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1 12 Marshall County Clover Chatter A newsletter for the 4-H families and 4-H leaders of Marshall County Published by: Marshall County Extension Staff ~Nathan Grogg-4-H Youth Educator ~Angie Smith-4-H Program Assistant ~Lindsay Schrader-4-H Secretary Marshall County 4-H DROP BOX AVAILABLE!!! At the South entrance of the county building is a drop-box, labeled payment box. Label whatever you are putting in it for the Extension office and you can drop things off AFTER HOURS! Find us on Find us on Find us on Address Service Requested PURDUE UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE Marshall County 112 W. Jefferson St. Rm. 304 Plymouth, IN Cooperating with U.S. Department of Agriculture Find our Website: NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 238 Plymouth, IN 46563

2 2 11 Marshall County Clover Chatter-April Calendar of Events Spring is here! Crops, gardens, and flowers will soon be growing all around us to give color back to our world that has been cloudy and gray for so many months. And as the weather gets nicer and warmer, there s no excuse not to get outside. Whether it s to work in the fields or with your animals, to play sports, or simply to do cartwheels, be sure to get outside and be active every day if you re able. Area judging contests are coming up, good luck to all those participating, and be sure to check with your coaches about signup deadlines if you re interested in competing but are not yet registered. The livestock/dairy contest will be in Kosciusko County on April 14, the Horse & Pony contest will be in Lake County on April 30, and the Area Tractor contest will be in Marshall County on June 11, to name a few. VOLUNTEERS: If you have not yet reactivated your 4-H Online account to be a screened volunteer for 2016, please do so as soon as possible so you don t have to go through the entire screening application process again. If you have any questions or need help with the process, contact Angie at the Extension Office and she d be glad to help. Is anyone interested in volunteering to teach a 6 hour workshop (broken down into increments of your choice) to young people (3rd-12th graders) on any topic of your choice? Or, maybe you know of someone not currently involved with 4-H that has a skill they would like to teach to youth. Martial Arts? Calligraphy? Self-defense? Yoga? Quilting? Golf? Anything! I am looking for volunteers (new or current) to teach young people more about the world around them. If you, or someone you know, might be interested-please contact me. Thanks! Nathan Grogg Extension Educator, 4-H Youth Development April May June 1 All Beef/Dairy Beef Steers need to be Identified in 4HOnline 2 Culver Young Farmers Argos Unit. Methodist Church 7-10 AM 7 4-H Council Extension Office National Volunteer Week 12 4-H New Camp Counselor Extension Office Beef Dragani s Home TSC Paper Clover Event 14 Area X Livestock and Dairy Kosciusko Co. 16 Kids Boys and Girls Club 10-1:30 18 Horse and Pony Extension Office 6:30 20 Jr. Leader Extension Office 6:30-8 Officers mtg. 8-8:30 20 Beef Club Hacienda Give Back Plymouth Hacienda All Day! 21 Tube Painting Pat Nettrouer s Home Earth Day!!!!! 25 4-H Extension Office H Camp Counselor Extension Office Area X Horse and Pony Lake County 1 3 OFFICE CLOSED 4-6 Flower Delivery 5 4-H Extension Office 7 6 Meat Goat Tag Fairgrounds SMALL ANIMAL TAG Fairgrounds 8-11 AM 14 County Tractor Fairgrounds 7 AM 14 Beef Work Fairgrounds 10 AM 17 4-H Camp Counselor Extension Office Jr. Leader Extension Office 6: Tube Painting Pat Nettrouer s Home Rabbit Fairgrounds OFFICE CLOSED 2 4-H Extension Office H Camp Mack 11 Area Tractor Fairgrounds 16 Extension Board Extension Office 6:30

3 10 Inside this issue 3 We had another successful meeting in March, where we had fun playing bingo with the folks at the Catherine Kasper Home, followed by a regular meeting where our committees were able to meet. Thank you to all who helped out with the REMC babysitting event, as that went very well. Other upcoming events you can help with and earn points on your record sheets include: TSC Paper Clover Event (April 13-24). This can be something you do as a club or group to help raise funds for 4-H, or simply a few of you can decide to go one evening to talk with folks coming in to help raise extra funds and raise awareness of 4-H. Kids Expo (April 16, 10-1:30 at Boys & Girls Club in Plymouth). 4-H will have a booth at the event and we are looking for adult and youth to be there to hand out freebies and inform kids about 4-H. Please let Nathan Grogg know if you can help! Don t forget to keep your Record Sheet updated! Copies will be available at every meeting, can be picked up at the Extension Office anytime, or can be printed off from the sent on 12/2/15. *A reminder that we are still collecting plastic caps a reference sheet of what caps can be collected is included on page 7. Please keep collecting and encourage others to collect their caps so we can get to our 500 pound goal! Upcoming meetings: April 20 (Wed), 6:30-8pm, followed by an officers meeting from 8-8:30pm, Extension Office May 18 (Wed), 6:30-8pm, Extension Office Fair Tips/Healthy Living Tips H Opportunities Club Information H Information Bottle Cap Information H Online H Livestock Information Jr. Leaders Calendar Fair Tips *May 15th will be here before you know it. This year it falls on a Sunday, therefore we will still accept animal ID and enrollment forms on Monday May 16th. You have until the close of business day on the 16th to get Poultry and Rabbit forms in as well as Horse and Pony vaccine forms. All other animals need to have their animals ID d on 4HOnline by May 16th at 4! Healthy Living Tips *It s that time of year to be outside gardening. There are several things you want to remember while outside. Don t forget to put on your protective gear and drink lots of fluids when it is hot. A sun hat goes a long way to protecting you from the suns harmful rays.

4 4 9 4-H Council Fairboard 4-H Livestock Information Your next meeting will be on April 7th at 7 in the Extension Office. Extension Board * Your next meeting will be on April 25th at 7 in the Extension Office. * Your next meeting will be on June 16th at 6:30 in the Extension Office. Horse and Pony Orientation The H & P Orientation will be held on April 18TH at 6:30 in the Extension Office. This is a meeting that you won t want to miss regardless if you are a first year member or a ten year member. You will receive your horse and pony booklet and information on how to ID your animals online in the 4-H Online website. This is the same site you used to enroll in 4-H. Super Tag-In Day 4-H Opportunities 4-H Camp The application will be ed to all potential campers, on our website and on Facebook. If you need an application you can also stop in the Extension office or give us a call. This year we will accept the first 30 campers and it s a first come first serve. We will have a waitlist in case other counties do not have enough. Camp dates this year are June 5-7th at Camp Alexander Mack in Milford, Indiana. 4-H Camp is for 4-Hers in grades 3rd through 6th! Camp Counselors are 4-Hers in grades 9th through 12th. Indiana 4-H Foundation Scholarship Winners We would like to congratulate the winners of a $500 scholarship! Way to go!!! Alex Bollenbacher Marisa Howard Renae Johnson Jaela Meister Trevor Neidlinger Zoee Stephan Jamie Thomas If you are in the Dairy feeder calves, dairy goat, pygmy goat, rabbits or swine project you need to bring your animals to the fairgrounds on May 7th 8 AM to get tagged. Meat Goats will be tagged the night prior on May 6th 6-9. After you have tagged your animals you have until MAY 15TH to ID them online at in.4honline.com for everything besides Rabbits. Rabbits and Poultry are still paper copy. Everyone should have received an about the different projects and how to properly ID them. The Beef Club will be holding a fundraiser with Hacienda on Wednesday, April 20th, 2016 at the Plymouth Hacienda from 11 am 10 pm. Hacienda will donate 20% of what we spend on our Give back Fiesta day. All you have to do is bring in the token, that any beef leader or beef family has, show it to your server and everything on your bill will be counted for the 20%. (excluding sales tax, comped items, and gift card redemptions) You pay nothing extra! You can come in at lunch or dinner, in large groups or individually. You can purchase Hacienda Gift Cards with a token and receive 20% for the Beef Club!! Carry out orders are counted too. Remember that you can not give tokens to customers already at Hacienda, every party has to bring their own coupon. If anyone is caught breaking these rules, the donation arrangement is null and void.

5 8 5 4-H Online Enrollment We currently have 753 enrolled youth!! With that being said there still are members in pending status. This is due to the fact that we are still waiting on payment. If you received an invoice from our office, please either stop in and pay the state fee of $15.00 or mail us a check. If we don t receive payment before May 15th you will not be enrolled in 4-H for the year!! Please double check that your record is ACTIVE. 4-H Club Information Bourbon: Contact Terri Barnhart or Amy Middaugh for more information. *4/13 4-H and mini Triton High School 6 Center: Contact Melissa Neidlinger, Tresa Leazenby, Pam Michel or Melissa Stokes for information. *4/18 4-H TBA You will be turning in flower sales, please bring those. *If you are wanting to add or drop projects there are a few dates that you have to know. *All non-animal projects can be added or dropped online by May 15th. *All other animals need to be added or dropped online by May 15th. *You no longer have to fill out a paper add/drop form in the office. Just log in to your family profile and add/drop the projects. *Animals will also be identified on the same system. If you are in Beef, Dairy, Goats, Horses, Sheep or Swine you will log on and add your animals with all the proper information. There will be information packets coming in the mail to give you step by step information. Poultry, Rabbits, Cats and Dogs will still fill out paper animal ID forms. *BEEF/DAIRY STEERS MUST BE IDENTIFIED BY APRIL 1ST IN 4HONLINE!! German: Contact Bonnie Bollenbacher or Steve Schweisberger for more information. *4/14 Parent Bonnie Bollenbacher s *4/17 4-H Horizon Church 3 North: Contact Al Burch or Rebecca Miller for more information * Tippecanoe: Contact Tiffany Reichard, Mindi Williams, or Lynette Markley for more Information. *4/11 4-H Tippy Comm. Bldg. 7 Walnut: Contact Amy Chizum or Rob Hurford for more information. * Green: Contact Chantel Poisel or Tom Watson for more information. *4/25 Jr./mini Chantel s 4:30 Polk: Contact Betty Hostetler or Linda Bella for more information. *4/11 Adult Tyner Com. Bldg 7 *4/18 4-H Tyner Com. Bldg. 7:30 Union: Contact Amanda Minix, Tammy Thompson or Eldon & Sandy Amor for more information. *4/11 Parent Amor s Home 7 *4/14 4-H Culver High Café 6:30 West: Contact Jennifer Houin or Kristi Nate for more information. *

6 6 7 4-H Information Tractor Contest On May 14th is the Tractor Contest at the Argos 4-H Fairgrounds. Registration will begin at 7 AM and the contest will finish at 11 AM. Please plan on being there early so that you can get registered. Good luck to all 4-H Participants. Tube/Fabric Painting Workshops Pat Nettrouer will be holding her annual Tube painting workshops at her home at Michigan Rd. in Plymouth. If you are wanting help with Fabric painting that will be by appt. only. You can call her at Tube Painting Workshops *4/21 from 7-8 *5/19 from 7-8 *6/16 from 7-8 If you have any questions please contact Pat. The Beef and Dairy Beef committees and superintendents would like to THANK everyone who helped make this year s beef/dairy beef tag in such a success! With out all our great volunteers and hard work we would not have been able to have such a smooth tag in. Thanks again! SPRING PAPER CLOVER CAMPAIGN DATES ANNOUNCED! The 4-H Paper-Clover campaign is a unique opportunity between the National 4-H Council and Tractor Supply Company stores across the United States. They have announced that the 2016 Spring Clover Campaign will be April 13-24th! TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO Add $1 for 4-H!