Awesome Job to our Club members receiving Top Awards in Contests and Static Exhibits this year:

Presentation Contest - Jacob Rushman

Rockets - Jonathan Gerdes

Perennial Flower - Jacob Callaway

Conservation & Wildlife - Joshua Gerdes

Way to go!!

Minutes of July 8, 2009 meeting

The Wild Green Clovers 4-H club met on Thursday evening, July 8, 2009 at First Lutheran. There were 6 members present.

Cindy Callaway led the meeting, in Carin's absence.

Upcoming information:

• Style Revue Judging, July 29/Public Style Revue, August 5: Style Revue judging will be Wednesday, July 29th starting at 8:00 a.m. The Public Style Revue is Wednesday, Aug 5th at 7:00 p.m. (both revues will be held at the Lancaster Event Center, Exhibit Hall). A handout and entry forms are available from the extension office or online at: http://lancaster.unl.edu/4h/fair. Must submit entry forms by July 20.

• Table Setting Contest, August 6: Table setting contest will be Thursday, August 6, at 5:00 p.m. Open to all 4-H'ers, ages 8-18. A handout is available from the extension office, or on-line at: http://lancaster.unl.edu/4h/fair/documents/tablesetting09.pdf Must pre-register by July 20th by contacting the extension office.

• Horticulture Judging Contest: July 23rd. Contest will be held Thursday, July 23, 10:00 a.m. to Noon at the Lancaster Extension Education Center. Open to all 4-H'ers ages 8-18 - - - need not be enrolled in a horticulture project. Study material is available from extension. Youth choose which of the following portions of the contest to participate in: Tree identification, Grass & Weed Identification and Horticulture Judging. Enter day of contest, no pre-registration required.

• Photography Forms Online: 4-H county fair photography data tag forms parts A & B are now available as a fill-in PDF's online at: http://lancaster.unl.edu/4h/fair/documents/photodatataga&b.pdf

• Changes for Horticulture Exhibits at County Fair: 1. Containers for flower exhibits will not be provided. Exhibitor must provide own container and the container must be appropriate size for your flower exhibit. Be sure container does not tip over. Container will not be judged. 2. Exhibitor must provide sturdy paper plates for vegetable and fruit exhibits. 3. Exhibits need to be ready to enter when you arrive at the fair. There will be no preparation area for your exhibits. 4. Entry cards must be completely filled out before arriving at the fair.

• Volunteers Needed at County Fair: Adults and youth are needed to help during the Lancaster County Fair. If you can help, please contact the extension office at: 441-7180.

• Gate Tickets Required at County Fair: New this year, gate admission tickets will be required at the Lancaster County Fair. The extension office will have gate admission tickets free, available July - Aug 9th. Carin will be checking into getting everyone tickets and distributing them at the next meeting. Free admission for 4-H'ers. NOTE: you must get tickets in advance.

• Change in Premium payout procedure: Animal exhibits will receive their premium payout as they exit the show area. 4-H contests during the fair will receive their premium payout at the contest. Premium payouts for static exhibits and all PRIOR contests (Speech or Bicycle Safety) must be picked up Sunday, August 9th, from Noon - 4 p.m. in the Fair Board Office. Premiums will not be paid out after 4:00 p.m. With proper identification, parents, guardians, 4-H club leaders will be able to pick up and sign for exhibitor premiums. No checks will be issued. No changes or corrections will be made on premium amounts after 14 days.

• Everyone should have a Fair Book they received in the mail, or one can be viewed and printed from the website.

After the 4-H announcements were read, the club broke into 2 groups: The 4-H members worked on building rockets and the Clover Buds worked on photo phone books for the remainder of the evening.

4-H Meeting
Thursday, July 9th
First Lutheran Church (Downstairs)
6:30 p.m.


The older group will be working on rockets while the clover buds will be working on picture phone books.

Homestead National Monument

Homestead National Monument

May 16th, 2009

9:00 a.m.

Check out the Homestead National Monument website!!!!

http://www.nps.gov/home

Directions!
The park is 4 miles west of Beatrice on State Highway 4. From the U.S. 77 and U.S. 136 intersection in downtown Beatrice take U.S. 136 approximately 1.2 miles west. Turn right onto Nebraska Highway 4 and follow the signs.

April 19, 2009 meeting

Re-cap of April 19th meeting.

The club enjoyed planting flowers and also talked about taking flowers to the fair.

Clover College signup is this week. Here is the information from the Lancaster 4-H website:


CLOVER COLLEGE SIGN UP BEGINS APRIL 23 FOR 4-H’ERS: Registration opens April 23 for currently enrolled 4-H members and April 30 for non-4-H members. Clover College information and registration form will be in the April Nebline (due to be mailed to subscribers April 21 or 22) and will be posted on the 4-H web site at http://lancaster.unl.edu/4h/programs/clovercollege on April 22 AFTER 12 pm CT. Early registrations will NOT be accepted! Telephone registration not accepted. After April 23, the web site will be frequently updated with current class availability.


NOTE: these sessions fill up VERY fast. Make sure you register early.

Just a reminder we have a 4-H meeting!!!
Sunday April 19th
2:00 p.m.
First Lutheran Church

*Please respond back if you are unable to make it as

I need to make sure have plenty of stuff.

Thanks,
Carin

Heart of 4-H Award Winner - Carin Sandman!!

Congratulations to Carin - - She is the April 2009 Heart of 4-H Award Winner!! Here was her write-up from the Nebline Newsletter:

Lancaster County 4-H is proud to announce Carin Sandman as winner of April’s “Heart of 4-H Award” in recognition of outstanding volunteer service.
Carin has been a Lancaster County 4-H volunteer for five years and a Dodge County volunteer for 10 years. In Lancaster County, she is organizational leader of The Wild Green Clovers 4-H club and has volunteered at 4-H Clover College for three years. In Dodge County, she is project leader for the City Slickers 4-H club and attended 4-H camp with local youth. She has served on the state 4-H livestock Advisory Council as the southeast district volunteer and has volunteered at the statewide Unicameral Youth Conference.
“I like being a 4-H volunteer because you have the opportunity to see youth grow and succeed in each of their talents,” says Carin. “My favorite experience as a 4-H volunteer was attending Unicameral Youth Conference and staying in Burr Hall. The 2003 UYC was a great experience when we went to the basement for a long night of storm warnings and restless youth. We all had a great time getting to know each other and built friendships that are still present.”
Congratulations to Carin. Volunteers like her are indeed the heart of 4-H!