UNION COUNTY 4

811 N. Sumner Ave. Creston, IA 50801| 641-782-8426 | 8:00-4:30 PM, M-F LEARN MORE AT WWW.EXTENION.IASTATE.EDU/4H/UNION

Club Meeting Dates

4-Her Spotlight

SPIN Events

Financial Assistance

Friends of 4-H Grant Application

Friends of 4-H Solicitations

County-wide T-shirt , NEW!

May 15th Livestock Deadline

Youth Conference

Regional Summer Camps

Elements of Design Workshop

Market Broiler Project

FSQA Testing Options

New Sale & Release Time

WHAT’S INSIDE:

Calendar of Events May 2 Extension Council Meeting, 5:30 PM, extension office

May 6 Dog Obedience Training, 7:00 PM, Fairgrounds May 12 Creston Clover Kids, 4-5 PM, Trinity Lutheran Church, Creston

May 12 Fairboard Meeting, 8:00 PM, Fairgrounds cookshack

May 13 Jr. FLL Meeting, 5:00-7:00 PM, SWCC Tech Bldg. II

May 13 Dog Obedience Training, 7:00 PM, Fairgrounds

May 15 Statewide Livestock Deadline in 4-H Online

May 16 Elements of Design, Copyright Workshop, 5:30-7:30 PM at Maple Street Memories May 17 Friends of 4-H Meeting, 6:30 PM, extension office


May 24 SPIN Event @ Maurices, 5:30-6:30 PM


June 1 Youth Conference Registration Deadline

June 3 Friday Night Horse Practices Begin, 6:00 PM, Fairgrounds

UNION COUNTY 4-H NEWSLETTER

Haley Jones Union County Extension County Youth and Outreach Coordinator [email protected] 641-782-8426

“Like” Union County Extension on Facebook at

www.facebook.com/unioncounty4hia

I post updates, deadlines and pictures from events here.

Another source for important information!

May

2016

Union County Fair 2016

July 23-28

mailto:[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/unioncounty4hia

May Club Meetings

County-Wide T-shirt, NEW! Pick them up at the office!

3 Mile Sharp Shooters: May 15th, 3:00 PM, 3 Mile Shooting Range

Highland Highlights and Clover Kids: May 7th, 5:30 PM preceding Glow Run for FNB

Horse and Riders: May 9th, 7:00 PM, Watson’s Farm

Pleasant Valley Explorers and Clover Kids: May 8th, 6:00 PM, Tracy’s House

New Hope Boosters and Clover Kids: May 4th, 1:30 PM, Afton Park

Sand Creek Pioneers and Clover Kids: May 1st, 2:00 PM, Arispe Church

Wiggles and Wags and Clover Kids: Dog Class on Friday Nights

Douglas Boosters and Clover Kids: May 1st, 5:00 PM, Cromwell Church

Lincoln United and Clover Kids: May 9th, 6:00 PM, Hospital Conference Rm

Union County Achievers: May 22nd, 1:30 PM, Extension Office

Youth Council: May 11th, 6:30 PM, State Farm in Creston

Based on your feedback this past fall regarding county-wide shirts, the consensus is to move towards a county-wide shirt. Beginning with the Union County Fair 2016 all 4-Hers (4th-12th graders) will be expected to wear the tradi-tional, green 4-H T-shirt while in the show ring or during static exhibit judging.

Horse exhibitors will continue to follow the dress code as described in the 4-H fair book.

The idea of a county-wide 4-H shirt is to showcase ourselves as 4-H with the traditional, green shirt that everyone knows to be 4-H. The shirt can also be worn year after year, passed down to siblings, shared among other 4-Hers in the county and is relatively inexpensive.

The cost of the shirt is $7.00. Shirts are available at the extension office for pick up.

Clubs are certainly welcome to design their own club t-shirts that can be worn throughout the year, during the county fair while not showing or being judged, at roadside cleanups, etc.


Friends of 4-H Solicitations

4-Her Spotlight

Each month I will be choosing two 4-Hers, one from the Creston area and one from the

Afton area, to do a brief spotlight on for the area newspapers. Watch for 4-Hers in the

news! May spotlights are Keegan Bailey of Highland Highlights and Hunter Swanson

from the Pleasant Valley Explorers.

Solicitation letters were sent out to the community. If you would like to contribute to the various 4-H related activities then see the attached letter and donation form.

Money donated goes toward:

Project materials Camp supplies

Worthy special requests and activities throughout the year

Registration fees for state and national 4-H leadership conferences

Project awards and recognition Fair trophies and awards

Member insurance Enrollment fee assistance

Clover Kids activity supplies $3,000+ in college scholarships


NEW Sale Time and Exhibit Release Time

At the 2016 County Fair the livestock sale will begin at 1:00 PM on Thursday, July 28th. An appreciation lunch presented by the Union County

Cattlemen’s will be served at noon on the fairgrounds.

***Release time for non-sale animals and static exhibits will be from 8:00-11:00 AM on Thursday preceding the sale. Horses in Fun Show will release

following that show.

The livestock sale will begin with a “Sale of Champions” from each species .

Sale Order will be beef, swine, broilers, and ending with sheep & goats.

Pies will be sold intermittently throughout the sale for the Friends of 4-H Foundation.

FSQA Testing Options for 7th-12th Graders

For those intermediate and senior 4-H members who still need to test out for FSQA,

this needs to be completed with me at the extension office by June 25th! This is for all

those 7th-12th graders who did not attend our testing dates in April and need to take

the test.

Give me a call if you are unsure if you need testing this year or not!

You will need to call or email me to set up a time to stop into the office by June 25th .

The testing will take about 30 minutes. 641-782-8426 or [email protected]


Financial Assistance Available

Friends of 4-H Grant Application Opportunity

There is financial assistance available to 4-Hers for the $30.00 fee from the State. Simply reach out to me and I can give you the application to fill out and then I will send it in to

the State. Every year we have several 4-Hers who utilize this assistance.

Our local Friends of 4-H foundation has created a NEW grant opportunity for 4-Hers and 4-H

clubs/groups for the new 4-H year! This grant was piloted by the Small Animal Committee this past

spring where they were able to buy 40 new small animal cages for the barn at the fairgrounds. These

cages were filled with rabbits at this past county fair.

Applications are available at the extension office.


Youth Conference– Deadline June 1st

Regional Summer Camps, 5th-7th graders

Dive to New Depths Dates: June 28-30, 2016

Every June, almost 1000 teenagers converge on the campus of Iowa State University for 3 days full of speakers, workshops, mixers, dances, a banquet, and community service activities. If you've completed 8th grade, you're eligible to attend. You don't even have to be in 4-H to attend this conference! You will get to experience campus

life and meet new people from across the state! Check out the website for all details: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/iowa4hyouthconference

There are a couple of state camps available to 5th-7th graders! Check out the link here: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/camping

Check out this Regional camp opportunity for 5th and 6th graders here:

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/harrison/news/2016-west-field-4-h-5th-6th-grade-jr-camp

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/camping




May 15th Animal Deadline in 4-H Online

It is that time of year again for me to be sending lots of reminders to everyone about the May 15th deadline! May 15th is a statewide, animal identification deadline in 4H Online for all species (Except poultry, rabbits, small pets and market beef).

Below are listed the specifics for each process. Please keep in mind that it is important that you go in and verify every animal that I inputted into 4-H Online for you. Any mistakes I may have made or any changes in gender or description can easily be fixed by giving me a call at the office before May 15th. Do not verify anything until changes have been made.

Attached are documents on how to identify and verify your animals on 4-H Online.

INDENTIFICATION: All bottle lambs, bucket calves, bottle goats, feeder calves, breeding heifers, cow/calf pairs, all beef that were not weighed in, all breeding sheep and goats that were not weighed in, dogs and horses need to be identified on 4-H Online by May 15th! Market Broiler registration forms due to the office by May 15th (do not enter into 4H Online).

**This excludes poultry, rabbits and small pets. They need to be identified by July 1st.

VERIFICATION: All weighed in swine, all weighed in beef, all weighed in sheep and goats need to be verified by YOU on 4-H Online by May 15th! This information was inputted by myself and I would like you to verify it.

**Verify the gender of your animal, description, weights, tag numbers etc.

Clover Kids: If you are a 3rd grade Clover Kid who is exhibiting a bottle goat, bottle lamb or bucket calf then identify your animals into 4H Online as well. These bottle animals need to be tagged by 4-H tag. Tags can be picked up at the office. A bottle animal worksheet also needs to be completed and turned into the office by July 1st. Pick up worksheet at from the extension office.

DO NOT CLICK ‘VERIFY’ ON ANY ANIMAL IF YOU NEED ME TO MAKE A CORRECTION ON IT!

Everything identified and verified by the May 15th deadline will stand as is at the county and state fairs.

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