Cooperative Extension Service Boone County 6028 Camp Ernst Rd P.O. Box 876 Burlington, KY 41005–0876 (859) 586–6101 Fax: (859) 586–6107 boone.ca.uky.edu 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NEWSLETTER IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, CALL THE EXTENSION OFFICE AT 586-6101 AND ASK FOR ONE OF THE AGENTS BELOW. STEVE CONRAD CHRISTY EASTWOOD [email protected][email protected]BOONE COUNTY 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AGENTS Announcements 4-H GARDEN CLUB The 4-H Garden Club is an exciting, hands-on club that teaches about plants, insects, diseases, and much more! Our club meetings are the first Monday of each month from 6:30-8:00 pm. All of the club meetings will be held at the Boone County Enrich- ment Center, unless otherwise specified. Call us at 586-6101 and ask for Gina for more information. Below is the activity/subject schedule for the year: November 4: Forcing bulbs indoors December 2: Using greens from the landscape to create a decoration 2020 4-H CAMP 2020 4-H Camp is June 8-12. Registration forms will be available after January 2, 2020! The cost will be $90 for Boone County 4-H members and $225 for non-members. January 6: Learn about air plants February 3: Work on seed identification activities March 2: It’s all about the Bees! April 6: Starting seeds outdoors April 20: Visit the demonstration gardens at the Boone County Environmental and Nature Center to learn about high tunnels May 4: Planting raised bed May 18: Container gardens June 1 & 15: TBA July 6 & 20: TBA August: Rest for Boone County Fair
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Cooperative Extension Service
Boone County
6028 Camp Ernst Rd
P.O. Box 876
Burlington, KY 41005–0876
(859) 586–6101
Fax: (859) 586–6107
boone.ca.uky.edu
4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT NEWSLETTER
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, CALL THE EXTENSION OFFICE AT 586-6101 AND ASK FOR ONE OF THE AGENTS BELOW.
BOONE COUNTY 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AGENTS
Announcements
4-H GARDEN CLUB The 4-H Garden Club is an exciting, hands-on club that teaches about plants, insects, diseases, and much more! Our club meetings are the first Monday of each month from 6:30-8:00 pm. All of the club meetings will be held at the Boone County Enrich-ment Center, unless otherwise specified. Call us at 586-6101 and ask for Gina for more information.
Below is the activity/subject schedule for the year:
November 4: Forcing bulbs indoors
December 2: Using greens from the landscape to create a decoration
2020 4-H CAMP 2020 4-H Camp is June 8-12. Registration forms will be available after January 2, 2020! The cost will be $90 for Boone County 4-H members and $225 for non-members.
January 6: Learn about air plants
February 3: Work on seed identification activities
March 2: It’s all about the Bees!
April 6: Starting seeds outdoors April 20: Visit the demonstration gardens at the Boone County Environmental and Nature Center to learn about high tunnels
May 4: Planting raised bed
May 18: Container gardens
June 1 & 15: TBA
July 6 & 20: TBA
August: Rest for Boone County Fair
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BOONE COUNTY 4-H CLOVERBUDS CLUB CALENDAR FOR 2019-2020
Meeting time: 6:00-7:00 pm
*Tentative schedule is subject to change.
*Locations are subject to change based on activities.
November 7 (Extension Office, Claxon Room)
December 12 (Enrichment Center, Cooking Lab, upper level)
January 9 (Extension Office, Claxon Room)
February 13 (Extension Office, Claxon Room)
March 12 (Extension Office, Claxon Room)
April—No meeting
May 14 (Extension Office, Claxon Room)
What is 4-H Cloverbuds? Just like the 4-H program for older youth, the purpose of the 4-H Cloverbuds is to help young children learn life skills to become competent, caring, and contributing citizens. Specifically, Cloverbuds are youth who are 5-8 years old based on 4-H age.
What is 4-H age? This is your child’s age as of January 1 of the current 2019-2020 program year. For example, a child that is currently four that turns five before January 1, 2020 will be considered a 5 year old for the program year and eligible to join Cloverbuds.
What are the goals of the 4-H Cloverbuds program? The primary goal of the Cloverbuds program is to promote children’s healthy development—mentally, physically, socially, and emotionally. The Cloverbuds program provides an excellent opportunity for children to reach their highest potential because early life experiences, even subtle ones, affect future development. • Learn more about themselves and the world around them • Develop positive attitudes about learning new things by hands-on involvement • Develop a relationship with a caring adult or older youth helper • Learn about the 4-H Youth Development program
Stay in touch! Join our remind list. We will text or email you updates about meetings, times, and locations. Send a text to 81010 with the following code: @bc4hcbuds
Questions for volunteer club leader Becky Kohorst? Email: [email protected].
Questions for Boone County 4-H Youth Development Education Agent? Email: [email protected].
4-H HORSE RIDING/DRIVING LOGS All accumulated hours for the Boone County 4-H Horse Riding/Driving program will be capped at 2,250 hours.
Horse News
2019-2020 HORSE EDUCATIONAL HOURS Below is a list of this year’s meetings. Other opportunities to acquire hours may be added, but they are not guaranteed. Participants must attend 6 hours of education from our Certified Volunteer Horse Leaders to be able to compete in 4-H horse activities for the 2019-2020 program year.
► NKY Equine Conference
SAT, 11/9, 9:00 am–4:00 pm
*Registration is from 8:00-9:00 am. Must pre- register for event with Steve ([email protected]) by November 1. Check in with Mark Voet to sign in. Lunch is provided. Attend all day and receive your required 6 hours.
► “What Makes a Better Ride is a Better Relationship”
TUE, 11/19, 6:30–8:30 pm, Johnny Walker Stables. ***Bring your own chair***
► “Marvelous Muscles”
SAT, 1/11/20, 9:00–11:00 am, Boone County Extension Enrichment Center, Project Room 1, upper level
NEW “HORSELESS” HORSE CLUB! There is a new “horseless” horse club that will start meeting on November 8 at 6:30 pm at the Extension Office. Laura Kirby will be the club leader. We will be talking about the education of horses, along with Horse Bowl, Horse Judging, public speaking, and demonstrations. You do not need to have your own horse to join, but the willingness to learn and a love of horses is a must! Cloverbuds are welcome to join in our meetings as well. We hope to see you there!
SEPTEMBER 4-H LIVESTOCK CLUB MEETING MINUTES
The September Livestock Club meeting was held on September 17. Rosemary Mastin led the meeting.
Meeting was started by doing pledges; officers were then elected. Elected members are: President—Sydney Alsip, Vice President—Wesley Alsip, Secretary—Linda Isaacs, Pledge Leader—Gianna Vaske.
Members then talked about new goals to improve the Livestock Club.
Rosemary talked about the Livestock Judging Club—what they do, how to become a member, and that they are always looking for new members.
Respectfully submitted by Linda Isaacs
livestock News
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4-H LIVESTOCK CLUB MEETING DATES FOR 2019-2020
*Always check the current month’s 4-H news-letter for dates, times, and/or location or our Facebook page for any changes.
LIVESTOCK CLUB INFORMATION It is once again time to start the 4-H Livestock Club. Six hours of livestock education, taught by certified livestock leaders, is required to participate in the market and breeding divisions for county, district, and state competition. Each participant in the market animal project must have six educational hours before the validation for each species. This includes beef, diary, sheep, goat, hog, rabbit, chicken, and duck. The participants in the breeding animal and country ham projects must receive six educational hours before June 1, 2020. Also, the participant and his/her parent must attend the mandatory livestock meeting in January. Please plan to attend meetings early in the year. Makeup time will not be given. All livestock club meetings will be held at the Extension Office unless otherwise noted. Please contact Christy at 586-6101 if you have any questions.
YOUNG GUNS The Young Guns are getting ready for their Gymkhana and Obstacle Course Event on November 16-17 at the Kentucky Cowtown Arena.
Our flyer and show bill are attached to the newsletter. Affordable fun for all ages! As we head into the winter months, we will be learning all kinds of new ways to help our
horses and riders achieve their goals. If you are interested in joining this great group of riders, please contact Joyce Voet at 859-630-4566. Don't wait, our deadline is fast approaching and we love having new equestrians join us!
ELITE DRILL TEAM Hello Elite friends! It is so good to be back in the saddle again! We are glad the hot weather is gone
and we’re looking forward to the holidays. We are riding together and have begun our new year with anticipation of the new drill. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We have so much to be thankful for. To
learn more about Elite, call Pam Pickett at 859-586-6730. Happy trails!
AEROSPACE CLUB Our next club meeting will be on Thursday, November 7 on the upper level of the Enrichment Center from 7:00-8:00 pm. Shipping companies interested in drone delivery have not been the only ones tracking the progress of racing drones using artificial intelligence. Come join us to see what the military is doing with drones lately, and see a brief history of military drones all the way back to World War I! We will also show how easy it is to make items for aerospace, like drone parts and model rockets with a 3D printer. We will have a printer, several of our micro drones, our coding drone, and two flight simulators for use as well. Please email us at [email protected] for details and any questions. New members are welcome year round.
ART & PHOTO CLUB Our next meeting will be on Thursday, November 21 on the upper level of the Enrichment Center from 7:00-8:00 pm. We will be going over how to take great photos of your family at holiday gatherings and how to get good shots of outdoor holiday lights. We will have plenty of lights set up to practice with, so feel free to bring a camera or you can use ours. For our art portion, we will be doing a make-and-take project starting with creating marbled paper. We'll show how to incorporate the marbled paper into thank you notes that can be used after the holidays. New members are welcome any time of year and there is no fee to join or for materials used. Please email us at [email protected] with any questions.
SHARPSHOOTERS We train youth ages 9-18 how to properly use .22 sporting rifle, 12 and 20 gauge shotgun, archery, and for those 12 and older pistol. We have eleven outdoor shoots starting in April. Our indoor meetings start on Thursday, November 14 at the Extension Office. Please arrive by 6:45 pm to sign in. Parents of prospective new members must attend a parent informational session at their first meeting. Please email us at [email protected] before coming so we can send our club information tip sheet to you ahead of time so you can determine if this club will be a good fit for your child. The rest of our indoor meetings will be at the Enrichment Center. New and returning members must attend a minimum of three indoor meetings but may attend all six. New members are required to attend both of the mandatory safety meetings held on February 13 and March 12 in order to be able to join.
EXPLORING OUTDOORS CLUB Our club will be taking a holiday break for the months of November and December. Our next meeting will take place on January 20, 2020 at 6:30 pm.
WIGGLES AND WAGS DOG CLUB
At our last meeting, we had a Halloween dog parade with the kids, and the dogs dressed up and marched
around the building. We passed out candy and had a Halloween party. We also welcomed several new members into the club. Our next meeting is Tuesday, November 19 at 7:00 pm at the Extension Enrichment Center, Room 1. Please join us as we
will be making dog-themed picture frames. We will also be discussing electing new officers, so start thinking about that if you are interested in running for a position. We hope you can join us! If you would like more information about our club, please contact Robin Huddleston at [email protected] or at 859-512-8505.
Pictured: Chip the dog, our volunteer demonstrator at our last meeting.
NIBBLES & SQUEAKS GUINEA PIG CLUB
At our last meeting, we had a Halloween-themed meeting. Members and their guinea pigs came dressed up in costumes! We also played Guinea Pig
Pictionary and had lots of treats. We welcomed three new members: Davey, Holly and Emmalynn. Our club meets the first Tuesday of the month. Next month’s meeting will be on November 5 from 6:00-7:00
pm at the Extension Enrichment Center, Room 1. We will be electing new club officers and talking about some exciting new changes to the club! We will also pay tribute to our guinea pigs by making Thanksgiving cards for them. On November 9, we will be visiting our friends at Elmcroft Assisted Living. New members are always welcome! For questions or more information, please contact Ben or Christie at [email protected].
The first Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 and included 50 Pilgrims, 90 Wampanoag Native Americans, and lasted three days.
Thanksgiving didn't become a national holiday until over 200 years later! Sarah Josepha Hale convinced President Lincoln in 1863 to make it so, after writing letters for 17 years campaigning for it to happen.
Campbell’s Soup created green bean casserole for an annual cookbook over 50 years ago. It now sells
$20 million worth of cream of mushroom soup. Thanksgiving is the reason for TV dinners! In 1953, Swanson had so much extra turkey (260 tons) that a salesman told them they should package it into aluminum trays with other sides like sweet potatoes—
and the first TV dinner was born! The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1924 with 400 employees marching from Convent Avenue to 145th Street in New York City. No large balloons were at this parade, as it featured only live animals from the Central Park Zoo.
