The Chronicles of John Trammell

I am in the Press Enterprise newspaper today!   Below is the part with me in it.  For the entire article, visit this link h ttp://www.pe.com/localnews/redlands/stories/PE_News_Local_N_ntrails28.22aefbb.html Part of Article written by  MICHAEL PERRAULT of the Press Enterprise "Conservancy promotes Redlands' trails" For Highland resident John Trammell, in his third year as an East Valley 4-H Club leader, Saturday's Kids' Day event was an opportunity to introduce some kids to geo-caching. It's a sort of outdoor treasure-hunting game in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to hide and seek containers, Trammell said. "Today, they're filled with candy, trinkets and other goodies," Trammell said.

For those who don't know, within the 4-H program, I am a member of the California 4-H Computer Corps (The state technology team).  This team was started back in 1887 or 8, and it was designed so the team would be in control of itself.  What I mean by that is the team controls its own missions, projects,and chooses and reviews it's own members to be on the team.  This was until the past month, when the state 4-H office has decided to take control of the Computer Corps, change the missions, and takes the power away from the team to select new members and rview if current members should say on the team.      This, if you can imagine, has hit most of the team members very hard.  What gives the right for the state 4-H office to all of a sudden take control of the team without even consulting the team.  I do say that there are some good ideas for change, but it is very fustrating, that a team that has been in control of itself for 10 years lost it within a matter of weeks.      I h