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www.frederickco4h.com

4-H Day at Capitol

Mark your calendars, 4-H Day at the Capitol is scheduled for Tuesday, January 24, 2017 in Richmond. All senior members are invited to attend but space in the 4-H Van is limited. Contact Jennifer at jfost@vt.edu to reserve your spot in the van.

Index

Member/Leader…...…………………………...1-2 Livestock...……..…….………………………..…3 Horse………………...………….…………..…….4 Camp…...…...………………….…………………5 Club News………………………………………...6 Calendar…………………………………...……...7 Contest Forms……………………………..….8-9

Why 4-H?

4-H’ers are nearly 4 times more likely to make contributions to their communities

(Grades 7-12) •

4-H’ers are about 2 times more likely to

Virginia Cooperative Extension programs and employment are open to all, regardless of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national

origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. An equal opportunity/

affirmative action employer.

4-H Christmas Party

The 4-H Christmas party has been moved to January. Mark your calendars for January 25 and join us for an afternoon of winter fun! INCLEMENT WEATHER POLOCY

Frederick County 4-H Activities will be canceled if school is closed that day, or if school closes early due to bad weather. If questionable weather occurs on a weekend, it is better to postpone than to put someone at risk. Listen to local radio station, WINC 92.5 for cancellation notices.

******Attention******

If you plan on showing at the 2017 Frederick County Fair, the 2017 State 4-H Horse Show, the 2017 State Fair or any county contest you must me enrolled in 4honline no later than

JANUARY 1, 2017. Enrollment guides

can be found at the end of the October newsletter.

Camp Teens and CITs

If you are interested in participating as a Teen Counselor or Counselor in Training, applica-tions are due in to the extension office no later than December 12th. Job descriptions and applications an be found at www.frederickco4h.com under the camp page.

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Members and Leaders

Presentation, Public Speaking,

Fashion Revue and Table Setting

This years contest will be held on February 3rd at Johnson Williams Middle School starting at 6:30 pm. The J. Fred Thwaite Committee is offering a $50 scholarship to each 4-H’er that participates in the County Contest giving either a Public Speech or Presentation. This scholarship does not apply to participants in Fashion Revue or Share-The-Fun. The scholarship is to be used for the 4-H Camp of their choice. Entry forms and rules can be found at the end of this news letter, Table Setting rules can be found at www.frederickco4h.com ALL ENTRY FORMS ARE DUE BACK TO THE EXTENSION OFFICE BY JANUARY 27TH

4-H Achievement Program

Thank you everyone who joined us for the 2015-2016 4-H Achievement Program. Frederick County really knows how to embrace the motto of making the best better. We look forward to seeing all the amazing work in the 2016-2017 4-H year. The 2017 4-H Yearbook was dedicated in memory of Debbie Clark and Jeremy McDonald. Friends of 4-H Award was presented to Winchester Equipment and Virginia Farm Market. Amy Strosnider, Bill Cline and Melissa Madagan were recognized with the 4-H Helping Hands Award. The Golden Horseshoe 4-H Club was recognized as the Club of the Year. Recipients of the Outstanding Junior 4-H Member Award were Ethan Whitacre and Matthew Rivard. Recipients of the Outstanding Senior 4-H Member Award were Alina Hackney and Brandon McDonald. Liam and Patrick Philbin received the Outstanding Junior 4-H Resume/Portfolio Award. Outstanding 1st Year Member Award was received by Rhiannon Robertson Dominic Cox was inducted into the 4-H Honor Club. Bob Meadows received the Outstanding 4-H Leader Award. Lauren Bagnell, Michelle Campero, Bruce Clark, Melissa Madagan, Pam Ramey, Stacy Seabright, Marion Sharp, and Sherry Whitt received the 5 Year Volunteer Service Award. Ruth Snapp was recognized with the 20 Year Volun-teer Service Award. Scott Lewis and Susan Lewis were recognized with the 25 Year Volunteer Service Award. The 40 Year Volunteer Service Award was given to Nancy Pence.

State 4-H Shooting Ambassador

Congratulations to Hunter Shoemaker for being selected as a State 4-H Shooting Ambassador! Hunter, along with the Ambassador team will be traveling around the state partaking in team building and leadership workshops along with promoting the 4-H Shooting Education Program and helping to mentor other members.

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Livestock

Market Beef Tagging Day

December 3, 2016 To be eligible for the 2017 Frederick County

Fair, all market beef animals must be identified. Multiple animals may be tagged but exhibitors are limited to showing two (2) market steers/heifers.

One dollar will be charged per animal tagged. Identifying will be done ONLY on Saturday,

December 3, 2016 at the following location:

FARMERS LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE 1995 Northwestern Pike, Winchester, VA 22603

8:00 am to 10:00 am There will be NO make-up date. All cattle need

to be identified on December 3, 2016.

Block and Bridle

In 2017, the Block and Bridle Contest weekend will be February 24th and 25th

More information can be found at: http://ext.vt.edu/4h-youth/youth-livestock/

competitions/block-bridle.html

County and State Fair Eligibility

Requirement for Livestock

Exhibitors

Be registered in 4honline.com by January 1, 2017

Meet one of the following attendance policies:

Attend 6 4-H Club meetings Attend 5 4-H Club meetings and

participate in 1 county, district or state leadership event.

Attend 4 4-H Club meetings and participate in 2 county, district or state leadership events.

Project Books must be checked twice, once before fair and again by August 31st after they have been completed.

Animals must be under the care of the exhibitor and tagged in on each species tag in date (December 3rd for beef and May 6th for sheep, hogs and goats) please refer to the October newsletter if you are not able to house animals at your residence.

Exhibitors must contribute 2 hours to a work detail day at the fair grounds

Each Exhibitor must send 2 letters to NEW potential buyers.

*************NEW THIS YEAR*************** All exhibitors planning on selling an animal at the Frederick County Fair must attend a YMQA training. Dates will be announced as soon as they are available.

For more detailed information please reference the October 2016 newsletter.

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Horse

State Fair Eligibility Requirement for Horse Exhibitors

Be registered in 4honline.com by January 1, 2017 Meet one of the following attendance policies:

Attend 6 4-H Club meetings Attend 5 4-H Club meetings and participate in 1 county, district or stat leadership events. Attend 4 4-H Club meetings and participate in 2 county, district or state leadership events.

All riders need to compete in one of the following county events: Presentation/Public Speaking Fashion Revue Share the fun Bike-A-Thon

Must compete at the Frederick County fair Horse Show in July (weather permitting) Completed a Horsemanship Skills Test All State Fair bound horses must be declared by May 1st, forms are due to the extension office

no later than April 28th. All new horses or horses under 5 years of age must carry a green measurement card. Horses

must be measured by a certified measurer prior to the state of the qualifying show. Attend the mandatory State Show orientation meeting at the Extension office, typically in the

beginning of June Coggins test must be up to date at all times. If you would like to be in the state listserve you can sign up here:

http://ext.vt.edu/4h-youth/horse.html

The State Horse Calendar of events can by found here:

http://ext.vt.edu/content/dam/ext_vt_edu/topics/4h-youth/horse/calendar-of-events.pdf

Events are added as they are approved so check this often to stay as up to date as possible

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Major Changes to

Camp for 2017

Due to circumstances beyond our control we have been re-clustered for the 2017 camping

year and will now be camping with two additional units. We look forward to the networking

opportunities and new classes this will provide our campers and teens. With that being said

we will have some changes in the way we are handling registrations. We will be moving to a

one day registration day in mid April, as soon as we have the date we will let our 4-H Families

know. We have a reduced number of campers we can bring to camp for 2017 so making the

one day registration a priority is a must.

What is one day registration?

We will be available for a set amount of time, probably 4-8pm to take camp

registration forms and payments

Camp registration forms can still be mailed in but will be processed at the end of the

one day registration . Mailing your forms in does not guarantee you a spot at camp.

Full and partial scholarships are available

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Club News

4H Reporters Report November 15th 2016 Frederick County 4h Shooting Education Club

Our club has done quite a bit in the past month, and

have more planned for the upcoming months. One of

the things we did was the Hunter T. Crane Memorial

Trap Shoot on October 22nd. We had 7 youth attend

and we got 6 youth awards (I'm sure our seventh

member was close to getting an award but there were

none left). We also went to the Achievement Program at the Winchester Church of God. Thirteen of

our members received awards and most of them received more than one award. For our upcoming

events we are planning on being in the Christmas parade, and soon after that have a Christmas

party.

If you would like to have your club news included in the monthly newsletter, please have your reporters send their reports to Markley@vt.edu no later than the 20th of each month to have it

included in the next months newsletter.

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Master Calendar

December

3 Beef Tag In 8am-10am, Farmers Livestock Exchange

8 Gifts from the Kitchen Workshop

January

10 Leaders Association Meeting

10 County Council Meeting

24 4-H Day at the Capitol

25 4-H Winter Party

27 Public Speaking, Presentation, Fashion Revue, and Table Setting Contest Entry forms due

31 Make up date for 4-H day and the Capitol

February

3 Public Speaking, Presentation, Fashion Revue, and Table Setting Contest

10-11

Block and Bridle Hippology and Horse Judging Contest

10 Glenwood Beef Entries Due

11 Skyline Stockmans Contest, Warren Coun-ty

17 Glenwood Beef Late Entries Due (increased fee)

18 Northern District Horse Judging and Hippology Contest

on February 18th at Frying Pan Park in Herndon, VA

18 Skyline Stockmans Contest snow date

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Block and Bridle Stockmans Contest

Frederick Count Extension Office

107 N. Kent St., 2nd Floor

Winchester, VA 2601

(540) 655-5699 Fax: (540) 722-8380

Markley Walsh,

Associate Extension Agent,

4-H Youth Development

March

4-5 TALT

6 Equismarts Entries Due

10 Glenwood Sheep Entries Due

17 Glenwood Sheep Late Entries Due (increased fee)

24-26

State Equismarts Contest, Doswell, VA

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“PRESENTATION, PUBLIC SPEAKING, FASHION REVUE & TABLE SETTING”

January 27th: PRESENTATION, PUBLIC SPEAKING, FASHION REVUE & TABLE SETTING

FORMS ARE DUE

Presentation, Public Speaking Scholarship:

The J. Fred Thwaite Committee is offering a $50 scholarship to each 4-H’er that participates in the County

Contest giving either a Public Speech or Presentation. This scholarship does not apply to participants in Fash-

ion Revue or Share-The-Fun. The scholarship is to be used for the 4-H Camp of their choice. The scholarship

must be used from the date of the contest to the date of the contest the following year. We look forward to

your participation.

February 3– Presentation/Public Speaking/Fashion Revue /Table Setting Contest starts at 6:30 p.m. at John-

son Williams Middle School.

PRESENTATION RULES:

1. Presentation limit-Maximum 15 minutes, for presentations. It is not necessary for a presenter to use the

maximum time allotted. The important factor is that the presentation be long enough to make all steps

clear and that the information be accurate and well presented.

2. The use of live animals is prohibited. All presentations must fit into one of the subject areas listed on entry

form. All others must go into the Miscellaneous Category. Seniors presenting in the miscellaneous cate-

gory will not be eligible to compete at the Northern District 4-H Contest.

*Presentation Areas of Competition are listed on the entry form.

*An easel will be provided in each room.

*Two contestants per county, per age group, per category will qualify to compete in the Northern District 4-H

Contest.

PUBLIC SPEAKING:

1. Senior contestant speeches should be between five and seven minutes in length. Speakers using less than

five minutes or more than seven minutes will be assessed a one-point penalty for each 15 seconds or fraction

thereof outside the 5-7 minute limit.

2. Junior and Intermediate 4-H member speeches should be 3 to 6 minutes in length.

3. The speech can be on any topic.

4. The judges will give greater consideration to the quality of the speech as well as the completeness of

thought.

5. The judges will ask 1 or 2 questions to see how the 4-H’ers responds “on his/her feet.”

6. Only two contestants per county, per age group, can be entered in the Northern District Public Speaking

Contest.

ENTRY FORMS ARE DUE IN THE EXTENSION OFFICE NO LATER THAN JANUARY 27th,

2017.

ENTRY FORM IS ON THE NEXT PAGE.

FASHION REVUE CONTEST: CONTACT TAMMY EPPERSON FOR THE REQUIRED PAPER-

WORK. Table Setting rules can be found at www.frederickco4h.com

“If you are a person with a disability and desire assistance or accommodation, please notify the

Frederick County Extension Office at 540-665-5699 / TDD* 800-828-1120 during business hours of

8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.”

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4-H PRESENTATION, PUBLIC SPEAKING, FASHION REVUE, AND TABLE SETTING

ENTRY FORM

NAME: __________________________________ CLUB: _______________________________

PHONE: ____________________ BIRTHDATE: ______________ AGE AS OF 9/30/16:________

ADDRESS: ____________________________________________________________________

TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION: _________________________________________________

TITLE OF YOUR PUBLIC SPEECH: _________________________________________________

EQUIPMENT NEEDED: LAPTOP LCD PROJECTOR

ARE YOU PARTICIPATING IN FASHION REVUE? _________YES ________NO

(Contact Tammy Epperson for the required paperwork)

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4-H PRESENTATION ENTRY FORM

“PLEASE CHECK THE APPROPRIATE CATEGORY BELOW”

Animal Science Careers and Economic Education

__Dairy/Livestock __Careers

__Pets __Entrepreneurship

__Horse __Economic Education

__Horse Team Demonstration

__Poultry Citizenship

__Egg Cookery __Citizenship

__Leadership

Environmental Education & Natural Resources

__Wildlife Communication & Expressive Arts

__Angling Education __Photography

__Outdoor Adventure __Performing Arts

__Shooting Education

__Environmental Education Food Nutrition & Health

__Forestry __Farm to Table

__Outdoor Cookery

__Food Safety and/or Food Preservation

Home & Family __Fruits & Vegetables

__Personal Management __Protein Foods

__Consumer Resource Management __Grains

__Child Care __Food Demonstration

__Housing and Interiors __Health and/or Human Nutrition

__Table Settings

Plant & Soil Science

Leadership __Soil (Land Appreciation)

__Leadership __Soil and Plant Science

__Horticulture

Science & Technology __Entomology

__Science Fair Presentation & Display

__Science & Technology

__Math(STEM)

PRESENTATION CATEGORIES FOR JUNIOR AND INTEMEDIATES ONLY

Aerospace Electric Energy Meat ID Processing Small Animals (Dogs, Cats)

Consumer Resource Management Marketing Small Engines Food Etiquette & Pres.

Miscellaneous Wood Science Vet Science Capitalism

Experimentation (Science Fair) Milk & Milk Products Bicycle Creative & Performing Arts

Automotive Dog Care & Training Computer Gardening

Marine & Aquatic Science Meats & Meat Alternative

ENTRY FORMS ARE DUE JANUARY 27th!! PLEASE RETURN TO THE FREDERICK COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE!!!