for our First Responders, col-lecting 3,000 lbs of food and the Youth show and items for the fire victims in the panhandle, YOU have been the reason our 4-H Program is the best in the state of Texas...Be proud of yourselves as well! Continue to do good things, be nice and have FUN!!!

Have a GREAT summer!

County 4-H Agent

The 2016-2017 4-H year is just about over with! So far, its been a great year of 4-H, Com-munity Service, Leadership and so much more!

We have over 30 kids heading to College Station for Texas 4-H Roundup in June to participate in Leaders 4 Life, Robotics, Livestock Judging, Speeches, Food challenge and much more! We have four 4-Hers receiving Texas 4-H Schol-arships. We will have many teams attending State 4-H Out-door Challenge, Shooting Sports State and State Horse show, and much more!

One of the best parts of summer time is the camps that are available for you to attend! Most of the due dates are in

June, so be sure to check out the Texas 4-H Center Website for the camps to register.

We will take our exchange group to Montgom-ery County Pennsylvania this summer, have a robotics day camp in July , as well as foods and clothing workshops! LIFE 101, will have a summer camp program this summer as well. Additionally, we have several kids running for Dis-trict council once again, so get ready, we may have yet another year with Guadalupe Co. represented at district!

I have been very proud of the hard work y’all have done this year! From One Day 4-H, providing over 1,000 meals, bags and more

Summer Time is HERE, Have FUN!!!

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Guadalupe County 4-H Gazette Your Source for Everything 4-H in and Around Guadalupe County

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CHANGES TO

SPRING AND

FALL DIS-

TRICT 10

ROUNDUP,

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PDC Sign Up

Link , pg 3

Foods and

Clothing Sum-

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LIFE 101 Sum-

mer Program,

p. 2

Robotics Sum-

mer Camp p.4

most active in county events,

consistently submitted reports

and more! Dinner is free for

everyone, but donations are

always welcome! There will be

a silent auction...items are DUE

August 1.

We hope you can join

us for this great night and help

us celebrate our 4-Hers.

They are the best and most

active county in District 10

and I want to make sure they

are ALL recognized for their

hard work!

Mark your calendars

for Wednesday, August 16!

That will be the date for the

2017 Guadalupe County 4-H

Achievement Awards Banquet.

The doors will open at 5:00pm

and dinner will begin at 6:00pm.

The banquet this year will be at

the Guadalupe County Coliseum

in Seguin.

The banquet is the best

night out of the year because it

is the ONE night we recognize

all of our OUTSTANDING 4-

Hers for their successes, accom-

plishments and awards from

the past year! We also hon-

or our volunteers, club man-

agers and other adults who

give so much to our 4-H Pro-

gram!

We will also be say-

ing goodbye to our graduat-

ing seniors with the senior

ceremony, announcing schol-

arship winners and we will

also announce the Guadalupe

County 4-H Club of the Year!

This award will be given to

the club that has been the

Guadalupe Co. 4-H Banquet, August 16 at the Coliseum

w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m /

GuadalupeCounty4H. It con-

tains the most up to date info

on meetings, events and up-

coming contests, as well as

many photos!

We also have a

county 4-H INSTAGRAM app

for smartphones. When you

search for names in Instagram,

Nearly everyone today has

some kind of social media!

With smart phones every-

where, event times, photos,

videos and more are at our

finger tips! For Guadalupe

County 4-H, we have types of

Social media!

First off, there is our

Facebook site at https://

look for GUADCO4H! The 4-H

Council, Ambassadors and 4-H Agent

post photos of events as they happen!

Finally, we have the Guada-

lupe County 4-H YouTube Page

which I will post trainings and meet-

ings on so if you missed out on a

training, we will post it to where you

can view it at a later date

Guadalupe County 4-H and Social Media/ Technology

Safety—First Aid, Self-Defense, Active

Shooter Situations

Home Repair and Automotive—How to

change a tire, fuse, filters; Caulking, building

something

Financial Management—Balancing a check-

book, filling out rental application, budget/,

etc

Professionalism—Table etiquette, Job Inter-

view Skills, resumes, etc.

We will have some guest speakers so RSVP by

July 14 to sign up. The time will be Noon to

5pm each day. Be sure to bring something to eat

for lunch. Drinks and snacks will be provided.

We will be doing a LIFE 101 Project Series this

Summer during the week of July 24-28, 2017.

All meetings will begin at the county extension

office. This program will be primarily for Jun-

ior High (6th grade) and Up.

The goal of this program is to teach 4

-Hers skills that will not only help them suc-

ceed in life, but also to show them ways to

help themselves and others. This is one of our

major programs for the year, as the kids and

parents of the county have asked for it for

several years! The tentative schedule for the

week is:

Basic Sewing, cooking and Consumer De-

cision Making (Washing clothes, meals for

1, etc)

LIFE 101 Life Skills Summer Series, July 24-28 P A G E 2

G U A D A L U P E C O U N T Y 4 - H G A Z E T T E

While you are work-

ing on your record book, be

sure to also turn in your 2017

-2018 Guadalupe Co. 4-H

Ambassador & awards Appli-

cation! This has become one

of the more sought after

groups in Guadalupe County!

Ambassadors pro-

mote the 4-H program by

speaking at schools, conduct-

ing programs and learning

about leadership, public speak-

ing, and a lot more. The appli-

cations are DUE, Monday,

Awards and Ambassador Application Coming up June 19 at 5pm!

You can be an inter-

mediate or Senior level 4-Her.

There will be several events

you will be required to be at

during the year. They include

Ag fairs, school speeches,

youth day at SALE, the county

fair and youth show, Kids Day

in the Park, One Day 4-H,

Water Fairs, Information

Nights and more! In addition,

you will be required to attend

the monthly ambassador

meetings at the county exten-

sion office!

As a result, you will

have a full leadership and pub-

lic speaking project wrapped

into one, as well as receive

one of the county ambassador

letterman-style jackets!

Applications & guide-

lines are available online at

http://guadalupe.agrilife.org/4-

h/ , click on the application

that is called “2017-2018 Gua-

dalupe County 4-H Awards &

Ambassador Application.”

P A G E 3

G U A D A L U P E C O U N T Y 4 - H G A Z E T T E

Hers...they are:

Chairman (in charge of the

contest associated with the

project OR a workshop)

Vice-Chairman (in charge of a

workshop or other activity)

Secretary/Reporter (Contacts

the committee on upcoming

meetings and events, writes

articles for the newspaper and

newsletter).

At the Extension Of-

fice, we have large boards

where you can sign up for

these committees. The com-

mittees include:

FCS Projects (Food,

Clothing, Consumer)

PDCs give 4-Hers lead-

ership in and ownership over

their own projects; these are

things that judges like to see in

record books and scholarship

applications. If you are interest-

ed in joining a PDC or finding a

f u l l l i s t , h t t p : / /

guadalupe.agrilife.org/4-h/4-

hpublicationsandinfo/ and look

for Project Development Com-

mittee Guidelines!

In this issue, I want to

talk about the various commit-

tees, what their responsibilities

are and when do we choose

committees for next 4-H year.

Each committee has three offic-

ers that are filled by 4-

Plant Science (Gardening,

Grass ID, Range)

Leadership/ Public Speak-

ing

Natu r a l Re sou r ce s

(Outdoor Challenge,

Shooting Sports, Fishing)

Horse Project

Dog Project

Livestock Projects

Photography

Science, Engineering and

Technology (STEM and

Robotics)

Entomology Project

Committee

If you ever have an idea for a new

project development committee,

project area, contest or ANY-

THING else project related, just

Now is the Time to

sign up for PDCs!

Click the link

BELOW to sign up

now!

http://goo.gl/forms/

yKHqb7EV32q9CsR

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scholarships/. If you have questions, call the county

extension office!

Bartoskewitz Scholarship ( One, $1,000 Scholar-

ship)

Miranda Memorial Scholarship ( One, at least

$500 scholarship)

Nelson Bormann Scholarship (Runner up to Bar-

toskewitz, $500 Scholarship

4-H Booster Club Scholarship (Four, $300)

This time of year, we get ready to send in

our Scholarship Applications. While its only high

school seniors that need to worry about filling out

applications, NOW is the time for Juniors and Soph-

omores to learn the process and see what’s availa-

ble! Remember to have your FAFSA done, get as

many recommendation letters as possible and have

your financial info ready to apply for some of them.

This is a list of all upcoming Scholarships

and their tent. Due dates. You can find links to the

forms online at http://guadalupe.agrilife.org/

Joining a County Project Development Committee

Scholarship Apps Due in the Coming Months

Record Books are one of the most beneficial experiences you can have in 4-H! What is a record book you

ask? This is the place where a 4-Her records his or hers’ 4-H experience for the past year.

Record Books teach record keeping skills, writing and computer skills, planning and goal setting.

Much of the information in them is beneficial when applying for scholarships, awards, positions and more.

The Due Date for recordbooks this year Monday, JUNE 19th, the same day as awards applications and ambas-

sador applications!

County recordbook judging will be Friday, June 23 at the Comal County Extension Office at 9am. If you would

like to be a judge, please let me know...it is a GREAT way to learn! Also District judging will be July 13th at

the Helotes 4-H Center in Bexar County. We need volunteers for both, so please let me know if you are

interested!

County Recordbook Judging, June 23 at 9am

but in order for the cer-

emony to work we need

you to please email back:

The college/trade

school you will be

attending

A brief commentary

of who you are,

you're 4-H career,

and your favorite 4-

H memory.

Hey there Grad-

uating seniors of Guada-

lupe County 4-H who

will be attending this

years banquet! We will

be doing a senior cere-

mony at this years Coun-

ty banquet.

We would like

to keep most of the de-

tails secret until banquet,

RSVP date is June

25th at 5pm. Please email

Matt Miranda at the County

Extension office at mjmiran-

da@ag.tamu.edu

Graduating Senior Ceremony at 4-H Banquet This Year

reward to all of our 4-Hers for the hard work,

time commitment and excellence they have dis-

played in the 2016-2017 4-H year.

This will be the 7th year for this annual

event and we are hoping for even more partici-

pants than we had last year! Welcome to the

summer! I hope you enjoy it!

This will also be a good time for you to

drop off your recordbook which is DUE the next

Monday on June 19, or to have Matt read over it

one last time for any changes!

Now that the school year is

nearly over and the summer time is starting, its

time to sit back, relax and have a little fun too!

It is also time to celebrate your hard work

over this year! What better way to do this

than pizza and a swimming pool!

On Thursday, June 15, we will hold

our 7th annual 4-H End Of Year Party at

Starcke Park Wave Pool at 7pm.

This event will be free for 4-Hers and

volunteers...pizza and the facility is being paid

for by our Guadalupe 4-H Booster Club as a

Guadalupe Co. 4-H Wave Pool Party, June 16 P A G E 4

G U A D A L U P E C O U N T Y 4 - H G A Z E T T E

The 4-H Robotics Program in

Guadalupe County has grown

over the years, becoming

more advanced and one of the

most storied groups in Texas

This summer, the

Guadalupe County SET & Ro-

botics project group is hosting

their 2nd County Robotics

Day Camp. This camp will

meet July 17-21, Time TBA at

the County Extension office.

It will be an intensive

Guadalupe County 4-H Robotics Day Camp, camp limited to between 15

and 20 4-Hers who have

finished the 3rd-5th grade.

The cost will be $75, snacks

included ! You do NOT need

to be a member of the 4-H

program to attend but we are

hoping you will join as a re-

sult!

A more in-depth

schedule will be send out as

time gets closer, so stay tuned

to your email and facebook! If

you would like to RSVP for

this program or would like

more information, contact the

county extension office at 830

-303-3889. The date to RSVP

for this event will be July 10th!

We hope to see you there!!

District 10 Fall and Spring Roundup CHANGES! P A G E 5

Major changes to

Fall Roundup

include moving

educational

presentations to

December, and

Leaders 4 Life back

to the Spring

G U A D A L U P E C O U N T Y 4 - H G A Z E T T E

For the Last two sum-

mers, agents and volunteers from

Kerr, Gillespie and Kimble Coun-

ties created a new, in depth pro-

gram for youth to learn about

production agriculture across the

District and the State. The YALL

program takes kids from around

the distict on a week long trip

from the hill country to the pan-handle, learning along the way the

ins and outs of production agri-

culture and livestock projects.

This program is open to

anyone in Districts 10, 12 and 7,

and will be a once in a lifetime

Youth Agricultural Lifetime Leadership Program (Y’ALL) trip to really learn and under-

stand what farmers, ranchers and

producers must understand and

know to produce the food we eat

and clothes we wear.

Cost:

$200.00 per student

Deposit: $100.00 is required to com-

plete your application

Application deadline:

June 16, 2017

Balance Due: by July 13, 2017

Send Application

&

Checks Payable to

Kerr County 4-H

3775 Hwy 27, Kerrville, TX

78028

Please Contact Jeff Hanselka

or Travis Franke for more

information.

the fall. THAT MEANS

COUNTY 4-H ROUNDUP

WILL BE IN LATE OCTO-

BER. I know this is VERY

different than we are use to,

but it does mean that we

will not have to be writing

speeches right after stock

shows are over.

Spring Roundup will

be April 19-21, 2018 back in

Fredericksburg. The reason-

ing for the contests taking

place in that area is due to

the size of District 10, and it

being centrally located for

our counties. The schedule

is:

Thursday, Apr. 19

Morning: Soil Judging, Grass

ID, Range Evaluation, Wool

& Mohair

1:30pm, Leaders 4 Life

Friday, Apr. 20

9am, Duds to Dazzle

Last year, District

10 went to a new contest

format. Spring and Fall

Roundup is now here to stay,

but the District has tried to

rearrange a few contests for

the 2017-2018 4-H year to

try and make things a little

easier for some people.

Fall roundup 2017

will be held December 8-9, in

Kerrville, Texas. The Con-

tests are as follows:

Friday, December 8

8:15am, Food Challenge

1:30pm, Food Show and En-

tomology Contest

Sat., December 9

9am, ALL Quiz Bowls

1:30pm Educational Presenta-

tions, and Public Speaking.

Yes, that means the educa-

tional presentation contest

will join public speaking in

9am, Fashion Storyboard

12:45pm, Fashion Show

3:00pm, Share the Fun

Saturday, Apr. 21

7:30am Livestock Judging in

Fredericksburg

8am, Rifle Contest in Wilson

County

You can see that

Leaders 4 Life will move

back to the spring contests,

and Share the Fun will stay

in the Spring. There is also

nothing else after Livestock

Judging, so people can get

home earlier.

Be looking for

more updates as it gets clos-

er to time! If you have any

questions, please let me

know.

P A G E 6

All camps in

Brownwood at the

4-H center require

you bring your

own toiletries and

linens! Shower

shoes, towel and

sheets, as well as

anything else you

may need!

G U A D A L U P E C O U N T Y 4 - H G A Z E T T E

P A G E 7

STOCK SHOW CHECKS ARE IN

Please come in to pick up your checks from the major shows (auction checks, floor checks). You will need to sign for them. If you sold in any of the auctions, please make sure you bring in copies of

your thank you notes.

STEER VALIDATIONS

Date: Monday, June 19; Time: 3-6 p.m. at Engle Ranch,350 Schwab Rd, Marion (just off of FM 78)

One parent or guardian must be present with your steers at validation. If you have any questions, please

call Jeff.

STATE FAIR LAMB & GOAT VALIDATIONS

Date: Thursday, June 22; Time: 8-10 a.m. at the County Extension Office. A parent must be present to

sign paperwork.

HEIFER VALIDATIONS

Date: Thursday, June 22; Time:10-12 noon at the county extension office. Remember to bring your heif-

er’s registration papers to be scanned.

SHEEP CAPITAL LAMB CAMP

Date: August 4-6; Place: San Angelo Fairgrounds. Deadline: June 30 and cost is $150 (camper)

$75 (adult/sponsor). Deadline: June 30

Camp is open to incoming 3rd graders-seniors. Register online at www.sanangelorodeo.com/p/

lambcamp. For more information, come by the Extension Office or contact Brittni Kaczyk

at (325) 653-7785 or Josh Blanek at (325)659-6522

Pecan Classic Steer Show July 7-8, 2017

Entry Fee

Ring A - $45 Judged by: Kylee Kerbs

Ring B - $ 20 Judged by: Brady Ragland

(Ring B) is for points only

LATE FEE- Per exhibitor late fee $20 (Cash ONLY)

DEADLINE is July 3th, 2017 postmark

Mail Entry Forms to Mail to: GVPCPO Box732Marion, TX 78124

Summer 2017 FCS Project Workshops, Foods and Clothing

P A G E 8 G U A D A L U P E C O U N T Y 4 - H G A Z E T T E

*** Sign up for the workshop that corresponds to the age you will in 4-H starting in

August 2017!!!!

Please RSVP by Monday, June 19th so we have enough supplies at each workshop. Fee

for each workshop will be $5 per person.

Clover Kids and Junior 4-Her’s workshops:

Wednesday, June 21 1:30-3:30 pm – CLOTHING AND TEXTILES

Come learn some hand sewing techniques and make a Tooth fairy pillow

Thursday, June 22 1:30-3:30 pm – FOOD AND NUTRITION 1:30 Spice ID – how well do you see and smell 1:50 Garnishing 101 2:15 BREAK 2:30 Diced, Chopped, Cubed……SKILLS!! 3:00 Are you safe!

Intermediate 4-Her’s workshops:

Monday, June 26 1:30 – 3:30 pm – Clothing and Textiles

Come sew pajama shorts and learn some new skills – you do not need to

bring anything except your sewing machine if you have one you use at

home. We will create a pattern for you and complete the project

(hopefully)!!!

Wednesday, July 19 1:30-4:00 pm – Food and Nutrition

1:30 Spice ID – how well do you see and smell

1:50 Vitamin/Mineral Jeopardy

2:15 BREAK

2:30 Diced, Chopped, Cubed……SKILLS!!

3:00 Fast Food Choices

3:15 Recipe adaptation

3:30 Are you safe!

Senior 4-Her’s workshops:

Clothing – to be announced

Wednesday, July 19th 5:00-7:30 pm – Food and Nutrition

Focus on Nutrients

Prepare a complete meal! Meal will

only be provided for those that pay

and participate in the workshop.

210 E. Live Oak Street

Seguin, Texas 78155

Phone: 830-303-3889

Fax: 830-372-3940

E-mail: mjmiranda@ag.tamu.edu

Website: Guadalupe.agrilife.org

Website: facebook.com/guadalupecounty4h

Instagram: GUADCO4H

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A unique education agency, the Texas A&M AgriLife Exten-

sion Service teaches Texans wherever they live, extending

research-based knowledge to benefit their families and com-

munities. From the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Website

What is 4-H?

4-H is a youth organization that provides kids with the life

skills they need to become a responsible, productive,

community minded citizen. This is done through 4-H Project

Work, a collection of educational experiences that give the

child a chance to learn, grow, think and do.

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Guadalupe County

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Heart to greater loyalty; my hands to larger service; and my health to better living. For my Club, my

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