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Warm Springs, Oregon
October 26, 1995 9
Arlene Boileau Bob Pawelek Clint Jacks
4-H& Youth Livestock Staff Chair, Madras
Norma Simpson Sue Ryan
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(503) 553-3238
Home Economics 4-H Assistant
The Oregon State University Extension Service staff is devoted to extending research-based information from OSU to the
people of Warm Springs in agriculture, home economics, 4-H youth, forestry, community development, energy and extension
sea grant program with OSU, United States Department of Agriculture, Jefferson County and the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs cooperating. The Exension Service offers its programs and materials equally to all people.
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Advice concerning 4-H clubs, life presented
by Sue Ryan
4-H Program Assistant
(and adapted from O.S.U. publication
4-H 0273L & 4-H 0242L)
It's time for the third letter in our series
of "Letters to Leaders"-"Planning and
conducting 4-H club meetings". Some of
these tips may be helpful even if you're not
involved with 4-H. Meetings can seem to
be a way of life at times.
So, where should you start? Setting
goals with your 4-H club. It's helpful for
you together with your 4-H members to set
a few basic goals for your club 's first year.
(Not too many of you may get discour
aged!) Encourage 4-H members to set per
sonal goals. You will want to do this for
yourself also. You've heard the saying,
"How do you know if you've gotten there
Hospital to feature
items from around the world
if you don't know where you're going ?"
Planning a yearly 4-H club calendar.
As soon as goals have been selected by
your club, it is really helpful to plan a
yearly calendar of activities. Be sure to in
volve your 4-H members and their parents
in developing this plan.
Club officers and committees. Election
of officers gives the members an opportu
nity to develop leadership skills and re
sponsibility. Suggested 4-H club officers
are: President Vice-president ""Secretary
Treasurer CIub reporter. If your club de
cides it is necessary to have a fundraising
activity to establish a treasury, be sure to
check with your county office of the OSU
Extension Service about guidelines and
policies.
Possible agenda items for a 4-H club
meeting Keep in mind that these are just
suggestions for a meeting. Meetings should
be flexible. Not every meeting has to in
clude all five parts or these parts in order.
Part 1. Opening-5 to 10 minutes. This is
often helpful to set a mood of relative quiet
for the rest of the meeting. Part 2. Busi
ness session-5 to 10 minutes (not neces
sary at every meeting). Have a business
session only when you have definite busi
ness to discuss. Part 3. Project work-20
minutes to one or more hours. This is the
real heart of most 4-H meetings. Project
work may include any of the following:
4-H presentation Judging or identifica
tion sessions Guest speakers Tours
Community service activities Visual aid
materials-film, slides, etc. Supervised
work on a project Reinforce
"museum" of household
recordkeeping. Part 4. Recreation-10 to
15 minutes.
Some leaders schedule recreational ac
tivities while waiting for all members to
arrive; others prefer having this at the end
of the meeting. Remember that simple ac
tion games use up excess energy and can
teach information or skills. Part 5. Re
freshments Once again, it is up to you. If
your meeting is right after school, you may
want to start with a snack. A Saturday
morning meeting might end with refresh
ments. Some meetings may not need them.
Some clubs prefer to alternate business
meetings with project meetings, or simply
to have short informal business sessions at
some point during a project meeting. You
might consider trying out a variety of meth
ods to determine which works best with
your age group, the size of your club, and
your project area.
Your club meeting is the setting for
much of the members' learning in 4-H. It
is also the place where you have the most
influence on club members. 4-H meetings
help members to: ""maintain fellowship.
gain self-confidence in speaking before a
group. learn group decision-making.
serve as an officer, ""perform project
skills, ""work toward group goals, ""conduct
business meetings. To provide its members
with these experiences, a 4-H club needs
thoughtful and capable leaders who can
provide effective organization, carefully ,
planned programs, and effective teaching.
The most successful 4-H clubs also have
the active support and interest of the
member's parents.
4-H clubs 'child-centered', helping
with goals, guidance, growth
The Child-Centered Approach to 4-H
(publication 4-H 0242L)
The child-centered approach applies to
all aspects of the 4-H program and means
the focus is on the interest and needs of
the youth. In the child-centered approach
members set their own goals, carry out their
plans, and assess progress towards reach
ing their goals. This develops with help,
guidance, understanding, encouragement,
and recognition from parents and leaders.
This docs not mean that children do what
ever they want. This approach applies to
general club rules as well as project and
activity plans involving the 4-H'ers. 4-H
is a youth program with guidance given by
adults. The child-centered approach en
courages the child's natural curiosity, en
thusiasm, inquisitiveness, energy, and will
ingness to do the tasks. It is helpful for
parents and leaders to consider individual
needs and desires of youth. To do this they
must listen to what youth are saying; or see
things as a child sees them. It is important
to provide a chance for members to be in
volved in doing something. Your role is to
help youth decide what is reasonable and
make them feel wanted and respected by
accepting people for waht they are, rather
than what you expect them to be. Members
need and want to be involved in deciding
individual and group goals. In this way
members become resources to themselves,
others and the 4-H program rather than
being only recipients of the program. As
you guide youth, consider these character
istics. Grade school children They are
often interested in more than they can ac
tually do. You may need to help them see
what is realistic for them to complete.
Younger 4H'ers often have short interest
spans, so help these children choose a
project where they can do several short
term assignments instead of a yearlong
task. Younger 4-H members like to be
active and do things, so guide them into a
project that lends itself to doing things in
stead of a studying project. Members of
this age group often like to do things with
friends (girls with girls.boys with boys), so
encourage several youth to take the same
project. In this way, they have some group
involvement as opposed to working alone.
Junior high youth They are beginning
to test their independence and, with guid
ance, are able to make more decisions on
their own. The group is extremely im
portant and individuals want to be accepted
by their peers. Experiences must be
meaningful to youth for them to be in
volved. They are continuing to develop
some of their own values. Junior high
youth are becoming interested in the op
posite sex and tend to have friends of both
sexes. Senior high youth They have a
greater attention span for things they are
interested in and want to perfect their skills
and abilities. They are making important
decisions and choices that will affect fu
ture careers, possible marriage and family
life, and have a need to experience respon
sibility and leadership roles to develop decision-making
abilities. They are becom
ing more individualistic and less concerned
with group thoughts and actions. They
are moving toward a true sense of indepen
dence and are developing confidence in
their ability to become adults.
by Norma L. Simpson
During the next two months, you will
have something new to look at in the Moun
tain View Hospital. Mary Wymore of the
Hospitals Administrative team heard that I
have lots of "museum" pieces about every
day life of the countries that I had lived in.
She requested that I pick a theme, so I se
lected Household Items from Around the
World.
Some items we have already used for
programs in Warm Springs, but this is the
first time I have had a place to leave an
exhibit for any length of time. After Mary
and I completed the display, I decided to
prepare a sheet of explanations of the items
in the case, more than we could put on the
little cards in the display.
Most of the items come from Peru, Ni
geria, Paraguay and Papua New Guinea,
though I have worked for short periods of
time in seven other countries. The items
displayed have to deal with food. October
is World Food Day, So my emphasis will
go from food production and collection to
food preparation equipment, then to other
household items such as toys, tools for ap
plying makeup and decorative baskets and
trays.
People the world over are very ingenious
about creating things to serve everyday
needs. The flour sifter is made from a cus
tard powder tin, in American that means a
can of pudding powder mix. The toy iron
made to resemble the charcoal iron is made
from a beer can. The make-up case and
brush, covered with hide, is made from a
cows tail.
In traditional rural settings police are
scarce, so very home has a Food God to
watch over their food and other posses
sions. I hang it in my kitchen, though you
will see it in the display with string bags
called "biliums" which are the traditional
food storage way in longhouses of a clan.
One lady liked the idea from Peru, where
the bright yellow enamel lunch pail takes
hot food from the cafe to the home (or from
home to work) so that the working women
did not have to rush home and prepare a
four course hot meal. A young boy came
to the house to learn the number of serv
ings that were needed for each course and
when we wanted the meal. Food was de
livered hot in the pail, but could be reheated
in the enamil pans before serving, if people
showed up late for dinner.
The mortar and pestle used to pound
grain, beans and yams has a rough inge
nious treatment of the pestle I had to tape
a cloth over the slivers. The wood of the
tropics has dried so much in our dry cli
mate that enormous slivers have lifted
where you hands go. It doesn't look pretty,
but it is functional.
In the display case, you will see a page
in a cook book from Papua New Guinea
what shows the Lotus Lilies which provide
a seed like the "Woka" delicacie from the
lakes and ponds of Klamath County.
Conference highlights strengths, weaknesses
Stockman's Round Up Tractors cain't swim
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by Bob Pavelek
OSU Livestock Agent
Whenever I become engulfed in reports,
staff meetings, phone calls, and impact
statements, I take a deep breath and try to
reach back in my memory to a rusted tin
sign hanging crookedly from a single nail
on a timber in my Grandfather's corn shed.
It read,
"In life, all a man
needs is a good dog,
enough to eat
and a mule."
Recalling those growing up years, it
never occurred to me that Old Granddad
had his choice of a good string of horses.
But unless he was sorting calves, he always
chose a mule to ride. He had his own string
of mules to match anyone around, and was
indeed proud of them. "A mule was good
enough for George Washington," he would
say.
The mules around our place could work
circles around any draft horse, especially
in hot and humid South Texas. They didn't
really need a regular diet of oats, and got
by just fine on turnip tops, corn stalks, and
range grass. A mule could work inside a
barn or in thick mesquite brush by lower
ing his head when his ears touched a board
or a branch. A horse in the same situation
would usually throw his head upward and
wind up hurting himself. The mules could
pull heavy loads of muddy silt up out of
the stock ponds, and had the heart and wind
to work all day.
Some other advantages those mules had
over horses are that they generally worked
prickly pear thickets with ease, whereas the
horses would find every single rattlesnake
hole in the pasture with their feet. I recall
many times pulling thorns from the horses'
legs, but never from the mules'.
We had quite a few of what we called
"cotton mules" around the place, and as the
name implied, these critters were used
strictly in the cotton fields. The cotton
mules were not to be ridden, although my
brother and I never passed an opportunity
to climb up on the back of an older mare
named Kate. She was the least apt to kick
or bite, but she in turn rarely passed the
opportunity to buck and snort. Granddad
would catch us in the act at times, "Leave
dem dam mules alone!" he would say. But
I'm pretty sure he enjoyed the rodeos we
had, at least without our knowing. I would
like to think old Kate looked forward to
the attention, too.
Along about the time the Eagle landed
on the moon, Granddad bowed to modern
technology and bought a 12-year-old Ford
tractor. Most of the string went to auction
and Kate went with them. It took a while
for me to get over that. He did hold on to a
draft mule, though a mare mule named
Annie. He probably named her after the
cantankerous old widow down the county
road. "Dem dam tractors can't swim," he
would say.
by Norma L. Simpson
The conference ended by a speaker ask
ing how many men were recovering alco
holics, and about 65 men raised their hands.
Several men, young and older, had spoken
before the participants about the wonder
ful feeling of being in recovery and the
importance of spirituality to reach that
stage of contentment. Several found their
talents had been allowed to bloom, and
their lives restored even though they had
already lost their wires, children, jobs and
.friends. Becoming. a WELL MAN IS A
WONDERFUL FEELING, striving as best
we can to be, what teams described as char
acteristics of a well man.
Teams of the conference were assigned
into groups when they registered Bears,
Cats, CowsBulls, Dogs and Ducks. With
eyes closed, each participant searched for
groups by the sound of the animal voices.
No matter how silly it looked and sounded,
It Was Fun. We not only broke the invis
ible bubble we live in, isolating us from
each other, but we formed new bonds to
strangers. Sometimes our values clashed,
and we learned new ways to express our
frustrations and concerns about dysfunc
tional families and the goals for a Well
Man. Each group talked about men need
ing a balance between Spiritual, Mental,
Physical, and Emotional parts of life,
though expressed differently.
When you are in balance or harmony
you can develop into a Well Man. One
group said it was possible only when you
throw away the outer layer of hate, anger,
shame, distrust, jealousy, pain, abuse and
rejection. This is like the outer ring of an
onion. Inside are many layers that lead you
to become a Well Man. ..to become a leader.
Young boys, released from high school
to attend the conference, heard that there
is no special time when you go from being
a participant to being a leader. It is a con
tinual process, and you can begin right now.
The boys heard men, not much older than
themselves, talk about searching for the
spiritual way that has most meaning to you.
The young men realized that they had not
yet been searching for the spiritual connec
tions that they must have to become men.
One woman participant commented that
"it is important that spouses must not with
hold affections from their husbands. ..It is
very damaging to his male esteem." Then
a man responded that it is equally impor
tant for a WELL MAN to act responsibly
in sexual matters. A young couple in front
of me agreed. Then the woman said, "I
don't want the men to get the idea that we
are subservient to men." And one man said
"We often treat our women as
servants does that make us a man?"
When asked about the role of women,
there was silence. "Creative Avoidance, a
skill of the alcoholic" one man said. The
entire Gathering of Men brain-stormed a
list of roles of women: "Giver of life, love,
contentment, care-giverhealer, listener,
reader of body language, educator, role
model, and often providersupporter." And
for men? The list was the same though
some said warrior, leader, and protector, not
on the women's list.
We'll see a complete list of goals and
roles of a Well Man in this issue when the
dedicated conference planners report the
combined thoughts of the groups and par
ticipants. Between sessions of the Men's Wellness
conference, I also attended a soup-lunch
WIC training meeting at the Wellness Cen
ter. After being in the "Duck Family" at the
Men's conference, I was struck with the
similar use of words in our group to words
on a handout at the WIC training about self
esteem of children. The "52 Virtues of the
Week" would make a great poster for your
refrigerator door. Cut it out, color it and
hang it on the door or side. Or maybe you
could put it on your closet bedroom door
to remind you each day to try these virtues
with your family members. ...spouse, kids,
in-laws and friends. These are positive
steps to healthy children, strong families
and Well Men.
Source of "52 Virtues" from Virtues
Project Inc. Canadian Headquarters, 192
Sun Eagle Drive, RR1 Ganges, BC, Canada
VOS 160 and WELLSPRING INTERNA
TIONAL Educational Foundation.
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52 Virtues of the Week
Assertiveness Kindness
Caring Love
Cleanliness Loyalty
Compassion Mercy
Confidence Moderation
Consideration Modesty
Courage Obedience
Courtesy Orderliness
Creativity Patience
Detachment Peacefulness
Determination Prayerfulness
Enthusiasm Purposefulness
Excellence Reliability
Faithfulness Respect
Flexibility Responsibility
Forgiveness Reverence
Friendliness Self-Discipline
Generosity Service
Gentleness Steadfastness
Helpfulness Tact
Honesty Thankfulness
Honor Tolerance
Humility Trust
Idealism Trustworthiness
Joyfulness Truthfulness
Justice Unity
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Pumpkin Seed Snack Combo-
34 cup fresh pumpkin seeds
6 Tablespoons butter or
margarine
4 teaspoons Worcestershire
sauce
1 teaspoon seasoning salt
2 cups fried noodles
1 cup bite-size toasted wheat
cereal
13 cups bite-size toasted rice
cereal
34 cups salted peanuts
12 cup raisins, if desired
Wash pumpkin seeds and blot dry with
paper towels. Spread seeds in jelly roll
pan and bake 5 minutes at 275'F. to dry.
Remove seeds from pan and set aside.
Melt butter in same pan; combine with
Worcestershire sauce and seasoning salt.
Add baked seeds, cereals, fried noodles,
peanuts, stirring to coat. Bake 40 minutes
at 275'F. stirring several times. Cool Mix
ture on paper towels. Store in airtight con
tainer. Add raisins just before serving to
preserve crispness of mixture. Makes
about 7 cups.
From Home Made Pasta booklet from
Oregon Wheat Commission
Sweatshirts, towels and
more are waiting at the
O.S.U. Extension
office!!! These items
were left behind at the
1995 4-H Wilderness
camp session. Come
on in to claim them if
you are missing
anything.