Horse Project

Group: Mark

Your Calendar!

Do you love horses and want to know more about them? Then the Horse Project group is the perfect place for you to be! 4-H offers many opportunities for horse-enthusiasts to learn more about equine, compete in fun events, and make life-long friends. Don’t own a horse? No worries! These events do not require horse ownership. The information meeting will be held on Thursday, September 20 at 6:30 p.m. Location will be deter-mined on the next newsletter! Be on the lookout!

It’s hard to believe that summer

is coming to a close, and schools

are already gearing up for the

2018-2019 school year! Here in

Davidson County 4-H, we are

looking forward to all of the new

opportunities that this year will

hold! We will be launching sever-

al new school clubs, as well as a

project group and judging team!

Keep reading to find out about

all of our exciting ways to contin-

ue and expand your involvement

in 4-H!

Join the Forestry Judging Team

to have fun and learn forestry

skills, such as identifying

leaves!

Davidson County 4-H J U L Y 2 0 1 8

U P C O M I N G

E V E N T S :

Line and Design

Club: August 2

Forestry Judging

Team Meeting:

August 8, 15, 22, 29,

September 5

Young Birders Club:

August 18

Homeschool Club:

August 21

Horse Project

Group Interest

Meeting: Sept 20

Jamberry

Fundraiser: Now–

August 17

Forestry Judging

Team: Mark Your

Calendar! TIMBER!!! Do you want to learn more about trees? Join our For-estry Judging Team, where we will work with a TN Certified Forester to study leaf, insect, wood, and disease identifica-tion, as well as other forestry-related topics. We will be meeting once per week for 5 weeks on Wednesdays, August 8th – September 5th, from 4:30-6:00pm. Meetings will take place at the Bob Brown Field Station at Percy Warner Park: 7199 Hwy 100, Nashville, TN 37221. After these 5 practices, we will compete in the Central Region 4-H Forestry Competi-tion at Cedars of Lebanon State Park on September 11th. Contact Andy Lantz to register for this club!

We’re back!!

It’s time to start back several

of our monthly clubs! For

more information, please see

our website. Join these clubs

anytime!

Line and Design Club: First

Thursday of every month re-

suming August 2 at the Nash-

ville Downtown Public Library,

meeting room 3, 1st Floor.

TIME CHANGE: 4:30-5:45 p.m.

Young Birders Club: Third

Saturday of every month re-

suming August 18 at Shelby

Bottoms Nature Center. 9:30-

11:30 a.m.

Homeschool Club: Third Tues-

day of every month resuming

August 21 at the Nashville

Farmers Market. 2:00-3:30

p.m.

Contact Us 1417 Murfreesboro Pike

Nashville, TN 37217

615-862-5995

davidson.extension.edu

Lindsey Harrison

4-H Extension Agent

lharri72@utk.edu

Andy Lantz

4-H Extension Agent

alantz@utk.edu Page 1 of 2

We need your support!

There are so many ways to be involved with Davidson County 4-H, and one very im-portant way is through financial support! You can always support us by linking your Kroger card to Davidson County

4-H, where Kroger donates a portion of your spending to our program! However, this month, we have a special opportunity to raise funds by purchasing Jamberry products!

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Volunteers Needed!

Do you love 4-H and working with young people? We need your help! In order to better serve the youth of Davidson County, we need volunteers to help with pro-ject groups, judging events, clubs, camps, special events, and more! Building your resume, becoming more in-volved with Extension, and changing the lives of Da-vidson county youth are just a few benefits! To find out more about opportunities and areas where assistance is needed, please fill out the form online by going to:

https://tinyurl.com/yabjpkuw

Member Spotlight!

Two students from McGavock High School, Jai’lah Richardson and Chris Ford, represented Davidson County 4-H this month at the Citizenship Washington Focus held in Washington D.C. There they joined 8 other students from across the state of Tennessee to discuss citizenship and other topics with about 300 students from across the United States. We are very proud to have such outstanding and active members!

Step 1: Register online at krogercommunityrewards.com with your Kroger Plus card. Step 2: Enter our NPO number 26784 and select Tennessee 4-H Foundation from the list. Step 3: Click confirm. To verify enrollment, our organization’s name should be on the right side of the information page.

Jamberry is a company that makes long lasting, beautiful nail wraps that come in all sizes and designs, as well as several other beauty products. They have agreed to partner with 4-H for a fundraiser! 20% of all sales will be donated to our county. Fol-low these steps to make sure your purchases benefit our county: Step1: Make sure to use the link: http://bit.ly/2kristinatucker Step 2: When checking out, find the consultant Kristina Tucker, then click Davidson County 4-H. (HURRY, fundraiser ends August 17)