County Fremont Extension Box 420, 610 Clay Sidney, IA 51652-0420 Phone: [phone] FAX: [phone]
February 2008
Its February already and time to start thinking about the years upcoming activities. In March there will be a Jr. Overnight as usual. Be on the lookout for registration forms for this exciting event. Also, if you have your registration or medical forms out still, we need to get those into the office soon. Plus, the swine and sheep weigh-in dates have been set so keep those in mind in your upcoming schedules. Again, the newsletter is posted on our website so if you ever misplace your copy just go to: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/fremon t/info/county4hinfo.htm .
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 02/12 Recognition Deadline 02/14 Happy Valentines Day! 02/15 Egg Cooking Contest Deadline 03/05 - County Council Meeting @ 7 P.M. 03/14 Jr. Overnight 03/22 Swine Weigh-In 10 A.M. to 12 P.M. @ the fairgrounds 05/03 Sheep Weigh-In 9 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. @ the fairgrounds 05/15 Animal ID sheets due 05/15 Last day to enroll or add projects 06/24-26 State 4-H Conference 07/16-21 Fremont County Fair 08/9-19 Iowa State Fair
Doug Doty [e-mail]
Prepared by Tahrae Bonnes County Youth Coordinator
COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING There will be a County Council Meeting on February 13th at 7:00 P.M. in the back office of the Fremont County Extension Office. Please contact Tahrae a head of time if you are going to be late or not in attendance. We will consider it our Valentines Day Party.
CLUB MEETING DATES 02/02 - Silver Skylarks Club Meeting 10 A.M. @ Methodist Church in Sidney 02/10 W.M.P. Club Meeting @ Catholic Church in Imogene @ 4 P.M. 02/20 - Riverside Rockets Club Meeting 7 P.M. @ Randolph Fire Station 03/01 - Silver Skylarks Club Meeting 10 A.M. @ Methodist Church in Sidney 03/09 W.M.P. Club Meeting @ Catholic Church in Imogene @ 1:30 P.M. 03/19 - Riverside Rockets Club Meeting 7 P.M. @ Randolph Fire Station 04/05 - Silver Skylarks Club Meeting 10 A.M. @ Methodist Church in Sidney 04/13 W.M.P. Club Meeting @ Catholic Church in Imogene @ 4 P.M. 04/16 - Riverside Rockets Club Meeting 7 P.M. @ Randolph Fire Station
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Showing Goats @ Fair or Ak-Sar-Ben? If anyone is interested in showing goats at the Iowa State Fair or Ak-Sar-Ben, please contact the Fremont County Extension Office for ID information.
Also, anyone interested in showing swine, sheep, or goats at the Iowa State Fair or Ak-Sar-Ben needs to contact the Fremont County Extension Office about DNA testing requirements.
UPCOMING WEIGH-IN DATES Swine weigh-in will be on Saturday, March 22, 2008 at the Fremont County Fairgrounds from 10 A.M. to 12 P.M. Sheep weigh-in will be on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at the Fremont County Fairgrounds from 9 A.M. to 10:30 A.M.
ENROLLMENT FORMS Now that the enrollment forms have been distributed, its time to start asking that we get those turned in. It is very helpful to get enrollment forms turned in early in the year so the extension office has all of your updated information for activities and events. Please get your enrollment forms back to the Fremont County Extension Office in a timely manner. If you have any questions, contact the extension office.
TAHRAES OFFICE SCHEDULE For this semester, Tahrae will only be in the office on the afternoons on Thursday and all day Friday. She is still available if you need her assistance just keep in mind she is only in the office on certain days.
JR OVERNIGHT DATE SET The two County Jr. Overnight will be held on Friday, March 14th through the 15th. Not much else is known at this point but keep this date in mind for your March schedule.
Apply for state recognition and trips! You deserve to be recognized for your efforts and have some fun, too! If you are a ninth through twelfth grader, there are many opportunities available to you for recognition awards or to represent Iowa on the state and national levels. These include National 4-H Conference, National 4-H Congress, State 4-H Council, Iowa Youth Technology Team, National 4H Dairy Conference, and State 4-H Project Awards. Learn more about applying for these opportunities by contacting the county extension office and asking for a packet of information. Applications are due in the county office by February 12, 2008. More info and applications/worksheets can be found online at this website: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/fremon t/news/State+Recognition.htm
TRENT SCHAAFS MAILING ADDRESS For those of you want to send Trent a card or a letter, here is his address: Trenton Schaaf 6315 N 70th Plaza House 2 Omaha, NE 68104
2008 STATE YOUTH CONFERENCE "Ignite the Flame" is the theme for the 2008 Iowa 4-H Youth Conference to be held June 24-26, 2008 at Iowa State University. Every June, over 1000 teenagers converge on the campus of Iowa State University for 3 days full of speakers, workshops, mixers, dances, a
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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! You will get to experience campus life, and meet new people from across the state! You will be having fun while learning by doing, dancing the nights away, and serving the community. You will get to learn new things to take back to your community and school, and in the process you might even discover something new about yourself! There are opportunities for you to share your talents with the rest of the delegation through small group discussion, the Conference Chorus, and a Talent Show! If you have a specific interest in either animal science or crop production, you might want to look into becoming part of the ROUND-UP or CSI: Crops tracks! Please join us in June for the most incredible three days of your life at the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference!
GO THE DISTANCE 2008 What is Go The Distance (GTD)? A FREE, 100 Day Challenge designed to encourage young Iowans to increase their physical activity levels and make better food choices!!! A POSITIVE way to teach kids about the importance of being physically active and show them ways to make fitness FUN!!! A way for your team to WIN MONETARY AWARDS for your school or organization to be used toward new playground equipment or physical education classes!!! For more information please contact the Fremont County Extension Office or please visit: http://www.iowasportsfoundation.org/.
Note: The Fremont County Youth Committee provides $100 scholarship to those who attend any camp or conference in or out of the county.
CITIZENSHIP WASHINGTON FOCUS It is time again to be thinking about our biennial trip to Washington D.C. 4-Hers should know that to be eligible to attend this trip you have to turn a completed record book two years prior to the trip (the record book that was just turned and the next one). 4-Hers also need to be involved in citizenship activities and participate actively in 4-H for those two years prior to the trip. If anyone has any questions regarding this matter, contact the Fremont County Extension Office.
Christina Hixson Opportunity Awards The Hixson Opportunity Award is a grant of $10,000 ($2,500 per year for four years) to be used at Iowa State University. One hundred high school seniors from across Iowa will receive the award each year. Ideally, recipients will represent each county in the state. If you are a high school senior who demonstrates potential in ways that go beyond class rankings and test scores, you may wish to apply. For more information visit: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~hixsonawa rds/ or there is just an application linked to our webpage.
County Scholarships COMING Watch SOON!!!!! for the endowment fund scholarship applications in the mail. These applications are not available yet but will be soon. Remember the 4-H Endowment Grant is for graduating seniors and first year college students. Graduating seniors will receive an application in the mail. First year college students applying for the second time will receive a notification
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due March 31st.
letter instructing them that they may download the application form from the Fremont County Extension website sometime in February. Applications will be
The Jesse A. & Irene W. McIntyre scholarship is for one graduating boy and girl 4-H member from Fremont County. McIntyre Scholarship requirements are: graduating senior in Fremont County with a minimum 3.0 GPA; enrolled and active in Fremont County 4-H for the last four years; enrollment in a post high school educational institution. McIntyre scholarship application forms will be mailed to graduating senior 4-H members.
Applications will be due March 31st.
given. Recipes for the contest should be original and must contain a minimum of 4 whole eggs and a maximum of 12 ingredients (all eggs count as one ingredient). Recipes may be appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, snacks, desserts, or beverages. Recipes will be judged equally on: good use of eggs, nutritional content, taste appeal, appearance, and originality. To enter the contest, just download the entry and rule forms below, or call 1-877-IOWAEGG to request these forms. To enter, submit this entry form along with your egg recipe. Please submit your recipe written on one side of a sheet of paper, stapled to the entry form. Entries must be received at the Iowa Egg Council office by February 15, 2008 to be entered into the contest.
A message from the Iowa Egg Council We would like to invite Iowa residents to enter the 23rd annual Iowa Egg Council Cooking Contest! This contest is a fun opportunity for people to receive recognition for their food preparation skills and culinary creativity. For the 2008 contest, there will be two divisions for entrants: adults and 6th 12th grade students. The winnings for each division will be a $500 first prize, $400 second prize, $300 third prize, $200 fourth prize, and $100 fifth prize. When all entries have been received, the Iowa Egg Council will perform preliminary judging and choose five finalists from each of the two divisions. These ten finalists will be notified by both phone and in writing; we will contact all finalists by February 26, 2008. All of these finalists will then participate in a cook-off, personally preparing their recipe on March 15, 2008 at the Botanical Center in Des Moines. At that event, rankings and prizes will be
4-H Market Beef Calves Weighed A total of 36 beef calves were weighed and tagged in Fremont County as 4-H projects on December 27, according to Doug Doty, Fremont County Extension Education Director. There were 15 youth carrying the project, a decrease of two youth and seven calves from last year. Volunteers helping with the weigh in were: Doug Aistrope; Carol Carver; Brandon Schaaf; Erik Grudle; Kris Henneman; Emily Aistrope; Caleb Hammons; Stefanie Hammons and CEED Doug Doty. The success of the 4-H youth program can be attributed to many gracious sponsors and donors. Special thanks go to great supporters of 4-H: Heather Sukup for the use of the Shenandoah Livestock Auction as weigh-in facility; Dr. Henry Bonnes for use of the cattle chute and sorting equipment and Fremont County Vet Clinic for donating the pour on treatment Cydecton and Synovex implants. Youth and number of calves
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weighed were: Dominic Aistrope 4; Emily Aistrope 4; Caleb Hammons 2; Nick Johnson 2; Scott Johnson 4; Alex Laughlin 1; Nick Laughlin 2; Ryan Laughlin 2; Colin Nahkunst 2; Kelsey Nenneman 2; Preston Schaaf 2; Trevor Schaaf 3; Jacob Smith 1; Jeremy Walter 2; Emily Whitehead 3. ATTENTION CLUB NEWS REPORTERS! This is a reminder that all news reports, articles, and/or photographs need to be sent to the Extension Office not the newspaper! Please drop your news off or email it to [e-mail] and she will get it distributed to area news media. Also, please remember that your reporting of news is not limited to what happens at your club meetings. If your club has an event or activity coming up, send us a news article. Once the event is complete, send an article about that. Photos are nice, especially if it is a community service ...