Wright County 4-H Newsletter February 2018

Wright County 4-H Newsletter February 2018 4-H Families, This winter has had plenty of snowy, slippery days. If you re stuck at home, consider working on a project/exhibit you could take to the fair. Already have your exhibit ready? Consider writing up your goals for the exhibit. Make sure to read the entire newsletter, carefully, so you can take advantage of all the 4-H activities coming up. There are many opportunities to learn new things, make new friends, and have fun at the same time. Make sure to sign up for events coming up. Need some ideas for fair exhibits check out the project area list at: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/projects-list Do you have any ideas for me? I would love to hear your thoughts on 4-H planning. Do you have any workshop ideas that you think would be great for Wright County 4-Hers? How about project groups, community service projects or fair activities? Share your ideas. Sky is the limit! If you have questions please make sure to ask. Making the Best Better! Jessica Norman Jessica Norman Wright County Extension & Outreach County 4-H & Youth Coordinator jnorman@iastate.edu 515-532-3453 office 515-825-8232 cell www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/wright 1

4-H PARTIES, ACTIVITIES, FUNDRAISING, VOLUNTEERING I know that many clubs are planning holiday parties, fun activities, fundraising and community volunteering and I commend you all for that! All I ask is that you keep in mind our risk management and insurance policies and keep Jessica informed on your plans so that the office knows where our 4-Hers are and what they are doing! I would also welcome any photos you would like to share of your club celebrations! WINTER CLUB ACTIVITIES Is your club planning to go skiing, snowboarding, sledding, ice skating or other winter recreation activity this winter? All winter recreation activities involve risks, and it is important for you to have information about your selected activity. The Permission Agreement and Release and Waiver of Liability must be obtained from the Extension Office, read carefully and signed by each participant and the parent or legal guardian. These forms must be returned to the Extension office before the planned activity. Call Jessica at 515-532-3453 or email jnorman@iastate.edu 4-H VOLUNTEER TRAINING 4-H Builds Resilience Join 4-H leaders from across Wright County in an interactive, hands on training that will help volunteers explore how brain development and personal growth relate to their role as volunteers. By supporting youth to build resilience, we are providing opportunities for youth to develop belonging, mastery, and independence. During this training, 4-H leaders will gain an understanding of resilience and the connection they provide in increasing resilience in youth. In addition, leaders will learn skills that can be applied to promote and create opportunities to build resilience as well as utilize tools to promote growth in youth. This training is part of the statewide leader training and will be held on Thursday, February 22nd, from 6:00-8:30 pm at the Wright County ISU Extension and Outreach office. All 4-H Volunteers need to attend this training. There will be a light meal at the training. A benefit of participating in the face-to-face volunteer training is the interaction and sharing with other volunteers. If you are not able to attend the training, contact the Extension office to learn more about participating through other training options. Please register by contacting the Wright County Ex tension Office by Thursday, February 15th. Wright County District Junior Fair Scholarship Application Postmark by March 31 Application is online at: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/wright/content/4-hawards 2

Saturday, March 10 5:00 9:00 PM Bring your family and friends to the Clarion Goldfield Dows High School for a great evening of FUN, FOOD & FRIENDS! 5:00 pm Doors & Food Court Opens 5:30 pm: Games Start 8:15 pm: King and Queen Coronation Food Court, Cake Walk, Bingo, Raffles, Games, Silent Auction, & MORE! County wide event held to raise funds for 4-H awards, trips and camps. To make a donation call 515-532-3453 3

4-H FUN NIGHT ROYLALTY 2018 Lindsay Watne, of Clarion, Iowa, is the daughter of Jeff and Jill Watne. She is a junior at Clarion Goldfield Dows High School and is a member of the Dayton-Lake 4-H Club. She has been a member for 7 years and has served as reporter, but now currently serves as the President of her 4-H club. She has enrolled in and exhibited in several projects such as Clothing for 1 year, Photography for 1 year, Home Improvement for 4 years, Visual Arts for 4 years, Swine for 5 years, and Food and Nutrition for 7 years. She exhibited in both the Wright County Fair and at the Iowa State Fair. Through her years in 4-H, Lindsay has worked in the 4-H Food Stand, hosted in the exhibit building, helped with the Little Squealers, cleaned up the grandstand, and has helped at many workshops in the summer at the Extension Office. She currently is a member of the Wright County Teen Council. Lindsay is active in FFA, Spanish Club, Volleyball, and Friends Club. She has an older sister Ashley and twin brother Ryan. She is a member of the United Presbyterian Church in Clarion, has worked at the Clarion Aquatic Center and is currently working at Little Angels Child Care. Brianne is a junior at Belmond-Klemme high school. She is an active member of the Iowa Hawkeyes 4-H club and has been in 4-H for 8 years. She is currently the president of her club and previously held the seat of vice president. She enjoys working on projects involving animals such as showing dairy goats, chickens, and rabbits. Brianne plays on the varsity volleyball team and is currently employed at the Rehabilitation Center of Belmond. She participates in several community events such as resident outings, bake sales, and events for the outdoor classroom. Brianne's parents are Shawna and Justin Pralle. Cheyenne Harle is the daughter of Brian and Michelle Harle, and she is a senior at Clarion-Goldfield-Dows High School. Currently, Cheyenne is the secretary of her 4-H club, the Lake Clovers, and has been active in 4-H for 9 years. She loves being judges helper at the fair, showing poultry and rabbits, taking communication projects to the state fair, and showing every project under the sun in the exhibit building. She volunteers to deliver for Meals on Wheels, helps teach bible school for the church, and plays Mrs. Claus when the children come to see Santa during the winter. Sarah Seaba, age 17, is the daughter of Lynn and Troy Seaba of Goldfield, Iowa. Sarah is an 8-year member of the Liberty Pathfinders 4-H club. She has been involved in many 4-H projects and events at the local county and state levels including the clothing event, photography, share the fun, horse and pony, sheep, rabbits, camps and trips including youth conference for two years. Sarah plans to attend the Citizenship Washington Focus trip this summer. Sarah has been involved in community service projects including volunteer work for Habitat for Humanity, club fundraisers, garbage pickup in the roadside ditches with the Wright Wranglers and cleanup at Goldfield parks. Sarah is a junior at Clarion-Goldfield-Dows High School where she is an active member and co-captain of the dance team. She is also in Spanish club and FFA. Hannah Demory is an 8th year member of the Wright Warriors 4-H Club. Hannah is currently a Junior at Eagle Grove High School. Over the years Hannah has participated in Home Improvement, Photography, Child Development, Food and Nutrition, Woodworking, Self Determined, Citizenship, and many other project areas. Hannah stays busy in her community by participating in Leo s Club, AAU Volleyball, Leader Dogs for the Blind, Boxes for Haiti, helping with volleyball camp, helping with dance camp, being an active member in her church, and volunteering to make blankets for animal shelters on Aaron Eilerts Day. 4

My name is Connor Johnson, I am currently in Dayton Lake, I have also been in PIG. I have been involved in 4-H for 8 years. I am a senior at CGD. In 4-H I have been involved in swine, beef, sheep, photography, farm safety, and woodworking. Along with 4-H I am also involved in Team Valley, FCA, and I attend the Clarion United Methodist Church. Easton Smith has been in the Iowa Hawkeyes 4-H Club for 8 years. He is a junior at Belmond-Klemme High School. Easton has done woodworking projects throughout all of his 4-H years & has received many ribbons. He has also done projects in horticulture and photography. Easton attends as many meetings & other 4-H activities that he can. Matthew is the son of Corey and Kim Jacobsen, and is in his eighth year of 4-H. He is a member of the Wright Co. PIG, and has participated in swine showing every year at events such as County Fair, State Fair, and AK-SAR-BEN. He is active in National Honor Society, Golf, TAG, Science Club, Spanish Club, FFA, Grant Writing Club, Teen Council, and Book Club. 4-H FUN NIGHT Mark your Calendars for 4-H Fun Night Saturday, March 10, 2018, at the Clarion-Goldfield-Dows High School. The evening will be filled with: games, food, fun, friends and prizes. All families are asked to participate in the following ways: each club is assigned to bring pies, cakes, and/or bars. Your club is listed below. Parent committees are being planned to help with food stand, bingo, traffic control, tickets sales, and the raffle. Please watch for your letter in the near future. If there is an area you would like to help in, please call to volunteer. Last year royalty parents are asked to decorate the stage for coronation. Cakes & Pies: All families are assigned to bring either a cake or pie. Please bring all pies and cakes in disposable containers and label the kind of pie!! The club assignments are as follows: Pies for lunch stand: Dayton Lake, Lake Clovers, and Liberty Pathfinders 6 Pans of Bars: Wright Warriors Cakes for Cake Walk: Iowa Hawkeyes, Wright County P.I.G., & Wright Warriors Cake Walk at Fun Night: Wright County P.I.G. 5

SOIL SAMPLING FOR YARDS AND GARDENS During this program we will discuss how to take soil samples for gardens, flower beds and lawns, including what tools to use, how many samples, samples depth, the best time of year to take samples and where to send your soil samples for analysis. You will get a soil sample bag to be able to take your own sample at home. A follow-up to this session will be held in April on how to interpret the soil sample results for fertilizer recommendations. This program is free, open to all youth and adults and will be held on March 29th 6:00-7:00 pm,. Please register by calling the Extension office by March 28th. 2018 Equine Extravaganza We all know that having horses requires more than just jumping on and riding! One way to help youth get motivated to learn more about the science behind horses is to encourage them to get involved in Equine Extravaganza. Save the dates for the 2018 Equine Extravaganza March 23-25. This is held at the Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls. Information available now at https://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/equineextravaganza DUBUQUE COUNTY HORSE CAMP June 17-23, 2018, "The Best Week of Summer", Dubuque County Fairgrounds. Residential, overnight equine camp open to grades 4-12. Campers will bring their horse to camp and participate in daily activities. Space is limited! Application Deadline: March 31, 2018. For brochure go to: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/4hfiles/agriculture/2018dubuquecohorsecampbrochure.pdf and for Flyer go to: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/4hfiles/ agriculture/2018dubuquecohorsecampflyer.pdf LIVESTOCK EXHIBITORS The 2018 4H202 is available now. Please read it! This is the Iowa 4-H Livestock Show Requirements Animal Identification, Weighing and Exhibiting Requirements for County, State and interstate shows. https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/194 6

Iowa State Fair Livestock Updates & Changes Beef: Split Hereford Heifers into Polled & Horned classes Horse: Reminder: Halter class horses MUST be owned cannot be leased; papers/verification is required at check-in. Fair Entry upload registration papers for halter horses Split Pony Halter class (mares, gelding) Spilt Pony Walt/Trot (English W/T and Western W/T) Split Pony Pleasure (Pony Hunter Under Saddle and Pony Western Pleasure) Meat Goat: Birth date field required in 4hOnline animal type No clipping or shearing in the barn; goats must come show-ready (same as sheep rule) Rule no altering physical appearance of animal through topical or internal administration of substance (exact wording to come) Rabbit: Check-in Wednesday afternoon/evening only (no Thursday) Swine: (Tentative) Declared weigh system Exhibitor writes down a declared weight during check-in time Show weight (if re-weighed as top 3 in class) must be within +/- 5% of the declared weight 2018 State Fair Health Requirements can be found at: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/ projects/livestock Livestock ID can be found at: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/4h/page/livestock-id Livestock Events at 2018 Iowa State Fair Skillathons at State Fair Meat Goat, Sheep, Swine Teams of 3 Do not have to be from same county Do not have to be exhibitors at the statee fair Meat Goat Wed., Aug. 15 Time TBD Sheep Sun., Aug. 12 PM before showmanship Swine Sun., Aug 12 AM before showmanship 7

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YQCA (YOUTH for the QUALITY and CARE of ANIMALS) If you plan to show any of the following species at the County/State Fair, you must be YQCA certified: Beef, dairy (goat or cow), meat goat, poultry, rabbit, sheep, swine Youth for the Quality and Care of Animals (YQCA) Program (no longer FSQA) YQCA stands for Youth for the Quality and Care of Animals. The National Pork Board is transitioning to this program over from YPQA and FSQA. It is an online training offered nationally, but will still have in-person training. This training is a yearly certification and has a cost of $12 for the online version and $3 for the in-person training. The fee for either training will be collected online, when you select the training. How do you become certificated? Attend the in-person training (see dates below) Complete the online training via 4HOnline https://yqca.learngrow.io/account/login The Youth for the Quality and Care of Animals (YCQA) program is a program taught only by certified ISU Extension staff. It focuses on three topics: Food Safety, Animal Well-Being, and Life Skills. Wright County s YQCA in-person trainings will be held: (MUST SIGN UP ONLINE) **only way to sign up for these trainings is online at https://yqca.learngrow.io/account/login Sign in with 4HOnline and use your family log-in Saturday, February 10 th 10:00am-12noon Training All 4-H youth Extension Office Thursday, April 12 th 6:30pm-8:30pm Training Only Junior 4-H youth Extension Office Members attending an in-person training only need to attend one of the in-person trainings Those wanting to do the online training may at their own. It is the intent that all Wright County 4-H ers have their YQCA training completed by May 15 th. To find out more about the YQCA program or any Questions, please visit with Jessica at 515-532- 3453. 10

4-H Calendar February 3 Baby Sitting Clinic 9 am 3 pm @ Extension office February 10 YQCA in person training 10am 12noon @ Extension office (ALL 4-H Youth) February 13 Clover Kids (older) 5:30-6:30pm @ Extension office February 15 Clover Kids (younger) 5:30-6:30pm @ Extension office February 24 Intermediate Council mtg. 10 am @ Extension office February 25 Teen Council mtg. 7 pm @ Extension office March 3 Sensational Swine Conference @ Kluver Community Center 9:45am 3pm March 10 4-H Fun Night March 13 Clover Kids (older) 5:30-6:30pm @ Extension office March 15 Clover Kids (younger) 5:30-6:30pm @ Extension office March 24 State 4-H Recognition Interviews in Ames March 30 Office Closed April 10 Clover Kids (older) 5:30-6:30pm @ Extension office April 12 YQCA in person training ONLY Junior 4-H members 6:30-8:30 pm April 19 Clover Kids (younger) 5:30-6:30pm @ Extension office April 30-May 4 Youth Environmental Agricultural Days May 5 Sheep & Goat Weigh in @ the Fairgrounds May 8 Clover Kids (older) 5:30-6:30pm @ Extension office May 15 Animal Identification due through 4HOnline by 11:59 pm May 17 Clover Kids (younger) 5:30-6:30pm @ Extension office May 28 Office Closed June 8 Wright County Fair Entries due to Extension office by 4pm June 8-17 Region 7 CWF trip to Washington D.C. June 20-22 4-H Junior Camp June 26-28 State 4-H Youth Conference on ISU Campus July 1 State Fair Entries due in 4HOnline/Fair Entry July 4 Office Closed July 10-16 Wright County Fair (static judging is July 10) August 9-19 Iowa State Fair WINTER WEATHER CLOSINGS There may be times when we need to cancel program because of winter weather. If that happens we will make announcements using email, our website, Facebook and KQWC Iowa State University Extension and Outreach does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or status as a U.S. veteran. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies may be directed to Ross Wilburn, Diversity Officer, 2150 Beardshear Hall, 515 Morrill Road, Ames, Iowa 50011, 515-294-1482, wilburn@iastate.edu. 11