Kansas State University Agricultural Research Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service March 2017 Congratulations! Everyone did a wonderful job at 4-H Club Day! Thank you to the 4-H Day Committee for their help in setting up the rooms and cleaning up. Judges ranked the top blues so Pawnee County will be well represented at the Regional 4-H Day. Regional 4-H Day participants (including those in the Composite Model Meeting) will receive a letter with further instructions about this event on Friday evening, March 9, in Great Bend. No schedule has been set yet. The Top Blue winners are: Project Talk: Creighton Murray Jr. Demo: Mylee Hammond Extemp Speaking: Caleb Nord Instrumental Solo: Phillip Applequist In This Issue Project Events & News - page 2-3 Local 4-H Events and News - page 3-6 Area, State, & National Events and News - page 7 Dates to Remember - page 8 Agents Note - page 9 Sr. Demo: Christian Murray Piano Solo: Phillip Applequist Jr. Reading: Evelynn Brownlee ARI: Audrey Manry The Composite Model Meeting will practice Sunday March, 4th at 4:30pm at the J.A. Haas Building. Project Enrollment: May 1st is the last day to add projects for the 2018 Fair. If you have any questions about how to add a project or update your enrollment, please call the Extension Office. 2017 Pawnee County Fair Dates: Mark your calendars for July 25-28, 2018! Deadlines and other announcements will be forthcoming in newsletters and other letters that are project specific. There are a few notes in this newsletter; be sure to keep track of dates! Contact Us! Whether you have questions about upcoming events, enrollment, or project descriptions, we are here to find you answers! Please call our office at 620-285-6901. Our mailing address: 715 Broadway, Room 6 Larned, KS 67550 You can also contact any of us: Donna - FCS & 4-H: dpreisne@ksu.edu 620-804-0320 Jen- Office/General Info: jfitzpatrick@ksu.edu
Project Events & News Dog Dog practice will be on March 6, at 5:30 p.m. at the J.A. Haas Exhibit Building. Be sure to bring your dog and leash. Beef Weigh-In Don t forget that beef weigh-in will take place at the Larned Vet Clinic on Saturday March 17 from 9:00-10:00 a.m. If you are planning to show at the Fair, your animal needs to be tagged and weighed. Bucket feeder steers should also be tagged and weighed at this time. DNA for State Fair will also be done this day. If you will not be able to attend this weigh-in, please contact the Extension Office so that the animals are at least tagged before March 17. After March 17, Open Class will be your only option for showing at the Fair. Help Wanted With 4th Grade Ag Day coming up very soon, we could use some help to clean up the fair grounds before this event. Thursday, April 26, 5:30 p.m. has been set aside to clean up the fair grounds. Everyone is asked to bring cleaning tools (scoop shovels, wheel barrows, rakes, brooms, etc.) if they have them. See you there! If you agree to present at 4th Grade Ag Day, it would be great to have you there and also after the event to help clean up. Any other 4-Hers are welcome to help also. Community Leaders, please remind your club members! 4th Grade Ag Day 4th Grade Ag Day will be held Thursday, May 3, at the Pawnee County Fair Grounds. There will be a 4-H Animal Petting Zoo again this year, which Donna is organizing. Give Donna a call if you would like to help with that. Also be prepared to help clean up the fair grounds before the event and help clean the J.A. Haas Exhibit Building after the event. Pawnee County Shoot Out The Pawnee County 4-H Shooting Sports project will sponsor a 4-H Shooting Sports competition on Saturday, March 10. Registration was due February 23. Late entries are assessed a late fee of $5 extra per person and there is no guarantee of a t-shirt. The Pawnee County Shoot Out will qualify Air Pistol and Air Rifle shooters for the State Shoot. The Archery shoot will be a fun event for shooters to practice in a competition setting. This is our 23rd year to host this event. Both team and individual medals will be awarded. Shotgun Organizational Meeting There will be a Shotgun Organizational Meeting March 26, at 7:00 p.m. at the J.A. Haas Exhibit Building. Parents along with 4-Hers are encouraged to attend. Plan to fill out paperwork and pay fees if you have not already done so. Practices will be held at the Larned Gun Club Range on April 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30th. Beginners will practice at 5 and advanced will begin at 6. Pawnee County Fair Shoot: Monday July 23rd at 5:00pm For any questions about weather conditions please call Larry Skelton at (620) 285-5074 or Nathan Barker at (620) 804-0580. Shooting Sports Instructor Training Have you considered being a shooting sports instructor? The next training session is coming up on April 5-8, at Rock Springs 4-H Center. The disciplines planned are: Archery, Coordinator, Hunting Skills, Muzzleloading, Pistol, Rifle (BB gun, air rifle, etc.), Shotgun, and Western Heritage/Cowboy Action. Registration is due by March 29 at 5pm, so please let us know. Your volunteer screening process must be completed in order to attend these trainings!!! We are in need of instructors for all disciplines!! PAGE 2
Project Events & News, Cont. Shutterbugs at Botanica On April 28th, Botanica, The Wichita Gardens at 701 Amidon, Wichita, will host the photography workshop. Workshop topics and activities include: Camera Questions, Props & Costumes, Portraits & Posing, Lighting, Getting Ready for the Fair, Kaleidoscopes, Composition, and Photo Scavenger Hunt. In the event of rain or snow, workshops will be held indoors. Registration is not required. All participants pay regular gate fee at the gardens but no additional workshop fee. Adults (13-61) $7, Seniors (62+)/Military $6, Youth (3-12) $5, Children 2 and under free. Small Animal Weigh-In Sheep, Goat, and Bucket Calf ear tag and weigh-in is scheduled for Thursday, May 3, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the Fair Grounds. Swine will not weigh in but must be tagged by Ted Van Horn by May 3. Livestock Judging Practice dates are still in the works for those that are interested. Please contact the Extension Office if you are interested in participating. Local 4-h events & News Heart of Kansas 4-H Camp It s time to start planning for 4-H Camp. Pawnee County 4-Hers can attend camp at Rock Springs Ranch June 9-12. 4-Hers age 7-13 (or just completing 8th grade) are eligible to attend. Cost for camp this year is $180.00. Registration will be due May 1 to the Extension Office and other important information will be announced next month! Any 4-Hers 14 years of age and older who are interested in being camp counselors can contact the Extension Office to obtain an application. The application needs to be completed and returned to the Extension Office by May 1. Camp Scholarships-Provided by 4-H Council Scholarship applications will be due April 25, to the Extension Office. 4-H Club members should meet these requirements in order to receive the camp scholarship: attend 2 club meetings per year and 1 extra activity. Please note that this will be verified by Club Leaders. Camp Scholarships-Provided by Pawnee County 4-H Foundation The 4-H Foundation of Pawnee County is happy to offer scholarships for 4-H Camp again this year! There will be two scholarship awarded that will help to pay for Camp. NOTE: A 4-Her can only win this scholarship once! To be eligible you must be of Camp age (7-13 or just completing 8th grade). Due Tuesday May, 1 2018. PAGE 3
Local 4-h events & News Pawnee County 4-H Foundation The Pawnee County 4-H Foundation Annual Meeting will be held Thursday, March 8, 7:00 p.m. at the Courthouse Lounge. 4-Hers will present their 4- H Day Top Blue Project Talks and Demonstrations. Refreshments will be served. All are invited!! 4-H Foundation Membership All 4-H Clubs are encouraged to recruit members for the Pawnee County 4-H Foundation. A paid lifetime membership fee is $10.00. Membership is open to everyone. The Pawnee County 4-H Foundation sponsors many awards for the 4-H Fair, Achievement Banquet, and County 4-H Day. They also host a recognition dinner for leaders. They pay transportation cost to county camp. They sponsor scholarships for county camp and high school seniors. It is easy to see they support every aspect of 4-H and all 4-Hers benefit from their support. So please support them by recruiting members to the Foundation. 4-H Council The March meeting for the Pawnee County 4-H Council is scheduled for Monday, March 19, 7:30 p.m. at the J.A. Haas Exhibit Building. Please plan to attend or send a substitute. Discount Card Fundraiser As a new fundraiser this year we are selling Discount Cards. Local and National businesses have created special offers to be used at their location for this card. Each card will sell for $10. Our anticipated starting date for selling is Friday March 2, 2018. The cards will be active March 1-December 31, 2018. Each club will be given 100 cards to be responsible for selling. Spread the word!! Photography SPIN Club Pawnee County 4-H is happy to be hosting a Photography SPIN Club this year. Photographers Janet Fleske and Karol Foster will be teaching for this program. The cost is $5 per child to register this fee includes photos and mounts! There are three meeting dates set so far: March 11th 6:00-7:00 pm Learn the Skill April 8th 2:00-5:00 pm Fort Larned Field Trip May 13th 6:00-7:00 pm Mount photos for County Fair Please bring your camera or a phone with a camera! Any youth over the age of 7 by January 1, 2018 are welcome to participate. You do not have to be part of 4-H or live in Pawnee County to participate! Call the Extension Office to sign up by March 8th!! There was a great turn out for the first Rocketry SPIN Club meeting! With the help of David Miller these youth are on their way to building their rockets for the County Fair. Keep up the good work!! PAGE 4
Club News Gem Dandys: Great job to James Seeman for receiving 2nd Top Blue for his Project Talk! He will be representing Pawnee County at Regional 4-H Day this year!! Job Well Done to ALL Clubs and 4-Hers for participating in this years Club 4- H Day!! We had a great turn out. Congratulations to the 4- Hers who won Top Project Talks & Top Demonstrations, thank you for all your hard work and dedication! Page 5
Local 4-h events & News, Cont. Youth for the Quality Care of Animals We will have our first scheduled training on Wednesday March 7, 2018 at the Larned High School student lounge. Arrangements have been made with the bus barn to have students ride the bus from the elementary school to the high school. A list will be provided to both the school and the bus barn of which kids are planning to ride the bus. Either 4-H ambassadors or an adult will meet the kids at the bus drop off at the high school (by the band room) and walk them in to the student lounge. Middle school students should walk across the street and enter the doors by the office and walk to the student lounge. The training will start at roughly 1:20 (when the students riding the bus get there) and will be over at 3pm. Please plan to pick up your students by the north east door (where we entered for club days); we will wait with all students until they are picked up. What does your child need to bring? NOTHING! We ll have paper and pencils available if someone wants to take notes, but that is not necessary. There will be NO quiz after the in-person training. The training is designed that ALL age groups will understand what is being taught. You will need to create an account and register for the class on-line. A step-by-step instruction sheet has been included in this newsletter for you to be able to do that. There have been sponsors arranged for the in-person training. Please do not register for the class until you have obtained a coupon code! You can register for the account after you take the class but before March 12 th as this is the date that I will mark everyone complete and they will receive their certificates. To receive a coupon code or if you have problems creating an account or registering, please contact Kristy Mull directly as the extension office will not be able to assist you with trouble shooting your registration. This is only 1 of the trainings that will be held in Pawnee County. There will be a training held in Rozel on Monday, April 2, 2018 (we re looking to start that training at 10am), and there will be at least 1 training held in the evening or on a weekend following that. Parents are always welcome to come to any training to get the information along with their child. We will set the final training date with those 4-Hers/parents who were unable to attend either of the first 2 trainings. Thank you for your willingness to improve the livestock program in Pawnee County. I m excited for these trainings, and I hope you are too! To RSVP (or for ANY questions/concerns related to the YQCA training) please contact Kristy Mull: (620) 804-0691 (call or text) or mull.dvm@gmail.com To create an account/register for a class: 1. Go to https://yqca.learngrow.io 2. Click sign in with 4-H online YQCA Account Registration 3. Select Kansas 4-H Youth Development from the drop down menu. Click Select Organization. 4. Log in using your credentials for 4-H online. (the information you use for enrollment) 5. Select the 4-H member for whom you are creating an account. 6. Enter the desired user name and follow the on screen prompts for data sharing agreements. 7. On the following page, find your age group and click on it. 8. Under the instructor led training on the right hand side of the screen, you should select the state of Kansas and then find the desired training. In this case Larned High School Student Lounge 9. Click on Purchase Course and enter the coupon code on the following screen. PAGE 6
Area, state, & national 4-h information Discovery Days This event will be May 29-June 1, on the KSU campus. Be sure to check the State 4-H website at www.kansas4-h.org: Events & Activities, Conferences & Events, and Discovery Days, or http://www.kansas4- h.org/events-activities/conferences-events/discovery-days/index.html for more information. It s a great 4- H event for youth 13-18 years old. Classes fill quickly, so register early to attend the class you want. Registration will open March 1, online. Alien Adventure Experience The Kansas 4-H SpaceTech Program and the Kansas Cosmosphere located in Hutchinson are teaming up to provide fun, hands-on and science-based programming for Kansas 4-H Youth. This program will feature The Alien Adventure. The experience will begin Friday, April 6, at 4:00 p.m., and will end on Saturday, April 7, at 4:00 p.m. Cost will be $110 for youth between 9-18 years old and $110 for all adult participants. Registration is open until March 22, at 11:59 p.m. at http://kansas4-h.org/events/index/html. Campference Campference combines a camp experience with a leadership conference. 4-H members, ages 12-14, (before January 1, 2018) have a little more freedom and do a lot team building and leadership activities. Campference will be June 26-29. Registration opens in March! Register early as the space will fill on a first come basis, and Campference was full the last four years! Register online by May 15 (or earlier, it will close when it is full) and payment must be in the local Extension Office by May 15, 2018. Cost will be announced at a later date. 4-H Takes Flight! Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 14 th and save the date! 4-H members will have the opportunity to visit and experience the Spencer Flight and Education Center in Scott City for a 2 hour field trip. Established in 2012, the SFEC provides a local venue for high-quality flight instruction and youth aviation education. The day will include lunch at the William Carpenter 4-H Building followed by an afternoon 4-H Aerospace/Rocketry workshop. Register by calling the Scott County Extension Office at 620-872-2930 no later than Friday, April 6th. To cover the cost of lunch and activity supplies, youth will pay a registration fee of $10.00 and adults will be charged $5 (lunch only). Registration fees will be collected on-site. Please bring exact cash and a completed 4-H participation form with you to the event. Registration is limited to the first 25 youth SIGN UP EARLY! Event time is 10:00 am-3:00 pm. Walk Kansas Walk Kansas will begin on Sunday March 18th. Registration is now open online! Please go to http://www.walkkansasonline.org/ to Log In or Create an account if you are a first time user. You can register with others as a team, or register as a free agent to be added to someone else s team. Page 7
MARCH 1: Pawnee County 4-H Foundation Scholarship Due D a t e s t o r e m e m b e r 4: Final Shooting Sports Practice at 2:00 p.m., J.A. Haas Exhibit Building 6: Dog Practice - Haas Building @ 5:30 p.m. 7: Youth Quality Care of Animals (YQCA) Training #1 at Larned High School 8: Pawnee County 4-H Foundation Annual Meeting - Courthouse @ 7:00 p.m. 8: Photography SPIN Club registration deadline 9: Regional 4-H Day - Great Bend (School TBD) 10: Pawnee County Shoot Out - Larned Community Center 8:00 a.m. 17: Beef Weigh In - Larned Veterinary Clinic, 9:00-10:00 a.m. 18: Walk Kansas begins 19: 4-H Council - J.A. Haas Exhibit Building @ 7:30 p.m. 22: Alien Adventure registration deadline 26: Shotgun Organizational Meeting - J.A. Haas Exhibit Building @ 7:00 p.m. 29: Registration for Shooting Sports Instructor Training due an Agent must register you! APRIL 2: Youth Quality Care of Animals (YQCA) Training #2 in Rozel 2, 9, 16, 23, 30: Shotgun Practice - Larned Gun Club @ 5:00 p.m. for Beginners/6:00 p.m. for Advanced 5-8: Shooting Sports Instructor Training - Rock Springs 4-H Center 6: 4-H Takes Flight! registration deadline 6-7: Alien Adventure at Cosmosphere in Hutchinson 14: 4-H Takes Flight! Field Trip in Scott City 25: Heart of Kansas Camp Scholarships due to Extension Office 26: 4th Grade Ag Day Fairground Clean up @ 5:30 p.m. MAY 1: Project Enrollment Finalized 1: Heart of Kansas Camp registration & Camp Counselor Application due 1: YQCA deadline 3: 4th Grade Ag Day 3: Small Animal Weigh-in - Fairgrounds @ 5:00-7:00 p.m. NO PIGS 7: Makeup Day for Shotgun practice (if necessary) Larned Gun Club @ 5:00 p.m. for Beginners/6:00 p.m. for Advanced 29-June 1: Discovery Days - KSU campus JUNE 9-12: Camp at Rock Springs Ranch - Junction City, KS 26-29: Campference, Rock Springs Ranch - Junction City, KS JULY 6: County Fair entries deadline 25-28: Pawnee County Fair PAGE 8
Dear 4-H Families, The Extension Office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00-5:00 p.m. The office will normally be closed over the noon hour. However, we realize these hours may not coincide with everyone s schedules. Give us a call and we will do our best to work with your schedule. Sincerely, Donna R. Preisner County Extension Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences DRP/jf Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service is committed to making its services, activities, and programs accessible to all participants. If you have special requirements due to a physical, vision, or hearing disability, or dietary restriction, please contact the Pawnee County Extension Office at 620-285-6901 or pn@ksre.ksu.edu. K-State Research and Extension is an equal opportunity Employer. 715 Broadway, Room 6 Larned, KS 67550