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GUTHRIE COUNTY NEWSLETTER

Mollie Clark Mary Ebert Vicki Frohling Youth Coordinator Program Coordinator Office Coordinator clarkm@iastate.edu mebert@iastate.edu frohling@iastate.edu

April

4 Youth Committee Meeting, 7 pm

9 Welding Workshop, Jimmy Hummel’s Shop, Yale

12 Junk Drawer Robotics, Panora Public Library, Panora

14 Junk Drawer Robotics, Mary J. Barnett Library, Guthrie Center

23 Swine Weigh-In, 8:30—10 am, Fairgrounds

23 Sheep and Goat Weigh-In, 8:30—10 am, Fairgrounds

May

15 Livestock ID due for all animals in 4hOnline

April 2016

National Volunteer Week April 10—16

Thank you to all our volunteers!

The 4-H program would not

exist without you.

Dates to remember

June

6 Youth Committee Meeting, 7 pm

7 Dog Obedience Class, 7 pm, Extension Office

12-15 SW Iowa 5th and 6th Grade Camp, Gretna, Nebraska

14 Dog Obedience Class, 7 pm, Fairgrounds

15 Aksarben DNA Deadline

18 Dairy Goat Workshop, Afternoon, Extension Office

21 Dog Obedience Class, 7 pm, Fairgrounds

28 Dog Obedience Class, 7 pm, Fairgrounds

28-30 State 4-H Conference—Dive to New Depths

July

1 State Fair Livestock Entries due in FairEntry

10 STATIC Exhibits entered into FairEntry

13 Communications Event, 1-3 pm, The New Homestead,

Guthrie Center

13 Clothing Event, 1-4:30 pm, The New Homestead, Guthrie

Center

13 Style Show and Share the Fun, 7 pm, The New

Homestead, Guthrie Center

18 Static Exhibit Judging, 1-5 pm, Community Building,

Fairgrounds

2016 Guthrie County Fair Theme has been announced!

“Guthrie County Fair—Building for the Future”

Welding Workshop!

Join us for a welding workshop on Saturday, April 9th

from 10:00 am—noon at Jimmy Hummel’s house (2752

180th St. Yale)

Youth will learn safety, different types of welds and weld-

ing techniques and create a Visual Arts or Home

Improvement project to take

home.

Open to all youth in 4th

grade and above. Youth that

attended last year are en-

couraged to attend this

workshop to build on what

they learned last year.

Please RSVP to the Extension Office by April 6th.

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

Sheep and Goat Weigh-In, April 23

LOCAL NEWS

All livestock can be identified in 4-H online under the animals tab. If you are unable to do it online, forms are available from your club leader and at the Extension Office.

4-H’ers planning to exhibits beef, swine, sheep, goats, horse & pony, dog, poultry, rabbits or pets identify online or by form by May 15 to be eligible to exhibit at the fair. Meat rabbits and roaster and broiler classes of poultry must be identified by August 1.

If you have never logged into iowa.4honline.com (no www.) before, click the ‘I forgot my pass-word’ and enter the email

address given to the office. This will email you a temporary password to get you in the system. When logged into 4hOnline,

there will be an ‘edit’ button. This will log you into your child’s profile where you

can edit what projects they are enrolled in or identify animals.

If you have difficulty with the 4honline program, a help sheet can be found at: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/page/4honline-information-families-and-leaders or contact Mollie.

If you plan to show swine at the 2016 Guthrie County Fair, you need to bring your pigs to weigh-in on Saturday, April 23 between

8:30 and 10 a.m. at the Guthrie County Fairgrounds.

All pigs must be weighed in. Each 4-H’er can weigh and identify up to a maximum of 15 pigs. The cost for each ear tag is $2, pay-

able at weigh-in. Any pig at or under the weigh limit (52 pounds) is eligible to be a derby pig at the county fair.

Swine can be weighed at your home if you prefer. A home visit costs $20 per family. Contact the Extension Office to schedule

your home visit.

State Fair swine exhibitors have two options for swine to be identified for the Iowa State Fair.

1. Bring your pigs to the county weigh-in where you will fill out the identification form and pigs will receive the DNA tags. A

variation of this option would be to pay for a home visit to have the tagging done.

2. 4-H Family comes to the county office for DNA tags, tagger, and envelopes. 4-H’ers returns home and tags each pig, puts

DNA sample tag numbers on back of DNA envelope, 4-H’er and parent/guardian signs and seals the DNA envelope and re-

turns tagger and the DNA envelopes to the county office before May 10. (Tagger must be returned as soon as finished tag-

ging.)

State Fair swine tags are $10. By May 15, 4-H’er logs into 4honline to verify the information on each pig is complete and correct; if

the 4-H’er does not verify, the information will stand as is.

Weigh-In will take place at the Guthrie County Fairgrounds from 8:30—10 a.m. on April 23. Tags cost $2 each. If you plan to show sheep

or goats at Ak-Sar-Ben the cost is $5 for the DNA testing. If you plan to show at the Iowa State Fair the cost is $5 for the retinal imaging.

MAY 15th DEADLINE!

Swine Weigh-In, April 23

4-H PLEDGE

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.

WEST FIELD JUNIOR 4-H CAMP

We are very excited about 2016 West Field 4-H 5th & 6th Grade Jr. Camp for this year at a new camping center, the EAST-ERN NEBRASKA 4-H CAMPING CENTER near Gretna, just 20 minutes east of Omaha. Our 4-H camp will is for all youth from Monona and Regions 12, 17 & 18 Counties. This new camping center for our camp has bathrooms in the cabins, a zip line course, a huge water slide, swimming in a lake and a challenging high and low ropes team building course along with a group of wonderful camp counselor teens from our counties that will help lead the camping experience. We have shown strong evidence that the camping expe-rience is a strong life skill building \experience for our campers and counselors and a strong tool in creating a significant 4-H experience that affect campers creating memories that last a lifetime and that has an impact on them staying in 4-H. So celebrate with us another year of 4-H camping geared for our youth and Iowa 4-H members in 22 counties of our West 4-H Field Area!

Take a ride on the "WILD" side and mark on your calendars to attend 2016 West Field 4-H 5th & 6th Grade Jr. Camp June 12-15 at Eastern Nebraska 4-H Camping Center. Experience the adventure and excitement of four days filled with 4-H camp traditions and some new activities, including canoeing, camp songs, a new zip line course, a huge water slide, GAGA Ball, swimming, outdoor camping basics, and campfires! Learn to create cool crafts that work great as 4-H working exhibits. Bring a friend with you or make new ones! Camp will run from Sunday, June 12 at 3 p.m. until our closing ceremony starting at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 15.

4-H camps are open to ALL YOUTH – membership in a 4-H club is not a requirement – so bring a friend to share the experi-ence! 2016 West Field 4-H 5th & 6th Grade Jr. Camp is open to all Monona, Region 12, 17 & 18 counties youth who have completed grades 5 and 6 or the equivalent in Home Schooling. The camp will be filled at 80 youth, so you will want to register early before it fills up. Registration, Parental Permission, Camp Health Info and Permissions Form and Request for providing Medication at a 4-H Event form (if your camper will be bringing any medications with them) are available from the county extension office or downloaded from http://www.extension.iastate.edu/harrison/news/2016-west-field-4-h-5th-6th-grade-jr-camp in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF format. Registration deadline is May 20. Cost for the four day camp will be $185.00. Check with your County Extension office as most counties may have camp scholarships for 4-H’ers or financial help if needed. Please contact David Seilstad, phone: 712/644-2105 or email: seilstad@iastate.edu if you have any questions on this camp or others being offered at the EASTER Nebraska 4-H Center: http://4h.unl.edu/4hcampeastern You can take a virtual tour of the center, cabins and programming facilities at this website.

Senior 4-H Opportunity! GREAT friends… GREAT talks….. GREAT memories….. GREAT leadership opportunity…. GREAT for the resume and college application…. GREAT role model that your campers will look up to…. GREAT chance to help younger 4-H’ers grow in their skills…. What could be this GREAT? Being a counselor at the 2016 West Field 4-H 5th & 6th Grade Junior Camp for June 12-15 to be held at the Eastern Nebraska 4-H Camping Center, near Gretna, just 30 minutes west from Omaha. The camp will include campers from Monona County, Region 12 Counties--Greene, Guthrie, Audubon, Carroll, Shelby and Crawford, Region 17 Counties--Harrison, East Pottawattamie, West Potta-wattamie, Mills, Montgomery, Fremont and Page and Region 18 Counties—Cass, Adair, Adams, Taylor, Union, Ringgold, Decatur and Clarke. You just need to be a 4-H’er and age 16 or older by June 11 in time for camp. You will need to attend the two required training sessions in late May and early June. Counselors will head up to camp the day before campers arrive, Saturday, June 11 for a workday to finish preparations for camp as well as get familiar with the important programming sites on the camp grounds. Being a camp counselor is also a great leadership opportunity as you are building your resume for college scholarships and leadership roles at school. Fill out a counselor application from the West Field 4-H 5th & 6th Grade Jr. Camp Webpage (http://www.extension.iastate.edu/harrison/news/2016-west-field-4-h-5th-6th-grade-jr-camp ) and mail, fax or email it to the Harrison County Extension Office by Friday, April 1st to be considered for this year’s GREAT Camp Leadership Team.

2016 Region 12, 17 & 18 Area 5th & 6th Grade 4-H Camp

4-H PLEDGE

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.

STATE 4-H NEWS

2016 Iowa Youth Conference

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! You will be having fun while learning by doing, dancing the nights away, and serving the community. You will get to learn new things to take back to your community and school, and in the process you might even discover something new about yourself! There are opportunities for you to share your talents with the rest of the delegation through small group discussion, the Conference Chorus, and a Talent Show!

If you have a specific interest in animal science, you might want to look into becoming part of the ROUND-UP track! There are also workshop tracks that span all 3 days for certain topics if you'd like to study something in more depth. Or, you can choose different workshops each day to get more variety while you're on campus.

If you'd like to be part of the team to capture the Conference in photos, join our Iowa 4-H Youth Camera Corps, and bring your camera. We're doing things a little differently this year and you'll get to learn photo skills and put them to work through the workshop series.

Please join us in June for the most incredible three days of your life at the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference!

Iowa 4-H Youth Conference 2016 Registration is now open. You can reg-ister between now and June 1 for the regular registration cost of $175. Be-tween June 2 and June 10 the rate goes up to $200. All registration closes on June 10. Check out financial aid applications, due April 25 to the Iowa 4-H Foundation.

For more information and how to register visit

www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/iowa4hyouthconference.

Do you ever wonder how to expand Citizenship past your club and

county? Rachel Wonderlich, Global Citizenship Intern has a great

inspirational and educational newsletter each month. Below is a

preview of her newsletter.

Each month, Rachel has a story about either a current or former Iowa 4-H’er. This month features Sarah Tweeten, former Worth County 4-H’er, and how she has worked to promote food security in Ghana.

Her newsletter can be found online at http://

www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/sites/www.extension.iastate.edu/

files/4h/CitizenshipCourierMar2016.pdf. For past newsletters, visit

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/content/global-citizenship.

We would love to hear how you plan to celebrate Global Youth Service Day (April 15th—17th)? Share your story: #Iowa4HGlobal

4-H'ers investing in 4-H'ers. This is the essence of the 4-H'ers for

4-H Campaign, sponsored each year by the State 4-H Council. The

campaign raises money to fund projects that benefit 4-H members

throughout the state. This year marks the 31st anniversary of the

Iowa 4-H'ers for 4-H Campaign. Last year, we exceeded our goal

and raised over $30,000. We want to continue that growth and

have set our goal for this year at $31,000.00 with a suggested

$3.00 per member donation. We also want every county in Iowa

to participate! YOU can help grow 4-H in Iowa!

4-H’ers for 4-H Campaign

The Citizenship Courier

Dog Obedience Classes Who: Open to all youth and adults. Dogs must be at least five

months old. Youth are not required to be in 4-H. Training is required

for 4-H/FFA youth intending to exhibit in the Dog Show at the Guthrie

County Fair.

What: Topics Include Commands, heal, sit, stand for examination, etc.

When: Classes meet weekly for 10 weeks. They begin June 7, no

dogs, at 7 p.m. at the Extension Office. The remainder of the classes will

be at the Guthrie County Fairgrounds with dogs. The last class will be

on August 9 if there are no cancellations.

Cost: $15 per dog for youth

$30 per dog for adults

(Make check payable to Pat Wyatt)

Participant Name:_______________________________________ Age:______________

Address:_________________________________________________________________

Phone:____________________________email:_________________________________

4-H Club:________________________________________________________________

Dogs Name:_________________________ Age:___________Breed:_________________

DOG OBEDIENCE CLASS

Please detach and return with registration fee to: Guthrie Co. Extension, 212 State Street, Guthrie Center, IA 50115

MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO PAT WYATT

Bring rabies and distemper

certificate to first class.

Classes will be taught by Pat Wyatt, who has many

years of experience judging and training dogs.

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach programs are available to all without regard to race, color, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation,

gender identity, genetic information, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. veteran. Inquiries can be directed to Office of Equal Opportunity, 3350

Beardshear Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011, (515) 294-7612.

Guthrie County Extension

212 State Street

Guthrie Center, IA 50115

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