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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