The Elbert County 4-H Flash Newsletter

November 2020 Edition Lauren Dye (lmdye@uga.edu or lauren.dye@elbert.k12.g.us)

Sophie Walsky (emiko.walsky@uga.edu/emiko.walsky@elbert.k12.ga.us) https://extension.uga.edu/county-offices/elbert.html

https://www.facebook.com/Elbert.County.4H/

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***UPDATE*** Due to the University of Georgia mandates regarding programming

1. Students must have their own ride to and from the activity.

2. Students may not have a temperature of 100.4 or higher.

3. Students must wear a face mask for the duration of the activity.

Signed intake forms are no longer needed at this time.

Young Riders Horse Club If you like horses, make plans to join the Young Riders Horse Club! This afterschool club will meet once a month to learn about our equine friends & have fun! You do NOT have to own or ride a Horse to participate in this Club! Congratulations to our Young Riders 4-H Horse Club for winning 1st Place in the Club Booth Competition at the Elberton 12-County Fair. Meeting dates: November 16th and December 14th from 3:00-5:00pm at the 4-H Center. Students must follow current COVID protocols.

Cloverleaf District Project Achievement Project Achievement is one of the BEST activities you can do as a 4-H’er! Students who competed last year at DPA and those students who competed in Project Fair should sign up to compete in Northeast District Cloverleaf (5th & 6th grades) this year, which is a VIRTUAL event! Sign up with Ms. Lauren or Ms. Sophie today! Elbert County 4-H can register up to four 5th graders and four 6th graders per project area. The last day to sign up is Wednesday, November 18th. Details about the competition will be shared with students who sign up!

Choose to Reuse We all know how

important the 3R’s are… reduce,

reuse and recycle! We have a new

project that we will be conquering at

our next Choose to Reuse Project

Club Meeting after school at the 4-H

Center on Wednesday, November

18th, 3:00-5:00pm. Students must

abide by current COVID protocols.

Portfolio for DPA If you are in the 7th-12th grades and

plan to attend District Project

Achievement at Rock Eagle 4-H

Center with Elbert County 4-H in

March, remember portfolios for your

background information, main

project work, main project helping

and sharing, leadership

opportunities, community service

and citizenship activities, 4-H

activities and other school or church

activities. Ms. Lauren and Ms. Sophie

can help. Make sure you are on the

project list to compete with us!

Project Fair We are so proud of all the amazing

projects we had entered into the

Elbert County 4-H Project Fair! Kudos

to these Cloverbud 4-H’ers: Sophie

Black, Aiken Marlow and Izy Nielson.

Kudos to these Cloverleaf 4-H’ers:

Cayden Acker, Javeon Alexander,

Kinsley Anders, Hayleigh Aston,

Elizabeth Bellew, Caraleigh Brown,

Brylee Buffington, Riley Collier,

Hannah Cramer, Jasmine Ellison,

Ayden Evans, Timothy Fowler, Pedro

activity protocol has changed.during the COVID-19 pandemic, our

portfolio include

Categories for the

December 18th.

project are due

Project Fair Continued Garcia Jr., Kentasia Hardman, Ella

Harris, Julie Hazle, Kason Holbrook,

Kendall Hudson, Zoei Hughes, Jailee

Jones, Aubrey Jordan, Sophie

Lavender, Carlos Martinez, Makayla

McKnight, Madison Moore, Kylin

Norton, Jaleigh Partain, Colton

Rousey, Atorrian Small, Madison

Spagner, Allie Stephens, Jayden

Thompson, Abby Vazquez, Kamille

Webb, Maelyn Webb, Madelyn

Whitmire, Christian Winn, Kolten

Wood and Ryker Wright. Kudos to

these Junior 4-H’ers: Jacob Allen,

Marissa Anderson, Brooks Banks,

Naomi Bernal, Emily Booth, Josue

Bravo, Colson Brown, Kemiya Burton,

Brady Dickerson, Miller Drake, Linda

Garcia, Ja'Cobe Glaze, Prom'ouz

Goodman, Emily Hadley, Gissel

Hernandez Rivera, Ty'Bria Hill, Jaslyn

Huff, Toddrick Hunt, Gracie Kidd,

Alexa Major, Kyli Maxwell, Victoria

Medellin, Cinthia Nava-Lopez, Braylin

Norton, Emma Ray, Christian Richey,

Lizzet Rivera, Dessie Lee Santiago,

Bailee Starrett, Zacheanna Tate,

Chezney Umble and Alex Valencia.

Kudos to these Senior 4-H’ers: Emma

Albertson and Rachel Allen.

Lamb Show Project

Congratulations to Landon Williams for a successful show at the Georgia National Fair and the Gwinnet County Fair. Landon won 8th Grade Showmanship!

Dairy Show Project

Congratulations to Leah Higginbotham for her work with her dairy heifer, Maggie, and for her performance at the Georgia National Fair and Gwinnet County Fair. Leah won her showmanship at Gwinnett.

Club Booths at the Fair Elbert County 4-H Young Riders Horse Club was not the only booth that placed well at the Elberton 12-County Fair! As a matter of fact, our 4-H Booths swept the competition! The general 4-H booth placed 2nd and the Cloverbuds booth placed 3rd! We appreciate everyone who helped create the booths, including: Josue Bravo, Zurina Dillard, Layla Haynes, Julie Hazle, Yamilet Martinez, Merci Crace Mooney, Dessie Lee Santiago, Allie Stephens, Haleigh Todd, Julianna Walsky and Samantha Walsky!

Barn Work at the Fair We cannot THANK all of our 4-H’ers and volunteers enough for the many hours they spent working the 4-H Barn at the Elberton 12-County Fair! A big shout of appreciation to: Addy, Emma & Nate Albertson, Zurina Dillard, Julie Hazle, Gracie Kidd, Harrison & Kennedy Ray, Dawson Scarborough, Braedon Sizemore, Kayleigh Smith, Slayter Smith, Neva Smith, Julianna & Samantha Walsky and Jalyn White.

Clubs of the Month 5th Grade: Smith 1st

6th Grade: Bridges 5th 7th Grade: Jordan 5th 8th Grade: Terrell 5th

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Remind 101 If you want to receive occasional

reminders from Elbert County 4-H, you can sign up for our Remind

101 system. Simply text the following age appropriate code

(@...) to the number 81010. 5th & 6th Grades: @c3kbe 7th & 8th Grades: @8dha7 9th-12th Grades: @2edaga

Volunteers: @3e9fce