Oak Town 4-H Families, our December CLub Holiday Party is just DAYS AWAY! Are you ready? We have several community service activities, at and beyond the party as well as a club fund-raising silent auction and a buffet of food to share. YOUR participation in some of these things will count as points towards YOUR Club House. These include:

• Sign up to help Saturday, December 10th at 9 am at Davis Street Community Center (3081 Teagarden St, San Leandro, CA 94577) packing food boxes and sorting holiday toys. Counts as a club Community Service also
• Sign up for the Adopt-a-Family. Each Club House has been assigned one of the four kids. Sign up, then buy and bring the item to the Party 12/12 to wrap and donate. If there are no slots left for your Club Houses sponsored child, sign up for something for the grandmother or the dad. Donating as well as wrapping the gifts also count as club Community Service. Note: if you belong to the "Head" Club House (Carmen, Anabel, Josie, Naia, Julianna, Rylee, Nyla, Marcus, Katalina, Chloe), your team desperately needs help filling 10 year old Lauren's wish list. Not in Head Club House and your house's sponsored child has a full list? Donate an item to one of the parental units (Grandmother Barbara or Dad Steve) wish lists.
• Sign up to donate some of the toiletry items for the Holiday Compassion Stockings. Then bring the supplies to the Club Party 12/12/22 and help stuff a stocking with the supplies ad a few holiday treats. Take the stocking hole to give away on your own to a person in need or leave with the Community Service team to give away.
• Attend the Club Holiday Party!~
• Participate in the Ugly Sweater contest.  (including those judging if they wear an appropriate sweater)- Wear a festive holiday sweater to the Club Party 12/12/22, check off that you are participating when you check in and see if you are one of the 5 Ugly Sweater Contest winners!
• Participate in the Club Bingo and get a point for your club while you meet and greet new and returning club members. Prizes will also be given out for those that complete 5 in a row!

Additionally your family can help by signing up to

• bring side dishes, salads and DESSERTS to the party!
• donate an item to our Club's fund-raising Silent Auction

Our October Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting on October 17th will begin with a Trunk-or-Treat in the upper parking lot at Dimond Recreation Center.
We are asking families to participate by decorating their trunk or hatchback in some Halloween/Fall/Dias De los Muertos manner, provide a very simple activity or game kids can do to win treats or small prizes. Member families are providing their vehicle, decked out with decorations, game/activity and individual wrapped candy or inexpensive prizes. Participate and be a part of the fun!
General Guidelines

• Set up for participating vehicles: 6pm
• Trunk-or-Treat open 6:15-6:50
• all candy/treats must be individually wrapped and handed out by one teen/adult per vehicle. 
• Trunk-or-Treat concludes at 6:50 with a costume parade down into Dimond Recreation Center for a Costume Contest
• Prizes will be awarded for the costumes that are the
  

1. ​​Funniest
2. Farm Themed
   
3. Best Group
   
4. Scariest
   
5. Most Artistic
   
6. Cutest
   
7. Best Homemade
   
8. Most Realistic
   

Date: 10/17/2022 (Mon.)

Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT

Location: Dimond Recreation Center Upper Parking Lot

​Hello All! So happy to see you in this new year, and can't wait to meet the newcomers! Some order of business for the upcoming Community service year is; A NEW PARK CLEAN UP TIME!! Now, instead of the Sunday before... It's only 45 minutes before the meeting starts! Now you can come a little early and help your club out. We would love to see you there! 

Hope you have had a great break! 
 - Mira. Community Service Officer

·   Where: Dimond Park "Dimond Grove" picnic area, near "tot lot" 
·   When: Monday, September 12, 2022 6:00-7:30 pm
Dimond Picnic Grove*
    What: 
General Oak Town 4-H Club Meeting for YOUTH
Meeting organized and led by Youth Officers
Games & Activities
Dinner (sandwich OR dinner salad, fruit, chips and cookie) will be provided. PLEASE bring your water bottle
Business Meeting led my youth Club Officers
Meet Project Leaders and learn about the Projects they are offering, what it involves and if any dates for meetings have been set up
Parent Q&A opportunity
*Slight time adjustment in September to allow for outdoor meeting


OCTOBER MEETING:      
o   Monday, October 17, 2022, 6:15-7:45 PM  Dimond Recreation Center
o   Continuing every 2nd Monday through May*

With the California State 4-H Office's restrictions on 4-H meetings being held indoors, Oak Town 4-H is planning a virtual meeting again this month. Unlike the rapid turnaround time for the change in format in January, the officer team is planning several hands-on, collaborative activities and "shared snacks". This will mean that members will all have meeting supply packets to pick up before the club meeting Monday, February 14th on Zoom. Packets will likely be available for pick up Sunday, 2/13/22 from 10-6pm and Monday, the 14th from 8-5pm. 

While you are picking up your meeting supply packet(s), take this opportunity to drop off any children's books that can be used to restock the Little free Library at Dimond Recreation Center. Be sure to indicate the family name of the donor so the member's 4-H Club House can be credit4ed!

More information on the meeting agenda, pick-up packets and links will be coming soon.

​WE ARE HOPEFUL WITH THE COMING CHANGE IN DAYLIGHT HOURS THAT WE CAN RETURN TO IN-PERSON, IF OUTDOOR, MEETINGS IN MARCH.

After discussion with the executive officer team and club leaders, we've decided to have the January club meeting be virtual due to the rise in Omicron variant transmission in the community right now. We are hoping this latest surge will be over for us to meet in person again in February.

Zoom meeting information has been added to the club calendar.

PLEASE NOTE: Parents, please also attend so club leaders can share Presentation Day information with you while the kids are learning about it in their club houses.

Thank you!

January 2022 Club Meeting
Monday, January 10, 2022, 6:15 pm on ZOOM
Meeting Agenda:
Virtual "Brown Bag Skits" with participation and Presentation credit for all members!
4-H Presentation Information
Upcoming Events

Due to the last-minute decision to pivot this meeting to a virtual platform, no meeting refreshments will be provided.