Sincerely,

Hannah Devall Hannah Devall 4-H Youth Development Lafayette Parish

CHARLES HEBERT

Charles Hebert

4-H Youth Development

Lafayette Parish

It is the policy of the LSU AgCenter, Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service that no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the grounds of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age or disability. If you have a disability which requires special assistance for your participation in any aforementioned activi-

ty, please contact the Lafayette 4-H office at 291-7090.

DATES TO REMEMBER

4-H Night with the Pelicans The 4-H Night With The Pelicans program is set for Friday, February 19, 2016 at 8:30p.m. The Pelicans will face the Philadelphia 76’ers with an oppor-tunity for over 200 members to partici-pate in on court programs. Some of those opportunities include being an honorary captain, half time presenta-tion, have your photo taken with player,

dancer team, or participate in several functions to be on the Peli-cans arena basketball court.

The tickets are $25.00 for balcony package or $46.00 lower package all orders should be placed by February 1, 2016. All tick-ets for this cost are available and those ordered first will get the best seating available. For more information, contact Lynne Fir-min at 504-593-4747.

Ticket Orders

The deadline is Monday February 1, 2016 to order tick-ets. Tickets can be purchased online at www.pelicans.com/groups/ticketpass, the code is 4 H. For more information, contact Lynne Firmin at 504-593-4747.

February 2016

1 First Day of Club Meetings

1 Ticket Deadline 4-H Night with the Pelicans

2 Junior Leader Officer Meeting

11 Fashion Show, 4-H Office

13-20 State Livestock Show, Lamar Dixon, Gonzales, LA

14 Happy Valentine’s Day

19 4-H Night with the Pelicans, New Orleans Arena

23 Junior Leader Meeting

26 Parish 4-H Project Books Due, 4-H Office

26 National 4-H Conference Applications Due, 4-H Office

26 Citizenship Washington Focus Applications Due, 4-H Office

26 4-H Scholarship Applications Due, 4-H Office

27 IceGator 4-H Night, Cajundome, Lafayette

January 2016

5 First Day of Club Meetings

6 Premier Exhibitor Clinic, 4-H Office

7 LSU Broiler Pick-Up, 4-H Office

12 Junior Leader Officer Meeting

13 Premier Exhibitor Contest, 4-H Office

14-17 Mid-Winter Fair Rodeo, Blackham Coliseum, Lafayette, LA

16 Sewing Workshop

18 M.L.K. Holiday, 4-H Office Closed

22-24 State Fashion Camp, Camp Grant Walker

21-23 Parish Livestock Show, Blackham Coliseum

26 Junior Leader Meeting, 4-H Office

27-30 Acadiana District Livestock Show, Blackham Coliseum

29 4-H Summer Camp Applications Due, 4-H Leader

Achievement Day 2016 Achievement Day is one of Lafayette Parish 4-H contest days. It is a great way to participate in many different 4-H contests as well as showcase some of your club’s hard work all year long.

Achievement Day 2016 will take place on March 19th at Lafa-yette Middle School. Be on the lookout for this years contest rules to be handed out at your club’s monthly 4-H meeting and posted to our social me-dia sites.

See you there!

The LSU Agricultural Center, a statewide campus of the LSU System, and Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center, a statewide campus of the Southern University System, provide equal opportunities in programs and employment. Louisiana State University and A&M College, Southern University and A&M College, Louisiana parish governing bodies, and United States Department of Agriculture cooperating.

Lafayette Office 1010 Lafayette St., Ste. 325

Lafayette, LA 70501 Phone: 337-291-7090

Fax 337-291-7099 www.lsuagcenter.com

Lafayette 4-H Hotline

Points of Interest:

Junior Leader Club

Clover Corner

4-H Summer Camp

4-H Icegator Game

Club of the Month

Livestock Shows

Wildlife Trips

Sewing Workshop

Fashion Show

Service-Learning

2016 Night with the Hornets

Achievement Day

MOOving Northwest for Dairy

Beef up your Project Books! Due Feb. 26th! How are those 4-H Record Books coming along? By now they should be close to comple-tion. Here a few things to remember:

All 4-H Project books are due to the 4-H office by February 26th! Remember, books are due to your school leader prior to this date. Check with your leader to be sure that you’re on time.

Put your name, grade, and school on the outside cover of your project book.

Tips for 4th and 5th Graders:

You only have to submit your project books (no “Portfolio/Record Book”)

4th & 5th Grade Discovering 4-H Books: Complete your entire project book including the story and turn it in to your leader. Don’t forget to include pictures of yourself doing various activities throughout the year. Adding pictures will boost your overall SCORE!

Other Projects: Be sure to complete as many pages as you can! Check the first few pages to see what the minimum requirements are for your book.

Tips for 6th—12th Graders:

You MUST submit a 4-H Portfolio and attach your project book

Don’t forget to put the project book behind Section 8, the Project Summary of the 4-H Portfolio.

You may submit up to 3 years worth of work, preferably a different page for each year, in sections 2-5.

Please, bind your Portfolio, Project Book(s), and all supporting materials in a binder/folder.

If you are able, use Section Dividers/Tabs so the judges can easily review your book.

JANUARY 2016

The next stop on our AgMazing Race across Louisiana is the Northwest. This area is the primary area dairy production along with the southeast part of the state.

You should get 3 servings of dairy a day. Milk is often referred to as nature’s most perfect food. It contains almost every element needed in human diets. Milk is a nutrient powerhouse. An 8 ounce (1 cup) serving of milk, white or flavored, gives you as much– vitamin A as 2 hard-boiled eggs,

phosphorus as a cone cup of kidney beans, riboflavin as 1/3 cup of whole almonds, calcium as 10 cups of raw spinach, vitamin D as 3/4 ounce of cooked salmon, potassium as one small banana, and protein as one baked chicken thigh.

Incorporating dairy products into your diet can be easy. And re-member, milk is a nutritional powerhouse! Milk and other dairy products can lead to much healthier bones and support Louisiana Agriculture.

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Junior Leader Meeting

It’s still not too late for 8-12 graders to join the Lafayette Parish 4-H Junior Leadership Club. The next scheduled meeting of the Junior Leadership Club is Tuesday, January 26, at the 4-H Office to begin at 6:00 p.m.

Starting this month, yearly membership dues will in-crease to $10.00 for all new members.

This club is made up of older, more active 4-H’ers from across Lafayette Parish who are in grades 8th-12th. All 4-H’ers in grades 8 to 12 are urged to attend. Parents are also welcome. 4-H members from this group are selected to serve as counselors for camps, attend 4-H University and other events throughout the year. Please plan to participate!

Louisiana IceGators 4-H Night is set for Saturday, Feb-ruary 27, 2016 at 7:05p.m. In the Cajundome. The IceGators will face the Columbus Cottonmouths. All tickets will come with a Limited Edition IceGators puck. More information on opportunities for fifty 4-H members to participate in the game will be sent to the 4-H leaders. Some of the opportunities include being part of the High 5 Tunnels, on ice participant from the group and group visit from Gaston the IceGators Mascot.

The tickets are $15.00 each for middle and lower level seating. A portion of the tickets sales will be donated to the State Service-Learning focus assisting Foster Children. All tick-ets for this cost are available and will be grouped according to the school club name. To request your tickets, please contact

Brandon Domingue at 704-4423. The deadline is Wednes-day, February 24 by 12 noon.

IceGators 4-H Night

You’ve been asking about our 4-H Summer Camping Program, so here it is! 4-H Camp will be held July 18-22, 2016. It is for youth in grades 4th – 6th this school year. If you are interested in going, get a copy of the camp letter and application from your 4-H leader. The letters and applications are being handed out at the Janu-ary club meetings. The applications are due to your 4-H leader by January 29, 2016. If you have not completed it and are interested, please do so immediately. All applica-tions should be submitted through your 4-H leader at each school.

The first round of camp invitation letters will be mailed to campers in mid-late February. There will be an alter-nates list, that will go out in March. We are looking for-ward to another fun week at 4-H Camp. We hope you will join us.

Parents, please, please, please look at your summer schedule to see if there is a possibility you can attend as an overnight chaperon!! Overnight Chaperon training takes about an hour and is good for five (5) years.

4-H Summer Camp

Hi New 4-H Member!

I am back again as promised and checking on your 4-H work. I hope that you were able to complete some of the activities in your book over your holiday break from school. I have made lots of suggestions in the December Hotline and if you finished all of the work, you are doing a great job!

Last month in the Discovering the World of 4-H book and the Exploring the World of 4-H book, you worked on pages that talked about being a good Citizen to others. This month, we will focus on Science, Engineering, and Technology or SET as we like to call it in 4-H. That means that in the Discovering the World of 4-H book you will work on pages 20-36 where there are activities that will teach you all about ATV and Hunter Safety, fishing gear, types of products that come from animals, pet care, and photography. In the Exploring the World of 4-H book, you should be working on pages 23-34 which covers activities on parachutes, balloon jets, insects, environment, growing your own tree, and forestry.

If you came to the Project Book Workshop on December 22nd at 4-H Office then you were able to complete many of these activities completed! That is a great way to be sure that you are finished your record book by February!

Keep in mind all of the great opportunities for you in 4-H as you work through the activities in your record book. Re-member to keep your record book neat and clean and deco-rate it if you wish. Pictures are always a good idea. See YOU next month!

Yours truly, Clover

Clover Corner

To view a list of the winning clubs, go to the Lafayette 4-H page through the LSU AgCenter’s home page, click on Lafayette Parish, 4-H Youth Development then Contest Results. The current month’s re-sults will be listed on the top.

4-H Club of the Month

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Sewing Workshop A 4-H sewing workshop will be held

for any 4-Her’s in 4th-6th grade who are interested in the sewing project. 4-Her’s who turn their registration forms in early will have a better chance at getting selected for the workshop. The workshop will be held on Saturday, January 16, 2016.

4-Her’s will learn sewing machine basics, and will actually get to sew items at the workshop. To participate in the workshop, a real, working sewing machine will be required. Call the 4-H Office for more information!

***WORKSHOP PARTICPANTS must fill out a registration form that can be obtained from the 4-H office and will be selected on a first come first serve basis due to limited space. ONLY 10 spots AVAILABLE. ***

Livestock Shows are Here!

Service– Learning Planning & Preparation

Youth voice is an essential principle in service-learning. There are many different ways to engage youth in a service-learning project. Youth as planners—involved in creating a vision, setting goals, and determining objectives; identify community needs, develop action plans and time lines, recruit volunteers, conduct community outreach, and evaluate the outcomes of the project.

Youth can conduct fundraisers to support the project and decide how the funds should be spent. Youth can even play the role as policy-makers to help sustain their community change. They can be directly involved in helping set policies that will change social problems.

Any 4-H member in 8th grade or younger, who is enrolled in any of the wildlife project books could win an all expense paid trip to one of the state’s many Wildlife and Fisheries Management and Research Areas. Crabbing, Fishing, Swimming, Boat Rides,

and much more could be yours if you submit your environ-mental/wildlife related project book to the 4-H Office by Feb-ruary 26th along with a 4-H Portfolio. 4-H members may need to do additional work to qualify for this contest; howev-er, the parish record book may be enough to qualify. The top two parish wildlife books will be sent to the state contest to compete for the wildlife trips.

The wildlife records include wildlife activities in Discovering the World of 4-H, Exploring the World of 4-H, You and Nature, You and Plants, Wildlife Pioneers, Aquacul-ture, Birds, Insects, Forestry, and Fur. Interested 4-H’ers should contact Mrs. Hannah at 291-7090.

Wildlife Trips Available

Late January, early February is livestock time in Lafayette Parish. Many 4-H’ers have been working long and hard with their projects in preparation for the livestock shows. Let’s recognize these members and congrat-ulate them for their efforts.

The Lafayette Parish Livestock Show will be held on January 21-23 at the Blackham Coliseum. Don’t forget about our sale on the Saturday morning. We will have a live auction where you can bid on live market (meat) animals. We’ll also have cakes and a silent auc-tion. Come out and support these 4-H exhibitors!

The District Show will be on February 27-30, also at Blackham Coli-seum. Those who qualify will go on the state show in Gonzales, LA.

PARISH SHOW & SALE:

January 21-23, 2016

ACADIANA DISTRICT SHOW:

February 27-30, 2016

LSU STATE SHOW:

February 13-20, 2016

4-H Fashion Show Attention 4-Her’s interested in sewing and Fashion!

The 2016 Lafayette Parish 4-H Fashion Show will be held on Thursday, February 11th, 2016 beginning at 3:00 p.m. Even if you are not enrolled in the Fashion Project book, you can still participate in this AWESOME event! You will need to contact Mrs. Hannah at 291-7090 to receive more infor-mation about the rules. We will also mail you a packet on what garments you can sew and compete with in our 4-H Fashion Show. Please call as soon as you can so we can put you on our Fashion Show mailing list!

4-H Summer Camp