Information for Clubs
Washington State Community Pride
Award.
One of our Clubs...the "CultivatingCommunity 4-H Club"...which
inlcudes a majority of youth from our Slavic Community won the Washington
State Community Pride Award. Their award winning program started as a gardening
project connecting very "Americanized" Slavic youth with their "Old
County" grandparents who, though living in Spokane, hold to their
primary cultural heritage brought with them from the Ukraine and Russia.
The connections that grew during the 2007 year as the youth and seniors
worked in the gardens resulted in a marvelous "Harvest Festival" last
fall. Three
of the club members and the primary leader, Tatyana
Bistrevsky are part of our KYG delegation. This
is a convenient coincidence, since the award is officially granted at the KYG
Legislative Breakfast! This
is the first time that a Spokane County
4-H Club has won the state award. Congratulations to the Cultivating
Community
4-H Club!
Toxic
Blue Green Algae
In case you see this from another group, I wanted to give
some more local information.
Here is a brochure published by the Washington State Dept
of Health on this problem: http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/oehas/publications_pdf/algae.pdf.
King County health dept monitors Lakes Washington, Sammamish
and Union for this bacteria. There was a major bloom on Lake Sammamish
in 1997 and one in 2004 on a lake in Kitsap County. It sounds like local
health departments look for this, but I would be particularly
wary of smaller lakes in particular.
What is 4-H Pet Pals?
4-H PetPALS is an intergenerational program linking young
people and their pets with senior adults. 4-H volunteers
teach youth the skills needed to interact with residents in healthcare
facilities, such as assisted living facilities and nursing home facilities,
enhancing intergenerational relationships. Youth learn about the physical
changes associated with aging, as well as medical conditions they may
encounter while visiting. Applying the power of the human-animal bond,
youths learn to train and prepare their pets so the youth-pet teams
can participate in animal assisted activities. Young people learn about
animal behavior, animal handling techniques and proper pet care.If
you would like to be a part of this worthy project, please contact
Amy at 447-2166 or aobringer@spokanecounty.org. She will keep you up-to-date
on plans for this project to begin in Spokane County.
Simple Act of Resiliciency
A simple activity for your club or project meeting, created
by Susan Kerr from Klickitat County. Every time there's a
ball display in a store it seems to be a magnet for kids.
One of the youth in your club could lead this activity - the instructions
are well written. Have fun!
Click here for the instruction page.
Source of 4-H Information Nationally
The National 4-H newsletter is now a blog and available to
all - take a moment to subscribe yourself to Clover Corner
News, 4-H's national online newsletter at http://www.4hblogs.org/ccn.
A
message about Pandemic & Avian (Bird) Influenza
from the Regional Health District
If you have watched the news lately, you know that nations worldwide
are becoming alarmed at the spread of avian influenza and
its link to recent human deaths in Asia, Turkey and Iraq.
If the avian influenza virus mutates to spread easily from
human to human, we would likely experience an influenza pandemic;
all sectors of our Spokane community would be affected. These concerns
have led health officials to recommend that all communities begin planning
in order to minimize the impact. The Spokane Regional Health
District takes our responsibility to protect the health of the citizens
of Spokane County very seriously. Organizationally, we have been preparing
for several months. We need your involvement in readying yourself and your
family now for the possibility of an influenza pandemic or other health
emergencies. Our pandemic influenza preparedness team at the Health District
has developed a web site to help our community begin to understand and
plan for the issues we would face if pandemic influenza strikes. Please
visit the web site at http://www.srhd.org/health/disease/pandemic.asp .
Thank you for helping to protect Spokane by learning all
that you can about pandemic influenza and emergency preparedness.
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