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Dear 4-H Families:
Awards Day Photos http://www.extension.iastate.edu/boone/news/
boonecoawards.htm . Enclosed is a list of award recipients and donors from Awards Day. Senior 4-H’ers - To apply for area/state 4-H recognition opportunities including state 4-H project awards, Tech Team, State 4-H Council, National 4-H Congress, and National 4-H Conference visit the websitehttp://www.extension.iastate.edu/webster/kidsteens.htm. Support materials are due to the State 4-H Office by February 1. 9th through 12th graders will be receiving information in the mail. Interviews will be March 26 in Ames. The Iowa 4-H Foundation announces 100 4-H scholarships totaling over $100,000 for college freshman and upperclassmen for fall 2011. High school seniors may request an application packet from the EO or visit the website http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/teens/awards.htm. Graduating seniors will be receiving information in the near future. Applications are due to the State 4-H Office before or on February 1. Please remember to get your re-enrollment forms turned in if you haven’t done so already.
We are also happy to announce that baby Hedlund has arrived! Drew Dorian Hedlund was born on November 6th at 3:25am. Baby Drew weighted 6lbs and 11oz., and was 20.5 inches long. Mom (Natalie), dad, and baby are doing great!
December 2010/January 2011
WHAT’S INSIDE:
4-H FAMILY NEWSLETTER
Dates to Remember
General 4-H News
4-H Awards Day Results
BOONE COUNTY EXTENSION
Courtney Tingwald
Boone County Extension
Program Assistant
515-432-3882
603 Story Street, Boone, IA 50036 515-432-3882 Office Hours 8:00 am – 4:30 pm Learn more at www.extension.iastate.edu/boone
Dates to Remember
DECEMBER 2010
1 4-H Scholarship Applications due in State 4-H Office 1 Applications for State Opportunities due in State 4-H Office; Project, National Congress,
National Conference, Tech Team, State Council 11,12 State Volunteer Retreat, Ankeny DMACC 13-20 Iowa Beef Expo, Des Moines 17 Rabbit and Poultry Food Safety and Quality Assurance Training 19 Iowa 4-H Foundation Gala, Sheraton Hotel, West Des Moines 21 Youth Committee Meeting, 7pm
JANUARY 2011
FEBRUARY 2011
MISSION STATEMENT 4-H EMPOWERS YOUTH TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL WORKING AND LEARNING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CARING ADULTS
Club Meetings – Discuss market beef and Pen of 3 weigh-in dates; encourage senior members to apply for 4-H scholarships, state project awards, Tech Team, State 4-H Council, National 4-H Conference, and National Congress; review 4-H newsletter; update 4-H Participation Summary including awards received; community service activities. 10-11 County Council Retreat at the Iowa 4-H Camp TBA Quilt Class During Holiday Break - Contact EO for more information 23-24 EO Closed 31 EO Closed
Club Meetings – Distribute and discuss club programs, project guides, and record keeping materials; write project goals and update Participation Summary, review 4-H newsletter. 8 Market Beef Weigh-In at Kings, 8am-12pm 8 Ice Fishing Clinic @ 9 a.m. at Don Williams 9 Ice Skating, Ames Ice Arena 2-4pm 17 Extension Office Closed 17 Youth Committee Meeting, 7pm 22 4-H Day at the ISU Women’s Basketball Game, 11am, Order tickets at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4hexplore/isuwbb.htm 22 Snow date for Beef Weigh-In
Boone County Extension Staff wish you Happy Holidays! Rich Wrage, Region 8 Director
Mary Clancy, Program Coordinator, Boone County
Annette Brown, Youth Program Specialist, Boone, Marshall, Hardin, Story
Natalie Hedlund, County 4-H Youth Coordinator
Mollie Haglund, Office and Youth Assistant
Dawn Schmidt, Office and Youth Assistant
High school students - plan ahead to apply for awards/scholarships. High school students are eligible to apply for area/state recognition including: State Council National 4-H Conference State project awards
National 4-H Congress Iowa Tech Team To apply, prepare four pages of support material (due Feb. 1) and interview on March 26th in Ames. Senior 4-H’ers will be receiving additional information directly from the Extension Office. The EO will be sending a direct mailing to all senior aged 4-H’ers sharing the specifics of these opportunities. Seniors: 4-H scholarship information and applications will be due Feb.1 to the State 4-H Office Forms are available at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/teens/awards.htm
The County Council is taking recipes to include in their 2011 Cook Book. If you would like to include your recipe email Mollie Haglund at [email protected] or Natalie Hedlund at [email protected]. You may also drop your recipes off at the Extension Office at anytime.
The dates for the Citizenship Washington Focus (CWF) Trip to Washington D.C. will be June 18-25, 2011. If you are interested in more information check out this website. http://www.extension.iastate.edu/boone/news/CWF.htm The application deadline has been extended to December 30th, 2010. Contact the EO for more information.
INTERESTED IN DAIRY?
General 4-H News CITIZENSHIP WASHINGTON FOCUS
The Iowa 4-H Foundation is accepting handcrafted birthday, anniversary, and special thank you cards to send along to supporters and friends. If you make cards, sign the back with your club name and community or county. Make card/envelopes no larger than 4.5’ X 6.25’. Cards/envelopes can be sent to the Iowa 4-H Foundation; Extension 4-H Youth Building - ISU; Ames, IA 50011-3630
The Family Readiness Group for
HHC 2nd Battalion 34th Infantry
Division of the Iowa National Guard
( o ut of Boone ) are looking for
volunteers to help with childcare for
our monthly meetings. Meetings are
usually held at the Boone Armory
on the 3rd Saturday of each month
from 1pm to 3pm.
If you have any questions or interest,
please contact Kris Parsons at 515-
231-9318 or [email protected]
Grab Your Shirts…..Slip on Your Sandals and join Dairy enthusiasts for a fun-filled Hawaiian luau at this year’s annual Iowa Junior Holstein Convention on December 28-29 at the Bluffs Inn in Decorah, Iowa. All youth ages 8-21 interested in dairy are invited to attend the convention. There will be fun quiz bowl and jeopardy competitions, mixer games, pizza and a dance. Contact Luke Rauen, Iowa Junior Holstein President at [email protected] or 563-451-7878 for more information.
SPECIAL OCCASION CARDS
GOT RECIPES?
4-H PLEDGE I PLEDGE MY HEAD TO CLEARER THINKING, MY HEART TO GREATER LOYALTY, MY HANDS TO LARGER SERVICE,
AND MY HEALTH TO BETTER LIVING, FOR MY CLUB, MY COMMUNITY, MY COUNTRY, AND MY WORLD.
STATE 4-H RECOGNITION
BABYSITTERS NEEDED
4-H PLEDGE I PLEDGE MY HEAD TO CLEARER THINKING, MY HEART TO GREATER LOYALTY, MY HANDS TO LARGER SERVICE,
AND MY HEALTH TO BETTER LIVING, FOR MY CLUB, MY COMMUNITY, MY COUNTRY, AND MY WORLD.
N.C. IOWA YOUTH BEEF CONFERENCE JUNIOR FAIRBOARD MEMBER
The Boone County Fair Board is
looking for Junior Fair Board members
to utilize the ideas and skills of 4H and
FFA members. Applicants should be in
the 11th or 12th grade of the current
school year. Junior members have no
voting privileges but are encouraged to
attend Fair Board meetings, which are
held on the first Monday night of each
month. Junior members may present
ideas, give input and are expected to
help at the fair and at other work
times. Junior members may not drive
gators or other equipment at the
fairgrounds. One-year terms for junior
members run from Oct. 1 thru Sept 30.
Applications can be found at the
Boone County Fair website, http://
boonecountyfairia.com/ under fair
board members.
The Iowa 4-H Foundation is hosting a
4-H Day at the Iowa State Women’s
basketball game versus Texas
A&M on Saturday, January 22nd,
2011 at Hilton Coliseum in Ames.
Tip-off is at 11:00am.Ticket price is
just $15 per person and includes:
admission to game, pre-game tailgate
brunch (food & drink) at the Iowa State
Center Scheman Building (first floor),
Exclusive Cyclone 4-H t-shirt, $2
Donation to the Iowa 4-H Foundation.
Everyone is invited to attend at the
discounted price. Order deadline:
December 31st, 2010. (Orders placed
after December 31st will receive t-
shirts on a first-come, first-served
basis).For further questions contact
Shelly Greving at (515) 294-1607
An educational program sponsored by Iowa State University Extension and Ellsworth Community College for Iowa youth involved with beef production will be held Saturday, January 29, 2011, at the Ellsworth Agriculture and Renewable Energy Center from The youth program will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. with registration beginning at 9:00 a.m. A variety of interactive workshops and sessions are being planned for youth 4
th grade through
high school. Topics include: Breeding Stock Selection; Beef Reproduction and Artificial Insemination; Palpation and Pregnancy Checking Demonstration; and an Introduction to Meats Judging. This event is free, lunch will be provided, parents are welcome to stay. Please pre-register at your local ISU County Extension Office by January 21.
The Boone County 4-H Youth Committee is looking for new adult members to serve a 2-year term (with an optional second 2-year term) and older youth to serve a 1-year term. Terms run from January to December. Committee members serve as club liaisons, determine county 4-H policy, help carry out county 4-H events, and select and present county award recipients. Do you have an interest and enjoy small pets? Consider being the Small Pets Superintendent. The Small Pets Superintendent organizes and supervises judging, exhibits, and activities in pets division at the Boone County Fair. Please let Natalie Hedlund know if you are interested. 432-3882
This retreat brings together 4-H
volunteers, staff, parents, and
intermediate and senior 4-H
members to network and learn about
innovative programs that will help
bring fresh perspectives and activities
to Iowa 4-H programs. All activities
will take place at the Des Moines Area
Community College (DMACC)
Campus in Ankeny on Friday,
February 11th and Saturday the 12th.
Volunteers will be able to catch up on
their fall and spring required training
modules by enrolling in those modules
at the February State Volunteer
Retreat. Thanks to a grant from
Monsanto, the registration fee this
year is only $10. Check out http://
www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/
Volunteers/retreat.htm for more
information.
You can get great project information
for any project area by going to
http:www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/
projects. Click on the project area you
are interested in and you will find
information on that project area and
print off the “hot sheet” for any project
area that you want. This includes
great ideas for citizenship and
leadership ideas for that project area.
The project page will also tell you
what literature is available to order
and show you a connection to that
website. This is a great tool for
getting more information.
STATE 4-H VOLUNTEER RETREAT ADULT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
4-H DAY AT ISU BASKETBALL GAME
General 4-H News continued
START A PROJECT—GET HOT SHEETS
. The Boone County 4-H Clubs enrollment and re-enrollment process continues and a big
thank you goes to all club leaders and club members who submitted forms by November
24th. Clubs reaching the 80% goal will be awarded ice cream and toppings for a club
meeting include the following:
Bluff Creek Wranglers Green Clovers Science and Technology
Luther Livewires Madrid Duets Madrid Merry Makers
Montana Miners Westside Hustlers Town & Country Pioneers
Please remind all remaining members and new members to submit those forms, have a
parent complete the medication information/release forms and pay the enrollment fee of
$30. Thank you for being a part of Boone County 4-H!
Club News
4-H PLEDGE I PLEDGE MY HEAD TO CLEARER THINKING, MY HEART TO GREATER LOYALTY, MY HANDS TO LARGER SERVICE,
AND MY HEALTH TO BETTER LIVING, FOR MY CLUB, MY COMMUNITY, MY COUNTRY, AND MY WORLD.
Keep those enrollment forms coming!
4-H PAPER CLOVER FUNDRAISING
January 17th, 2011 will mark the 25
th anniversary of
the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. If your 4-H club will be involved in a service project during this time, we would like to know about it! The Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service is encouraging all community organizations to register their MLK Day projects at www.volunteeriowa.org. If you have questions, you can send an email to [email protected].
Thank you to everyone who helped make Awards Day a success and congratulations to everyone who received awards! Be sure to write your thank you notes if you haven’t done so already. Pictures from awards day can be found on our website at http://
www.extension.iastate.edu/boone/news/boonecoawards.htm
Congratulations to the Green Clovers! The Green Clovers are the winners of pizza from Pizza Hut for raising the most money from the paper clover fundraiser. We would like to thank everyone for your hard working selling the clovers!
Martin Luther King Jr Service Project GET OUT YOUR SKATES!
Bring your family and your club on January 9th to go ice skating at the Ames Ice Arena from 2-4 pm. Wear a 4-H shirt and admission is just $3.00 and skate rental is $1.75.
Spring SESS Instructor Certification The dates have been set for the 2011 Spring SESS Instructor Training. The training will be held at the Iowa 4-H Center on April 1-3, 2011. Registration information will be available soon.
Awards Day Shooting Education and Safety Sports News
4-H FAMILY NEWSLETTER
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