Dear Plymouth County 4-H Families and Friends,
The Marshfield Fair is coming up fast and this is one of the best opportunities to showcase all the wonderful things that Plymouth County 4-H is a part of.
In addition to animal shows, demonstrations and 4-H Day, the Marshfield Fair serves as the major fundraising event for Plymouth County 4-H for the entire year. To go along with the money raised through the 4-H Water Booths, we also have a 4-H Auction during the Fair that will take place on Friday, August 24th at 6 PM.
In order to make this 4-H Auction the best yet, we need help from you! Please consider soliciting items for our 4-H Auction or if you own a business or could provide a service, please consider making a donation. We are looking for new items, gift certificates, event tickets, travel opportunities and anything else that would be a great auction item.
All money raised will go to support local 4-H programs throughout Plymouth County. This money helps support Visual Presentation Day, 4-H Awards Night, provides t-shirts for all members, scholarship opportunities and many more important programs through the year.
Following this email is a letter you may print and submit to a business to request a donation. 4-H Volunteer and Advisory Council Member, Jeanine Adams is organizing this year's auction and she would love to hear from you if you can help. Please contact Jeanine at emailjeanine@yahoo.com or contact the Plymouth County 4-H Office.
All items can be dropped off at the Plymouth County 4-H Office. Please help support this fundraising effort, all help will be greatly appreciated!
Following, is a letter you can use for the donations. Jeanine Adams has graciously volunteered her time to oversee this great event! Thank you Jeanine!
Also, we sell water every year in the 2 water booths at the Fair. This money goes towards your t shirts, awards night and other programs and benefits for your 4-H program. We need people to volunteer just 4 hours in the booth to sell the water. Grab a few club members and a parent or volunteer and have fun while helping 4-H. it s a great way to meet other 4-H members and families! Plus you get into the fair free that day!
Attached is a letter explaining the water booth. You can contact Marie Van Slyck to volunteer and for more information at meekvan@gmail.com. She has graciously volunteered her time to run this large undertaking! Thank you Marie and Pieter!
On another note- the storm last week did damage to the wiring at the office so we are down to one phone line 781-293-3542 for a little while and my bulk email server has been malfunctioning so if you have received duplicate notices about the Marshfield Fair I apologize. Email Molly at Mvollmer@umext.umass.edu or me here at acampora@umext.umass.edu until further notice as it is usually working. Thank you for your understanding.
Cathy Acampora
Plymouth County 4-H Administrative Assistant
P.O. Box 658, High Street, Hanson, MA 02341
781-293-3541 or 781-447-5946
4-H Youth & Family Development Program
July 16, 2012
Dear Plymouth County Businessperson,
Each year, thousands of families look forward to visiting the Marshfield Fair to participate in the activities, enjoy the entertainment, and expose their children to the agricultural and animal programs that are active locally. We hope you are as excited by the Marshfield Fair and think of the Fair as a "must do" summer fun activity.
As you may know, the 4-H livestock, poultry, rabbit, and dog exhibitions and shows are a large part of the daily Fair programs. The Fair, in conjunction with the Plymouth County Extension Office, sponsors exhibit space and animal shows for area 4-H youth to demonstrate what they have learned throughout the year and to raise awareness of the various 4-H programs within the community. At the end of the Fair, an awards ceremony is held for participants, parents, and Fair attendees to honor those prize-winning young people who have earned high placements at the shows and who have been distinguished for special awards.
The ever-increasing cost of sponsoring 4-H activities combined with dwindling state and county support has resulted in fewer opportunities and programs for the many deserving 4-H youth in Plymouth County. In an effort to offset the reduction in support, we will be holding an auction at the Fair at 6 pm on Friday, August 24th for the benefit of Plymouth County 4-H and 4-H programs at the Marshfield Fair. For this reason, we are reaching out to business owners in the area for some help with this fundraiser by donating tax deductible items, gift certificates, or services to be auctioned off at this event. Your generosity will be publicly acknowledged to those attending the auction – and we're expecting a big crowd! This is a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate your support of one of the few remaining agricultural fairs in the area, 4-H programs, and have a positive impact on local youth.
We hope that you will be able to help us out this year to insure that 4-H programs continue to be available for young people in Plymouth County at the Marshfield Fair and throughout the year. I welcome the opportunity to discuss sponsorship opportunities and ways you can offer your support. Please call me anytime at (781) 243-1556 or email me at "emailjeanine@yahoo.com". I plan to follow up with you within the next few days.
Thank you so much for helping us make this year's 4-H shows the best ever!
Sincerely,
Jeanine Adams
4-H Auction Coordinator
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Hope we can count on you this
MESSAGE FROM MARIE- WATER BOOTH
Hello, Fellow 4-H Volunteers-
Hope you are all enjoying all this heat! As usual, the summer brings the Fair season and an email from me begging for help to staff the 4-H water booths at the Fair.
For those of you who haven't been able to help out w/this fundraiser in the past or those of you who may be new leaders/volunteers, a little explanation is in order..... The Plymouth County 4-H Advisory Council helps to plan, organize, fund, and implement a number of important programs that benefit all youth (regardless of project area) in the Plymouth County 4-H Program. These include Recognition Night and Project Record Awards, Communications (VP) Day, and Club Exhibit Week and Celebration, to name a few. We also provide financial assistance to 4-H'ers in need of a little help to attend 4-H events, programs, or camps as well as an annual college scholarships.
For the past five years, we have sold bottled water at the Marshfield Fair and have successfully increased our earnings each year. Last year we raised $5,000! This year our goal is $5,500, so pls. keep your fingers crossed and pray for lots of hot sun and NO rain! Because the Fair gives us the booths/space free, we also sell Marshfield Fair souvenirs, and the proceeds from these sales are kept separate and given to the Fair management. We are fortunate again this year to have two booths from which we can sell water. We will have the same big booth as last year, across from the show ring office, plus another smaller one. The location of the second smaller booth is still undecided, but will be positioned to take advantage of heavy foot traffic near the 4-H area. So, once again, I am making my plea for volunteers. We need a lot of volunteers to cover all of the time slots of these two booths if we have a chance of meeting our goal this year.
The shifts will be four hours long - from noon to 4 p.m. and from 4-8 p.m. We will need at least one adult (leader or parent volunteer) at each booth during all shifts. The Fair dates are from 17-26 Aug 12. As you can imagine, this fundraiser requires a lot of man/woman hours, so we can use all the help we can get. We hope you will be able to help us in this effort by taking one or more shifts. It's okay if your club takes a 4-hour shift and splits it up into two 2-hour shifts as long as there is always an adult and at least two club members who are older/responsible enough to handle money and interact w/the public.
If you cannot cover a shift yourself, please pass this email along to a fellow volunteer or helpful 4-H parent who may not have received this email. Also, don't forget to announce this need for help at your next club meeting to try to recruit more parent volunteers . This is a great way for your club to conduct a community service activity while supporting the Plymouth County
4-H Program. Shifts will be assigned on a "first-come / first-served" basis, so pls. let me know the shift you are willing to take as soon as possible. As the schedule fills up, the time/date you want or need may not longer be available. I will do my best to accommodate everyone's schedule.
Thanks for taking the time to read this (too long!) email. Please help. I will be following up again within the next few weeks if I don't hear back from you. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at home in the evening at 781-934-6149 or leave me a message on my cell phone anytime, 617-842-5193. Things get a little crazy this time of year, so email is always the best way to reach me. Hope to hear from you very soon and to get the schedule filled up early this year!
Regards,
Marie Van Slyck, Treasurer
Plymouth County 4-H Advisory Council
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