February To Make the Best Better! Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat. 4-H Shooting Sports. Ground Hog Day. Caldwell 4-H. Frenstat 4-H.

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1 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Ground Hog Day 4-H Shooting Sports Caldwell 4-H Frenstat 4-H Somerville 4-H Snook 4-H 4-H Dog Club Cooks Point 4-H 4-H Rabbit Club 15 Deanville 4-H 16 4-H Stitch & Design Office Closed Tunis 4-H To Make the Best Better!

2 100 West Buck Street, #105 Caldwell, TX Phone: Fax: Website: February 2015 Burleson County 4-H EEA Scholarship Opportunities There are scholarships available from the Extension Education Association for graduating seniors that turned in a 4-H record book for this current year, and the deadline is fast approaching. These are the applications currently available: Burleson County Extension Education Association (Council-county level), Texas Extension Education Association, and Snook EEA (Snook 4-H or Snook FFA senior member or child/grandchild of Snook EEA member can apply). Each application is available at the Extension Office. The application and record book should be turned in to the Extension Office by February 13th by 5:00 p.m. County Camp in Brownwood County camp is a co-ed camp that features traditional camp experiences and offers activities such as kayaking, swimming, shooting sports, environmental education, art, dancing, and much more! Camp will take place July 6-8, 2015 (session II). Registration is $180 for youth and $85 for adults. Early registration is March 1-June 14. Late registration is June and requires full payment. Camp T-Shirts can be ordered at the time of registration with a $25 non-refundable deposit through June 14th. All payments must be received by June 23. To register go to texas4hcenter.tamu.edu. For more information call or texas4- hcenter@ag.tamu.edu. Table of Contents Big Time in D9-2 Flyers-3 Club News- 4 If you would like to receive text messages about upcoming events to Like us on Facebook Not all the due dates or upcoming events will be posted on Facebook or in the text messages they are just reminders. Please continue to read your monthly newsletter for all the due dates, and upcoming events BCF Rule Books Rule books for the 2015 BCF are currently being printed and should be available soon. All exhibitors are encouraged to get a copy and become familiar with the rules (new & old) pertaining to the competition (s) in which they plan to participate. The BCF board approved a few new rules for the 2015 BCF. So learn em and follow em. BIG SPRING CLEAN Burleson County Big Spring Clean will be held April 18-25, Many activities will take place including the Trash Dash 5K, Bicycle Rodeo, City-Wide Garage Sale, Trashin Fashion Show, the Trash Bash Street Dance, and much more. For more information please call (979) The annual Deanville Fair Booster Chili Supper and Raffle is scheduled for Sunday, February 15th at 11:00 a.m. at the Deanville Fire Station. Chili will be available for dine in or carry out (bring your own container). A silent auction and raffle drawing will be held during the supper. Need more Information about District Events??? Check out the District 9 4-H Website to get information about participation in District Events. Just remember that the County deadlines may be sooner than those that are listed for district to accommodate review and processing time. Usually participation is required at the County level before advancing to District events. All registration on 4-H Connect must be certified by the County Extension Office to be valid. The website for District 9 is Register for events early to avoid possible glitches that could cause delays. Kay Hardin recently competed in Denver, CO at the National Western Livestock Show and placed 8th & 12th with her goats! Way to go! Brandon Powell, ToeBen Kindt, and Harrison Novak competed in the D9 Archery Competition! Harrison Novak placed 2nd in compound limited junior division.

3 Page 3 IT S THE BIG TIME IN D9 4-H ROUNDUP 2015, MAY 1-2, H contests will be held in one 2-day weekend! It will be like a 4-H-a-palooza-fun for the whole family! 4-H members can participate in one or more contests; everyone can watch most contests and events to learn more; and there will be family activities, including a BBQ cook-off and big award presentations each day! You can come for one day or both. You can stay for a few hours or the whole time. Advantages are: 1) There is only one weekend you will have to schedule around other activities; 2) Only one weekend to travel for almost all district contests; and 3) There will be a good balance between competition and fun! You will have to plan and prepare carefully if you want to participate in several contests (so that it is a possible drawback to those of us who wait to the last minute)! Reasonable accommodations will be made to allow 4-H members to participate in as many contests as they would like. 4-H Pit Master Food Challenge- BBQ Cook off Date: May 1-2, 2015 Location: Alvin Community College Entry/Reg. Deadline: April 2,2015 Entry: $20.00 per Brisket, Spare Ribs, and Chicken entry per, $5.00 per burger entry per team. For more information go to Food Show February 8: Food Workshop at Snook ISD Cafeteria-The workshop will include a practice for Food Challenge and participant presentations March 29: County 4-H Food Show at Snook ISD Cafeteria *Awards presentation will be held immediately following Food Challenge April 10: Food Show entries/paperwork due to district office April 12: Deadline for district entries on 4-H Connect May 1-2: District 9 4-H Food Show Food Challenge Call the Extension office ( ) to sign up to participate in the Food Challenge. Teams will be 3 to 5 members who must all be in the same age category (Juniors, Intermediates, Seniors). If you have a team in mind, please let us know. But if you don t have a team yet, that s ok too. We will make final team assignments after the workshop depending on how many we have entered in each age group and how many coaches we have. Adult leaders, if you would like to coach a team, please call and sign up too! We would like each team to have their own coach. Feb 8: Food Workshop at Snook ISD Cafeteria The workshop will include a practice for Food Challenge and participant presentations March 29: County Food Challenge at Snook ISD Cafeteria. This will serve as the county qualifying event for the District Food Challenge. April 12: Deadline for district entries on 4-H Connect May 1-2: District 9 4-H Food Challenge Educational Presentation Training Have you considered participating in Roundup with an Educational Presentation (sometimes called a method demonstration or illustration or illustrated talk)? Is there a topic you are interested in sharing with others but need help putting it together? There are close to 20 categories you can enter an Educational Presentation in for 4-H Roundup. Share the Fun and Public Speaking are also major parts of Roundup. If interested, please contact Tina for training dates and times. OTHER CONTESTS Of course there are many other District 4-H contests that you can compete in, both as an individual and as teams. All of these contests, and their related projects, provide valuable learning experiences for youth. However, currently in Burleson County there are not large groups participating, and often there is not a county qualifying event required. This does not make these projects any less important or worthy of participation. Any registered 4-H member can participate in any project or contest, all that is needed is a desire to learn and a little bit of patience and persistence in learning the requirements. And, certainly a dedicated adult leader willing to assist is really helpful too! Remember there are loads of information on the Texas 4-H and District 9 4-H websites! If you can t find what you are looking for online, or any time you have questions about ANY 4-H project or area of interest and you just want to talk to someone about it, please do not hesitate to call us at the Extension Office! State Roundup The 2015 Texas 4-H Roundup will be held in College Station, TX on the campus of Texas A&M University from June 8th to the 12th, For more information check out Jan. 16th-Feb. 7th Feb. 12th-Mar. 1st Feb.13th-Mar 1st Mar. 3rd-22nd Mar. 14th-28th

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5 Page 4 Club News 4-H Goat Club- will not be meeting in the months of February and March. The club s next monthly meeting will be held on April 6:30pm in the First Baptist Church Family Life Center. Deanville 4-H-Meeting will be held on Sunday, February 15. Chili Lunch & Raffle will be held on February 15th at 11:00 a.m. At the Deanville Fire Station. Please see any Deanville 4H member for raffle tickets. Prizes include chainsaw, TV, meat packs, and numerous gift cards. Stitch and Design -held its second annual Christmas Workshop. It was a huge success and everyone had a wonderful time. The participants left with a bag full of crafts and prizes. We are so excited to have a Duds to Dazzle team forming to compete at District Round-Up. Our next meeting will be Monday, February 16 at 7:00 at the Extension Office. Come join us. 4-H Exchange -is looking forward to traveling to Minnesota. Our trip will be June 20 thru 26. Can t wait to see our Minnesota friends. A new 2 year cycle will be starting around May-June. Exchange members will be attending Club meetings over the next few months to talk about the Exchange program. There will be a mandatory meeting for all new members. Watch the newsletter for the date. Frenstat 4-H -will hold its monthly meeting on February 4th at 7:00 p.m. at the Frenstat Recreation Center. Cooks Point- will meet at 7:00 p.m., February 11th at Cooks Point Community Center. We will have a speaker and the club will work on our Valentine project. Horse Club -will not meet in February. 4-H Rabbit Club-Meeting date changed to February 10th at 7:00 p.m. St Mary s Gym. Snook 4-H We would like to thank all that supported our BBQ and Bake Sale and making it a success. Thanks! If you would like to receive text messages about upcoming events to Like us on Facebook Not all the due dates or upcoming events will be posted on Facebook or in the text messages.they are just reminders. Please continue to read your monthly newsletter for all the due dates and upcoming events. Sincerely, Tina Roehling CEA-FCS John Grange CEA-AG