North Carolina 4-H Camp Update

NC 4-H Camps & Centers Winter News December 2019 - February 2020

Happy Holidays! On behalf of our North Carolina 4-H Camps & Centers team, we wish you and yours a happy holiday season!  We hope you find time to relax, unwind, and enjoy time with family and friends over the holidays.  Thank you for your support in 2019!  We look forward to seeing you at camp again in 2020. Congratulations and Farewell! We are sad to say farewell to two of our Eastern 4-H Center team members. Terri Spear, who has kept our facilities looking beautiful as our Building Environmental Services Technician over the past fourteen years, is retiring before the holidays. Terri has worked tirelessly to keep our facilities neat and clean. Please help us congratulate Terri on her retirement and wish her well as she begins a new chapter in her life! Emily Kirkman Hodges, who has provided exceptional service as our Guest Services Coordinator over the past five years, has accepted a new position as the new Tyrrell County Board of Elections Director. Emily stated, "I know that without the skills and knowledge that I have obtained here at the Eastern Center, with and from you all, I would not have been awarded this move forward in my career so I thank you from the bottom of my heart." Please help us congratulate Emily and wish her well in her new role! NC 4-H Camps Scenic Calendar We are thrilled to have designed, produced, and printed 2,500 NC 4-H Camps & Centers scenic calendars for limited distribution.  Each camp has a limited number of calendars that will be distributed to camper parents, partners, and/or stakeholders. In addition, calendars were provided to attendees at the 2019 State Extension Conference, as well as a few at the 2019 N.C. State Fair. Special thanks to Tabitha and Angela in our State 4-H Office for their work on these scenic calendars! More Camp Brochures Available We have printed more of our Discover Your Way camp brochures to promote our NC 4-H Camps & Centers. Click on the link below for a PDF copy of our new camp brochure. If you would like a stack of new glossy camp brochures for your County Extension Office, please contact our State 4-H Camps Office and we will send them via mail. Click here for the camp brochure » New Promotional Toolkit Coming Soon Our State 4-H Camps and Centers team is creating a new promotional toolkit to help Agents recruit and promote 2020 4-H summer camp, which will be available soon. Look for a link to the new promotional toolkit soon. Campership Funding Pending Availability in 2020 We are working closely with our National 4-H Council and our NC 4-H Development Fund Team on funding to provide camperships to deserving youth in 2020. National 4-H Council has indicated that they might have available grant funding to provide camp scholarships to youth from vulnerable populations like they did in 2019.  However, nothing has been confirmed at this point, but we will provide further updates as they become available. We do have internal funding available within our camp endowment income account that we plan to make available with or without a grant from National 4-H Council. We will advise on how much and the process to apply as we make that determination. Connect With Us On Social Media Facebook YouTube Events FEB 15 $50 Deposit Per Camper Invoiced FEB 28-29 MAR 1 40th Annual Dixie Deer Classic @ NC State Fairgrounds APR 19 Spring Open House @ Eastern 4-H Center MAY 2 On the Dock of the Bay @ Eastern 4-H Center Job Opportunities Part-Time Temporary Outdoor Instructor @ Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Center Part-Time Temporary Program Staff @ Eastern 4-H Center

NC State University and N.C. A&T State University work in tandem, along with federal, state and local governments, to form a strategic partnership called N.C. Cooperative Extension. Extension's 4-H program is the largest youth development organization in North Carolina. We help over 247,000 young people grow into active, contributing citizens each year. Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by January 1, 2020 to Dave Herpy, NC 4-H Camping Specialist @ (919) 515-8483 or via email djherpy@ncsu.edu.