4-H NEWS POLK COUNTY *A Newsletter for Members & Leaders* Polk County Extension web site

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1 4-H NEWS POLK COUNTY *A Newsletter for Members & Leaders* Polk County Extension web site February Character Education Pillar Six Citizenship -- 4-H Sweetheart -- No Pass No Play for TNLS -- Relay 4 Life -- Scholarship Information -- Attendance Reminder -- Photos Release/Buyer s Contracts -- San Antonio Livestock Show -- Arts and Crafts for TNLS -- TNLS Broilers -- Shavings -- Fashion Show Workshop -- Club Meetings -- Project Group Meetings -- Shooting Sports Leader Certification -- 4-H Clippers -- TNLS Rodeo Tryouts -- Jackpot Shows -- Project Assistance 7 District 5 4-H Food Show 7 Quality Counts/Showmanship Clinic 9 Club Meetings 16 President s Day Office Closed 23 TNLS Rodeo Deadline 26 TNLS Rodeo Tryouts

2 Character Education Pillar Six Citizenship The sixth pillar of our six pillars of Character Education is Citizenship. Citizenship includes making your home, community, and your nation a better place to live for yourself and others. Citizenship is winning and losing gracefully, teaching and helping younger 4-H members with their projects, accepting instructions, and making sure you are a good representative of our community as well as our country when we go to various 4-H events and shows. 4-H members should also get involved in community service projects locally and abroad to help our fellow citizens any way we can. 4-H Sweetheart Contest The Sweetheart Contest was held on January 13 and there were three contestants. Congratulations go out to Rose Buffington who will represent Polk County 4-H as their Sweetheart for We all wish Rose the best in the Queen s contest at the Trinity Neches Livestock Show in March. No Pass No Play for Trinity- Neches Livestock Show 4-H members should keep their grades up in order to be eligible by U.I.L. rules to participate in extracurricular activities. 4-H members must pass the six weeks prior to the Trinity-Neches Livestock Show in order to be considered eligible to show your animal. Relay 4 Life Polk County 4-H will have a booth in this year s Relay 4 Life. We will be raffling a Western Basket. The basket will contain items that go along with the relay s theme, which is Rodeo. If anyone has any items they would like to donate for this basket please come by the Extension office. Polk County 4-H will be selling coke floats and sausage on a stick at the relay on May 1, All 4-H members mark your calendars to be in attendance to help with this year s Relay 4 Life. All proceeds will benefit the 2009 Relay 4 Life.

3 Scholarship Information Senior 4-H members have the opportunity to apply for 4-H Scholarships. The scholarship application process and requirements are listed at the following web sites: H Scholarship Applications are available upon request from the Polk County Extension Office and are due in by early February Each interested 4-H family should go to the above web sites and read through the instructional information for completing the 4-H scholarship applications. These applications are lengthy thus give yourself plenty of time to complete the application. Academic achievements as well as 4-H experiences are highly valued components of the 4-H Scholarship Applications. A scholarship from the Polk County Texas Extension Education Association will be available to a Polk County 4-H member again in This scholarship will be in the amount of $300 to a senior 4-H member here in Polk County. To pick up a scholarship application, please come by the 4-H Office. For additional information on this scholarship, please contact Cassandra Coleman at A scholarship from the Polk County Ag Committee will be available to a Polk County 4-H member in 2009 also. This scholarship will be in the amount of $300 to a senior 4-H member here in Polk County. To pick up a scholarship application, please come by the 4-H Office. For additional information on this scholarship, please contact Mark Currie at Attendance Reminder 4-H members should keep in mind that you MUST attend at least three 4-H Community Club Meetings at the community club where you signed up at. Also 4-H members must attend at least one project group meeting for each project you signed up to show or compete in a 4-H county, district, or state event. After the January 4-H Community Club meetings, there are only two community club meetings left before the 2009 Trinity-Neches Livestock Show. If you have any questions regarding the attendance requirements, please contact the 4-H Office.

4 Photo Release Form and Buyer s Contract All 4-H members should have completed a Photographic Release Form upon enrollment/re-enrollment of the H year. In the event you make the sale and have your picture in the newspaper 2009 TNLS, we will need to have one completed by the time the show starts. Also, parents and 4-H members may start picking up Buyer s Contracts for your prospective buyers at this year s show. Buyers for each animal should have a completed Buyer s Contract turned in prior to the sale on Friday night of the TNLS. San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo The 2009 San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo will take place February 5 to February 22 at the SBC Center in San Antonio, Texas. Good luck to Landon Parker, Cara Leslie and Amanda Crawford who will be our only three exhibitors at the show this year. Arts, Crafts, Food and Horticulture Show for Trinity-Neches Livestock Show Any resident of Polk County may enter the arts, crafts, and food and horticulture division of the Trinity-Neches Livestock Show. Divisions include Art, Craft, Canning, Baking, Photography, Sewing and Horticulture. Rules and entry forms are available upon request from the Extension Office. There will be NO $5.00 entry fees this year. TNLS Broilers The broiler hatch date is scheduled for February 4th, Unless something changes, this will be the day broilers are delivered. They will need to be picked up at the Livingston High School Ag. Shop at 3:30.

5 Shavings If you ordered shavings, they will be in on February 2, 2009 at around 1:00 p.m. Make plans to pick them up between 1 and 4:30 p.m. Fashion Show Workshop Any 4-H member competing in the District Fashion Show needs to attend the Fashion Show Workshop on February 10, The Workshop will start at 5:30 p.m. at the Alabama-Coushatta Youth 4-H Center. If there are any questions about the Fashion Show please feel free to call the extension office. POLK COUNTY 4-H CLUB MEETINGS Clover Kids The Livingston 4-H Clover Kids will meet on Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6pm in the Meeting Room of First Baptist Church. Any questions, please contact Kathy Pulley at or farmgirl@eastex.net Big Sandy 4-H Community Club Meeting The Big Sandy 4-H Community Club Meeting will meet Monday, February 9, 2009 at the Big Sandy ISD Cafeteria. This meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. Leggett 4-H Community Club Meeting The Leggett 4-H Community Club will meet Monday, February 9, 2009 at Leggett ISD Ag Shop starting at 6:00 p.m. For more information, please call Tonya Johnson at The Leggett Buyer s Committee Meeting will be held with the 4-H meeting. Livingston 4-H Community Club Meeting Livingston 4-H Community Club Meeting will meet Monday, February 9, 2009 at the Meeting Room of First Baptist Church starting at 7:00 p.m. A/C s 4-H Community Club Meeting The A/C s 4-H Club meeting will be held at the A/C Youth Center. Goodrich Community Club Meeting The Goodrich 4-H club meeting will meet on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at Goodrich ISD Ag Shop starting at 7:00 pm. For more information please call Melvin Leggett or Kelly Nelson at Onalaska Community Club Meeting The Onalaska 4-H Club meeting will meet on Monday, February 9, 2009 at the Pine

6 Forest Baptist Church in the Fellowship Hall beginning at 6:00pm. B& G 4-H Community Club Meeting The B&G 4-H Club meeting will meet on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at the Boys and Girls Club in Livingston beginning at 3:00 p.m. Livingston Community Club Meeting For the February Club meeting for the Livingston community club they will be hosting a talent show. If you are interested in participating in the talent competition you need to contact the extension office on or before February 6 so that we will have sufficient space and all of the microphones, etc. in place. 4-H PROJECT MEETINGS Rabbit Project February 2 6:00 p.m. Extension Office Horse Judging February 5 5:00 p.m. Extension Office Swine Project February 7 8:00 a.m. Fairgrounds Lamb Project February 7 8:00 a.m. Fairgrounds Goat Project February 7 8:00 a.m. Fairgrounds Beef Project February 7 8:00 a.m. Fairgrounds Fashion Show Wksp. February 10 5:30 p.m. ACIR- Youth Center Poultry Project February 17 6:00 p.m. Extension Office Method Demo. February 5, 19, 26 6:00 p.m. Extension Office Livestock Judging February 23 5:30 p.m. Extension Office

7 Rabbit Project Group It's getting close; your bunnies will be born soon. Just in time for the cold snap. Make sure to get something up to block the cold wind and lights hung above the cages or heaters in your barn are a good idea. We don't want frozen bunnies. Just be safe and don't burn your barn down! Remember, cold stiff bunnies aren't always dead. Sometimes they just need thawed out. We talked in our meeting a while back about putting them in a bowl of warm water and they'll usually come back. Just make sure to hold their little mouths and noses out of the water. It works! Don't forget about it! Please call me if you have any questions or problems. Day or night, I'm here to help. Also, Tina Smith started a yahoo group called "polkcountytxrabbits" This is a good place for you to post questions and get answers back from several different people. Just go to yahoo groups search out polkcountytxrabbits and send a message through applications asking to be allowed to join the group. Tina will you your approval and you can begin to make posts. Spread the word!! We also have some good info on our website on the how to page so feel free to check it out at ( Please make plans to attend our February 2 nd meeting. Pam Heaton who is a meat pen breeder in Huntsville will be doing a clinic on raising and choosing your meat pens. I think it's a great idea to get information from different breeders. No one breeder is the same. On February 7th at 9:00am there will be a showmanship clinic at the fairgrounds so try to make plans to attend that as well! This will help you to better handle your rabbits as well as prepare you for the Showmanship class at the Trinity Neches. President s Day Extension Office Closed on February 16, Shooting Sports Certification There will be a 4-H shooting sports coaches training held in Shepherd on March 27 & 28, There are several that have inquired on getting certified to help with the shooting sports project group. This will be the closest location in the state for the next several years to get certified. Polk County 4-H will cover the cost of the certification course. It is important to have leaders interested in getting certified to keep the shooting sports program in the county. Please RSVP by February 20 so that we will have time to get you registered.

8 4-H Clippers Anyone that has checked out any clippers that belong to the 4-H office needs to return them by February 20, They need to be returned by this date to get all of the blades sharpened before the 4-H Clip Day on March 21, Deadline for TNLS Rodeo Try-outs All 4-H members interested in trying out for the TNLS Rodeo must do this. The deadline for declaring your intent to participate in the Trinity-Neches Rodeo Tryouts will be on February 23, Every 4-H member interested in competing in the tryouts must come by the office to sign up for the event or events you are interested in competing in. There will be a $5.00 fee due by the 23 rd for all steer riders. Trinity-Neches Rodeo Try-outs The 2009 Trinity-Neches Rodeo Try-outs will be February 26, 2009 at the Barney Wiggins Rodeo Arena in Livingston with registration starting at 4:00 p.m. and rough stock events starting promptly at 5:00 p.m. All 4-H members wanting to compete in the rodeo try-out should fill out and turn in a release form and specify the event to the Extension Office by February 23, H members may try-out for Barrel Racing, Pole Bending, Stakes Race, Steer Riding (2), Break-Away calf Roping, Ribbon Roping, Chute Dogging (2), Goat Tying and Steer Saddling (3 person team). A $5.00 fee will be charged for those trying out for any event in which cattle are involved. The rough stock events will be run first. Participants should have their equipment and be ready to ride once the try-outs start. *NOTE* There will be only one Polk County 4-H team and not one from each club in the county. You may only qualify for one team, either 4-H or FFA. *NOTE* YOU MUST HAVE A PROTECTIVE HELMET, MOUTH PIECE AND VEST FOR ROUGH STOCK EVENTS!!!!!!!!

9 District 5 4-H Food Show The District 5 4-H Food Show will take place Saturday, February 7, 2009 on campus of Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. We certainly wish Alex Smith the best of luck in this show. 4-H County Council There will be no 4-H Council meeting in February. 4-H Adult Leaders There will be no Leaders meeting in February. Quality Counts Showmanship Clinic Polk County will hold the annual Quality Counts Clinic at the Barney Wiggins Arena on February 7, Registration begins at 8am and the clinic starts at 9:00. After the Clinic, the Livingston Buyer s Group will host a Jackpot Show. If you have questions, please contact the 4-H Office. THIS CLINIC WILL COUNT AS A PROJECT GROUP MEETING for the following project groups: Beef, Goats, Lambs and Swine Make sure to sign the roll sheets Jackpot Shows in February Attached is a list of all of the shows for the month of February that I have received at this time: February 7 Livingston Buyers Jackpot Show 1:00 p.m. February 28 Dogwood Classic in Palestine 7:00 a.m. February 28 Jasper Co. Winter Bash 8:00 a.m. February 28 Rusk Co. Youth Expo -

10 Livingston Buyer s Committee Jackpot Show See Attached Flyer There will be a concession stand at the show/clinic. Trinity Neches Livestock Project Assistance Any 4-H member needing assistance with your 4-H animal project for the 2009 Trinity-Neches Livestock Show should feel free to call the Extension Office to weigh your animal or with any other project question. We will be more than happy to assist you in any way. Project leaders are also available to assist with projects as needed. Chad Arbuckle Mark Currie Cassandra Coleman CEA 4H & Youth Development CEA, Ag & NR CEA, FCS Agriculture & Natural Resources * Family & Consumer Sciences * 4-H & Youth Development * Community Development Extension programs serve people of all ages regardless of socioeconomic level, race, color, sex, religion, disability, or national origin The Texas A&M University System, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the County Commissioners Courts of Texas Cooperating A member of The Texas A&M University System and its statewide Agriculture Program