LAMORINDA WEEKLY | Local Youth Celebrate National 4-H Week


Local youth show some of their 4-H work in honor of National 4-H Week. Photo provided

More than six million young people across the country will be celebrating National 4-H Week, which takes place annually during the first full week of October. Contra Costa County 4-H leverages National 4-H Week to celebrate the great things that the 4-H youth development program offers young people and highlights the incredible 4-H young people who each day work to a make a positive impact on their community.

The members of Lamorinda 4-H will be supporting National 4-H week by wearing their tee-shirts to school, hanging posters around town, sending pictures and updates to social media, and engaging others in dialogue about 4-H.

4-H is a nonprofit organization for 5-19 year old youth. Projects include sewing, cooking, rocketry, photography, market animals, poultry, vineyard, dogs, horses, shooting sports, and cake decorating, to name a few.

In Lamorinda, rabbits are one of the most popular areas of focus. Each spring, many boys and girls bring the rabbits they have raised and bred to the Contra Costa County Fair to compete in showmanship and Best of Breed events. A local youth said just this week about her experience in 4-H, "4-H has helped me become a better listener and reader. It has given me the courage to stand up for myself and participate in drama activities that I'm normally too shy to be in."

Lamorinda 4-H meets at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month at St. Perpetua School in Lafayette. For more information, or to become a member, please contact our local registrar, Lauren Cox, laureneecox@gmail.com.