Even if no leader was recruited as a result of the program, another objective was reached as the community become more aware of the availability of the 4-H program. The migrant Hispanic families received quite an awakening to our 4-H program this summer. These children wer enrolled in a few 4-H projects in cooperation with the school district and its summer migrant school program. It was a first contact with the 4-H program for the teachers and children. The teachers were very enthusiastic about the 4-H project materials.
Plans are for greater project enrollment next summer.
These kids aren't hooligans or ruffians, but they are skateboarders, and in most parts of the country, that's enough to get you branded as trouble, even if all you're doing is practicing your sport. Businesses, parks and the city, worried about the liability for skateboarding accidents, just told the skateboarders to go somewhere else. Kirk, MSU Extension's 4-H youth development specialist, read an article in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. The reporter had interviewed Jay Moore, owner of a Bozeman snowboard and skateboard shop, about the plight of local youth with no place to skate. Now fueled mainly by the energy of leaders Jeremy Adamich and Travis Bos, among 15 others, the club boasts 65 members of all ages and abilities.