Glacier County 4-H News

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1 Glacier County 4-H News November 2017 Greetings, 4-H friends! If I don t turn the calendar to November, is it still October? This week has been a whirlwind of 4-H enrollment, preparing for shooting sports and the Bazaar, and Marias Fair committee meetings; we are off and running! I am so excited for the great things happening in 4-H in Glacier County, we currently have 6 new Cloverbuds and 12 new 4-H members and I am continually seeing the great work you all do! Here s a few highlights so far this year: The Clever Clovers 4-H Club had a great window display for 4-H week (congratulations, and watch for some cash from the 4-H Council!) Mat Tuma reported he had a great time at the NILE show in Billings with his Merit Heifer, Charlie, and enjoyed meeting the other heifer recipients as well. JR Seewald and Coalter Littrell had a goal of selling 200 raffle tickets for a pork bundle to benefit Clark Diemert (Liberty County 4-H alumni), and earlier this week they had already sold over 300 tickets! We have a fantastic facility for shooting sports lined up, with eager and enthusiastic coaches. A big thanks to Mat Tuma, Don and Carolyn Popelka, and Kaleb Lewis for their help cleaning, organizing, and hauling equipment to the facility. Don has put countless hours in building new target backers as well, we are so thankful for all he does for shooting sports in Glacier county!! In early October, Mrs. Jaime Peterson invited me to speak to the Cut Bank 6th graders about 4-H, as she has noticed such a difference in her students who have a 4-H background. She commented on their responsibility, work ethic, confidence, and communication skills. It s so encouraging to know we have 4-H supporters out there who continue to see the value in 4-H, and that our 4-H members stand out. Our 4-Hers DO continue to stand out, did you notice that three of the October Student of the Month recipients for Cut Bank High School were 4-Hers?? Congratulations JR Seewald, Coalter Littrell, and Grace Rooney! Myla Cundall will be on her way to the National 4-H Congress in Atlanta, Georgia this month for winning the state Fashion Revue contest, have fun, Myla! We completed administrative assistant interviews this week, and we should have a new, friendly face in the office by mid-november, yay! The Pondera agricultural agent, Adriane Good, just started yesterday, so it s great to get some positions in our Marias Fair region filled again. In December I m planning a Project Day, and need parents and leaders to help lead workshops, oversee record book sessions, etc. If you have an idea for a workshop or are willing to help, please let me know. Please don t hesitate to let me know if you have questions about anything, I m here to help as best as I can! What s Inside Holiday Bazaar Butter Braid Delivery Greytak Calendars Beef Weigh-In Bread Baking Fun Day Shooting Sports Practice Project Books Glacier County 4-H Fun Fact! We have 22 4-Hers enrolled in Market Swine, and 19 4-Hers enrolled in Archery! Wow! Contact Us Kari Lewis Extension Agent kari.lewis@montana.edu Courthouse Annex 1210 E. Main Cut Bank, MT (406) In 4-H friendship,

2 Travel Opportunities If you are interested in traveling through 4-H to Washington D.C., Costa Rica, Japan, South Korea, Norway, or New Zealand, please contact the office for details. Application deadlines vary, with November 15 being the deadline for outbound travel programs. 4-H Club Financial Review 4-H club accounts are due in the Extension Office on or before October 31. Please remember to include the following: Check registers Invoices Receipts Summaries of any fundraising activities Bank statements from Oct. 1, 2016 to Sept. 30, This will review the account from the past year, and provide a fresh starting place for the coming treasurer. Please contact the office with any questions. Club Meetings Clever Clovers - November 6, 6:30 p.m., Glacier County Annex Curry Comb - November 7, 6:30 p.m., Glacier County Annex Longview - November 14, 6:30 p.m., Glacier County Annex Parents, please make sure to attend meetings with your child. This is one of the best ways to remain informed, support your child, and become involved in your 4-H family! Please ask your club leader how you can help contribute to your club. People Partner Grants Last night at the Livestock Committee meeting, Zach Kinyon from the Blazing Saddles proposed his club painting the plywood wall (covering up the insulation) in the old sheep barn at the Marias Fairgrounds. His club is planning to apply for a People Partner grant through the Montana 4-H Foundation to purchase the paint. This is the same program that Curry Comb earned funds through to fix up the old sheep and goat barn as well. The Montana 4-H Foundation People Partner grants provide incentives and financial support to groups and individuals for programs that enhance the quality of living for people in their communities. Other projected funded have included purchasing school supplies, blankets for homeless students, a cemetery flower bed, a food pantry at a local school, mileage sigs, pillowcases for charity, etc. Details are available at montana4h.org/programs/grants/grants.html. Applications submitted by January 10 will be reviewed with suggestions, February 1 is the final submission deadline. Financial Reports Due Year end financial reports from each club are due to the Extension Office by December 1st! This includes the year end financial summary report and the 1% assessment fee, make checks out to Glacier County 4-H Council. Bread Baking Fun Day Baking members (and any other 4-Hers who are interested) are invited to a bread baking fun day on Friday afternoon, November 17, from 2:30-6 p.m. at Kari Lewis s house (714 E. Main, Cut Bank). We will be making homemade rolls for the Community Thanksgiving Dinner. Please let Kari know if you plan to attend. Steer Weigh-In - Dec. 1 and 2, 2017 Friday, December 1 - Wade and Leslie Berkram s - 3 to 4:30 p.m. (1346 Reagan Rd) Saturday, December - Rod Hibbs - 9 to 11 a.m. (93 Pendergrass Rd) If for some reason these dates do not work for you, you need to make arrangements with Kari Lewis to get your steers weighed prior to December 2. If you have an emergency that day, please let Kari know at Important reminders from the rules in the fair book: Each exhibitor may weigh in one spare animal/species. If doing a pen of three, four market animals may be weighed in. Any breeding animals must have the 4-H Clover tattoo OR Association registration tattoo by the official hog weigh-in deadline (which will be in April, 2018). So, if you are doing a breeding project, your animal does not need to be weighed in at steer weigh-in, but must have an appropriate tattoo by April. All steers must be dehorned prior to weigh-in, as horned steers are NOT allowed at fair. Also, make sure your steer has been fully castrated and is not a stag. All steers must have been born after January 1, Her must be 10 as of Oct. 1 to show a market beef animal. Information you need to bring to weigh-in Steer s birth date Breed of steer (including percentages of each breed) Breeder s name and address

3 Club Corner Congratulations to this year s club officers! Clever Clovers Longview President JR Seewald Jordyn Fields Vice President Canon Bradley Matt Meiwald Secretary Mat Tuma Addisyn Bengtson Treasurer Coalter Littrell Gus Meiwald Historian/ Reporter Camille Bradley & Darci Littrell Destini Anderson Curry Comb will be electing officers at the November meeting. Community Thanksgiving Dinner Will you be around Cut Bank on Thanksgiving? The Community Thanksgiving dinner is open to anyone in the community, with about meals being delivered and 150 to 175 meals served total. Free will donations from the dinner go to the Harvest Food Pantry and Parkview Senior Center. This is a great community service project, and our baking members will be baking the rolls for the dinner! If you are able to help donate food or work a shift (serving food, washing dishes, etc.), please let Kari Lewis know. There are sign up sheets online at : Food donations - Set-up, serving, etc. - for picking up the Butter Braids you sell or making arrangements for someone else to pick them up on Monday between 3:15-5 p.m. The profit from this fundraiser helps your club throughout the year cover membership dues, activities, meeting expenses, etc. All checks should be made out directly to your club or to the Glacier County 4-H Council for any At-Large members. If you have any questions about the fundraiser you can see your club leader or contact Holley at hdewitt@glaciercountymt.org or Welcome to our new Cloverbuds: Jensen Cramer Marshall Curtiss Ryan Murray Brody Stokes Walker Bradley Riley Rooney Welcome to our new 4-H members: Mya Beausoleil Ethan Brown Elyse Bengtson Tegan Boyce Kolton Running Crane Gage Clothier Kortney Hart Gary Johnson Bridger Molenda Will Suta Jacklyn Waller Beretta Winkowitsch Club Planning As you plan your coming 4-H year as a club, why not put large flip chart paper (available at the office) on the wall and brainstorm how as a club your can work towards the 4 H s (Head, Heart, Hands, and Health)? Members can rotate through each paper and add their ideas and at the end your club can choose which of the ideas on the wall they want to pursue for this year. Butter Braid Delivery - November 20 The Butter Braid forms should be turned into Holley at the Glacier County Health Department by 5 p.m. Friday, November 3. The only exception to that date is if you plan to sell them at the Holiday Bazaar you can turn in those orders by 12 p.m. Monday, November 6. Butter Braids will be delivered to the Voting Center on Monday, November 20 at 3:15 p.m. You are responsible Shooting Sports Practice Archery Practices: Thursdays, 4-5:30 p.m., beginning Nov. 2 Sundays, 3-4:30 p.m., beginning Nov. 5 No practice November 23 or 26 (Thanksgiving) Rifle Practices: Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m, beginning Nov. 7 Practice is at the Cut Bank Community Bible Church Southeast Campus (just a couple blocks east of the middle school, in the brown church). Sunday afternoon, Nov. 5, following archery practice, we need a few parents with pickups to help move the rifle backers to the Southeast campus. Don Popelka has done an outstanding job building these, and we now need to transport them from Northwestern Energy over to the campus. Parents, please plan to help with this around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday (you can meet at the church and then head out together).

4 Holiday Bazaar 4-H Cheesecake Bakeoff Glacier County 4-H Council has been fortunate to receive the Cheesecake Table, as a fundraiser at the Cut Bank Holiday Bazaar, and we need your help! The Bazaar is Saturday, November 4, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cut Bank High School and last year brought in 1,300+ shoppers. Currently we have eight cheesecake donations committed (thanks Tabi Furnare, Meg McCauley (2), Val Tuma, Raylee Johnson, Ali Smith, Hapi Seewald, and Kari Lewis), but are hoping for 20. Can you bake a cheesecake (no-bakes are ok!) or ask a friend, neighbor, aunt, grandma, etc. to? Cheesecakes should be dropped off at the Bazaar on Saturday from 9 to 9:30 a.m., or can be left at the Extension Office on Friday. The top three cheesecakes will receive rosettes and recognition! We still need some youth and adult volunteers for the Saturday shifts. More youth are needed for the later shifts to sell cheesecake to the vendors, which is a fun project! If you are able to help, please let Kari know at kari.lewis@montana.edu or or text These proceeds will directly benefit the 4-H Council which invests heavily in Glacier County 4-Hers. Annually, the 4-H Council purchases award for the Marias Fair, Demonstration Day, and the Roundtables, provides thank you gifts for workshop presenters and judges at events, purchases Project Day supplies, pays for the bus to 4-H camp, and provides scholarships to 4-Hers attending educational events (4-H camp, 4-H Congress, workshops, etc.) Thanks to Canon Bradley for all his work organizing this! SHIFT ADULT 4-H YOUTH Friday Set-Up, 7 p.m. Rhonda Littrell Coalter Littrell, Darci Littrell Saturday, 9 to 11 a.m. Nikki Anderson, Sahm Winkowitsch Brandeon Molenda, Jed Winkowitsch, Ken Winkowitsch Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 2 MORE ADULTS NEEDED Mat Tuma, Brad Hjartarson, Destini Anderson 1 MORE YOUTH NEEDED Saturday, 1 p.m. to clean up Steer Selection Getting ready to pick out your future champion? Here s what to look for when selecting a steer: Muscle look from behind for how wide a steer stands, and look for width over the topline and through the hindquarter 2 MORE ADULTS NEEDED Leadership Lunch 4-H Leadership Lunches will begin again on Monday, November 20. The junior high lunch (for 6th - 8th graders) will be in Mrs. Hetherington s room and the high school lunch will be in Mrs. Brown s room, during their respective lunch hours. These lunches are open to any middle school or high school 4-H member. The 4-H Council will provide a free lunch and we ll spend the lunch break doing some fun leadership building activities. Please RSVP to Kari by November 17 if you want to participate. Kari can also text a reminder to youth the day of, if there is a cell phone number provided. Text Kari at so she has your number. Hope to see you! Volume - look for depth and curvature of rib (space to put the feed so they can grow) and length of body Balance - the front end of the steer should fit well with the back end, with a straight topline Structural correctness - look for a steer who stands square (and wide) on all four legs, who when he walks his back feet fill the track of where his front feet just left Darci Littrell, JR Seewald 2 MORE YOUTH NEEDED

5 Clark Diemert 4-H Fundraiser Please support a 4-H alumni, Clark Diemert, who was injured in a motorcycle accident in September. Clark Diemert Benefit November 5-4 p.m. Joplin Community Hall Council Corner The next Council meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 20 at 7 p.m. at the Glacier County Annex, all are welcome to attend! Congratulations to the Clever Clovers 4-H Club on winning the 4-H Council s window decorating contest for 4-H week, there will be some cash coming your way! Cloverbud News Cloverbuds will be Monday, November 20, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. with Jodi Duncan. Cloverbuds should meet at Mrs. Seewald s room, and then will walk over to the Glacier County Library together. Mat Tuma and Charlie after Charlie had her pregnancy ultrasound (she s bred!) and before heading to the NILE in Billings this month. Greytak Calendars Greytak calendars, which feature pencil drawings of 4-H and rural Montana scenes are available in the Extension office. They are available for $10/each, with 25% of the proceeds doing to the 4-H Council. These make great Christmas gifts, thank you gifts to your 4-H livestock buyer, etc. Please encourage grandparents, neighbors, etc. to purchase! Record Books and Project Books are in! Project books are available for pick up at the Extension Office, along with an invoice for your family's project materials, shooting sports fees, etc. New members will receive a packet with their record book, information on 4-H in Glacier county, etc. Please stop in and pick up your books. Members should begin writing their goals for their 4-H year and projects now, and begin working in their project books. Record book forms are available at the Extension Office, or online on the Montana 4-H website under the Resources tab. There is also a 4-H app available which allows you to track activities, etc. on your phone throughout the year. If using the app, members are responsible to make sure the app correlates with Montana 4-H record book forms for goals, financial records, etc.

6 Calendar of Events November 1 - Livestock Committee meeting, 7 p.m. MRE in Shelby 2 - Thursday Archery practice starts, 4 to 5:30 p.m. 3 - Butter Braid forms due by 5 p.m. Holiday Bazaar set-up at 7 p.m 4 - Holiday Bazaar Cheesecake booth, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 5 - Sunday Archery practice starts, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Clark Diemert Benefit at Joplin Community Hall (Clever Clovers serving) 6 - Clever Clovers 4-H Club meeting, 6:30 p.m. 7 - Rifle practice starts, 5:30-7 p.m. Curry Comb club meeting, 6:30 p.m., Extension Office 10 - Office closed (Veteran s Day) 14 - Longview 4-H club meeting, 6:30 p.m, Extension Office 17 - Bread Baking workshop, 2:30 p.m., Lewis house 20 - Leadership Lunch for Middle School and High School, Mrs. Hetherington & Mrs. Brown s rooms at Cut Bank Middle School/High School Cloverbuds 3:30 5:30 p.m Office closed (Thanksgiving) 20 - Butter Braid delivery 4-H Council meeting, 7 p.m., Extension Office Glacier County Extension Office Courthouse Annex 1210 E. Main Cut Bank, MT The MSU Extension Service is an ADA/EO/AA/Veteran s Preference Employer and Provider of Educational Outreach.