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Fun Night

FSQA

Horse Project Group

Sheep & Goat Weigh-in

Animal ID

Swine info

Conference/Camps/Retreat info

SESS Project Group

Clothing Event info

4-H’er for 4-H

Challenge Photo

Spring 4-H Camp Volunteer Day

JBS Pork University

Calendar

WHAT’S INSIDE:

March 2016

Mark your calendar with important dates and deadlines listed in this newsletter. If you have any questions please make sure to ask club leaders or give me a call.

Remember you can access the 4-H Project Hot Sheets on the internet at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/projects. Check out this link, they have some great fair exhibit ideas!

Photo on this page: 4-H members at the pajamas pant workshop held

Saturday February 27.

Making the Best Better!

4-H FAMILY NEWSLETTER

Jessica Norman WRIGHT COUNTY EXTENSION County Youth Coordinator jnorman@iastate.edu 515-532-3453-office 515-825-8232-cell

WRIGHT COUNTY EXTENSION

Jessica Norman

4-H Fun Night Royalty 2016

Queen Candidates: King Candidates:

Alex Keller, Dayton Lake Jake Brandt, Dayton Lake

Jane Roberts, Iowa Hawkeyes Just’n Boley, Liberty Pathfinders

Hannah Kapka, Lake Clovers Max Wiedamann Wright Co. P.I.G.

Megan Christensen, Liberty Pathfinders

Sam Sturgeon, Pleasant Progressors

Lilian Swanson, Wright Co. P.I.G.

Leslie Cooper, Wright Warriors

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

FSQA (FOOD SAFETY QUALITY ASSURANCE) Last Chance

All 4-H youth with a beef, dairy, swine, sheep, rabbit, goat and poultry project MUST be

Food Safety Quality Assurance (FSQA) certified to show at county and state fairs. Age

division as listed:

Junior level current grade 4th-6

th, must attend one of the workshops each year.

Intermediate level current grade 7th-9

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Senior level current grade 10th-12

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Youth in the Intermediate and Senior level can elect to test out, which would certify them until they move

into the next level. Attending a workshop has to be re-certificated each year no matter of level.

Last Workshops will be held on April 7 at the Extension office from 6:30pm -8:30pm. MUST call to

sigh up so enough materials are available.

FAMILY FUN NIGHT

Mark your Calendars for Family Fun Night Saturday, March 12, 2016, at the Clarion-Goldfield-Dows High School. The evening will be filled with: Games, Food, Fun, Friends and Prizes. All families are asked to participate in the fol-lowing ways. Clubs should be or have vote(d) on King & Queen. The doors open at 5:00 pm, food starts at 5:00pm and games start at 5:30pm, coronation will be at 7:30 and the evening will end at 9 pm. Each club is assigned to bring pies, cakes, and/or bars. Your club is listed below. Parent committees are being planned to help with food stand, bingo, traffic control, tickets sales, and the raffle, that info will be emailed/sent this week.

Cakes & Pies: All families are assigned to bring either a cake or pie. Please bring all pies and cakes in disposable containers and label the kind of pie!!

The club assignments are as follows:

Pies for lunch stand: Dayton Lake, Liberty Pathfinders, and Pleasant Progressors

5 Pans of Bars: Dayton Lake (Do not cut)

Cakes for Cake Walk: Lake Clovers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Wright County P.I.G., & Wright Warriors

Cake Walk at Fun Night: Liberty Pathfinders

*All clubs are asked to bring 25 chance jars again this year letters emailed to club leaders.

**Each club needs to donate an item for the silent auction table info emailed to club leaders.

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

Everyone is invited to attend the Wright County Cattlemen’s banquet on Friday, March 18 at Cattle-mans in Belmond. Social 6:00 pm with mtg./dinner at 6:30 pm. The Cattlemen will cover tickets for all 4-H members who exhibited last year in the large beef project area. Otherwise tickets are $12 per person. If you are planning to attend please contact Travis Tate at 515-890-2333 by Tuesday March 15, as he needs a number for food count.

Horse Project Group—Save the Date

Horse Project Meeting will be held @ Eagle Grove EMS Station at 1:00 p.m. March 13 Meeting Topic: Horse Nutrition April 10 Meeting Topic: Saddlery & Equipment May 8 Meeting Topic: Horse Care June 12 Meeting Topic: Fair August 14 September 11 Meeting Topic: BBQ Trail Ride October 9 Meeting Topic: Horse Breeds of the World November 13 Attentively: Horse Practices at Fairgrounds Arena: June 4, 5, 11, 12, 25, 26 & July 2, 3 from 1—7pm For more information contact project leader Rod Rasmussen 515-851-8031

SHEEP & MEAT GOAT WEIGH-IN

Wright County sheep & meat goat weigh-in is set for Saturday, May 7, at the Wright County Fair Grounds. Weigh-in times are as listed: 8:30 am, Wright County lambs & meat goats. Out of county lambs and meat goats 9:00 am. All lambs (market, commercial, and purebred breeding) nominating for State Fair MUST have a 4-H ear tag put in and a retinal image collected at county weigh in. All meat goats (market animal and breeding does) must have a 4-H tag (or tattoo for does). Retinal images re-quired for all State Fair meat goats, both breeding and market.

Ear tags are a $1 each; this cost is part of the project expense.

WRIGHT COUNTY CATTLEMEN’S BANQUET

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 FAIR SWINE INFORMATION

If you are thinking about exhibiting swine at the Iowa State Fair you need to make sure to contact Jes-sica and let her know ASAP. All State Fair swine (market & breeding), must have a special DNA punch tag that are at the Extension office and there is a charge. This tag requires a special tagger so please contact Jessica a few days ahead of when you plan to pick up the tags and tagger. That way she will let you know if the tagger is in. Families will need to tag their own swine and enter it into 4-H Online. Questions please call the Extension office and talk to Jessica.

2016 Iowa 4-H Youth Conference: Dive to New Depths

The 2016 Iowa 4-H Youth Conference is just around the corner . Every June almost 1000 teenagers converge on the campus of Iowa State University for 3 days full of speaker, workshops, mixers, dances, and 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! The dates have been set for June 28-30, 2016 for a great three day adventure at ISU for Iowa’s youth.

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

Be watching the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference web page as updates will be shared there in the coming weeks. They hope to have registration live by mid-March.

Iowa 4-H Youth Conference webpage: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/iowa4hyouthconference

If you plan to exhibit swine at the county fair you will need to buy ear tags. This is required for both 4-H/FFA swine that will be shown at the Wright County Fair. Ear tag will be a $1 each, and are picked up at that the Extension office. When picking up ear tags information needed will be youth name and number need for the youth. NO money will be given back for unused ear tags. Remember your animal needs to be both ear notched and have an ear tag, both of these need to be on the swine ID form or entered into 4-HOnline by May 15

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SWINE EAR TAGS

For all species of animals to be shown at County, other county, Clay County and State Fairs. Animals included swine, horses, poultry, rabbits, dairy, pets, breeding beef & sheep, so basically anything that breathes and eats. Needs to have an ID completed for exhibiting at Fairs. Market beef and sheep will or have been ID’d at weigh-in.

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION DUE—MAY 15th

OUR VISION A WORLD IN WHICH YOUTH AND ADULTS LEARN, GROW, AND WORK TOGETHER AS CATALYSTS FOR POSTIVE CHANGE

All SESS project meeting will first meet at 3 pm at the Goldfield Legion Hall on Main Street for quick in-fo/safety instructions and/or service project.

March 20 Go to range if possible

April 17 Rasmussen Range

May 15 Issac Walton Range

June 19 Issac Walton Range

July Fair & activity to be announced

August 21 Issac Walton Range

For more information call Sonna Johnson 515-825-3407

SHOOTING SPORTS (SESS) PROJECT MTG. SCHEDULE

STATEWIDE THEMED CAMPS

STEM Survival camp June 5-9, 2016

Would you know what to do if a zombie apocalypse were to actually happen? What about a natural disaster of epic proportions? We have just the place to learn the skills you may need. A remote camp where you can practice archery, rock climbing, orienteering, shelter making, fire making, outdoor cooking, and water purifi-cation. By the end of this week, you can be sure that no matter what situation the world may throw at you, you will come out on top. Is your child destined for big things? Teach them how to handle life’s challenges by immersing them in a safe, yet challenging environment. Using zombies and natural disasters as inspiration, campers will be pushed to cooperate and overcome. Youth will be given challenges such as rock climbing, fire making, and verbal as well as traditional judo!

Science Explorers June 26-30, 2016

Do you enjoy taking things apart? Do you like to take a close look at the world around you? Explore nature and history in central Iowa. Come and find out how local plants thrive, how birds fly, why Iowa soil is black, and how people have lived on the land. By the end of this week you will have a better understanding of how the world works. Does your child dive into problems head first, enjoy taking things apart, and learning about the what makes the clock tick? Teach them how to delve into the world around them by sending them to Science Explorers camp! Using nature, historical artifacts, and technology, campers will look at various parts of the world to gain a better understanding of the world is not merely a sum of its parts.

For registration info and cost please contact Patty Gibler 515-294-5939 or gibler@iastate.edu

OUR VISION A WORLD IN WHICH YOUTH AND ADULTS LEARN, GROW, AND WORK TOGETHER AS CATALYSTS FOR POSTIVE CHANGE

Registration is now open for the Culturally-Based Youth Leadership Accelerators (CYLA): Ujima Retreat and Maize Retreat!

On April 15-17 we shall have the Ujima retreat that explores Higher Education, Healthy Living, STEM, Citizenship & Leadership, and Communication and the arts through the narrative of Afri-can Americans and new African refugees & immigrants. The following Maize retreat, will explore the same topics through a Latino and Native American narrative on April 22-24.

Click on the recruitment FLYER showing information and the registration process. Please regis-ter as soon as possible as space is limited and note that attendance is free for enrolled 4-Her’s. You can find even more information at: www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/page/events/maize-retreat. Contact Jessica with questions.

UJIMA & MAIZE RETREAT

Clothing Selection, Fashion Revue, $15 Challenge, and change/modified outfits will have conference judging on Thursday, June 23

rd from 9 am to 7 pm. For more information contact Jessica at the Ex-

tension office. Schedules and information will be sent out after fair entries are turned in on Friday, June 10. The youth will model and receive award placing on Thursday, July 7

th during the County

Fair.

SUPPORT IOWA 4-H WITH NEW LICENSE PLATE!

CLOTHING EVENT—COUNTY FAIR

A new specialty license plate will soon be available throughout Iowa for passenger vehicles, trucks and trailers. The "Iowa Ag Tag" license plate recognizes the important role that agriculture plays in our state's economy, and proceeds from its sale will equally benefit three great youth foundations: Iowa 4-H Foundation, Iowa FFA Foundation, and the Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation. See the design and pre-order your own standard ($35) or personalized ($60) plate now at www.IowaAgTag.org. We only need 500 pre-orders to begin production!

There will be a Leader Training Wednesday, April 27 at 6:30 pm in Eagle Grove location to be set.

This is for the leaders who were not at the Leader Training in February. The training will be open for

other leaders in the area to attend and will be lead by Wade Weber, Youth Field Specialist. If you are

unable to attend this training you will need to contact Jessica for the alternative Volunteer Training

Email– for the online training. All training needs to be completed by June 1, 2016.

LEADER TRAINING

OUR VISION A WORLD IN WHICH YOUTH AND ADULTS LEARN, GROW, AND WORK TOGETHER AS CATALYSTS FOR POSTIVE CHANGE

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 par-ticipate! YOU can help grow 4-H in Iowa!

The 4-H’ers for 4-H Campaign helps to ensure that 4-H remains available and affordable for young people like us from across the state. 4-H’ers investments contribute to:

Providing financial assistance to help 4-H’ers attend 4-H camps or conferences.

Helping members from low-income families pay part of their annual 4-H program fee.

Funding speakers and entertainment at the State 4-H Youth Conference, keeping registration fees affordable for everyone.

Improving the Iowa 4-H Center with new equipment to enhance campers’ experiences. This year we’re hoping to help purchase new bunk bed sets for Elm Lodge.

We need your help to continue to support Iowa 4-H members with substantial funding! By supporting the Iowa 4-H’ers for 4-H Campaign you are giving back to the organization that has given so much to you. With your help, we can continue to make 4-H a great experience for other members for many years to come!

Participation is easy! Donation form will be mailed to leaders, then return it along with your donation to the Extension office by May 15. This is a campaign conducted by 4-H youth for 4-H youth, and we, the Finance Committee, hope all clubs across Iowa are able to participate! Thank you for your com-mitment to 4-H!

Last year’s winners are posted on our web page. Thank you in advance for supporting the State 4-H Council Finance Committee and their efforts “to make the best better!” Wright County received two awards last year check it out on the webpage.

4-H’ERS INVESTING IN 4-H’ERS

2016 4-H fair Challenge picture is FACES. Start thinking about all the different kinds of faces and use your imagination, now grab your camera, go explore and start taking pictures. Remember you will only submit one picture in the challenge class.

CHALLENGE PHOTO FOR COUNTY FAIR 2016

OUR VISION A WORLD IN WHICH YOUTH AND ADULTS LEARN, GROW, AND WORK TOGETHER AS CATALYSTS FOR POSTIVE CHANGE

The 4-H Center is preparing for the 2016 summer camping season and needs help with sev-eral project to be ready in time for summer! These projects will take numerous helping hands—both big and small—so youth and adults are encouraged! Come as an individual, family, 4-H club or volunteer group for an awesome time in the great outdoors. Saturday April 9th 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Call the camp office at 515-795-3338 or email 4hcentermail@iastate.edu to sign up. Leave a message with your name, contact information, and if you have any special skills and training (i.e. carpentry, plumbing, electrical,) or a preferred activity that you would like to be involved

in. Upon arrival, please sign in at Linden.

Youth 16 and older with a valid driver’s license are encourage to participate in JBS Pork Universi-ty. May 5 starting at 8:30am youth interested in STEM, Swine, Ag Business, and Production Man-agement are encouraged to pick up a REGISTRATION FORM, due April 22, at the Marshall County Extension Office. The ISU Extension Office is located at 2608 South 2nd St, Marshalltown IA 50158 or download from http://www.extension.iastate.edu/marshall/news/jbs-pork-university-0. Download a LETTER for school officials that explains the event.

This NEW and one of a kind opportunity for youth is not to be missed. Tour the Nation’s best hog processing plant, *JBS Swift and Co. in Marshalltown, IA. The plant was awarded the Pro-cessor of the Year by the National Provisioner in 2013. Finally, tour the ISU Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition sensory lab, and taste test various qualities of meat while exploring meat quality. Any youth ages 16 and above with a valid driver’s license is encouraged to regis-ter! The program is offered for FREE in partnership with Iowa State University Extension and Out-reach, JBS Swift and Co Marshalltown, Iowa Pork Producers, Iowa State University, and Marshall County Farm Bureau.

*Please, be advised, participants will experience a full tour of JBS including harvesting the hog. If you have any questions, please contact Caleb Carver, County Youth Coordinator at 641-752-1551 or ccarver@iastate.edu

JBS PORK UNIVERSITY

SPRING CAMP VOLUNTEER DAY, SATURDAY April 9

WANT TO KNOW MORE? FIND US AT: EXTENSION.IASTATE.EDU/4H/YOUR COUNTY NAME HERE

Calendar MARCH

March 4 4-H Animal Science Roundup Application Deadline due online (has been extended) March 5 Sewing Workshop– pajama pants Extension office @ 9-12noon or 1-4pm March 12 STEM project mtg. 10am Extension office March 12 4-H Fun Night March 13 Horse project mtg. 1 pm at EMS bldg. Eagle Grove March 18 Wright County Cattlemans Banquet at Cattleman's in Belmond mtg./dinner at 6:30 pm March 20 SESS project meeting at 3 pm at Goldfield Legion March 22 4-H Intermediate Trip to Des Moines-4-H Legislative Day March 25 Office Closed—Holiday March 27-April 2 ISU Extension & Outreach Week March 31 Wright County Fair Scholarship due

UP COMING DATES 2015

April 1-2 Omaha Zoo trip April 2 State 4-H Recognition Day @ ISU Campus in Ames April 5 4-H Youth Committee mtg. 6:30 pm Extension office April 7 FSQA Workshop 6:30-8:30pm Extension office April 9 STEM project mtg. 10 am Extension office April 10 Horse project mtg. 1 pm at EMS bldg. Eagle Grove April 17 SESS project mtg. 3 pm at Goldfield Legion April 23 Intermediate Council mtg. 10am Extension office April 24 Teen Council mtg. 7 pm April 27 Leader Make up Training in Eagle Grove 6:30 pm May 2-5 Environmental Ag. Day in Eagle Grove May 7 Sheep & Goat weigh in at the Wright Co. Fairgrounds May 15 Animal ID due in 4-HOnline by 11:59pm May 30 Office Closed—Holiday June 3-12 CWF trip June 6-8 Intermediate Trip, Twins Cities June 10 Wright County Fair Entries due June 15-17 Junior 4-H Camp (tentative) June 23 Clothing Event judging at the EO 9am—7pm June 28-30 State 4-H Conference July 1 State Fair Entries Due July 5-11 Wright County Fair August 11-21 Iowa State Fair September 1 Record books due to club leaders September 10-18 Clay County Fair September 15 Record Books due to Extension office

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