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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS IN THIS ISSUE Bedford County Dairy Team Returns from Harrisburg UPCOMING EVENTS October 2-5
October 3-5
October 5-11
October 11
October 17-18
November 3
November 15
November 28-December 2
November 29
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas08/08-index.htm BEDFORD COUNTY DAIRY TEAM RETURNS FROM HARRISBURG The Bedford County 4-H dairy judging team represented Tennessee in the All-American Dairy Judging Contest in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Team members were Ryan Massey, Georgia Ralston, Joseph Davis and Kyle Pyrdum. The event was held at the Farm-Show Complex on September 15. The Bedford County team was recognized for individual and team honors during the awards ceremony. Ryan Massey was 4th high individual in Brown Swiss. The team was 9th high team in Guernseys and 8th high team in Jerseys. This team had previously won the right to represent Tennessee at this contest at the State 4-H Dairy Judging Contest last month. While in Pennsylvania, the team drove to the Amish Country as well as Hersey where they got to taste test chocolate candy. They were accompanied to Harrisburg by coach Gay Ervin and county Extension director John Teague. Steve Sutton For those of you interested in civic engagement programming in your county, National 4-H Council has produced a wonderful (and free to download) resource for your county program. Civic Engagement: After-School Activities for Citizenship, Leadership and Service, a resource guide designed with the 4-H Agent and/or Program Assistant in mind, provides several free lessons, research and tips for implementing a successful 4-H program in the area of civic engagement. For those working with the Project Citizen program, chapters 4, 6 and 7 in the guide will serve as excellent resources. Many of you work extensively with service. Chapter 5 provides wonderful information related to service learning. This, along with other downloadable resource guides, can be located on the 4-H Afterschool Web site at www.4-hafterschool.org/resourceguides.aspx. Justin Crowe KIWANIS KEY LEADER PROGRAM AVAILABLE TO 4-H’ERS FOR FALL 2008 The deadline is close, but there is still room for high school students wanting a leadership training experience that will change their lives. Get your 9th-12th graders registered for Kiwanis’ fall Key Leader event... held near Lexington, Kentucky. Join 1,000,000 other individuals from across the country as we celebrate the 8th annual Lights on Afterschool celebration. For several years, county 4-H programs in Tennessee have been involved in the Lights on Afterschool celebration event. This event, held on October 16, 2008, is an opportunity for 4-H afterschool clubs to invite parents, community leaders and government officials to their afterschool site and showcase the great work being done in the afterschool program. For more information about this event, please visit www.afterschoolalliance.org/loa.cfm. This Web site provides helpful resources for planning, marketing and implementing your Lights on Afterschool celebration. If you are planning an event for LOA, be sure to register on the Web site. The largest day of helping others, known as Make a Difference Day, is scheduled for October 25th. This day, in its 18th year, is a chance for youth and adults across the country to come together for a common cause: to help others. This year, Tennessee 4-H is excited to offer a state-wide service project for Make a Difference Day. The state-wide organized project will provide 4-H members in Tennessee the opportunity to collect items to benefit their local chapter of the American Red Cross. The goal of this project is to engage 1500 youth and adults in collecting 5,000 items. For more information about this project, please check out the following attachments:
Justin Crowe RECYCLE TO BENEFIT THE AMERICAN RED CROSS Do you have old cell phones just sitting around unused in a drawer or closet? Would you like to put these old phones to good use? The American Red Cross has partnered with ReCellular, Inc. For every phone collected and sold until October 31, 2008, ReCellular will donate $1 to the American Red Cross, with a minimum commitment of $50,000. Wouldn’t this be a great project for your county’s 4-H Honor Club or All-Star group? This could be something that you might incorporate into your Make a Difference Day activities. For more information, please visit www.redcross.org/sponsors/howtohelp/ReCellular.asp Justin Crowe REMINDER: NATIONAL 4-H WEEK MATERIALS AVAILABLE
And, did you know that the 4-H Brand Network also a toolkit that provides everything needed to conduct the National Science Experiment and make 4-H National Youth Science Day (October 8, 2008) a success. This science activity focuses on the environment and uses science principles to teach youth about the importance of water conservation. 4-H National Youth Science Day offers a great opportunity to network with other youth-serving organizations and local school systems. Steve Sutton STATE 4-H DAIRY SHOW SLATED FOR OCTOBER 17-18 The 2008 State 4-H Dairy Show will be held October 17-18 at the Tennessee Livestock Center on the Middle Tennessee State University campus in Murfreesboro. There is no required arrival time, but cattle should NOT be on the MTSU grounds before 4:00 p.m. Thursday. Cattle not checked in by 8:00 p.m. Friday will assumed to be scratched and not included in the show program. Bedding must be shavings only, no straw. The Tennessee Dairy Expo will provide exhibitors with one bag of shavings for each animal at the show. MTSU will also have shavings for sale. The Tennessee 4-H Dairy Recognition Banquet will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday night. All junior exhibitors’ meals will be sponsored. Cost for adults will be $5.00 payable at the door. Schedule of Events
For planning purposes, exhibitors should let Jeff Mitchell know whether or not they are attending the show by email at jmitchel@utk.edu or phone at 865-974-7289. Exhibitors may also contact their 4-H agent with their plans and the agents can notify Mr. Mitchell. Steve Sutton STATE MARKET GOAT SHOW WINNERS ANNOUNCED The 2008 State Junior Market Goat Show was held on Saturday, September 13, at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville. 60 4-H members from 15 different counties exhibited a total of 222 goats. The judge for this year’s show was Robert Dinsmore from Fredrick, Maryland. Mr. Dinsmore has judged many shows including the market goat show in San Antonia, Texas. Taylor White from Clay County exhibited the supreme champion with his champion doe kid. Others with goats in the winner drive were Connie Nichols from Marshall County with her yearling doe and Abigail Mote from Rutherford County with her wether. Kaylyn Currie from Cannon County exhibited the reserve champion yearling, while Sarah Raby from Moore County had the reserve champion doe kid and Abigail Mote had the reserve champion wether. In the farm-bred-and-fed show, Emily Mote from Rutherford County exhibited the supreme champion with her champion yearling doe. Others with champions included Sarah Raby from Moore County with her champion doe kid and Emily Mote with her champion wether. Jeremy Burgess from Marshall County had the reserve champion yearling, while Katie Bevels from Bedford County had the reserve champion doe kid and Makayla Ledford from Overton County had the reserve champion wether. Showmanship winners were as follows:
Ricky Skillington TENNESSEE 4-H’ERS EXCEL IN MAKE IT WITH WOOL COMPETITION The Tennessee Make It with Wool contest was hosted by the Lincoln County Fair in Fayetteville, September 13. The event is open to anyone who sews, knits or crochets. Several Tennessee 4-H members took advantage of this competition to showcase their talents.
Augusta and Sara will advance to the national competition to be held in San Diego, California, January 21-25, 2009. The Lincoln County Fair Association provides $300.00 to each winner to be used towards air fare for their trip. Other awards included prize money and ribbons for the first, second and third place winners sponsored by the Lincoln County Fair Association; engraved plaques for the first place winners in the pre-teen, junior and senior divisions sponsored by Mark and Wendy Collins; two and one-half yards of Pendleton wool presented to each contestant provided by the Tennessee Sheep Producers Association; and small wrapped bags of thread presented to each contestant. Judging was based on appropriateness of the design to the contestant’s lifestyle, coordination of fabric/yarn with garment style and design, contestant’s presentation, construction quality and creativity. For more information about the Make It With Wool contest, you may contact Wendy Collins at 931-433-8057 or Darrel Hale, Lincoln County UT Extension agent, at 931-433-1582. Wendy Collins TENNESSEE 4-H’ERS TAKE HONORS AT MID-SOUTH FAIR Tennessee 4-H members did quite well in competition at the Mid-South Fair this year, bringing home more than $1,840 in prize money. Tennessee fielded contestants in the 4-H Career Pursuit, Agribusiness/4-H Public Speaking Contest and 4-H Poster Art Contest. Results are as follows:
Others competing at the Mid-South Fair included: Agribusiness/4-H Public Speaking Contest (Junior Division) - Carolina Hatfield, Marion County and Rachel Wolters, Maury County Agribusiness/4-H Public Speaking Contest (Senior Division) - Amber Futrell, Crockett County and Kristal Henderson, Lauderdale County 4-H Poster Art Contest - Lindsey Smith, Sevier County; Will Futrell, Crockett County and Max Covington, Henry County Steve Sutton
4-H didn't really start in one time or place. It began around the start of the 20th century in the work of several people in different parts of the United States who were concerned about young people. During this time, researchers at experiment stations of the land-grant college system and USDA saw that adults in the farming community did not readily accept new agricultural discoveries. But, educators found that youth would "experiment" with these new ideas and then share their experiences and successes with the adults. The 4-H model was born. Today, 4-H is a part of the fast-paced, research-driven university culture. All universities engage in research and teaching, but the nation's more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities (4-H institutions), have a third critical mission - extension; with extension to youth, or 4-H, being one of the most critical missions of all. "Extension" means "reaching out," and - along with teaching and research - land-grant institutions "extend" their resources, solving the needs of youth with college or university resources through non-formal, non-credit programs. As universities work to meet the growing demands of today’s fast-paced world, the mission of 4-H becomes more important than ever. The experimentation of new ideas still begins with America’s youth; and so does the adaptation of those new ideas. 4-H, with its dedicated and optimistic professionals and volunteers, is poised to deliver the modern mission of Extension to today’s youth. Daniel Sarver After lengthy discussion with Dean Cross and Interim Director Sutton, we have reached an understanding that 4-H Wildlife Conference will be suspended this year. The recent loss of the youth wildlife Extension assistant position in West Tennessee, following a year of having the position vacant, has put an unacceptable strain on the departmental resources and personnel. When we look at participation numbers and the resources available to sustain the event, we find it is not feasible to conduct the conference this year. We hope that, as funding and support become available in better economic times, we will be able to reinitiate the conference. A related program, FACE, will also be discontinued this year, partly because of the elimination of external support, but also because of a new habitat management philosophy reflecting scientific evidence that relying heavily (or solely) on food plots is not appropriate. This is not a program that will be re-initiated when support becomes available. The department will continue to provide leadership for the wildlife judging contests (the third component of the Tennessee 4-H wildlife project formerly supported by external funds), and will embark on a new effort this year, participation in Academic Conference for both wildlife/fisheries and forestry. The addition of these two subject matter areas to Academic Conference will allow 20 youth (a third of the number that participated in Wildlife Conference last summer) to have an educational opportunity similar to that of Wildlife Conference. Additionally, the Academic Conference experience will allow us to increase the involvement of teaching and research faculty, provide the opportunity to highlight careers in this area, and potentially recruit students into the department’s undergraduate programs. The Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Department remains committed to educating youth about natural resources, and we will continue to seek new and innovative ways to allow our limited personnel and resources to accomplish this goal. Keith Belli A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
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