{"id":9969,"date":"2018-05-25T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9969"},"modified":"2018-05-20T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T18:17:05","slug":"iowa-4-h-camp-changed-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/iowa-4-h-camp-changed-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa 4-H camp changed management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While going through one of my piles of mail*, I leafed through the Iowa 4-H Foundation&#8217;s summer newsletter. It was there that I found out \u2014 and this still may be news, considering the only external coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/businessrecord.com\/Content\/Culture\/Culture\/Article\/Iowa-4-H-camp-gets-new-name-management-company-\/170\/832\/77698\">was a blurb<\/a> in the <em>Des Moines Business Record<\/em> \u2014 about a change in an old institution.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowa4hfoundation.org\/index.cfm\/32896\/43094\/changes_made_at_the_iowa_4h_center\">May 1 press release from the foundation<\/a>, and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccr.org\/news\/2017\/10\/25\/united-camps-conferences-and-retreats-uccr-begins-management-of-iowa-4-h-camp\">October announcement<\/a> from the new group,\u00a0United Camps, Conferences and Retreats is now the manager of the nearly 70-year-old 4-H Center in Boone County. The camp has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowa4hfoundation.org\/documents\/news\/Clover_Woods_FAQ_3690C4A193D34.pdf\">renamed Clover Woods<\/a>, creating an allusion, but not infringement, of the 4-H heritage. The 4-H Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowa4hfoundation.org\/documents\/filelibrary\/photos\/iowa_4_h_center\/Winter_2016_FourWord_Camp_story_fin_5A375777BE56F.pdf\">announced in late 2016<\/a> that it was not renewing an exclusive lease that gave ISU Extension run of the camp. The change allows the camp to be available to all nonprofit groups, with 4-H clubs getting priority.<\/p>\n<h4>*My family would give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2018\/02\/08\/want-get-organized-marie-kondos-tips-decluttering\/311647002\/\">Marie Kondo<\/a> a heart attack, and she would do the same to us.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While going through one of my piles of mail*, I leafed through the Iowa 4-H Foundation&#8217;s summer newsletter. It was there that I found out \u2014 and this still may be news, considering the only external coverage was a blurb &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/iowa-4-h-camp-changed-management\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}