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Dates to Remember: September September 2013 9- Junior Leader Club Meeting, 8 th 12 th grades, Firehouse Subs, 5:30 p.m. 14- Louisiana Equine Education Program, Alexandria, LA contact: cacrouch@landolakes.

1 Dates to Remember: September September Junior Leader Club Meeting, 8 th 12 th grades, Firehouse Subs, 5:30 p.m. 14- Louisiana Equine Education Program, Alexandria, LA contact: cacrouch@landolakes.com Area Leader Training, Lamar Dixon, Gonzales, LA registration deadline Sept. 19th H Shooting Sports, Fall Field Day at the Southeast Research Station, Franklinton. October 1-4-H Shooting Sports Teen Ambassador submission deadline October 1 st Tangipahoa Parish Fair, Exhibits, poultry, and rabbits taken in on Tuesday, October 1 st. 5 - Tangipahoa Parish Fair, Dairy Show 9 a.m., Beef Show 10 a.m., Sheep & Goats 1 p.m. 6 - Pickup fair exhibits between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. 9 - Dairy Elimination Show, 1 p.m., LSU Parker Coliseum, call office for details Dairy Educational Awards Trip, Jackson, Mississippi National 4-H Week October club meetings, annual pumpkin contests 26- LSU Football Game, 4-H Night with the Tigers Game, LSU vs. Furman football game National Character Counts Week! 24- Nov. 10 La. State Fair Livestock Show, Shreveport 29 Officer Leader Training, Amite High School, 10 a.m. 12:00 p.m. November 1-Camp Catch Phrase due Challenge Camp, 7 th graders ONLY, Tickfaw State Park (Registration due Oct. 21st) December -TBA Seafood Cookery / Talent Show, Amite Elementary, 6 p.m. 4-H U: A big THANK YOU to all that attended this year and gave it your all! Conner Alston, Brenleigh Bankston, Amanda Boe, Elaine Conger, Haylee Corbin, Dillon Corbin, Charley Currier, Rudi Darouse, Leighton Dempster, Sarah Ellen Edwards, Cassie Faunce, Madison Fisher, Brittany Flynn, Avery Foster, Hycy Giacone, Nicholas Giron, Caroline Giron, Blaise Giron, Bess Giron, Colt Hart, Josh Husser, Kylin Hutchinson, McKenna Jenkins, Jessie Jenkins, Krislyn Kerr, Erika LaBorde, Kaylin Lacoste, Kane Lejeune, Louis Pesson, Cher Siebenkittel, Cole Starkey, Jessica Thomas, Laton Tycer, and Caroline Whiting. Adult volunteers: Fran Castille, Toni Flynn, Mike Hart, Donnie Corbin & George Giron. Special Congratulations to all Our Blue Ribbon Winners: Erika LaBorde, Rudi Darouse, Sarah Edwards, Krislyn Kerr, Brittany Flynn, Charley Currier, Blaise Giron, Kane LeJeune, Brenleigh Bankston, Cassie Faunce, Louis Pesson, and Josh Husser! Looking forward to H U with more participation and enthusiasm! Congratulations to the following 4-Hers that were selected to State Boards at 4-H U: Brittany Flynn, Fashion Board; Krislyn Kerr, Sara Ellen Edwards, Southeast Regional Representatives; and Mckenna Jenkins, State 4-H Secretary. LOST Camp: A big thank you to Dawson Gildig and Madison Fisher for attending as campers and McKenna Jenkins, Jessie Jenkins, and Leighton Dempster, who helped out as Junior Counselors. This year was another great LOST Camp. Thanks to all the wonderful campers and junior counselors who made it possible!

Marsh Maneuvers was another well attended and adventurous summer camp. Marsh Maneuvers is one of many educational opportunities offered through the LSU AgCenter s 4H Program.

Four sessions of camp were funded during July through the Youth Wetlands Education Grant from Louisiana s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.

2 Marsh Maneuvers was another well attended and adventurous summer camp. Marsh Maneuvers is one of many educational opportunities offered through the LSU AgCenter s 4H Program. This week long camp is held at Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish with the cooperation of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Louisiana Sea Grant Program. Four sessions of camp were funded during July through the Youth Wetlands Education Grant from Louisiana s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. One of the many highlights was stewardship project the students did near Avery Island. Each week, the groups transplanted several thousand smooth cordgrass plants into a shallow water area near an abandoned oil field canal. By next summer, several acres of re-vegetated marsh will be created through their efforts. Students attending Marsh Maneuver from Tangipahoa Parish were Nicholas Giron, Kaylin Lacoste, Krislyn Kerr, Haylee Corbin, Conner Alston, Louis Pesson, Leighton Dempster, and Cole Starkey. Adults attending were Master Volunteer, Fran Castille and Tangipahoa 4-H Extension Agent, JoAnna Pesson. CONGRATS to our local Shooting Sports Winners: Tangi Top Shots Excel at USA Shooting Progressive-Position Pistol National Match in Fort Benning, Georgia. Shown pictured above L-R, The Tangi Top Shots team composed of: Sam Perise, OFA; Aidan Perry, LMS; and Cade Jenkins, LMS, took home the gold medal for the basic supported division. Individually, Aidan Perry won Silver, Cade Jenkins won bronze, and Sam Perise finished in 4th place in basic supported. Other awards that the Tangi Top Shots members took home were: Miles Sinagra, TYC, took home the gold medal in the standing supported division; Jessie Jenkins, LHS, qualified for the women s finals and finished 14th in the International Standing women s division; Logan Husser, LES, placed 11th in the basic supported division; Joshua Husser, STA, placed 23rd in the International Standing men s division. Several of our Parish 4-Hers were also part of the 2013 National Shooting Sports Invitational in Grand island, Nebraska. Results for Tangi Exhibitors at the National Shoot: Day 1 Results in Nebraska - National Invitational Shooting Sports: SMALLBORE RIFLE Silhouette, 2nd Place Team, Leighton Dempster (Tangipahoa) Day 2 Results: SMALLBORE PISTOL Silhouette, 9th Place Individual Jessie Jenkins (Tangipahoa) SMALLBORE RIFLE CMP, 3rd Place Individual Leighton Dempster (Tangipahoa) 1st Place Team: Leighton Dempster (Tangipahoa) Day 3 Results: SMALLBORE PISTOL Camp Perry, 6th Place Individual Jessie Jenkins (Tangipahoa) 5th Place Team: Nathan Delyea (Tangipahoa), Jessie Jenkins (Tangipahoa) SMALLBORE RIFLE -3rd Place Team, Leighton Dempster (Tangipahoa) OVERALL PLACINGS FOR ALL 3 DAYS: SMALLBORE PISTOL, 7th Place Overall Individual Jessie Jenkins (Tangipahoa) 7th Place Overall Team: Nathan Delyea (Tangipahoa), Jessie Jenkins (Tangipahoa) Bob Davis (Coach) SMALLBORE RIFLE- 9th Place Overall Individual Leighton Dempster (Tangipahoa) 1st Place Overall Team, Leighton Dempster (Tangipahoa) OVERALL SWEEPSTAKES- Louisiana 4th Place

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES: Tangipahoa Parish Fair: All 4-H club members may enter handicraft articles, baked goods and preserves in the 4-H division of the Fair. See your 4-H leader for entry materials.

3 UPCOMING ACTIVITIES: Tangipahoa Parish Fair: All 4-H club members may enter handicraft articles, baked goods and preserves in the 4-H division of the Fair. See your 4-H leader for entry materials. You may also enter art work, rabbits, poultry and plants in the fair (art work and plants need to be registered at the front fair office). All entries must be made, tagged and entered by 5 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, October 1 and picked up on Sunday, October 6 from 1-3 p.m. This is your first big chance to get points, but please only bring your quality items to be judged. Extremely important, please put your Exhibitor Number, Name and your School Initials (should be in the left hand corner of the entry tag). We will be limiting the items to 20 or less in the 4-H division again this year. Also, you may NOT enter items previously entered at the Tangipahoa Parish Fair. Only 4-H members in grades 4 12 may enter items in the 4-H Division. Tangi Junior Leader Club: We will have our 1 st Junior Leader club meeting to kick off the year on September 9, 2013 at 5:30p.m. at Firehouse Subs. Dinner is optional, but if you choose to eat with us, please bring money for dinner. Kathleen Abels CEO of TARC will be at our meeting to discuss with us some possible service learning projects. The Tangi Junior Leader Club is open to ALL 7 th 12 th graders. You do not have to be previously enrolled in 4-H to join the Junior Leader club, so feel free to bring your friends! We do lots of fun activities throughout the year, and this is an excellent way to make friends with other teens from across the parish! We also participate in a community service project each year! We look forward to seeing you there! Officer Leader Training: Oct 29, 2013 Amite High School 10a.m.-12 noon. National 4-H Week: October 6-12, Visit for 4-H promotional kit. National Character Counts Week: October 20-26, H members all over the Nation will be promoting Character Counts! Get off to a great start this year. You will get points for activities you do during this week. If you want to do this another week, just let us know which week and you will get points. Visit for free resources and to read up on Character Counts! Pumpkin Carving and Pumpkin Painting Contest (2 Separate Contests) At the October meetings, we will have a pumpkin carving and pumpkin painted contest. The pumpkins have to be previously carved or painted and ready for judging at your October meeting unless stated otherwise by your leader. Both carved and painted pumpkins can be decorated. You MUST USE REAL PUMPKINS. No artificial pumpkins will be allowed for judging. You can only enter one pumpkin in each contest. We will judge and take pictures at the meeting. Each club s pumpkins will be judged that day for 1 st, 2 nd, and 3 rd place in both divisions (carved and painted). There will be 4 overall winners from all 4-H clubs in each division (4 th, Elementary, Junior High and Senior High Schools). Points will be given in this order: 50 points for club participation 15 points for 1 st place 10 points for 2 nd place 5 points for 3 rd place 25 points for overall Please have pumpkins separated. These pumpkins are either: carved only or painted only. Example...carved, carved/decorated, painted, or painted/decorated. Still 2 separate contests. They cannot be carved, painted, and decorated as one pumpkin. Camp Grant Walker 2014 Catch Phrase Competition: What s a good theme for 4-H Summer Camp? Send us your most creative ideas for a slogan -- in 7 words or less. Illustrations must accompany the phrase and will be part of the contest. Submissions must also include the following: Full name and age of person submitting the slogan, Parish/4-H Club, complete mailing address and Telephone number. Contest entries will be judged by the LAE4-HA Ways and Means Committee and the 4-H Camp staff. After final selection the winner will be notified and asked to sign a release for the slogan to be used in all publicity for the camp as well as on the T-shirt. Both the 4-H er and parent/guardian must sign the release. Deadline for receipt of entries is Friday, November 1, Individuals may submit multiple entries which may be sent together to: Grant Walker 4-H Educational Center, Camp Catch Phrase, 3000 Hwy. 8, Pollock, LA 71467, or FAX: or jcarmouche@agcenter.lsu.edu. Entries must be received in the Grant Walker Office by this date.

4 *****REMINDER MARK YOUR CALENDARS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The 9 th annual Pet Parade Sunday, March 30, The 2014 Tangipahoa Parish 4-H Fest will be held at the Florida Parishes Arena in Amite on April 16, H University will be for 8 th 12 th graders at LSU from June 17-20, H Camp will be for 4 th 6 th graders at Camp Grant Walker from June 2-6, H Food & Fitness Weekend Camp will be for 4 th 6 th graders at Camp Grant Walker from February 22-23, Cost $75.00 per family ( 1 camper/1 adult) H Fashion Camp, January 25-26, 2014, for 4 th 7 th graders WELCOME BACK! JoAnna T. Pesson JoAnna T. Pesson Extension Agent jpesson@agcenter.lsu.edu Megan Roberts Megan Roberts Assistant Extension Agent mroberts@agcenter.lsu.edu Visit our website page: Cooperative Extension Service Tangipahoa Parish P O Box 848 / 305 E Oak St. Amite, LA (985) FAX (985) It is the policy of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service that no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the grounds of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age or disability. **************************SIDE NOTE: ********************************************************************** We would like to express congratulations to Mrs. Megan Roberts on the birth of her new baby girl, Tenley Catherine Roberts born on August 19th at 11:04pm.8lb 4oz 21 inches long

5 ANIMAL EXHIBITORS inform 4-H office Today if you want to exhibit animals! 4-H ANIMAL EXHIBITOR --- Please add me to your list for species selected below: If you are planning to exhibit livestock animals or are interested in showing a different species of animal we need to know about you. STUDENT NAME: ADDRESS: (City) (ZIP) CELL PHONE: HOME PHONE: SCHOOL/CLUB/ GRADE: BIRTHDATE STUDENT S PARENT S I plan to exhibit or would like to be included in the following s (or for notices of local, state, or other national shows we become aware of): SHEEP GOATS BEEF DAIRY HORSES HOGS RABBITS POULTRY BROILERS (Parish / State) COMMERCIAL ANIMAL Other Species (Species: ) You may FAX to OR the above information to the 4-H Office at tangipahoa@agcenter.lsu.edu so we can include you in all the fun! Remember, showing animals is not a right it is a privilege! LSU AGCENTER, TANGIPAHOA EXTENSION OFFICE, P.O.BOX 848, AMITE, LA UPCOMING Livestock Show Dates The 2014 Livestock Show Dates are as follows: Tangipahoa Parish Fair Oct. 5, 2013 State Fair of Louisiana, Shreveport Oct. 24-Nov 10, 2013 Southeast District Livestock Show: January 28-31, 2014 LSU State Livestock Show: February 8-15, 2014 School: Fax or tangipahoa@agcenter.lsu.edu

St. John Parish 4-H Clover Chronicle

St. John Parish 4-H Clover Chronicle O C T O B E R 2 0 1 5 C O N T A C T U S St. John Parish 4-H Cynthia Clifton Biarnetta Bell ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! The 4-H Food Focus Workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015