The Lucky Clover 4-H club held its monthly meeting Oct. 5 at the Grange Hall in Los Olivos.   Members may participate in the local club projects along with the countywide projects.

Countywide projects for the upcoming year include Animal Fostering, including becoming a first aid and CPR instructor for pets; Camp Wahoo!; Leadership; Citizenship; Dogs; Fishing; global positioning system and geographical information systems (GPS/GIS); Meet Your Wild Neighbor (shore birds and sea birds); porcelain doll crafts; and Santa Barbara County 4-H DOERS (Disaster Outreach and Emergency Response Supplies).  

 

Also, a new Rural Arts project in the Santa Ynez Valley was announced, which includes activities such as soap making, cheese and sausage making, and food preservation. 

Winners of the 2009 County Gold Seal for club record books were announced and include Madison Jones for the historian’s book and Clara Jones for the reporter’s book.

Club members were invited to participate in our annual Sees Candies sale fundraiser. Forms will be distributed at the next meeting.

 

Volunteers were requested to sign-up for the Los Olivos Day in the Country parade, Beef Play Day and Santa Ynez Presbyterian Church Pre-School Harvest Festival.

Paige Jensen gave a report on the Club’s annual participation in the Danish Days parade.

The club project leaders for beef, swine, poultry, scrapbooking, sheep and rabbits gave brief reports.

The next meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2 at the Grange Hall. For more information visit luckyclover4-h.org.