Holiday Service Drive for Arbor House

We're holding a holiday drive for the Arbor House. We' d like for everyone to bring an item or two from the list below. Arbor House is a home for single moms (I believe they have six moms plus kids/babies right now) and we'll be delivering the items before Christmas. If anyone would like to contribute to a couple of grocery gift cards, please let me know and I'll go buy some or bring gift cards with you.

Wish List

• Household Paper Products: trash bags, paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, napkins, etc. Household Cleaning Supplies: disinfectant spray, Windex, dish soap, etc.
• Infant Wipes & Diapers (all sizes needed)
• Infant OTC Tylenol, saline, diaper cream, etc
• H E Laundry Soap
• Storage Tubs with Lids
• Carpet Vacuum
• Gift Cards (Albertsons, Publix, Walmart, Target)
• Fabric & batting

End-of-Year Holiday Party

Please join us next Tuesday, December 9, at Mr. Jesse's for a holiday dinner. We'll meet at 5:30. We'd like for everyone to bring a side dish or dessert. I haven't decided what to do for a meat dish yet, so if anyone would like to help, just let me know! If you need directions, just let me know. Here are sign up areas that I'm thinking of:

Meat:
Side Dish (at least 2):
Dessert:
Drinks:
Paper Goods:

Tuesday's Meeting

First meeting of the 4-H year will be this Tuesday. Several important things we will be doing at this meeting:

Elections - we will be electing president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, recreation coordinator, and snack coordinator. Everyone is invited to participate in these leadership activities.

Registration - Florida 4-H has gone to an on-line registration system. We will be registering during the meeting on Ms. Emily's laptops. Please bring your doctor's info and insurance info with you. It will be needed to fill out the emergency and health sections of the forms.

Projects & Service Ideas - we will be discussing projects we will be doing throughout the year. We will also be brainstorming service ideas for our club.

Don't forget to bring a friend or two!

New Club Web Page

We've got a new Web page for our club! It has several cool features - an interactive calendar, a place to put our agendas and club info, and project stuff. Check it out at http://starsandstripes4h.weebly.com/.

If you have any ideas to add to it, just let Ms. Emily know.

Important Fall Dates

September 21, 2008 - Pre State Fair Seminar-Tampa
October 11, 2008-4-H Roundup 9am to 12
October 4, 2008-Fat Steer Weigh in-8am to 10 am @ Santa Fe High School
October 4, 2008-Market Goat Tag in-8am to 10 am@ Santa Fe High School
October 17-26, 2008-Alachua county Fair
December 6, 2008-Swine Tag in-10am to 12 @ Santa Fe High School
December 6, 2008-Feeder Steer Weigh In-10am to 12 @ Santa Fe High School