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Bradford County 4-H Clover Corner
October - November 2005
Dear 4-H Families and Friends,
Wow! What a beginning to a new 4-H year! The Family Enrollment Night in August was a huge success with over 200 in attendance, and several clubs were able to recruit new members for their clubs. After talking with several club leaders, I am very excited to hear some of the club projects this year – especially those involving community service. Bradford County 4-H has once again stepped forward to help both hurricane victims and our military. Kudos to all of you!
The County Council is off to a good start by holding its first meeting in September and holding a successful yard sale that will benefit those clubs that participated by helping set up and sell items. They are now planning “Club Officer Training”, Oct 17, 6:30pm in Building 3.
As we move through the 4-H year, remember that “4-H is a community of young people across America learning leadership, citizenship and life skills.” In keeping with this spirit, it is important that we all realize 4-H in an informal educational organization and that we are teaching valuable life skills through the many projects our members take. It is even more important that leaders and volunteers understand they are an important part of that process in helping their members establish project goals and finding ways to help them achieve them. We need to remember that the process of learning is sometimes more important than the end result. We also need to recognize our members for even the slightest accomplishment.
With all this said, it is promising to be a very active and busy year in 4-H. Get involved and enjoy the fun!
Yours in 4-H,
Judy Butterfield, Acting CED
4-H Youth Development Agent III
District V 4-H Volunteer Adventure
October 15, 2005
Building 3, Fairgrounds
8:30am Registration
The District V 4-H Agents are hosting a leader/volunteer training for volunteers in Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Columbia , and Union counties on Oct. 15, 2005. This is for all 4-H adults and teen leaders. The cost is $10.00, but the Bradford County 4-H Foundation will pick up the cost of those that register by October 3.
There will be workshops in both the morning and afternoon sessions, as well as lunch provided for all those in attendance. If you can only attend one or two of the workshops and cannot stay for lunch, we still need you to register. Forms may be picked up from Kim in the extension office.
This is an excellent opportunity to meet volunteers from our district and see what other clubs are doing.
County Golf Shirts
I have had several volunteers ask me about the green golf shirts. If anyone wants us to order them let me know by Oct. 17 and we will place an order. Your cost will be $10.00 with the foundation picking up the balance. Please call Kim with your sizes by the Oct 17th deadline. We will order both youth and adult sizes, and the orders must be prepaid. I will only order the green shirts – if you want the white shirts, you will need to order those on your own. Again this is a way that your foundation membership is helping promote and market our program.
Club Officer Training
October 17, 2005
6:30pm
The County Council is hosting the 4th Club Officer Training on Oct. 17 at 6:30pm in Building 3. This workshop is designed to help club officers understand their responsibility better. The County Council officers will work each group of officers in small groups with a variety of hands-on activities.
All clubs are encouraged to send their club officers to this meeting. All volunteers are encouraged to stay also. Please call one of the County Council officers or the extension office for more information.
County Council Update
County Council meets the first Monday of each month at 6:30pm at the Bradford County Extension Office. Each club can send 3 voting delegates to these meetings. They plan events such as the Officer Training, Pet Show, Cloverbud Congress and several community service projects. If you want to improve your leadership skills and have the chance to serve on one of these committees, mark you calendars now to attend the County Council meetings.
On September 17, the annual yard sale was held with 8 clubs participating. These clubs will each receive approximately $27.00 that will go into their club account. Thanks for a great job!!
County Events Changes
County Events is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, March 4, 2006. Location to be announced. There is a new 4-H Recognition model that we will begin implementing this year. The first phase is a new age division for County and District Events competitions. They are as follows: Cloverbuds: 5-7
Juniors: 8-10, Intermediates: 11-13, and Seniors: 14-18. This applies to demonstrations, speeches, Share-the-Fun, Fashion Revue, etc. All club leaders will be getting a copy of this manual in the near future.
The entire focus of this model is recognizing everyone no matter how small their accomplishments, and there will be varied degrees of recognition for different levels of participation. This will not take effect over night, but will slowly be implemented into the club structure.
Attention Livestock Exhibitors!!
All club enrollment forms must be in the
4-H office no later than October 7. This date is prior to the mandatory swine (Oct 10) meeting and the mandatory cattle (Oct 13) meeting where you must sign up to exhibit an animal in the 2006 fair. No enrollment forms will be accepted these nights. They must be in our office by close of business on Oct 7. You will receive you 4-H project books on either the 10th or 13th. Please call us at the office with any questions.
Community Service Proposals
The foundation has set aside $1000.00 for clubs that want to do community service projects. Maximum any club can ask for is $100.00. If you are interested in applying for one of the foundation grants to do a service project, please call our office for a proposal form. We accept these throughout the year.
The Chevron/Texaco State Community Pride Proposals are due into the State 4-H Office (Oct 15th – tentative). If you want to apply for these grants, please call me for an application form.
4-H Foundation Update
Through our auction in August we raised over $6000.00 that will stay in the county to help enhance club programming and provide scholarships for teen and adult leadership training. Through this fund-raising effort and private donates, we do not charge for project books and are able to provide full or partial scholarships to camps, Jr. Congress, judging events, Legislature, etc. To help us with the ever rising cost of events, activities, and club materials, we encourage all 4-H families to join the foundation for only $10.00 per family per year.
Your club leader can get you the forms or you can pick them up at the office. This $10.00 is a small amount for all of the return you and your child(ren) receive throughout the year. Please help us help your child by joining the 4-H Foundation today.
Got Goat Club
The Got Goat! 4-H Club will hold its first meeting for this year on Thursday, November 17, 6:30pm at the Bradford County Extension Office. Any youth ages 5 (as of Sept. 1, 2005) through 18 interested in learning about goats and exhibiting in the Bradford County Youth Goat Show and Exhibition should attend this meeting. Necessary paperwork, goat project books, and activity books will be handed out and discussed. Other activities will take place at this meeting. There will not be a goat club meeting in December, but will meet again in January, February, and March. The dates will be announced later. The Youth Goat Show is tentatively scheduled for March 18th. Contact Ricky and Stephanie Griffis or Lisa Tatum for more information.
Green Acres: At our first meeting on September 6, we elected the following officers: President – Tyler Wood, Vice President – Andrew Eaves, Secretary- Kendall Morgan, Treasurer – Mackenzie Gault. We discussed the Swine Clinics and the importance of attending them. At our next meeting on October 4th, we are making candy jars to deliver to the donors of the 4-H Auction. Our club will also be attending the surrounding county fairs to observe their swine shows.
Clover Blossoms: Kaitlin Griffis
Our club met on September 13. We elected the following officers: President – Sunshine Atteberry, Vice President – Kali Hendon, Secretary – Kristin Griffis, Treasurer – Kaylee Androlevich, Reporter – Kaitlin Griffis, Chaplain – Abby Williams, Parliamentarian – Abigail Crawford, Sergeant-at-Arms – Hannah Williams, Historian – All officers, County Council Delegates – Sunshine Atteberry, Kaylee Androlevich, Kali Hendon
Our club played a game and we talked about 4-H events. Mrs. Denise showed us how to make a choker necklace using pasta noodles and ribbon. Our next club meeting is scheduled for October 11.
GRITS: At our first meeting we elected club officers. Our club also made American Girl ribbon belts. Each girl had fun selecting ribbon and decorating their belt with beads and buttons. They all ended up with a one of a kind belt.
Our current community service project is reaching out to help 4-H girls affected by the hurricanes. Each club member is making shoe boxes filled with miscellaneous items such as school supplies, personal items, books, toys and letters of encouragement. Other community service ideas that we are planning are to “adopt a grandparent” from the local nursing homes, planting a butterfly garden at a local school and teddy bears for sick children.
Our next meeting will be on October 13th at 3:30pm at Starke Golf and Country Club. We will be making spool cookies.
Cloverscraps: Arrielle Wilson
Cloverscraps met on September 20th at Psycho Moms Scrapbook store for our first meeting. Our new officers are: President – Kali Hendon, , Vice President – Kaylee Androlevich, Secretary – Austin Wilson, Treasurer – Celia Ennis, Chaplain – Alexander Wilson, Reporter – Arrielle Wilson, Historian – Emily Riggs, Sergeant-at-Arms – Shayna Coleman, County Council Delegates – Emily Riggs, Shayna Coleman.
Our community service project for this year is to help a fellow scrapbooker in Pascagoula , MS who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. Cloverscraps decided to donate a memory basket full of scrapbook supplies that members have donated. This is our way of helping them rebuild their memories. Each club member is to bring to the next meeting a 6”x 6” page they made about themselves so she will know a little about the club that helped her. Our next meeting is Oct. 18th from 4-6pm.
Cowboy Up: The Cowboy Up club had their first meeting on Tuesday Evening September 12, 2005. Last year’s president, Kenya Clemons presided over the meeting. First on the agenda was to elect new officers. President – Justin Martin, Vice President- Ty Veon, Secretary – Arielle Wilson, Treasurer – Austin Wilson, Chaplain – Alex Wilson, Sergeant-at-Arms – Logan Martin, County Council Delegates – Kayla Clemons, Travis Atteberry.
We will ride in the St Jude’s Trail Ride on November 5. Our speaker at our meeting was Mr. Larry LaFollette. He spoke on “Time to Hoof It”. He explained the parts of the horses hoof and diseases that affect it. He followed up with how a Farrier can help correct these problems. He also told the club how to prevent these problems with their horses.
Our next meeting will be October 18th at 6:30pm. The topic will be “Knot Again” and our speaker is Mr. Jimmy Clemons. If you plan on going on the trail ride Oct 15, you must attend the meeting, and have all of your enrollment forms turned in, and $2.00 insurance paid.
Shooting Sports: Arrielle Wilson
Our first meeting was Aug 9th and we had a good turn out. We elected officers: President – Chad Raulerson, Vice President- Scott LaFollette, Secretary – Amy LaFollette, Treasurer – Tyler Payne, Reporter – Arrielle Wilson, Sergeant-at-Arms – Logan Martin, Page – Paul Eccleston, County Council Delegates – Chad Raulerson, Arrielle Wilson, Justin Martin. Alternates are Logan Martin and Tyler Payne.
Mighty Clovers: Mighty Clovers had their first meeting on September 20th. We voted on a foods and nutrition project and elected officers. Our new officers are: President – Hannah Payne, Vice President – Noah Gibson, Secretary – Savannah Payne, Treasurer – Hannah Williams, Chaplain – Nolan Freeman, Historian – Abby Williams, Reporter – Tyler Payne.
District V Happenings!
The Community Service Project for District V 4-H is “Operation Comfort”. Each of the five counties will be making un-stuffed pillow squares with a personalized label and then ship them off where they will be stuffed and sent to the military in Iraq and other places overseas. For more information call Amy LaFollette. She will be discussing this at the October 3rd County Council meeting.
Junior Congress: District V Council is planning to host Junior Congress for 8-12 year old 4-H members on January 27-28, 2006. Plans are to host Junior Congress at the Middle Florida Baptist Assembly in Branford. More information will be coming to all Junior 4-H members in a separate letter.
Livestock Updates
- Swine Mandatory Meeting – October 10, 2005
- Cattlemen’s Mandatory Meeting – October 13, 2005
- Swine Clinics: Oct. 25 and Nov. 29, 7pm Extension Office
- Steer Weigh- in – December 3, 2005
- Swine Tag-in – December 10, 2005
Livestock Judging Team Practice Dates
The following dates are scheduled for Livestock Judging practice. You do not have to have an animal to be on a team. Oct. 6, Oct. 13, Oct 20, and Oct 27. All practices begin at 6:00pm at the extension office.