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The youth in Douglas County are very busy this December working to help spread the holiday spirit. Two exceptional groups of 4-H kids have stepped up to truly help create a happier holiday season for someone else, with very little adult guidance. It is through these generous projects that they have also learned some essential life skills.
The first is the 4-H Teen Leadership Team, a group of high school students who come together to raise money to host events promoting the 4-H program in a fun way for their peers and participating in community service activities. Annually they raise over $300 to go shopping for gifts for our local Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Program during the holiday season.
In addition, they also decided this year to take on the task of decorating hundreds of cookies to distribute to local retirement homes. Oh, and they didn’t stop there! This same group of youth also attended the Seven Feathers Casino and Hotel Resort Festival of Trees as escorts for senior citizens.
The second group of youth, are sixth through 10th graders in a paper crafting club named Scrap-a-doodle-doo. This club won “The Spirit of 4-H Award” and was granted a $100 cash prize, which had been nominated based on their community service involvement for the 2006-2007 year. This club decided to use this award money to purchase materials and hand craft 567 holiday cards to deliver to residents of local retirement homes during the holidays.
Through all of these endeavors, the youth involved are learning the basic skills that 4-H works to instill. They are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills.
These kids are stepping up and volunteering as leaders to do something thoughtful for those in their community. They are being good citizens by donating their time, giving back to society and working to bring joy to someone else’s life. All of these tasks required a team of kids to work collectively to accomplish a goal and complete a major project.
These youth really understand what 4-H is all about. They have pledged to use their heads to clearer thinking, hearts to greater loyalty, hands to larger service and health to better living, for their club, community, country and world.
They have accomplished that and more through these projects. They have thought of compassionate ways they could come together to positively influence other peoples’ lives in the community.
The 4-H Teen Leadership Team has very high ambitions to continue to do acts of kindness in the community. You will have the chance to see these 4-H youth in action at the Celebration of Literacy at the Roseburg Valley Mall on Feb. 9.
To learn more about the 4-H program and these special groups of kids in the 4-H organization, please contact the Douglas County Oregon State University Extension Office at 672-4461.
<i>Megan Ruhn is the acting Extension 4-H Agent for OSU Extension Service in Douglas County. She can be reached by e-mail at megan.ruhn@oregonstate.edu or at 541-672-4461.</i>
The first is the 4-H Teen Leadership Team, a group of high school students who come together to raise money to host events promoting the 4-H program in a fun way for their peers and participating in community service activities. Annually they raise over $300 to go shopping for gifts for our local Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Program during the holiday season.
In addition, they also decided this year to take on the task of decorating hundreds of cookies to distribute to local retirement homes. Oh, and they didn’t stop there! This same group of youth also attended the Seven Feathers Casino and Hotel Resort Festival of Trees as escorts for senior citizens.
The second group of youth, are sixth through 10th graders in a paper crafting club named Scrap-a-doodle-doo. This club won “The Spirit of 4-H Award” and was granted a $100 cash prize, which had been nominated based on their community service involvement for the 2006-2007 year. This club decided to use this award money to purchase materials and hand craft 567 holiday cards to deliver to residents of local retirement homes during the holidays.
Through all of these endeavors, the youth involved are learning the basic skills that 4-H works to instill. They are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills.
These kids are stepping up and volunteering as leaders to do something thoughtful for those in their community. They are being good citizens by donating their time, giving back to society and working to bring joy to someone else’s life. All of these tasks required a team of kids to work collectively to accomplish a goal and complete a major project.
These youth really understand what 4-H is all about. They have pledged to use their heads to clearer thinking, hearts to greater loyalty, hands to larger service and health to better living, for their club, community, country and world.
They have accomplished that and more through these projects. They have thought of compassionate ways they could come together to positively influence other peoples’ lives in the community.
The 4-H Teen Leadership Team has very high ambitions to continue to do acts of kindness in the community. You will have the chance to see these 4-H youth in action at the Celebration of Literacy at the Roseburg Valley Mall on Feb. 9.
To learn more about the 4-H program and these special groups of kids in the 4-H organization, please contact the Douglas County Oregon State University Extension Office at 672-4461.
<i>Megan Ruhn is the acting Extension 4-H Agent for OSU Extension Service in Douglas County. She can be reached by e-mail at megan.ruhn@oregonstate.edu or at 541-672-4461.</i>
