Inside this issue:

Livestock 2

Project News 3

Club Corner 4

Calendars 5 & 6

Dallam & Hartley 4-H November 2014

Dallam & Hartley Counties

401 Denrock

Dalhart, Texas 79022

Phone: 806.244.4434

Fax: 806.244.7434

Mike Bragg Dallam & Hartley County

CEA-Agriculture and Natural

Resources

Kay Rogers Dallam & Hartley County

CEA-Family & Consumer

Sciences

Shelby Campbell Dallam & Hartley County

CEA-4-H & Youth

Development

Janet Harrison Dallam & Hartley County

Program Assistant

SIGN UP FOR 4-H NOW! Go to 4honline.com. If you have questions, please call us and we can help you! Beginning November 1, you will receive no

more emails or correspondence from us if you have not signed up. The enrollment

fee also goes up to $25.00 on November 1. All members who enroll on 4-H

Connect will receive a membership card!

LIVESTOCK EXHIBITORS: All 4-Hers who plan to show at the Bi-County

Stock Show must be enrolled in 4-H by December 1, 2014. 4-Hers also need to

be signed up for the Bi-County show by 12-1-2014 and entry fee(s) paid.

Bi-County entries for the Steer & Heifer Show will be taken during the

month of November at the Extension Office. Please come by our office anytime

during November and fill out a Bi-County entry card for your steers and heifers.

The fee is $15.00 per entry and entries are due DECEMBER 1. Entries for the

other species will be taken during validation.

Marsha Hightower Dallam & Hartley County

Administrative Clerk

RECORDBOOK TRAINING—DATE

CHANGED TO November 18

On Tuesday, November 18th, Shawnte Clawson, District 1 4-H Special-

ist will be conducting the training. See the following schedule!

5:30-6:30pm—Training for all junior and

intermediate 4-H members who

have NEVER filled out a recordbook

6:30pm—Introduction on recordbooks

followed by 3 breakout sessions—junior, intermediate

and senior. We will be splitting the age groups and going over

recordbooks in each age category.

WEDNESDAY, November 19th

Schedule an individual appointment with Shawnte anytime between

8:30am—1:30pm. Shawnte will meet with you to go over your 4-Hers

recordbook at our office in Dalhart.

MISSING: One pot with

lid out of one of the Food

Challenge boxes. Please

check your kitchen to see

if you have an extra pot

with a lid that is not yours.

THANKS!

Page 2 Dallam & Hartley 4-H

Area Jackpots

Call our office for more

information

Winterfest Extravaganza

Swine, Heifer & Steer Jackpot

One Day Show

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Moore County Community Building

16th & Maddox, Dumas, Texas

Wheeler County Warm-up Swine

Show

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Wheeler County Warm-up Lamb

and Goat Show

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Wheeler County Show Barn, Wheeler,

Texas

LIVESTOCK VALIDATIONS

Rabbit Validation

Texline—November 4th @ 4:30pm

at the Ag shop in Texline.

Dalhart—November 13th @ 4:30pm

at the bull barn at the coliseum

Swine Validation

Dallam County-November 17 at the

Rita Blanca Coliseum at 4pm

Hartley County-November 18 at the

Hartley Ag Barn at 4pm

Heifer Validation

All registration papers are due to

Shelby by November 3rd at 5pm.

If you have them before that date,

please get them to Shelby as soon

as possible. Physical validation

deadline is November 12th. (Please

contact Shelby or Mike to set up a

date for physical validation.)

CALLING ALL DALLAM &

HARTLEY COUNTY

4-HERS!

SAVE THE DATE!

“MARKET CLINIC”

December 12 & 13

***Guest Speakers

***NO live animals

***goal of the “market

clinic” is to educate youth

on the “market” side of live-

stock and to help better

their knowledge “In & Out”

of the show ring.

Featuring: Cargill Pork, JBS

& Josh Hicks

All Stock Show exhibitors must

have a Quality Counts number.

If you are a first time livestock

exhibitor or are a new “senior”

4-Her, you must retake the

test. When you complete the

test, please print out a copy of

the certificate and put it in

your show box. Shelby has ac-

cess to your number and does

not need a copy of your certifi-

cate. Please call Shelby if you

need more information.

Major Stock Show Entry Day

November 4 & 10

9-5pm

“Major Stock Show Entry Days” will

be on Tuesday, November 4 for Ft.

Worth Livestock Show and the

Odessa Show. November 10 is entry

day for all other major shows (San

Angelo, San Antonio, Houston, and

Austin). November 4th is the abso-

lute last date to enter the Ft. Worth

Livestock Show as they will not ac-

cept late entries. Other major shows

charge significant late fees. Hours

for “Major Stock Show Entry Days”

are from 9am to 5pm at the Exten-

sion office. This is for all 4-Hers

attending major livestock shows in

2015 to complete their paperwork and

pay entry fees. You may come to the

office prior to this date to fill out

paperwork in advance if you prefer.

RECORDBOOK

TRAINING

Tuesday, November 18

Dallam & Hartley County 4-H Yearbooks are now available for the 2014-2015 year. They contain

lots of great information for your upcoming 4-H year. Please stop by the office for a hard copy.

OR . . . . Let us know and we can email you a copy.

The 2014 Texas 4-H Opportunity

Scholarship Application is now avail-

able at: http://texas4-h.tamu.edu/

scholarships. Texas 4-H Opportunity

scholarship can be applied for by any

high school senior who has been an

active Texas 4-H member for the

past three of four years, a Texas

resident, and a US citizen. Applicants

must be planning on attending a Texas

College or University to be consid-

ered for a scholarship.

D1 Scholarship Training

Monday, December 8th

6:30-8:30pm

$15.00 per family

(sign up on 4-H Connect)

In addition . . .

Hartley County 4-Hers who re-

ceive the “Gold Star” award receive a

$500.00 scholarship from the Hart-

ley County Parent Leader Association.

Dallam County 4-Hers who will be

graduating in May, 2015 are eligible

to apply for the $2,500.00 Dallam Co.

4-H Scholarship. Applications can be

picked up at the Extension Office in

January.

WE NEED YOU!!

Shooting Sports is one of

the fastest growing pro-

jects—WE NEED LEADERS!

Sign up today to be a

trained volunteer!

SHOOTING SPORTS TRAINING

Shotgun and Rifle

Canadian, TX

November 21-22,2014

Sign up on 4-H Connect—October

20-November 18, 2014

Registration fee is $100.00 and will

be paid by your county’s PLA if you

agree to be a leader.

SHOOTING SPORTS TRAINING

Archery, Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun

Lubbock, TX

December 6-7, 2014

Sign up on 4-H Connect November

3—December 1, 2014.

Registration fee is $100.00 and will

be paid by your county’s PLA if you

agree to be a leader.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: You must

be a screened volunteer to attend

this training! To become a

screened volunteer, enroll on 4-H

Connect. The process takes about

10 days. Please call our office if

you have questions about signing up.

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4-H Youth Fund$

Dallam & Hartley 4-H

4-H news . . .

Save the Dates

Virtual Volunteer Conferences

November 19 & 20, 2014

April 21 & 22, 2015

August 4 & 5, 2015

Plan to participate in one, or more, of the workshops of-

fered as a part of the Virtual 4-H Volunteer

Conference.

There is no fee to participate,

and no pre-registration!

For more information and to

keep up with updates, visit:

http://texas4-h.tamu.edu/volunteer_confer

ence

There will be a variety of 4-H topics including club manage-

ment, leadership, project trainings, and youth/adult

opportunities.

The Fundamentals of money manage-

ment project has started. If you are

interested in another 4-H project, we

have a workbook that you can pick up

and work on the project yourself—

Call the Extension Office and set up a

meeting with Kay & Hattie Bezner and

they can outline the project complete

with community service projects.

Hattie will be sending out an activity,

monthly, to workshop attendees.

PECANS ARRIVING mid-NOVEMBER

Watch for an email! Pecans should be

delivered sometime in mid-November.

We will send out an email when the

pecans arrive. You will be responsible

for picking up your pecans and deliv-

ering them to the customers who pur-

chased them from you. Pecans need

to be delivered to your customers

before Thanksgiving.

TEXAS FRIENDS & ALUMNAE

ASSOCIATION

Membership in the Texas Friends and

Alumnae Association makes a differ-

ence! Your membership, combined

with other supporters, assists the

association to award grants, colle-

giate scholarships and financial sup-

port to 4-Hers to attend leadership

events. A portion of membership

fees will be donated back to the club

and/or county of your choice SO

JOIN TODAY! Any

adult can join and it

benefits the club of

your choice! Call your

extension office for

more details! Dallam & Hartley 4-H Page 4

Club Corner

Hartley Plainsmen 4-H

Club

Next meeting . . .

Friday, November 7th @ 3:30 in Mrs.

Clark’s room

Channing 4-H Club

Next meeting . . .

Wednesday, November 12

Meeting begins at 6:30pm with

potluck

Channing Community Building

COMMUNITY SERVICE is BOX

TOPS FOR EDUCATION. We will

meet on Nov. 13 to put those to-

gether for CISD. Pizza provided.

Dallam Darlins 4-H Club

4-H for Families and

Friends 4-H Club

The next meeting of the Family &

Friends 4-H Club will be on Tuesday

November 11th at 7 pm at the Rita

Blanca Coliseum. Please bring along

your items for the food drive. Our

pledges and prayer will be lead by

Taeler Sorrels, Kullen Sorrels and

Kesleah Shields. The Reagan Family

is supplying drinks and the Hampton

Family snacks. We will have 3 great

presentations by Kullen Sorrels,

Taeler Sorrels, and The Floyds.

Entrepreneurship Project – we are

looking for youth interested in joining

our Entrepreneurship Project. With

Angela Daniels and members of the

Concession Stand Committee of the

Dallam PLA, we will guide youth

through marketing, sales and skills

needed to be a business owner. Our

real-life project will be the planning

and execution of the concession stand

at the upcoming stock show in Janu-

ary. Please call the 4-H office by

November 6th. We will meet weekly

after school beginning the 2nd week

of November at a time to be deter-

mined by the members joining the

project.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

6:30pm

Rita Blanca Coliseum

Jenna Dixon will give the program and

it will be about the rabbit project.

For community service, we will meet

at “The Legacy” on

Tuesday, November 11th

at 3:45 pm to help the residents pack

their boxes for Operation Christmas

Child. If you are unable to help on

that day, you can bring items for the

boxes to the club meeting on Nov. 6.

There will be a list of acceptable and

unacceptable items in your meeting

reminder email. Be watching!

PECAN SALES

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TOP

SALESMEN!

1st-Laramee & Kesleah Shields-184

2nd-Georgia & Hattie Bezner-104

3rd (tie)-Katelyn Lenz-94

Cale & Canton Forry-94

GOOD JOB!

THANKS FOR SELLING!

Dallam County

4-H Council

Monday, November 3, 2014

After school—complete packing of

Operation Christmas Child shoe-

boxes—all council members

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

6pm—Administration Building

Pack “Snack Pac 4 Kids”

(any 4-Her may help)

This excellent community service

project takes less than 1 hour!

Monday, November 17, 2014

MAGIC Program—Big Magic

Watch for assignments; Chair is

Sydna McDonald—ALL Council Mem-

bers to participate

5:30pm—4-H Council Dinner and

Meeting

Community Service—4-Hers bring

assigned non-perishable food items.

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Dallam & Hartley Co. Extension Office

401 Denrock Avenue

Dalhart, Texas 79022

Phone: 806-244-4434

Fax: 806-244-7434

Email: Dallam@ag.tamu.edu

Dallam and Hartley County 4-Hers Participate in Bi-County Food Show

Educational programs of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are open to all people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or veteran status.

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