DAWSON COUNTY 4-H NEWS 207 W Bell, 377-4277 Glendive, MT 59330 July, 2014 www.dawsoncountymontana.org Dear 4-H'ers, Leaders & Parents, DAY CAMP, JULY 23, 9:00 am - 1:15 pm Day Camp has been set for Wednesday, July 23 at 9:00 am with registration at the 4-H building at the fairgrounds. We will have some fun craft activities. Lunch will be served at noon. The day will conclude at 1:15 pm to beat the heat of the day. In case of extreme heat (over 90 degrees) we will move to the Courthouse Community Room. Watch for an email telling of this change a day or 2 before. Lunch will include hot dogs, nachos and puppy chow. If you need to bring something different for lunch, please do so. Register by July 18. We will be making a garden treasure jar, string art project, Horticulture Harry and science experiments. Day Camp is open to all Dawson County 4-H'ers and Cloverbuds. We could use junior leaders for helpers. If you sold three credits of fruit you get to go FREE. If you did not sell that many or have used up all your credits, the cost is $5. Lunch is included in this. PICTURES FOR THE PAPER- July 30 Every year the Ranger Review has a full page ad about 4-H clubs, projects and members. We need pictures representing different activities, projects, etc. Will your club be represented? We hope so. Bring your pictures into the Extension office By July 30. You may also want to put together a club picture collage for the fair. DRESS REVUE, Wed July 30, 1:30 pm The dress revue has been set for Wednesday, July 30 at 1:30 pm at the Moose Club. Practice will start at 1:30 p.m., judging & the public revue at 3:00 p.m. There will be no evening revue. By Friday, July 25 you need to bring or send in your script typed or neatly written on a large recipe card along. If you do your own script it saves the committee time in doing them. Let us know how many outfits you'll be modeling also. Please pre-register, 377-4277. The day of the revue bring your outfits and accessories (shoes to match, jewelry, etc.) Bring along a dozen cookies for the revue that afternoon. The 4-H Council will furnish punch, coffee & decorations.
Invite your parents, grandparents and friends to the revue. FAIR ENTRY BLANKS - Due July 25 Enclosed are your entry blanks do not misplace them as this is the only one you will receive. If you are planning on entering your 4-H projects in the fair you need to pre-register by Friday July 25.(bring them to Day Camp) We are doing things like last year and will have everyone entered on a computer program and therefore need advance entries earlier to get all of you on the computer. If you are not pre-registered, you will not have an entry blank at the fair, you won't be on the computer sheet for the judges and you will not get a premium check at the fair as the computer will do all of that for us this year. REMEMBER THEY ARE DUE BACK TO THE OFFICE BY JULY 25! For new families, the 4-H fair book is printed and available for you to pick up here at the Extension Office. They are a little bulky, so we do not mail. We would like for you to keep it in your 4-H binder that you should have around the house putting all of your 4-H letters into. Save the fair book as we do not print them every year. New items in the fairbook from last year are: Under posters and misc, you can now bring 2 craft day items and 2 day camp items, plus the planter to beautify the fairgrounds. These are in Class 48 lots 7-12. Lot 13 is a poster relating to animal project, 14. Parts of an animal, 15. Any other option, 16. Any other poster, 17. Anatomy of an animal. A serged item has been added to sewing 13, 40D, 21, and Class 75 of teen leadership has been added with project book and any other item relating to the project as lot numbers. New items this year are some quilt and crichet changes and new horse posters. Pick up your entry tags, stall cards and pay stall fees at the office also. If Sherry is not in the office the tags and fair books are on the table in the hallway. Remember to sign up for an open class entry blank also, especially poultry and livestock. FOODSTAND SIGN UP The sign up for work in the foodstand at the fair will start now and the deadline to call in with a preference is July 30. Please call the Extension Office anytime with your preferred times. The office does not have time to call everyone, so PLEASE TAKE IT UPON YOURSELF TO CALL THE OFFICE OR YOUR LEADER WITH A LIST OF TIMES THAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO WORK. (Time schedule follows) Shifts are filled as calls are received. First called, first choice. No whole shifts can be blocked off by one club. All 4-H Kids plus all parents are asked to work. Those who have won trips
must work 2 or more shifts.(congress & Jr Hi trip) IF YOU DON'T CALL US WITH A TIME PREFERENCE, YOU WILL BE PLACED WHERE NEEDED! We ask that each family furnish two homemade pies OR one pan of bars. Remember pies sell better than the bars, so if you can do pies, it would be appreciated.(no cream pies, please and that includes chocolate, lemon, pecan, pumpkin or custard) The sanitarian makes us throw them out, so please do not even bring them. We could use strawberry, cherry, peach, apple, rhubarb. We are serving the breakfast menu and will start shifts at 8:00 am. However, Pam Harwood has moved out of town and will not be able to cook the breakfast shift. Therefore we need cooks for this shift. Please let Connie know if you can help out here. We also need help for the night shifts so if someone from your club can work this shift, please sign them up. The open horse show has been moved to Wednesday so we will be open that day also. If you can work two shifts we may need your help, please volunteer and adhere to this schedule. Please be on time and wear a hat or cap or pull your hair into a ponytail! If you do not have something for your hair, hairnets will be available. Our manager this year is Connie Undem and she has asked for more cooks to help out at the fair. Is there some Dads who could help flip burgers? Please HELP!! We also rearranged some shifts, less on breakfast and more on the late shifts where we make the most money. Please help us out. WEDNESDAY 2 PEOPLE 9-1, AND 2 PEOPLE 1-5 THURSDAY 8 - noon 11:30-3:30 3:00-7:00 6:30 to close 4 people 6 people 6 people 6 people FRIDAY,& SATURDAY SHIFTS 8:00-noon 11:30-3:30 3:00-7:00 6:30-10:30 SAT,8:00-close 6 people 8 people 8 people 10 people 10 people SUNDAY SHIFTS 8:00-noon 11:30-3:30 3:00-CLOSE 6 people 8 people 8 people We really want to stay open late Saturday night and do need help at that time. If you can help then, please sign up. There is a night show Friday night, and rodeo Sat night and we would like to be open.
Judging, Mon Aug 4, call for a time for Clothing, Cloverbuds, Animal Series Books If you are enrolled in clothing or cloverbuds, your projects will be judged Monday, August 4th from 9:00-10:00, 10:00-11:00, or 11:00 - noon. Call now and schedule a time you would like to get judged--377-4277. THE ANIMAL SERIES BOOKS WILL BE JUDGED ON MONDAY MORNING ALSO. WE WILL TAKE KIDS FROM 9:00 UNTIL NOON. CALL FOR A TIME. Clay Lassle to help with steer clipping Clay Lassle has volunteered to help clip steers if you need some help. Call him at 486-5584. We ask that the kids please come along with the steers as it is a learning experience for them. Please do not just send Mom or Dad with the animal, the 4-H er should be present. The 4-H clipper is also available this year If you need to check it out, call the office and remember it is a $100 deposit. SMALL ANIMALS: Anyone with poultry, rabbits, cats and dogs are invited to a Regional Small Animal Judging Day on Wednesday, July 23 starting at 9:30 am in Miles City. More info and sign up sheets were mailed earlier this month to kids enrolled in those projects. Registration is due to this office by July 11 th. No late registrations accepted. The small animal show at the fair has been changed to Tuesday, Aug 5 starting at 8:00 am to see if we can beat the heat. Dogs show at 8:00 am, cat show at 10:30 pm, Poultry at 11:00 and Rabbits at 1:00 pm. At 2:00 pm is the small animal round robin showmanship. These times are approximate. ALL SMALL ANIMALS must have their series or activity books judged Monday, Aug 4 before the fair in order for you to exhibit at the fair. DOG CLASSES: Kelsey Gibbs Crawford is holding dog classes every Sat evening at 6 pm at the fairgrounds. Call her at 941-0040 if you have questions. Cloverbuds can also attend these classes. Stephanie Cooley is having cat, rabbit and poultry class and it will be July 28, 6 pm at the fairgrounds. 4-H Happenings Karen & Alicia Allery, Jordan Hove, Carson Quinn, Emily Cooley, Kelty Raciborski attended Camp Needmore. I had several 4-H families help at the Miss Montana. They were Beggers, Murphys, Coons and Undems. We made some delicious food for the contestants. I have four 4-H members attending Congress this year and they are Tienna Canen, Anglea Magalsky, MaKenna Begger and Kara Dry. Tana Canen is the
chaperone. There is a lot of information in this letter, so please keep it handy as you will not get another one before the fair. We lost some of our postage budget, so we are saving postage costs. Check the web page as a copy of this letter will be there: www.dawsoncountymontana.org. Recycle your fair ribbons to save costs! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAIR WEEK -AUG 4-10 Mark your calendar now for these important 4-H dates July 23 - Day Camp, 9:00 am, fairgrounds Have you registered? Call 377-4277 July 29- Cleanup day at fairgrounds. 5:30 pm July 30 - Pictures due for the paper July 30 - Dress Revue, Moose Club, 1:30 pm, public revue 3:00 pm July 23 - Small Animal Day in Miles City Aug 5 - Small Animal Day at the fair, 8 am dogs Aug 4 - Aug 7- Aug 8 - Aug 9-9:00 am animal series books, Clothing, & Cloverbuds 4-H Horses judged a.m., indoor projects -afternoon All other animals judged Large animals round robin showmanship, 10:00 am. 4-H Livestock sale 5:00 pm Sept 25 - Record books due FAIRGROUNDS CLEANUP DAY, Tues, July 29 5:30PM Our annual clean-up day at the fairgrounds has been set for Tuesday, July 29 at 5:30 pm. Bring your rakes, shovels, & paint brushes to do fix up work where needed. We need to clean the 4-H booth also. Pizza & pop will be provided for the workers afterward. Call if you have any questions. There will be a livestock meeting at clean up day. All parents of livestock kids are on the livestock committee. Have any of you saved your livestock exhibitor back number? Call us if you have them as it will save printing costs. Sherry Corneliusen Bruce Smith 4-H Assistant County Agent