2014 Daviess County Purdue Extension

2014Purdue extension

Daviess County

2C Friday, april 11 2014 Washington times herald

Programming for ECD em-phasizes one or more of the following themes: entrepre-neurship; planning and vision-ing; workforce development; leadership and civic develop-ment; and/or community and public policy engagement. Also included are the broker-ing of resources for communi-ty based initiatives; building and sustaining local and re-gional partnerships; acquiring grants and leveraging resourc-es; serving as the primary lo-cal contact for Purdues univer-sity-wide engagement effort.

Purdue Center for Region-al Development

Vision-The Purdue Center for Regional Development will foster Indiana becoming the nations leader in supporting creative, regional approaches to development, that build on three core values:

a voluntary approach; the power of data, analysis,

ideas and information; and the importance of dia-

logue, social capital develop-ment, and collaborative part-nerships.

The Purdue Center for Re-gional Development (PCRD) supports collaborative regional and multi-institutional ap-proaches to problem solving and development. Some core

competencies include: Regional analysis and

planning Economic development

planning New models of workforce

development Small business develop-

ment Community/regional en-

trepreneurship development Rural and small town com-

munity and economic develop-ment

Civic leadership/gover-nance

GIS and spatial techniques and analysis

Local GovernmentIn this challenging time for

local government, our civic leaders face complex decisions to help our communities re-main places where we all have the opportunity for economic prosperity and satisfying lives. Purdue Extension helps local officials and others access the many resources available from the university. We would be happy to talk with you about these and any other ways we might be able to help you and your community. Areas where we can help include:

Local government finance and budgeting

Land use and natural re-source planning

Planning for economic growth

Energy efficiency for local government facilities

Controlling healthcare in-surance expenses

Grant writing for local gov-ernment

Local Decision MakerLocal Decis ion Maker

(LDM) is a powerful decision-support system for compre-hensive planning that brings together data, current research, analyses, mapping tools, and models to assist communities throughout the planning pro-cess.

It is a useful tool for com-munities where too much growth, too little growth, loss of natural resources, poor em-ployment outlook, or declining school populations are prompt-ing a desire to see change oc-cur. LDM helps assess existing conditions, develop a realistic vision of the future, identify future development strategies and select a preferred strategy consistent with the communi-tys economic, natural re-source, social and cultural ob-jectives and projected resource bases.

Extension Disaster Educa-tion Network (EDEN)

Purdue Extension is proud to be a part of the national

Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN). Purdue and EDEN provide educational re-sources to reduce the impact of disasters.

Topics include:TornadoesDroughtBiosecurityFloods and StormsLivestock DisastersNational EDEN WebsitePandemic InfluenzaPreparednessRural SecurityWeather InformationWinter StormsCommunity Organizations

Active in Disaster (COAD)**Purdue Extension staff

members are actively involved in the Daviess County Organi-zations Active in Disaster (DCOAD)

Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces

Public spaces play a vital role in all our livesthey are the paths we bike on, the pub-lic parks we play in, and the town centers where we shop. Decisions about how to design and manage these spaces can have long-term impacts on the social, economic and environ-mental health of our commu-nities.

To help local decision-mak-ers harness the power of pub-

lic spaces, Purdue Extension has launched a new program called Enhancing the Value of Public Spaces.

This training program offers continuing education and re-sources tailored to regional, community, business and n e i g h b o r h o o d leaders interested in building sustain-able communities.

It also provides a framework for col-lecting data on com-munity needs and then using the data to plan public space im-provements. Extension educators help partici-pants design new proj-ects and give them the tools they need to put the plans into action.

During the program, Purdue Extension spe-cialists and educators in-troduce best practices for improving public spaces and provide example proj-ects that are already under-way in Indiana. Participants also complete a strategic plan for a public space proj-ect tailored to their commu-nity. This program will be highlighted at our upcoming Annual Meeting on April 14. Our goal is to bring the full

workshop to our area in the near future.

Cindy Barber, Associate Educator [email protected]

812-254-1060, ext. 279

Economic, community development helps area

The Family Nutrition Pro-gram (FNP) serves anyone who has limited resources, in-cluding families, pregnant teens, single adults, seniors and special audiences.

Chris Clark, FNP assistant in Daviess County, organizes groups and one on one lessons to bring about lifestyle chang-es related to food and resource management. The goal of the program is to help families and individuals with limited resources develop the knowl-

edge and skills to use their food dollars and food stamps appropriately and to provide a safe meal environment.

Participants learn that eating better makes sense and can be affordable, the program pro-vides interactive hands on ed-ucation opportunities that pro-mote healthy eating and life-style behaviors within a bud-get. This is accomplished by providing free, informal and easy accessible educational programs in homes and at

various community agencies and organizations.

These programs focus on nutrition and meal planning; food purchasing, preparation and food safety, as well as knowing the community re-sources available.

The Purdue University Co-operative Extension Service operates the FNP program, in partnership with Indiana Fam-ily and Social Services Admin-istration and the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture.

Clark enjoys helping people and seeing their successes.

She works with young mothers teaching them how to make healthy snacks and meals for their families, teach-es school children how to make healthy food choices, works with individuals who are diabetic who need help in meal planning and reading la-bels. One may see her at Feed My Sheep passing out samples of a healthy recipe to those standing in line to get their

monthly groceries, or at Wash-ington Towers doing chair ex-ercises with the residents and new this year dining with dia-betes classes with Daviess Community Hospital dietician Sara Deitz and HHS Educator Jennifer Stefancik also from Purdue Extension.

Clark teaches behavior fo-cused nutrition education to her clients and the evaluations show a 25 percent increase in the number of participants who regularly eat a variety of

fruits and vegetables each day

and a 20 percent increase in the number of participants who regularly stayed within a food budget buy planning menus and shopping skillfully.

Chris Clark, FNP assistant Daviess County Extension Office

214 N.E. Third St. [email protected]

812-254-8668

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The Health and Human Sciences (HHS) Extension program area works with in-dividuals and families to

help raise children and grandchildren, manage fi-nances and money, eat healthier and strengthen families.

Through Purdue Uni-versity, they are the link between what re-search is happening on

campus and taking that knowledge out to the people in their local communities and counties by providing unbiased researched based information. This is known as the land-grant system. We are celebrating the 100th an-niversary of the Smith-Lever Act this year.

Indiana Extension Home-makers Association is also a way for people to get in-

volved in education, and ser-vice community projects. Lo-cally, we have six Homemak-ers clubs which meet once a month. It is the mission of the Indiana Extension Home-make r s A s s o c i a t i on t o strengthen families through continuing education, leader-ship development, and vol-unteer community support. For more information on IEHA you can visit http://

www.ieha-families.org/Through HHS Extension,

there is information and re-sources on a variety of topics from canning and home food preservation, food safety, par-enting education, nutrition and eating healthier, and how to manage money.

They also partner and work with many agencies and organizations to help educate and meet the needs

of the clientele. If youre look-ing for some help, one can start by checking out the website http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/extension/, and call, stop by the office or send an email!

Jennifer Stephancik Daviess County Extension Office


812-254-8668

Health and human sciences extension

Picture yourself as a newcomer to this country, as well as a new arrival to this county. What would y o u d o ? H o w would you learn the customs, the language, how to open a bank ac-count and what you would do with that ser-v i c e ? Wh a t would you do if you had an e m e r g e n c y and needed to call for help, b u t y o u didnt know w h o m t o c a l l n o r w h a t t o say? The

questions and the problems grow.

Because Daviess County has

industry that needs employees, Latinos, Burmese and Haitians have arrived here. Fortunately, Daviess County has welcoming residents because they recog-nize potential in everyone. That positive attitude could disap-pear quickly should the new-comers not learn how to live compatibly and survive here.

It is Purdue Extension that has the resources to prevent the problems. At the Cultural Learning Center, Lynne Kiesel strives to teach everyone emer-gency English for calling 911. She considers mastering that task tantamount before focus-ing on other important lessons. Calling in an emergency seems simple enough to us, but imag-ine attempting to do so in an-other language while terrified. Most individuals immediately revert to their first language, and thats the problem. The class participants must practice speaking their addresses and

needs in English until they do not revert to the first language.

Basic English lessons are provided for all, although their needs differ because their edu-cational backgrounds are var-ied. The Latinos come from many different countries. Some are completely illiterate; some have a primary education; some can speak English but cannot read or write it; and some have completed high school. Every learning level must be treated individually and differently. Most of the La-tinos have been here for a few or several years, and their main need is learning English.

Class participants receive separate classes, according to their first language and nation-ality. Each group has displayed a critical need for financial lit-eracy training. Jennifer Stefan-cik, Extension HHS Educator, has stepped in to help with these trainings.

Everyone has expressed an interest in gardening, and ANR Educator, Scott Monroe has visited classes to discuss gar-dening. Chris Clark, Family Nutrition Program assistant, has worked with some of the individuals in their homes. Re-cently there was a class on preparing pizza for the Bur-mese participants. It was an exciting, fun class, and they didnt even realize they were receiving an intensive course in food safety at the same time.

One young man, a Haitian, has been in the country for a year. He is a man of goals, and he is reaching them while he works at his job and studies his English. When he first ap-proached Kiesel, he was hop-ing to earn his GED. After much questioning, she deter-mined that he might have re-ceived an adequate education in Haiti in order to enter com-munity college here. He ob-

tained his diplomas from Haiti, and Ivy Tech has accepted him. His educational goal is to be-come certified in heating, cool-ing and plumbing although his placement testing suggested pharmacy.

The Cultural Learning Cen-ter is an exciting place because new things happen daily. Kie-sel is extremely fortunate to have a cadre of incredible Ad-visory Board members and volunteers who, visit classes, donate educational items, work with individuals on their spe-cial needs and help when wise suggestions and advice are needed.

Lynne Kiesel, Facilitator Cultural Learning Center


812-254-8668

Cultural Learning Center helps newcomers

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Front row (From

leFt): Lynne Kiesel a

nd Jennifer Stephanc

ik. Middle row:

Chance Berry, Lisa Pe

tty, Cindy Barber and S

cott Monroe. Back row

: Jane Ann

Beard, Chris Clark an

d Sylvia Clinton.


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Via the 4-H online Enroll-ment Center, youth may enroll in the Indiana County 4-H Pro-gram of your choice. (Enroll-ment typically occurs in the county of residence).

There is a $15 per person state 4-H program fee and a $5 county program fee. The fee for

Daviess County Mini 4-Hers is $5 (the state fee does not apply). For convenience, one will have the option of paying the fee on-line with a credit card or paying in person with personal check or cash at your local Purdue Cooperative Extension Service Office.

Some county 4-H programs charge an additional county 4-H

program fee which may also be conveniently paid online. Schol-arships are available if needed.

Website address is: extension.purdue.edu/daviess

An individual childs 4-H en-rollment will be considered complete once the required sig-natures/permissions have been submitted and respective fees have been paid.

4-H online enrollment now open Deadline is April 30

July 8 6 p.m. - 4-H grounds clean-up and set up for ALL build-ings and barns. Bring your broom, rake and tools to help prepare the grounds & build-ings. ALL livestock exhibitors are needed to help set up pens, stalls, cages, etc.

July 9 4 p.m. - Consumer Clothing Notebooks due in Extension Office 6 p.m. Dog Agility 4-H Grounds

July 10 Consumer Clothing & Sewing (Construction plus Fashion Sewing Revue judging). Refer to Consumer Clothing and Sewing letter for judging times Antioch Christian Church. (NO judging for the sewing project on July 12). 7 p.m.- Public Fashion Revue and Awards presenta-tion for Sewing and Consumer Clothing projects, (Public Speaking & Demonstrations activity) Antioch Christian Church.

July 11 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. - Project check-in non-perishables

July 12 8 a.m. - Horse and Pony Show, 4-H Arena (Mini Horse & Pony classes) 9 a.m. - Noon - Mini Projects Check-in 9 a.m. - Noon - Photography community judging 9 a.m. - Project judging building closed

July 13 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. - Livestock check-in BEEF, DAIRY, SHEEP, GOAT, SWINE, RABBITS and

POULTRY MUST BE ENTERED ON SUNDAY EVE-NING. (Includes mini livestock projects) 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. - 4-H Exhib-it Building open to public

July 14 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. - Beef and Dairy (if possible please check in Sunday) all other species must be entered on Sunday. 8 a.m. - noon - Regular 4-H check in perishable projects (see list in newsletter) 9 a.m. - noon - 4-H commu-nity judging for Flowers, Foods, Cake Decorating, Gar-den 12:30 p.m. - Judging of 4-H projects, 4-H exhibit buildings closed. 12:30 p.m. - 4-H livestock exhibitors and parents meet-ing, 4-H arena - 4-H steers will be weighed immediately fol-lowing the meeting. 1 p.m. - Feeder calves and Beef weigh in. 2 p.m. - Poultry judging, 4-Her or a representative must be present at the judg-ing. 6:30 p.m. - Sheep auction photos 7 p.m. - Sheep Mini 4-H Sheep Class followed by 4-H Sheep Show 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - 4-H Building open to public.

July 15 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. - 4-H Exhibit Buildings open to pub-lic 10 a.m. - Action demonstra-tions, 4-H Building 11 a.m. - Cat, Mini 4-H Cat Class followed by 4-H Cat Show, Decorated Cat cages classes (exhibit building) 5:30 p.m. - Swine Sale pho-tos 6 p.m. - Swine Mini 4-H

Swine Class followed by 4-H Swine Show 9:30 p.m. - Exhibit Building closes

July 16 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. - 4-H Building open to public 9 a.m. - Rabbit judging, 4-Her or a representative must be present for the judg-ing. 1 p.m. - Dairy - Mini 4-H Dairy Class followed by 4-H Dairy Show 7 p.m. - Beef Mini 4-H Beef Class, Feeder Calves followed by 4-H Beef Show followed by County Bred and Owned classes 9:30 p.m. - Exhibit Building closes

July 17 7:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - All 4-H (non-livestock) exhibits released 5:30 p.m. - Goat (Wether) Auction photos 6 p.m. - Goat - Mini 4-H Goat Class followed by 4-H Goat Show livestock not con-signed to 4-H auction released after Goat show is completed.

July 18 9 a.m. - Dog - Mini 4-H Dog obedience and showmanship followed by 4-H Dog Show - 4-H exhibit building 1 p.m. - Round Robin Show-manship Contest, livestock arena 6:45 p.m. - 10 year member presentations 7 p.m. - Livestock auction (clean-up & pizza party to fol-low auction at approximately 10 p.m.)

July 19 8:30 a.m. -11 a.m. Clean-up

2014 4-H sHoW sCHedule

Daviess County 4-H Junior leaDers worked for six weeks on creating a garden at the Washington Head Start. The project was funded by a grant from Farm Credit Services.

daviess County 4-H Clubs

The first Color Me Green Fun Dash will be held

May 4 at the Daviess County 4-H Fair Grounds.

Registration begins at 2 p.m. with a one mile fun

run (children age 10 and under) beginning at 2:30

p.m. and a 3K fun dash following. Cost for the fun

run is $5 with cost for the fun dash set at $10.

All proceeds go to the renovation of the 4-H

buildings. Participants will be dusted with

a green, non-toxic powder.

Color me green fun dasH



It appears that winter is finally loosening its grip on Daviess County. The sun is shining and the temperature is

forecasted to top out in the mid-sixties. Much different than the snow and cold temperatures we experienced just a couple of weeks ago!

As spring approaches, it brings with it a new growing season. Whether youre growing thou-sands of acres of corn and soy-beans, a couple acres of produce, or just a few tomatoes in the gar-den, the new season brings much anticipation. It also brings with it some new challenges to the coun-ty. Three such challenges we are currently watching are the Spot-ted Wing Drosophila, Palmer Am-aranth, and Emerald Ash Borer.

Spotted wing drosophila (SWD) is a recently arrived pest that has been found as close as Vincennes. The insect is a type of fruit fly (also known as a vinegar fly). While most Drosophila species feed and lay eggs in ripe, over-ripe, or decaying fruit, SWD at-tacks and lays eggs in ripening fruit. I have very little doubt that we will be seeing this pest in Da-viess County this year. Growers of soft fruits (caneberries, grapes, cherries, peaches, etc.) should be on the lookout for these pests.

At this point in time, since the pest is so new, growers will need to rely on insecticides for man-agement of SWD until research points to additional management options. Crop-specific recommen-dations are given in the Midwest Small Fruit and Grape Spray Guide, available online at https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/Hort/Docu-ments/ID-169.pdf

One of the hottest topics at the winter agronomic meetings has been herbicide resistant weeds. One of the most aggressive of the herbicide resistant pigweeds is Palmer Amaranth.

This weed can grow 7 to10 feet tall, will produce up to 500,000

seeds per plant, and is mostly re-sistant to glyphosate and ALS chemistries. It has also been con-firmed in Gibson and Lawrence Counties, which means it is prac-tically at our back door. We are advising that growers scout fields early and consider a residual her-bicide program in addition to pos-temerge treatments.

Feel free to contact us if you would like assistance in weed identification. Additional identifi-cation and management informa-tion can be found at http://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/WS/WS-51-W.pdf

Recently, it was announced that Emerald Ash Borer has been con-firmed in Daviess County. This pest has caused severe damage on ash trees throughout the Mid-west. The announcement came from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

We expect that APHIS will pro-vide additional details as summer approaches. Feel free to call us if you have ash trees that you would like inspected for potential borer infestation. Additional infor-mation concerning this pest may be found at http://extension.entm.purdue.edu/EAB/

Regardless of what youre grow-ing, the goal of the Ag and Natu-ral Resources Program is to serve as a resource for those who are involved in the business of grow-ing things. Please feel free to con-tact us for information and assis-tance in dealing with your indi-vidual growing challenges.

A new season and new challenges

J. Scott MonroeExTENSiON EDuCATOr

Part oF monroes Job is to create research plots for local farmers

researCH Plots include a variety of plants local farmers are growing.


4-H direCtors and Boards

4-H directorsBarr-Reeve - Jody Schul-

theis, Heather MadisonBogard - Hanna HolstineElmore - Josh DoveHarrison - Brandon HessMadison - Beth Huff,

Doug BrochinSteele - Angie MallettVeale - Paul FlintWashington - Jerry Mc-

CrackenAt-Large - Phyllis Rich-

ardson, Regina CorneliusExtension Homemakers

Eleanor LawyerFarm Bureau, Inc. - Phil

FlintJr. Leader Reps - Garrett

Huff, Garrett Hess

4-H Building trustees

Jerry BarberMark FretteBob McGuireMark BarberJohn HaslerKim ArmesJackie RichardvilleSteve Wilson

daviess County extension Board

Greg BoydBret GraberJo ArthurDebbie HamdanJosh DoveHeather MadisonMarc MillerMark BrochinScott ArmesRick Streepy Gary AllisonNatalia Welch

daviess County Homemakers presidents & officers

Barb MyersDebbie HamdanMaggie BarberSandy YorkStacey LasherPam BartlettBeverly ThompsonKaren Barnard

a DistriCt meeting at the Eastside Park Community Building in Washington celebrated 100 years of Extension Homemakers in 2013.

Amelia is a seven year 4-H member of the Hearts at Home 4-H Club.She is in her ninth year of homeschooling.Her favorite projects are home environment, fine arts, floriculture, and recycling.

Cover design Winner: AmeliA dAyton

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.

2014 Daviess County Purdue Extension

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