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4-H Celebrating 100 Years; Special Event Next Saturday
March 21, 2009
Florida 4-H Youth Development is celebrating 100 years of teaching youth to become responsible citizens and community leaders with various activities throughout Florida. Escambia County invites the public to commemorate “Florida 4-H: A Century of Youth Success” at the Langley Bell 4-H Center, next Saturday, March 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Langley Bell 4-H Center, located at 4810 West Nine Mile Road, will host a Florida 4-H Centennial exhibit as well as 4-H Club and heritage arts displays in the auditorium. The annual Spring Livestock Show featuring preview and market steer, beef and dairy heifers, swine, meat goats, rabbits and chickens will be held outside.
There will also be face painting, moon walks, popcorn, cotton candy, a petting farm, games, the Perdido Creek Indian Traveling Museum and much more.
What began as a program to teach new farming techniques in corn and tomato clubs has become a community-based educational program. Projects range from aerospace and citizenship to horses and forestry. With more than 234,000 current members, Florida 4-H is the state’s largest non-formal youth development program and the largest youth organization in the world with over nine million members. A total of 6,226 youth, ages five through 18, are enrolled in the Escambia County 4-H Youth Program that helps youth cultivate leadership, citizen and life skills that benefit themselves and the communities where they live. The interdisciplinary curriculum serves as the foundation of the program and is applied at 4-H day camps, after-school programs, 4-H clubs, school settings and through partnership with various youth organizations.
Florida 4-H is the youth development program of the Florida Cooperative Extension Service (CES) headquartered in Gainesville within the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS). The CES is funded by a partnership between federal, state and county government agencies.
For more information about Escambia County 4-H, visit http://escambia.ifas.ufl.edu or call 475-5230.
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