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Many thanks to Charlotte Coffman, Kelly Radzick, Jennifer Jensen, Terri Lanterman, Chip Malone, Roxanne Dueppenguisser, Pat Hubbard and Vicki Fleming (who joined us by phone) and Kim Fleming for joining in the discussion and planning for our final Smith Lever funding year for the Resource Directory.  (For those who travelled in, please do submit your [...]

Are you tracking your steps? With all of our focus on step-counting this summer, we should all be on the road to modelling good healthy lifestyles .  For some good ideas on continuing this trend, you may want to take a peek at The Cornell Wellness Program’s website:  http://bigred2.athletics.cornell.edu/wellness/  The Wellness center often sponsors [...]

Lead. Belong. Serve. Excel. 4-H.  A new t-shirt, inspired by a group at STARR is available at:  http://www.adminders.com/?s=cce&c=11&p=665)Â
 Check it out!

How many of you read The Pickup?  Hmmm?  Certainly, an interesting read.Â
As you may have heard, we collectively distributed 10,000 copies of the the book – mostly to high schools.  The panel discussion is available on the web at: http://www.reading.cornell.edu/panel_discussions.htm.  We have received word that the Vice Provosts office has ordered DVDs of the discussion.  [...]

Please mark your calendars and spread the word.  Dates have been secured for the 4-H Career Explorations conference.  The 2008 dates are Tuesday – Thursday July 1-3.  The dates have been moved up into July due to the NYS Regents Exam dates.
A promotional flyer can be found on our Career Ex Web Page, http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/program/events/CareerEx.php…feel free [...]

Hope you saw all of the great news from the NYS Fair.
General updates:  http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/StateFairNews.php, animal show results http://www.nysfair.org/results, photos http://gallery.cce.cornell.edu/photos.php?g2_itemId=581143, and the 4-H Press Corps News http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/Documents/TheCloverConnectionCOMPLETE4.pdf.
Lots of good coverage focused on Choose Health:  http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=219654&SecID=33If you have any additional photos or stories – please do send them my way and we will post them.Â
If you [...]

The next NYSACCE4-HE catalog order deadline has been extended to October 22 – the time is now to order your shirts, rain gear, backpacks etc.Please go on-line to http://www.adminders.com/?s=cce&c=77 for current pricing and details.
You can email, call or fax your order to ADminders or place your order on-line.
Please go on-line to for current pricing and details.You can email, [...]

Choose Health made its debut at the New York State Fair as a campaign to help raise public awareness about childhood obesity. Learning to make choices is at the core of 4-H youth development’s basic values.  Health is, after all, the 4th H, following Head, Heart and Hands.Â
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At the State Fair, the following activities were [...]

National 4-H Week is intended to be the final hurrah for this year’s Give Change Make Change for Youth campaign, http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/givechange/index.htm.Â
Transmittals for your earnings can be found on: http://nys4h-staff.cce.cornell.edu/givechange/tips.htm
 Thanks for participating!

Thanks to Tyler MacIntosh and his Special Assignment while at the State Fair, the Youth CAN web page has a new look!  We’ve even got a Youth CAN blog where folks can share stories of youth action happening within communities. Take a tour and see what all the excitement is about!  Visit the NYS 4-H web [...]