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Saturday, July 27, 2013 – Daily News 5A Agriculture farm & ranch 100 years of California 4-H You are invited to help us There was a list of all the Celebrate "100 Years of 4-H Lassen County 4-H All in California!" read the invi- Stars, plus the Diamond tation. Stars from the county. Last Saturday I was at the The All Stars, past and Lassen County Fair, and present, led the flag salute, helped past and prethe 4-H pledge, sent 4-H members presented the and leaders share history of the day as a 4-H how4-H was member. started , and Two 4-H Leadthrough the ers were the Grand years. They Marshals of the Fair recognized Parade. I was in 4Assemblyman H with their late Brian Dahl, husbands, JD and and County Jerry. Both Fran Supervisor Hemphill and A a r o n Dolores Hemphill Albaugh who Jean have been leaders was a past 4-H for many years. At member from the celebration I the Providence heard Fran has led Club. Lake 4-H for 48 I was one of years. the older past members preLake 4-H members are sent, and was presented a still required to give demon- green 4-H T-shirt and pin strations, both locally and on commemorating 100 years the county level at Demon- of 4-H. stration Day. Marilyn, Linda Rosser My sister still tells about and I have fond memories of her youngest son who hated 4-H Camp on the eastern to give demonstrations as a shore of Lake Tahoe. We young 4-H member. He did spent our summers in it under protest, and as an Lassen County, and were Air Force Lt. Col. Jim gave able to join the ranch kids as presentations to the Gener- 4-H members in Lassen als in the Pentagon in Wash- County. ington, D.C. He had learned Our 4-H Camp included to speak in 4-H. members from Modoc, The exhibit room under Plumas and Lassen Counthe grandstand, between the ties. The Modoc school bus Indian Tacos and the Beer picked up the Lassen group Hall was dedicated to 4-H. with bedrolls, suitcases, There was a booth from paper bag lunch and we each 4-H Club in the county. were off. They called it Memory Each year we stopped at Lane on the History Wall, Bowers Mansion to eat our with pictures and clippings lunch, after singing every from newspapers over the song we knew enroute. It years. seemed forever climbing I had to laugh when I saw Spooners Summit, because the old show box, Marilyn the bus didn't have much and I used for our tack. Our horse-power back in the late father had made a wooden 1940s, early 1950s. box three or four foot across There was a campfire and about three foot tall. each evening with more Rope was the handles, and singing, and the daylight our names were in green hours were spent at the paint on the dirty white box. beach. Johnsons baby oil Barton Courtesy photo† A delicious chocolate and vanilla cake four by six feet with lemonade was served during the Lassen County celebration of 100 Years of 4-H in California! and iodine for a dark tan. Can't remember what we paid, but there was always someone with a Criss-Craft speed boat, and those with money enjoyed a boat ride or two during the week. In those days you could be a 4-H member until 21years, and since I was a college student I was invited to go with the chaperones to see Duke Ellington and his band in a dark, smoky room at State Line. Think it was an early Harrah's Club. Another memory of those 4-H days was the campout at Papoose Meadow and going swimming in Eagle Lake. The ranch kids would meet in Susanville with their horses and ride out to Papoose Meadow. It was a several hour horseback ride. Dad wouldn't let us ride horseback, so we had to ride with the adults that were the camp cooks. More camp- fires at night, and great fun for ranch kids. Another highlight of the year was the Lassen County Fair. It was always the end of August, and the end of our summer in the mountains. School started right after Labor Day, and the sheep returned to the valley to graze on the grain stubble. The cattle stayed longer on Bunnel Meadows and Eagle Lake. Marilyn had lambs, I had beef cattle and Linda had her horse. We stayed in the dorm on the fair grounds. Participated in the dress revue, and the exhibiting of our animals, riding the 4-H float in the parade, etc. Will always remember when J D Hemphill had the grand champion steer, and his mother Millie (another 4-H leader) called out "I'm proud of you, JD." I had a Hereford steer I called "Baby", and was so proud of him because he got a blue ribbon at the fair. Don't remember the price I received, but it was less than a dollar a pound. In order to get into the University of California system you had to demonstrate your ability in English so you didn't have to take remedial English in college, the dreaded Subject A. I wasn't Mrs. Brooks pet in senior English and received B's, since I lived in the country, not the city. When it came time to take the English test on the Chico State campus there was a requirement of writing an essay. My subject was my 4-H project, "Baby" and I remember telling how I used Halo shampoo to wash his hair. I passed the English test, and some of the A students had to take Subject A. During the years our daughters Linda and Kendra were in 4-H. They were also members of Lassen County during the summer months, and got to know the ranch kids by being members of Richmond 4-H. They couldn't sell steers in Lassen Co. but they could show commercial Hereford heifers (not registered) and their ranch horses in showmanship, conformation classes and in the county fair horse show. To win the Children's Mount class was the ultimate award, and the girls were close but not a winner on Frankie and Blue. They attended project tours, club meetings and had friends in Lassen County through 4-H. Darcy Hanson, 4-H representative and chairman of this event was a 4-H member showing beef cattle with Linda and Kendra. Susanville Supermarket IGA donated a chocolate and vanilla cake that was four feet by six feet. According to store manager Todd Eid the cake could feed 800 people. The cake was baked in nine full sheet cake pans and then transported to the judging pavilion where it was put together and decorated by Kailie Mossinger, who works in the bakery. It took one and a half hours for her to apply the frosting and decoration. It was a hot day at the fair, 98 degrees at 2:30 p.m. when our neighbor Wyatt Brown won the Top Hand award at the Lassen Co. Fair Ranch Rodeo. ***** Sampling of 60 craft beers and beef appetizers at the 4th annual Beef 'N Brew will start at 5 to 8 p.m., Sept. 21. Pre-sale tickets will be $15. Food rules proposed by FDA Court petition seeks EPA action WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances are that about 15 percent of the food you eat — more if your diet includes lots of fruits, vegetables and cheese — comes from abroad, and the government is taking steps now to make it safer. New rules proposed Friday by the Food and Drug Administration would make U.S. food importers responsible for ensuring that their suppliers are handling and processing food safely. Imported fruit and cheese has been responsible for many recent outbreaks, including 153 recent Hepatitis A illnesses linked to a frozen berry mix sold at Costco as well as four deaths last year that were linked to listeria in Italian cheese. Imported fruits or vegetables are also the top suspect in an ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal infection that has so far sickened 321 people in 13 states. Other illnesses in the last several years have been linked to imported papayas, mangoes and nuts and spices used as ingredients. An estimated 3,000 people die from food-related illnesses every year. The proposed rules, required by a sweeping food safety law passed by Congress in 2010, are meant to establish better checks on what long has been a scattershot effort to guard against unsafe food imported from more than 150 countries. Only around 2 percent of that food is inspected by the government at ports and borders. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Activists have filed another petition to force federal regulators to set safety standards that protect children from pesticides that drift from farm fields into nearby communities. 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