Welcome to Corbett Cares!
Welcome to Corbett Cares 4-H Club! Corbett Cares 4-H Club focuses on learning and teaching sustainability topics as well as performing related community service projects. The hope for this site is to be a place to share what we are doing with our club, our community, our country and our world! If you would like to add our web site to your...
Non-Toxi Clean
Windows get dirty, but you don’t need to reach for chemical cleaners to return them to a sparkling shine. Use natural, nontoxic ingredients such as vinegar, baking soda and lemon juice to clean and polish windows. Chemical window-cleaning agents contribute to environmental damage and can contribute to indoor air pollution. Under the...
Operation Lid Collection
You all probably already know that some plastics can be recycled. But some types of plastic are not as easy to recycle and are usually thrown away. For example, most single use plastic bottles ( like water, juice, milk and soda ) can be recycled but the bottle caps are a different kind of plastic, RIGID PLASTIC, and are usually just thrown...
Cool Stuff
Our club performs community service projects that each member of our club comes up with. One recent community service idea was brought to us by Isabel. Her idea was to collect blankets for the Multnomah County Animal Shelter. Many of these animals would otherwise be on wire floors or cold cement. If you would like to learn more about our...
About
Our club’s focus is to learn and teach sustainability topics as well as perform related community service projects. We have six full members as well as four “junior leaf” members who are not quite of age to participate in some of the club’s activities yet. Together we pledge our head, heart, health and hands to our club, our community, our country and our world!
” How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving. ”
–James Cash Penny
” I was lucky to live in an area that had strong 4-H programs when I was growing up. I learned a lot and really enjoyed the experience. My dad was even a 4-H leader of a wildlife project. Now, as a mother with two young boys, I wanted to create a 4-H club that would help kids learn more about the positive impacts we can all make on our world. This includes community service and it includes learning about our ecological footprint. ” – M Schmidt, Club Leader.
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I would be glad to share our curriculum with another project leader who is interested in continuing this project with other kids in Corbett! We are really excited to see 4-H back in Multnomah County and thank Jon Mayer for all his support getting it going again!