donation to the banquet. Ms. Lily and I are collecting our club's donations so drop yours by either of our houses ASAP. Remember ask friends and family if they would like to help us with our club's donation box for H.O.P.E. We would like to make our delivery in the next couple weeks. Ms. Lily will be emailing some dates and times for taking our club's donations to H.O.P.E. before Christmas in the next couple weeks. We all do not need to go along but it would be nice if a few of us could go. It would be nice if each family could donate at least one item to our club H.O.P.E. donation box. Remember they take all sort of things to help these families dealing with cancer. This is a particularly hard time for these families. Let us show them that we care!

4. FARM SHOW: Those who got a gold or blue merit ribbon at the 4-H Fair for your project may enter your project in the PA Farm Show. The extension office usually takes up our projects, all we need to do is to register them online and get them to the extension office. If you are interested in entering your project contact me ASAP as the registration is now open. I will help you in the registering of your project and will let you know when you need to get your project to the extension office.

That's it! I will be looking for your emails and will be sending out an email with the meeting date and location as soon as everyone gets back with me.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and talk to you soon!
Ms. Jean

Reminder for Club Banquet on Sat. Nov. 19 4pm

For those of you that are coming I look forward to seeing you on Saturday at 4pm for our Annual Club Banquet at Infinitos on South Queen Street.

If you have a completed 4H project for 2011 or 2010 please bring it to share with the club and the new families. Please include your project book.

Also rememember to bring your collected donation items for H.O.P.E. We will be arranging a delivery day in the next couple weeks and will want some members to come along to deliver these to H.O.P.E. If you are interested in helping with donation delivery let Ms. Jean know so she can tell Ms. Lily our club community service rep.

If you have not turned in your enrollment forms and money to me or Ms. Andrea bring it along to the banquet. We are trying to get all 2012 enrollments in by the end of November.

We will hold club elections at the banquet. A request for the older kids to at least run fro office has been sent out. Younger members are able to run but might want to wait until they see how it is to be done by the older members. :-)

Be ready for some good eats, fellowship and fun surprises!
See you on Saturday!
Ms. Jean

Saturday Nov. 5, 2011, 2pm Rocketry/Aerospace LAUNCH DAY!!!

Conditions appears as if they are going to be great. Wind speed needs to be under 20mph according to the National Association of Rocketry. http://www.nar.org/  The weather reports I am seeing state winds will be at 9mph on Saturday. So unless conditions change, we are go for launch day, if you have your rockets ready and are able to attend.

If you are unable to attend or have not completed your rockets you will have another opportunity for a launch day in the spring. If you launch this time and wish to get more engines to launch again in the spring, you may. If enough of you wish to do this let me know and I will see if we can get another group order to save on shipping costs.

Wear old clothes, we will be in the middle of a field and some spots could be a little wet. I am thinking we will schedule the final Rocketry written test later this year so you all have time to study. Remember if you have any questions please call or email me.

Please email me to let me know if you are coming for sure or not.

See you Saturday,
Ms. Jean

2011 Banquet is Set! November 19 at 4pm

Ms. Andrea has been very busy getting all the arrangements set for our annual 4-H club banquet. The club has voted to have the banquet at Infinitos Pizza on South Queen Street. Info about this is in the emails sent out by Ms. Andrea.

What will we be doing at the banquet besides eating?
-We will be showing off our projects. I am asking members who have done a project this year or in past years to bring one or two of your favorites to share with the group. This way the new families can see more about 4H projects. Please include your project book too.
-We will be honoring club members and families who have participated in the 2011 4H year.
-We will also be electing officers for the following positions: President, Treasurer, Secretary, Historian and if we have enough kids Vice President. If you wish to know about these positions please contact Ms. Jean.
To the older kids(12 or older): You each should consider running for and taking on one of these positions. We will help you and guide you. It is really not that hard and you get recognized for your extra efforts. This is a responsibility so it does need to be taken seriously. I will be contacting each family about this. It is your club so you are needed to help run it.
-Fellowship and getting to know each other time will fill the rest of the time.

I look forward to seeing all of you and getting to share some time at our banquet with each of you.
Thanks,
Ms. Jean