4-~andatory validation date for Market Hogs to be scheduled at your farm, call office to set up.

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1 i November --December HAPPY HOLDAYS! Dates to RememHer: November 5-l\1ANDATORYvalidation date for Beef & Dairy Commercial Heifers, Market lambs, C9mmercial Ewes, Market Goats & Commercial Does at Florida Parish Arena 4pm-6pm **lfyou have a market or commercial animal that needs to be validated call office asap! 6- ~ossession date for market, commercial, and breeding Beef, Dairy, Goats, & Sheep for LSU Show 10-~SU AgCenter Broiler Chick Deadline, money due if you want to order chicks. 10-1r. Leader Meeting, BBQ Station, ndependence, 5:30p.m. Challenge Camp, ih graders ONLY, Tickfaw State Park 18 Registration Deadline for Bike Hike Wetlands Activity 24- atsuma Orders & money due to 4H office, pickup will be Dee 4, 201~. 24- Sewing Workshop, 9 a.m. till 12 noon, Amite Extension office, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 25- Bike Hikel Wetlands Activity, 10 a.m., Tickfaw State Park, register by Nov 18, , HAPPY THANKSGVNG!!!! Turkey Day!!! Office Closed ~andatory validation date for Market Hogs to be scheduled at your farm, call office to set up. December 5 - [Deadline 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December 5, 2014 for Livestock show entry fees & forms 9- Seafood Cookery Talent Show Ambassador Talk, Amite Elementary 6 p.m. 9- ~outheast District Jr Livestock Show Poster - Due to 4H office (rules attached) 8-1: Christmas Gifts due from participating schools to 4 H Office for Evergreen Life Services residents LA Connection Citizenship Camp, Registration $75 due by November 10, Jan 2, Happy Holidays! 4H Office will be Closed 14-lA.wardof Excellence for Jr 4H'ers (14-15 yrs old) & Key Club (16 yrs old+) apps due to the 4H Office January 14- ~enior Honor Cord applications due to 4H office for graduating seniors 20 ~gg & Poultry Cookery, Ambassador Talk, Ponchatoula Lions Club, 6pm 30 - Honey Bee Essay due (leader has rules) 31 Tangipahoa Parish livestock show, Florida Parish Arena, 9 a.m. -exhibitor letters mailed to you. 2 - pring Garden Day poster due to 4H office by 4 p.m. (Rules attached) February 3 - P - Southeast District Livestock Show, Covington Fairgrounds (exhibitor info mailed soon) LSU AgCenter State Livestock Show, Lamar Dixon in Gonzales (rules on lsuagcenter.com) 24 J Beef & Sugar Cookery/ Fashion Show 27 -tpelicans VS. Heat 4H night (ticket order info attached) 27- et Parade posters / t-shirt designs due to 4H office by 4 p.m. (Rules attached) Junior Leadership Conference 9th 12thgraders (call by Feb 02, 2015 to get on list) March Food & Fitness Camp, Camp Grant Walker, $75 (registration deadline is Feb 02, 20 S). 24 J Beef & Sugar Cookery / Ambassador Talk & Fashion Show 6p.m. at Amite Elementary 21-4-H Fest, Florida Parish Arena 9-2 April H Summer Camp for 4-6 graders, Camp Grant Walker, Pollock, LA June H University, LSU, Baton Rouge for year olds May t Pet Parade / Mile Dolphin Dash / 5K Run on the Reef at Chappapeela Sports Park, Hammond, LA -p- f; i 4-H Livestock Enl ries: Entry forms for the District & State Livestock Shows, registration papers for breeding animals, district li estock show entry dues ($10.00 per exhibitor no matter how many entries shown), and the certificate of completion and affidavit from the Quality Assurance & Ethic's Certification Program will be due to the Tangipahoa Paris office by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December 5, For market & commercial animals, Louisiana bred ear tag numbers are needed if they are LA Bred. f you don't fill that out on the entry form, they will NOT be entered as LA Drl **Leaders will have a copy of the camp flyer if any 4th - 6th grader is interested in going to 4-H Camp Grant Walker next yea~; early registration will begin on January 6, (Summer Camp will be the week of June )***

2 RULES** Seafo~d Cookery Contest Rules: 1. Bring to the contest a prepared seafood dish. This dish must be cold and you ONl'Y bring one (1) serving. The recipe must contain at least one cup of fresh, frozen, pasteurized or dried Louisiana ~eafood*. No canned seafood may be used. Surimi or artificial crab made from fish cannot be used. There can be NO RA W seafood in the final dish. Entries in Divisions 1 thru 5 may contain a small amount of a second seafood but not m re than Y2 of the amount of the primary seafood. For example: a recipe could contain one cup of crab as the primary sea ood and Y2 cup of shrimp as the secondary seafood. *See the Louisiana Seafood list attached. The 5 divisions ar : CRAB, CRAWFSH, FSH/OTHER SEAFOOD, OYSTER and SHRMP. 2. Bring a copy 0 the recipe with the dish. Your name, school & division should be on the back. This must be written in recipe form and placed under the dish. Recipes may be used in publicity and printed on publications by the donors. J,. A contestant ay enter as many divisions as he or she wishes, but may only enter one dish per division & can win overall in only on division. All parish contestants will receive participation ribbons. Overall winners will receive a plaque and repres nt the Parish in the District Cookery competition on May 1st. 1. Scoring Facto s: til. Recipe - correct format and requirements - 15 points, #2. Appearance / Presentation - 35 points, #3. Taste points (<*PLEASE NOTE: Part.icipants are NOT to deliberately enter more than one entry of the SAME DSH in t e same category. For example, you may not cook one dish and have two siblings/friends/d. ssmates/etc. enter the identical dishes** Commodi Ambassador Pro ram: ask leader for details or office! (Public Spedking Contest) Talent Show: De p.m., Amite Elementary School: There will be a talent show during the judging of the Seafood Cookery. The leader needs to let the 4-H office know what you will be doing no later than December 8 at 3 p.m. There can on y be 2 talents per club, with each talent lasting no more than 3 minutes (talent will be cut off if on er than 3 minutes. Please only age appropriate performances. Points will be given in this order: 50 points for Chl b participation points for 1stPlace points for 2nd Place -- 5 points for 3rd Place. -io 4-H Ado t-a-re ident for Christmas: We will again assist Evergreen Life Services (formally School) with the 4 H Adopt-A-Resident Program. We have requested a list of names ofrbsidents gifts unless a 4-H Hub adopts them. Let us know if your club wishes to participate. Your leader community servic ' project and all gifts will be due in the office by December 8thby 4:00 p.m. All bag, NOT wrappe. Call or us by December 8th if you need gifts to be picked up. Hammond State who will not receive has details about this gifts must be in a gift Sewin Worksho : November 24,2014, Monday at the Amite office. Call the office to Jign-Up, class is limited to 25. Each 4-H'er must ring their own sewing machine, material, pattern, scissors, thread, pins, & extension cord. Participants will r ceive assistance in cutting out garment and beginning sewing techniques. Garments may need to be completed at horn. f you cut your garment out at home, you will probably be able to finish your garment at the workshop. The fini shed garment will be modeled during the Fashion Show on Feb 24, There will be 3 categories for 4th - ih graders: aprons, skirts and pajama bottoms. 4-H'ers may only enter one garment for parish competition. 4-H'Trsin grades 8 thru 12 must make a complete outfit. 8th- 12thgrade garments will need to be turned into the 4-H offic~ no later than February 16,2015 (with the Ready to Wear form) and the garment will be judged on construction. Al4!-H'ers entering the Fashion Show must turn in a word script describing their garment. This script will be read floud while the 4-H' er models their garment and will be due to the 4-H office no later than February 16, All courtants will be intervi cwed prior to modeling ganncnts. Emai1 office for ready to wear form. Bike Hike / Wetlands Day: November 25,2014, Tuesday, Tickfaw State Park, 10 a.m. f-.egistration deadline November 18,2014- $5.00 per participant, leader has entry forms and they were given 0lut at October meetings. JoAJl\;VtfVT. Pessorv lv1~ Robevt~ Extension lag cent Tangipaho Parish Assistant Extension Agent Tangipahoa Parish . i ess na or mroberts(magcenter.1su.edu center.lsu.edu Visit our website page:

3 LOUSANA SEAFOOD LST Progys Amberjack Alligator Bearded Brotula Fish Black Drum Black fin Tuna Blue Crab Blue Runners Bluefin Tuna Bluefish Brown Shrimp Bow Fish (Chou pique) Buffalo Fish Butterfish Carp Crawfish Chub Mackerel Cobia (Lemon fish) Crevalle Jack Flounder (Croaker) Freshwater Catfish Freshwater Eels Freshwater Turtle Frog Legs (Bullfrog) Garfish Gaspergou Grouper King Mackerel Little Tunney (Bonita) Louisiana Clams Louisiana Hakes Louisiana Stone Crabs Mahi Oysters Oyster Drills (Conchs, Bigorneaux) Pink Shrimp Pompano Rays River Shrimp Rock Shrimp Roughneck Shrimp (Blood Shrimp) Royal Red Shrimp Saltwater Catfish Saltwater Eels Sand Sea trout (White Trout) Sea Bobs (Shrimp) Shark Sheep head Snappers Southern King Fish (Canned Mullet) Spanish M~ckerel Speckled Trout Squid Striped Mullet Sword Fish, Tilefish Triggerfish Wahoo White Shrimp Yellow fin Tuna Soft-Shelle,d Crabs Game fish (Bass, Bream, Crappie, etc.) are acceptable, but the more "Commercial" fish above are preferred)

4 Tangipahoa Parish 4-H PET PARADE POSTER / TSHRT DESGN CONjfEST (Poste s are due at your February club meeting or by Monday, February fl7, 2015) 4-H members may pa ticipate in the Pet Parade poster/t-shirt design contest by turning in posters to tlir leaders at their February club meetin or to the 4H Extension Office in Amite no later than Friday. February at 4:00 p.m. RULES 1. Poster must b~ half of a full-size poster board, horizontal or vertical on poster board only. 2. Do not attach anything to the poster that is more than 1116inch thick. 3. The Doster m st contain the followint! information: loth Annual Tangipahoa Parish 4-H Pet Parade "Under The Sea" Friday, May,2015-Registration begins at 3:30 p.m. Chappapeela Sports Park, Hipark Blvd., Hammond, LA Must also include the followint!: Entry fee - $20.00 per pre-registered pet and $25.00 the day of event. Dogs and Cat ONLY (must be on leash or in pet carrier), OPEN TO THE PUBLC! Fun petlcontests! Activities and Concession Booths! Family Friendly Atmosphere! **NEW THS YEAR, featuring a 1 mile Dolphin Dash / 5K Run on the Reef - $20.00 pre-registered and $25.00 the day of the eve 1tor $30 preregistered for both events & $35 day of for both events (pet parade & run). Proceeds to b nefit the Janice M. Brown Memorial4-H Scholarship Fund. 4. Entrants mus place their name, school and club name, grade, and phone number on the back of the poster in the upper right h nd corner. 5. There will be wo categories for judging - computer generated posters (all or part) and non-c9mputer generated. 6. Posters may not be returned to 4-H members. Winning posters will be announced at the Pet Parade. Posters will be used throughr ut the area to promote and publicize the event. 7. Overall Winn ng Poster will be used for the Pet Parade T-shirt design and student will receiv~ a $60 credit towards the participan 's age appropriate 4H camp of their choice (4H summer camp, Challenge Camp, 4H University, etc.) Entrants will receive points and ribbons as in other contests. Additional prizes will also be awarded to!overallwinners. For additional lnformatlon on the parade, booths, sponsorship opportunities, scholarship criteria and additional information, please JoAnna Jesson at jpesson@agcenter.lsu.edu or tangipahoa@agcenter.lsu.edu. Tangipahoa Parish 4-H Spring Garden Day Poster Contest (poste rs are due at your January club meeting or by Monday, February 2, 2015) Posters are due at the 4H Extension Office in Amite no later than Mondav. February Jr if you have them ready they can be turned in at your club's January meeting. Selected posters will be used throughout the parish for advertising Spring Ga den day. The posters should be pretty, attract attention, and easy to read from t least 10 feet or more away since they may b displayed in a business window as advertisement for the event. RULES 1. Poster mus be half of a full-size poster board, horizontal or vertical on poster board 2. The poster must contairi the following information: Spring Garden Day, Saturday, March ~4, 2015, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Ham nond Research Station, Old Covington Hwy, Hammond, LA. Admission ~5.00 per vehicle. 3. The poster must also include the followinl information: Kids' Activities; Master Gardeneljs Plant Sale; Educational Gardening Exhibits; Gardening Advice; Educational Seminars; Concessions ~so available. Event spon ored by the Tangipahoa Parish Master Gardener's Association and LSU AgCenter. 4. Be sure to lace your name, school (and/or club), grade and phone number on the back of 1!heposter in the upper right hand orner. 5. There will e two categories for judging - computer generated posters (all or part) and non-computer generated. 6. Posters wil not be returned to 4-H members. Winning posters will be displayed at Spring Garden Day. Cash award(s) w be presented at Achievement Day.. Awards as per other 4- poster contests: Points and a 1 t, 2nd or 3rd place ribbon to each qualifying participant. Two overall winners (0 e in each category) get 25 points and $25.00 cash each from the Tangipahoa Parish Master Gardeners Association. Club poin s per age division: 15 for 1st place, 10 for 2nd place, and 5 for 3rd place. Award ribbons will be sent to club leaders after the j dging. post~rs WLL NOT be returned, they will be used for Advertisement, S

5 80 th SOUTHEAST DSTRCT JUNOR LVESTOCK SHOW LSU A ricultural Center Livestock Show Facility St. Tammany Parish Fair Grounds - Covington, LA February 3-6, POSTER CONTEST GUDELNES 1. Th contest is open to all 4-H and FFA members in parishes covered in the Southeast District Jun or Livestock Show Awrrds divisions: Division 16 th grade and younger Division i h grade and older (AGE AS OF JANUARY 1, 2015) posrer dimensions- 17 Yl" X 22 Yl" with a 1" white border around the perimeter of drawing. Thtposter will be the original work of the participant. The poster must be dra n/painted/sketched by the participant only. Pen and ink, pencils, paints, markers, colors, wat rcolors are all acceptable media. Only one entry per person. Plafe name, division, grade, address, parish and 4-H or FF A on back upper left hand corr er. 6. Th~ theme for the 2015 poster contest will be "2015 Southeast District Jr. Livestock Show - 4-H/~FA Steers You On The Right Path". Thd winning poster and 2 nd and 3 rd place posters in each division become the property of the Southeast tsmct Livestock Show. 7. A $ 0.00 gift will be awarded to the first place winner in each division. Second place wi ner will receive a $15.00 gift and third place a $10.00 gift. 8. All entries are due to the Seafood Cookery or to the 4-H office by December 9, 2014 Tangipahoa Parish Extension Office 305 East Oak St. Amite, LA Us of any material protected by copyright will result in disqualification.

6 Orders filled on a irst-corne, first served basis. No exchanges or refunds after the order has been filled. Lost, stolen, or damaged tickets cannot be replaced. RETURN TO YOUR NFO NEW ORLEANS PELfANS Name: +- 4H Club: -+- Address: ~ City: State Phone ARLNE DRVE METARE, LA 7003 NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 4TH Zip FOR MORE NFORMATON, CONTACT Leslie Moran, Louisirna 4-H or moran@agcenter.lsu.edu Lynne Firmin, New orlea1ns Pelicans or Lynne.Firmi1@pelicans.com 1 PAYMENT OPTlONj Credit Card ATTN: LYNNE FRMN orde~,may be faxed to Mastercard Visa Card No: +- AMEX 4-H NG~T Discover Exp Date: Name on Card: +- GAME Heat2j27 # OF SEATS er Please make CheCr payable to $63 PARKNG enclosed New Orleans Pelicans TOTAL $26 Signature: Check/MoneyOi PRCE $10 Total Enclosed $