Castle Country Radio was fortunate to have officials from the Carbon and Emery County 4-H Programs come in to the station to talk about all the fun events and activities that are taking place. Currently, during the month of September, the 4-H Program is offering a discount on their membership fee.
“The 4-H membership is usually $10.00 but through September both counties are going to offer it for $5.00 and its an incentive to get you up and going so we can get you in clubs. But also, there’s a brand-new website that we’re really excited, that’s so much easier, and friendly to navigate to sign up for clubs and to be volunteers,” said 4-H Coordinator, DeLayna Barr. The new online registration can be accessed by visiting https://4h.zsuite.org/ If you’ve been a 4-H member or volunteer before your information should have transferred over to the new system.
Extension Assistant Professor, Rowe Zwahlen from Emery County explains the different clubs that will be offered in that area, “Things that we have going on, or will be starting soon we have a photography club that is doing some really great things, cooking, sewing, quilting, we do a gardening club, we have arts and crafts, science, and technology.” In the spring time they will have the golf club, Junior Entrepreneurs, and livestock programs available for the youth to participate in.
As for the events taking place in Carbon County things kick off with a Family Fun Night. “Coming up if our Family Fun Night, that kind of is our awards night and that September 24 at the event center, and it’s a free event. If you’re just curious about 4-H come, we’re having pizza, we’re blasting off rockets, we’re going to do a lot of great things. So that’s a great way to be introduced and we can answer all your questions,” said Barr. The Carbon County Event Center is located at 450 South Fairgrounds Way in Price.
Carbon 4-H offers many fun clubs which are available for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students. “So we got Clover Buds that just started and that’s for K through second grade, and then we are going to start Discover 4-H Clubs for third, fourth, fifth graders, and a sixth-grade club that’s going to be lots of fun, and a Junior Teen Council that’s seventh and eighth grade, and a Senior Teen Council that is ninth through twelfth,” said Barr. Another volunteer ran clubs that will be taking place is an animal adventure club, and new this year will be a Junior Entrepreneurs Club.
To learn more about the clubs visit the Carbon and Emery County 4-H Club Facebook pages. Further information can be found by calling the USU Extension Office in Carbon County at (435) 636-3233 or the USU Extension Office in Emery County (435) 381-3538.