O u r A n n u a l A w a r d s a n d Recognition pro-gram was held on August 20, 2016 at Westgate Me-morial Baptist

Church on Dowlen Rd. The awards program recognizes all our 4-H’er who participate in any competitive county, district or state event, and some other events. The emcees for the evening were Jayme Deville and Whitney Choate. This year’s theme was 4-H: Discover, En-deavor & Achieve. On the program this year, we had our District & State Roundup winners perform their win-ning routines. We would like to thank our supporters, Westgate Memorial Baptist Church for the use of their fa-cility, Chef Reggie for the catered meal, and all the ad sponsors of the program book. We would also like to thank the adult leaders, families, friends and of course our 4-Her’s. Special thanks to

Paula Guajardo, Lena Morris, Janie Perry & Sherry Watts for helping with r e g i s t r a t i o n s and awards. Dur ing the

awards program many awards are handed out to clubs, leaders and distinguished guests. This year’s re-cipients were: Secre-tary Book: Kennedy Simon of the Amelia 4-H Club; Top ad sales: Colton Austin, 1st & Logan Perry, 2nd; Rookie of the Year: Kennedy Simon & Addison Carraway; I Dare You: Noah Deville, Justin Romero & Jonah Romero; Gold Star winner: Justin Romero & Noah Deville.; BBQ King & Queen: Colton Austin & Addison Carraway. Each year two of our volunteers receive recognition as out-standing leaders. This year those recipients were: Rob Brooks & Pam Stokes. The special award recipi-ent for Rookie Leader was Jaclyn Car-raway and two Unsung Hero's were recognized, Walter Morris & Ricky Westbrook; Friend of 4-H Award went to Tyrrell Park Stables. Certificates and 4-H earbuds were given to all who participated in the South Texas S ta te Fa i r . Thanks to all who made the 2015-16 year and the awards program a suc-cess.

Annual Awards Program

September 2016

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Inside this issue:

Club’s Corner 2

South Texas State Fair

2

New Family/Parent Orientation

2

National 4-H Week 3

Leader College 3

Texas Rice Festival 4

Projects Kick Off 4

Open House 5

Swine Tags for Ma-jors

6

Fall Heifer Validation 7

Jefferson County Extension Office:

1225 Pearl Street, Ste 200 Beaumont, TX 77701 Tel: 409-835-8461 Fax: 409-839-2310

http://jefferson.agrilife.org

Starla Garlick

County Extension Agent 4-H & Youth Development

Jefferson County 4-H News

Friend of 4‐H Award 

BBQ King & Queen 

Outstanding Leader 

Rookie Leader 

Annual Enrollment: It’s that time of year again when you need to complete a new enroll-ment (green form) for the new 2016-2017 4-H year. Also, you must be enrolled by your Octo-ber meeting to show in the South Texas State Fair in March. A membership fee of $20 is required for enrolling in 4-H and must be submitted with your green form. After October 31st the fee is $25. Please let anyone interested know. For new members: once an enrollment

form is submitted, you will auto-matically have a profile in 4-H Connect. Volunteer Leaders—for your re-enrollment, you will need to re-enroll online through 4-H Con-nect and watch 2 videos before your enrollment will be approved. The videos are short. Please call the 4-H Office if you can’t remember your password or have never used 4-H Connect before. Youth Council: The next Youth Council meeting will be held on

October 17, 2016, 6:30 p.m., at the Extension office. Meeting requirement: Missing two or more consecutive meet-ings makes you ineligible to par-ticipate in county, district or lo-cal contests. Get with your club manager regarding exceptions. If your club’s meeting date is a con-flict with an activity, call the Ex-tension office to get information on other clubs in the area that might work better.

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Club’s Corner………...

The South Texas State Fair will be held on March 30-April 9, 2017. Here is a list of important dates, etc: Steer entry deadline—September 19, 2016 Poultry orders/entries due—September 29, 2016 Lambs, goats, swine & F1 Heifers tag orders due—October 6, 2016 ($2 fee for each tag) Lambs, goats, swine & F1 Heifers tag-in—TBD Entry deadline for lambs, goats, swine & F1’s—December 6, 2016 Roaster pickup—January 17, 2017 (YMBL office) Broiler pickup—February 14, 2017 (Ford Park) Rabbit entry deadline—February 1, 2017 All poultry pickup will be from 4-6 p.m.; bring a box when you pickup your birds. Fair book with rules and guidelines will be available on-line, www.ymbl.org. If you need any more infor-mation, please call the Extension office, 409-835-8461.

South Texas State Fair

NEW FAMILY/PARENT ORIENTATION There will be a workshop for all new families enrolling in 4-H this year or the last couple of years on October 25th, 6:00 p.m. This will be a question and answer style workshop. If you’ve had or have ques-tions, want to learn more about what 4-H has to offer, want to be a volunteer but don’t know where to start, then this workshop is for you! Please RSVP by October 20th, 409-835-8461. Door prizes also!

Join over 10,000 other 4-H members in Texas on OCTOBER 8, 2016 as they step out into their communities to make a difference in one day! Texas 4-H members have always been proud of the communities they call home. Whether they live in cities, towns, or rural areas, 4-H’ers make their communities better year-round, but they couldn’t do it without help. One Day 4-H was created in 2009 as a way for all 4-H members to say “thank you” to their communities, counties, and state for all the support they have provided to 4-H for over 100 years. Now in its seventh year, One Day 4-H will be held on October 8, 2016, in every county across Texas. 4-H members, adult volunteers, and friends will help improve their communities by adopting a service project. Jefferson County will again hold a

food drive. Donations will be given to the Southeast Texas Food Bank. Club Managers will soon have information for each clubs responsibilities. Please call the Extension if you need more information, 835-8461.

2016 National 4-H week

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Leader Boot Camp, “Get  

4‐H Fit” will be held on Sat‐urday, September 17th in Conroe, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The sessions include: Intro to Livestock Skill‐A‐Thon, Vet Science Project Warm up, Get Ripped with Robot‐ics, Food Challenge Work Out, Engaging 4‐H Volun‐teers, Pumped Up Fun in    

4‐H Meetings, Building a 4‐H Scholarship, Get Your Food & Fashion Project Youth Fit for Competition and Shape Up Your 4‐H Meetings. The cost is $20 before September 11th and $30 after September 11th. The deadline to register is September 13th, via    4‐H Connect. If you have not re‐

enrolled, you will need to do so before you can regis‐ter for Leader College. If you are planning to go, call me so I can walk you through 4‐H Connect. Please call if you have any questions, 409‐835‐8461. 

Leader College

“How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving? “- James Cash Penney, Jr. (1875–1971) Founder of the J. C. Penney Company

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Thanks to everyone who participated in the Tractor Supply Clover Campaign. Our portion of the sales for the Spring Cam-paign was $838.20. The Fall Clover Campaign is scheduled for October 5-16, 2016. Please plan to spend some time at Trac-tor Supply and promote 4-H. You can set up a table and let people know about the campaign.

County Agent signature by Sept. 14th, no late entries will be accepted. Entries for the photography contest should be turned in to the Rice Fes-tival office by 4:00 p.m. on September 16th. If you want to participate in the rice cooking contest to jump start

the food project, entries are due at 9-9:30 a.m. on the day of the show which is October 1st. The open Horse Show will be held on September 10th. Please call the Extension of-fice for any of these entry forms and rules or visit: http://texasricefestival.com.

The Texas Rice Festival will be held on Sep-tember 28-October 1 , 2016 at Winnie-

Stowell Park in Winnie. Live-stock show entries are due to the Extension office for

2016 Texas Rice Festival

Archery—The archery project will begin with a safety class and regis-

tration on September 22nd at 6:00 p.m. at the Extension office. There is a $10

project fee and due at the safety meeting. The safety meeting is mandatory if

you want to participate in the project. Location and range days will be an-

nounced at the meeting.

Fishing —If you are interested in the fishing project, please call the

4-H office and leave your name and e-mail address. We will notify

you when the first meeting will be held.

Horse– The Horse project will meet at Tyrrell Park Stables, Oct 9, Nov

20, Jan 15, Feb 26, May 21, June 25; Sundays from 2 to 5. With riding from 3 to 5 .

Photography— This project will also begin on September 19th,

6:30 p.m. If you are interested in photography, please call the

Extension/4-H office, 835-8461, with your name, email address

and phone number.

Dog—The Dog project will hold it’s first meeting on October

20th, at the 4-H office, 6:30 p.m.. If you are interested in this

project please call and RSVP, 409-835-8461.

Food & Nutrition Workshop—Just a reminder that the Food Show Workshop will

be held on September 24th. The theme is “Family Favorites”. Please call the 4-H

office and RSVP, 409-835-8461. For information on this project, please see your

August newsletter.

Projects Kick Off

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Swine Tags for Major Shows

If you are planning to show pigs in any of the major stock shows, you will need to order validation tags. The cost of each tag is $10.00 and the deadline is September 19th. You must pay for tags when ordering.

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Fall Heifer Validation Information

If you are showing heifers in any of the major shows, and have not previous-ly validated your heifer, you will need to order validation tags by September 8th. We will have heifer validation in October, date TBD. If you have any questions, please call the Extension office: 409-835-8461.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension provides equal opportunities in its programs and employment to all persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation or gender identity. The Texas A&M University System, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the County Commissioners Courts of Texas cooperating

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4 Leader College Reg/Fees deadline

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16 17 Leader College

18 19 Photog. wkshp. 6:30 YMBL steer entry due

20 21 22 Archery safe-ty class—6:00

23 24 Food & Nutrition Workshop

25 26 27 28 Texas Rice Festival begins

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2 3 National 4-H Week

4 4-H Open House

5 6 YMBL tag orders due

7 8 ONE Day 4-H

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16 Jr. Lab fees/registration dead-line

17 Youth Council meeting 6:30

18 19 20 Dog project intro 6:30

21 22 Fall Council Fun Day & Meeting

23 24 25 New Family Orien-tation

26 27 28 29 Clothing & Tex-tiles workshop 9-noon

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