Just like everything else, this has not been a normal 4-H summer. We

have missed getting to see our 4-H members at 4-H Camp, 4-H Teen

Conference, 4-H Livestock and Horse Shows and the many 4-H events at

the Hart County Fair. We are also not sure what the next few months will

look like with 4-H events. However, we are going to try to offer some 4-H

activities, projects, etc. that can follow social distancing and CDC guide-

lines. Please be patient with us as we are all trying to figure out a new way

of programming this fall.

Thank you to all the families that took part in our 4-H Grab N Go Kits for

the 10 weeks we offered them in March, April & May. We offered 4-H

projects each week in June and now in July we are offering 4-H science

activities for youth to enjoy each week.

Due to the current situation with Covid 19 and social distancing the Hart

County 4-H Council has decided to hold a Virtual 4-H Achievement

Banquet for 2020. Please read more about this in the newsletter.

Also, the deadline for 4-H awards has been moved to Monday, August 3rd!

This deadline will include turning in record books, outstanding 4-H Leader,

4-H Teen, Alumni & Outstanding Livestock Applications as well as All-Star

& Super All-Star Awards. The 4-H Achievement Forms are due October

1st. More details are inside this newsletter.

Be sure to “like” us on our Hart Co. Facebook Page Also, please make

sure we have your e-mail address! We send out lots of reminders during

the year. If you have NOT been getting 4-H e-mails this summer please let

us know so we can add you to the list. We also have a One Call List to

send out phone reminders. Please contact our office to sign up for these

services.

Sincerely,

Amber Huffman, CEA

4-H Youth Development

A Message From Amber... Attention

All State Fair Participants:

If you are participating in the Kentucky State Fair, August 20-30 you need to contact the Extension Office as soon as you know the date(s) you will be at the fair. We will need to send a letter to your school letting them know that you are participating in a 4-H Event.

Holiday Closing The Hart County Extension

Office will be closed on

Monday, September 7th for

the Labor Day Holiday.

Hart County Cooperative Extension Service Summer 2020

4-H Hart Beat

Cooperative Extension Service Hart County 505 A.A. Whitman Lane Munfordville, KY 42765 ((270) 524-2451 Fax: (270) 524-2453

DL_CES_HART@EMAIL.UKY.EDU

4-H record books and honors forms are due to the Extension Office by August 3rd. All youth that are

participating in the 4-H Market Livestock Premium Show are required to submit a book. All books

will be judged at the county level and all will be recognized at the MC Banquet this fall. You can

complete a book on:

Arts Babysitting Beef Bicycle Bread

Careers Citizenship Clothing Communications Computers

Country Ham Crochet/Knitting Dairy Dairy Foods Dog

Electric Energy Exploring 4-H Food/Nutrition Food Preservation

Forestry Geology Goats Health Home Environment

Horse Meat Goats Petroleum Power Pets/Small Animals Photography

Poultry Safety Sheep Shooting Sports Swine

Vet Science Weather Wood Science Teen Leader Adult Leader

Conservation/Natural Resources Entomology/Beekeeping Secretary Book

Gardening/Horticulture Plant/Soil Science

Consumer Ed. /Home Mgmt Dale Rigdon Area Horseman Award

Record Books & Honors

To All Livestock Participants

If you have participated this summer in any of the District or Expo Shows for

Beef, Goat, Dairy, Lamb or Swine we need to hear from you. Each year at the

4-H Achievement Banquet we recognize youth that have participated in any of

these shows that have placed up to 10th place. Please write up a listing of your

awards, including the name of the show, place and type of animal, and turn them

into the Extension Office. We can’t recognize you at the Banquet if you don’t let

us know about your accomplishments.

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Hart County 4-H members have been working on

their 4-H Country Ham projects. This month they

attended Cllifty Farms and washed their hams. On

July 28th they will be oiling and selecting their

hams that will be judged.

The following students are

participating in the project this

year: Bayley Fraze, Briarlee Fraze,

Josh Geiser, Ava Logsdon, Hailey

Thompson, Lily Thompson & Rebekah

Waddle.

4-H Country Ham Project

The 4-H Country Ham Scholarship Application is now available. Youth who have participated in the 4-H Country Ham project are eligible to apply for the scholarship. This scholarship is open to upcoming high school seniors. To obtain a scholarship application, please contact the Hart County Extension Office. The deadline to apply for the scholarship is August 7th.

4-H Country Ham Scholarship

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Even though we are still in summer it is time to start

thinking about awards for the 4-H Achievement

Banquet. All of these awards are due to the Extension

Office by AUGUST 3rd!! You can’t win if you don’t

apply!!!!

With so many awards available we must ask that you

call or come by the Extension Office if you need an

award form or log onto the web site.

http://hart.ca.uky.edu/content/4-h-youth-development

*Outstanding Alumni *Outstanding Leader

*Outstanding Teen Leader *Outstanding Beef

*Outstanding Dairy *Outstanding Goat

*Outstanding Sheep *Outstanding Horse

*Outstanding Dog *Outstanding Poultry

*Outstanding Trap *Outstanding Rabbit

*Outstanding Archery *Record Book Forms

*All Star Awards *Super All Star Awards

4-H Achievement Banquet Awards Congratulations 4-H Poster Art Winners!!

4 Years Ribbon

Eli Estes Blue

5 Years

Anna Darr Blue

Bessly Fraze Blue

6 Years

Garrett Darr Blue

Ellie Cline Blue

7 Years

Bayley Fraze Blue

Grady Dobson Blue

8 Years

Matthew Estes Blue

Harrison Waddle Blue

Kase Walters Blue

9 Years

Johnathan Sims Blue-Champion

10 Years

Briarlee Fraze Blue-Champion

11 Years

Braydon Thompson Blue-Champion

12 Years

Anna Sims Blue-Champion

13 Years Old

Oliver Minton Blue-Champion

14 Years Old

Davey Williams Blue-Champion

15 Years

Connor Thompson Blue-Champion

16 Years

Rebekah Waddle Blue-Champion

Hart County 4-H/FFA Market Livestock Premium Show will be Friday, August 7th at 5:00 pm at the Hart County Fairgrounds. Students will get an opportunity to show their market goats, lambs, steers and swine. Also, added to the show this year, youth can exhibit one rabbit or poultry animal. Youth MUST preregister for the event by calling the Extension Office by July 27th. Youth can exhibit a total of two animals in the show. One goat, lamb, steer or swine AND one rabbit or poultry.

4-H/FFA Market Livestock Premium Show

July 13th Visual Letters Project Overview July 14th Art is Expression July 15th Principles and Elements of Art July 16th Responding to Art July 17th Writing an Artist Statement July 28 Country Ham July 31 Deadline to order KY State Fair Tickets July 29-31 Kentucky 4-H Virtual Hippology/ Judging Contest August 1 Deadline to register for KY 4-H Virtual Fashion Revue August 3 Record Book are due August 3 Achievement Banquet award Due August 7 4-H Country Ham Scholarships Deadline August 7 4-H/FFA Market Livestock Premium Show August 29 KY 4-H Virtual Fashion Revue

Calendar of Events Page 4

Youth will complete the five lessons independently through the Kentucky 4-H Virtual Experience on the Kentucky 4-H Facebook page or Kentucky 4-H Instagram. o July 13th Visual Letters Project Overview o July 14th Art is Expression o July 15th Principles and Elements of Art o July 16th Responding to Art o July 17th Writing an Artist Statement Once the lessons are completed the participant will apply their new knowledge as they create

a piece of original art expressing information about their culture. Artwork should fit within a 12 inches by 12 inches square, no thicker than 1/2 inch.

Youth will submit a scanned copy of their piece of art work to clover@kentucky4h.org by

July 31 and mail the original to 212 Scovell Hall, Lexington, KY 40546 The completed project will include the piece of art and an artist’s statement describing the

piece. Once the youth submits their completed project a Zoom link for our virtual gathering to view

and discuss the art projects will be sent to them. We invite all those who complete the project to join us on August 4th at 7pm ET/ 6pm CT.

KY 4-H Visual Letter Exchange

*Congratulations Abigail Gardner—

Placing 6th District 6 Senior Hippology

Contest & 7th Senior Horse Judging

Contest!!

Mammoth Cave 4-H Demonstration

Champions: *Makinlee Gardner— Champion Sr.

Shooting Sport Demo

*Clara Matteson—Champion Jr. Clothing

Demo

*Johnathan Sims—Champion Jr.

Agriculture Demo

*Abigail Wurtman—Champion Sr. Visual

Arts Demo

*Morgan Chanoweth—Reserve Champion

Jr. Foods Demo

*Connor Thompson—Reserve Champion

Sr. SET Demo

Congratulations!

There will be a Kentucky 4-H Virtual Hippology/Judging Contest on July 29-31st. This competition will be a modified version. There will be multiple choice questions, slide identification, and 6 judging classes. There will not be a station portion of the exam. In addition to the usual format, the senior participants will also be asked to write reasons for two of the judging classes since this is a combined event. All other rules will remain in effect such as resources, and age categories. This is a link to the regular hippol-ogy rules. https://afs.ca.uky.edu/4h-youth/horse/event/ky-state-horse-contest There is no fee to participate in this competition. A top 10 will be announced for overall hippology score (written questions, plus judging), and for Judging (judging score plus reasons). No awards will be given for this event, but the top 10 finishers in both hippology and judging will be posted to the 4-H Horse Program Website. Seniors with the top 4 overall hippology scores, and seniors with the top 4 judging scores (including reasons scores) will be invited to represent Kentucky at the Eastern National 4-H Horse Round-UP. We are not 100% sure that Eastern Nationals will still be held this year, but we should know in the next few weeks. To register, go to: (this is for hippology and judging) https://uky.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bQOOZYtXNYzmd3T Email should include:

Subject of email: hippology for those entering in hippology, or judging for those only doing judging

On the body of the email: Name: Date of Birth: Jr or Sr: County: Email address to send the test link to:

On the first day of the exam you will be sent a link to the test. The contest will be operating on an honor sys-tem. This will be a closed book test, you are not allowed to use any resource material or help from other peo-ple while participating in the contest. The link will be sent out on July 29th . You will have until midnight on July 31st to take the test. Once the test is started it must be completed. The link can only be used once to ac-cess the test. There will be a time limit as well.

4-H virtual horse hippology

& judging contest

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Encourage children to eat vegetables and fruits by making it fun. Provide healthy ingredients and let kids help with preparation, based on their age and skills. Kids may try foods they avoided in the past if they help to make them. Let kids explore different smoothie combinations. You can even freeze into popsicle molds Kids love to dip their foods. Whip up a quick dip for veggies with yogurt & seasonings such as herbs or

garlic. Serve raw veggies such as broccoli and carrots. Try caterpillar kabobs. Assemble chunks of melon, apples, oranges & pears on a skewer for fruit kabobs

or use veggies such as cucumbers, squash, sweet peppers and tomatoes for veggie kabobs!! (Source: Choose My Plate)

KID FRIENDLY FRUITS & VEGGIES

Due to Covid 19 the Kentucky State Fair will

look drastically different. Many events have

been cancelled including Cloverville this year.

The good news is there will be some youth live-

stock shows (beef, dairy, goats, poultry, rab-

bits sheep and swine). More information can

be found at kystatefair.org

They are offering again

this year discount tickets

for 4-H families for $2.50

each. Please contact the Ex-

tension Office by Friday,

July 31st to order tickets.

Hart County 505 A.A. Whitman Lane Munfordville, KY 42765 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

Kentucky State Fair

Kentucky 4-H is offering a Virtual 4-H Fashion Revue. Youth will submit a modeling video of their

fashion revue item. Applications can be picked up at the Hart

County Extension Office. Youth can enter an outfit or item they have

sewn, a needlework item, an acquired/purchased outfit or an upcycled outfit

The KY 4-H Fashion Revue will be on August 29 at 6:00 pm on the KY 4-H social media sites.

The deadline to register is August 1st There is a modeling tutorial video youth

can watch for helpful pointers for model-ing

Here is a link with additional information about the program.

https://4-h.ca.uky.edu/content/fashion-revue

KY 4-H Virtual Fashion Revue