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FREMONT COUNTY 4-H NEWSLETTER - WWW.UWYO.EDU/4-H

4-H Enrollment for Members & Leaders

As of October 1, 2018, all members and leaders are inactive

in the 4-H system. ALL enrollment will be done on-line at:

http://wy.4honline.com. Enroll as soon as possible.

Every 4-H member/leader is assessed a mandatory

$10.00 yearly fee. Online payment is accepted!

In this issue:

Club Visits 1

4H Online Enrollment 2

Animal ownership deadlines 2

Activities and Teams 2

Achievement Night 3

4th H for Health Challenge 4

Club Responsibilities 5

Scholarship Deadlines 5

Meats Judging Info 6

Volunteer Info 7

AI School 7

Remember the Date:

Nov 14 4-H Awards Night - Riverton Middle School - 6pm

Nov 26 Jr Leader Meeting - Riverton - 7pm (subject to change)

Dec 10-12 AI School - Fremont County Fairgrounds - 10am-4pm

Dec 19 4-H Council Meeting - Riverton Extension Office - 7pm

Wyoming State Fair Dates: August 13-17, 2019

Club Visits Are you …

a new club that needs help getting started?

wanting a refresher on record books?

needing a pick-me-up to start the new 4-H year?

Alex would like to visit your club to assist you in any way he can. Please contact the office today to schedule a visit!

Dog Classes Riverton: Every Monday starting January 8th - 7pm Lander: Every Tuesday starting March 20th - 7pm First class, bring parents, no dogs!

Re-enroll If you were enrolled for the 2017-18 4-H year, sign into your family profile and select:

Continue to Family. These are the instructions you will find:

Please look at the list below to see the members/adult volunteers associated with your family ac-count. Click on the Edit button next to each name to re-enroll for the current year, or to change any information on the individual record.

Do not add a new record for a member that is already listed.

Do not add an individual record for an adult (parent) that is NOT a 4-H volunteer.

Please check the personal information, address, phone, cell, email and update if necessary.

The new year enrollment is here. We are excited to see what 2018-19 has in store for us.

Please enroll as soon as possible.

New this year: Payment by credit card! As you are enrolling and come to the payment screen,

you can choose credit card at the top. You can still pay by cash or check by selecting County/Club

4H Check. Click Select Payment Method, then click on Submit Enrollment.

Assessments are $10/member

Ownership deadline for steers: February 1st

We will tag all market beef on Saturday, February 2. Make sure that you have a bill of sale

for each of your steers. They will be checked by the brand inspector.

Animal Ownership Deadlines:

February 1st– Market Beef

May 1st– Horses and Dogs

June 1st– All other 4-H animals

(Must be enrolled in 4-H by this time to take this project.)

Activities and Teams

As the new 4-H year begins it is time to start thinking about the various projects and activities you plan to

get involved with this upcoming year. Several fun, rewarding and educational activities are available to kids

interested in horses and livestock. You do not have to be enrolled in these projects in order to participate in

these activities. Below is a list of the various activities we will be having in Fremont County this year. These

teams/activities are open to members of all ages and have the opportunity to represent Fremont County in

the State Contests in these activities. As always you can contact Alex via email at amalcolm@uwyo.edu if

you need more information or have questions about any of these:

Livestock Quiz Bowl Horse Hippology Demonstration Day

Dog Skill-a-thon Food Cook-off Meats Judging

Livestock Judging Horse Judging

Join the 4th H for Health Movement!

Are your 4-Hers ready to commit to the 4th H? Your club can take on the 4th H for Health Challenge and

earn the 4th H for Health pin! The challenge is to bring three healthy practices to your 4-H meetings and

set an example of healthy eating and physical activity habits for 4-H youth.

How does it work?

It’s easy. Serve a fruit or vegetable as a snack at three meetings. Serve water as the main beverage at

six meetings. Add 15 minutes of physical activity at nine meetings. Record the dates on the 4th H for

Health Challenge Tracking Form (http://www.childobesity180.org/healthykidshub).

Why is this important?

By drinking right, moving more, and snacking smart during 4-H meeting times, club leaders can encour-

age healthy choices. Learning these habits early can have a lasting impact on the health of 4-H’ers. Once

the challenge is complete, we hope clubs will have established a new norm and will continue to practice

healthy living: the 4th H.

Is there paperwork?

The only thing to fill out is the Challenge Tracking Form – or, click here to complete it online. Mail your

tracking form to Laura Balis, 130 Eugene Street, Lander, WY, 82820 or scan and email to

lbalis@uwyo.edu.

How can I make it fun?

Visit the Healthy Kids Hub to find resources. From healthy snack recipes to fun, active games, the

Healthy Kids Hub provides additional support and ideas to make it easy for club leaders.

Want to learn more?

Contact Laura Balis, UW Nutrition and Food Safety Extension Educator: 307-332-2363 or lbalis@uwyo.edu

with questions or to schedule a kickoff event! A Nutrition and Food Safety educator will come to your

club meeting or event to help you get started with active games and healthy snacks.

Attention Fremont County 4-H Clubs! Any club that completes

this challenge will be entered into a drawing for a $100 cash

prize. The Challenge Tracking Form will be due at the end of the

2018/2019 4-H year.

Congratulations to the Hunters club for winning

the 4th H for Health Challenge this year! Thank you to the

following clubs

for participating:

Tri-Valley, Burma

Nite Riders, Popo

Agie Pistols,

Hunters

MISSION STATEMENT 4-H EMPOWERS YOUTH TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL THROUGH YOUTH-ADULT

PARTNERSHIPS AND RESEARCH-BASED EXPERIENCES.

Club Responsibilities to the Paper Trail

There are a couple of items that the Extension Office needs from each club

as the new 4-H year rolls around. Without a copy of each of the following

items on file in the office, your club can be considered defunct. Please get

these to us as soon as possible:

End of Year Financial Report with EIN

Affirmative Action policy

SCHOLARSHIPS

Attention Senior 4-H Members: Application deadline: January 15

Please see Wyoming 4H website for available scholarships and to

view application criteria!

www.wyoming4h.org/4hfoundation/scholarships/

Also, there is a Fremont County 4-H Scholarship which is due May 1.

Please come in to the Extension Office for an application.

Please pick up fair exhibits and lost items

We appreciate the many families that made the effort to pick up items the first

week after state fair! There are still exhibits, awards, and ribbons that have not

been picked up. There are also lost and found items from different 4-H events

throughout the year. Please arrange to pick up your items at the Extension Office

as soon as possible.

Items not picked up by November 14 will be donated or recycled

REMINDER!

4-H IS RESEARCH BASED

JOIN 4-H MEAT JUDGING. . .WHY? To improve public speaking.

Part of meat judging or any judging, for that matter, is the presentation of reasons (for in-

termediates and seniors only; juniors answer questions on paper). When presenting rea-

sons, the speaker is required to organize his/her thoughts logically for the judges to fol-

low. Even if a person is not comfortable in this area, the necessity and frequency of public

speaking in meat judging practice soon improves a person’s public speaking abilities.

To gain speed of thought.

All areas of the meat judging competition are timed. To succeed at the competition, a per-

son must gain a quick eye and the ability to quickly (and logically) assess multiple car-

casses/wholesale/retail cuts. This comes with practice and is very fun after a couple of

weeks.

To make informed, prudent purchases at the grocery store.

When judging meat competitively, it becomes a “piece of cake” to walk to the meat coun-

ter in the grocery store and identify the piece of meat with highest quality that would be

best on the dinner table. It is also fun to walk through the meat department at the grocery

store and find all of the retail cuts that are wrongly identified!

To learn interesting info that the general public does not know.

Everyone knows that USDA choice beef the highest quality, right? Wrong.

The USDA may want everyone to think that choice beef is just dandy, but the truth is that

“Choice” beef is not nearly as juicy as prime. There are more fun facts like this, but you’ll

have to join the team to discover them!

If you decide to join the Fremont County 4-H meat judging team, you will definitely get

the chance to compete at the state competition. Since there are not many 4-H meat judg-

ers in our county there is nobody you have beat to get a chance to compete statewide.

It’s a short term project.

Practices are usually once a week from Feb-April, with the competition being in April.

You have all the rest of the fall, spring and summer to work on other projects, and there is

no meat judging contest at county fair.

Please come and join us!

Daylight Savings Time

Fall Back

November 4th

Mark Your Calendars...

We are fortunate to have so many generous adults provide their time, talent and energy in the name of 4-H. Volun-

teers are truly the heart of our program. During this re-enrollment season, please consider how you can help our 4-H

kids:

·Club Project Volunteer ·Club Activity Volunteer ·County Key Leader ·4-H Council Member ·Chaperone

The process to become a Fremont County 4-H Leader includes:

1. In 4-H Online, create a volunteer leader profile.

2. Complete the background & MVR check (online)

3. Participate in Leader Orientation

Once these steps are complete, your profile will be approved in 4-H Online. More information is available at the Ex-

tension Office! To access the online training, please go to:

http://www.uwyo.edu/4-h/volunteers/newleaderorientation.html.

This is a fast and easy way to complete this requirement. Our office will be notified when you’ve completed the

training.

Volunteer Information

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