LSU AGCENTER 204 Burt Blvd 4th Floor, Courthouse Benton, LA 71006 318 965-2326

Bossier Parish

April 2014

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April 2 Parish Scholarship Applications Due in 4-H Office by 4:00pm 3 CNP Club Meeting, Boardwalk, 6:00pm 4 Summer 4-H Camp Papers & Remaining Fees Due in 4-H Office by 4:00pm 5 Fun Fest, Red River Nat’l Wildlife Refuge, South Bossier, 10:00am-3:00pm 8 Cloverbuds Meeting, Chimi V’s, 2050 Old Minden Rd, 6:00pm (5:30 order dinner) 10 4-H U Meeting, BPCC, Bldg. F, Student Services Bldg., Rm 203, 6:15-7:15pm 11 4-H Portfolios, Project Books & Officer/Leader Award Forms Due in 4-H Office by 4:00pm 11 Penny Drive Ends – Pennies Due in the 4-H Office by 4:00 pm 14 Livestock Club Meeting, Courthouse Annex Bldg. 6:00pm 21 4-H Day at the Capitol Sign-Up Begins 21 Twin Cities Leadership Meeting, Caddo Office, 2408 E. 70

th, 6:00-7:30pm

24 Area Cookery, Bossier Civic Center 29 Leaders: FUN DAY Numbers Due in the 4-H Office by 4:00 pm 29 Livestock Banquet, VFW Hall, 1004 Jeter St., Bossier City, 6:00pm May 1 Deadline to Turn in Marsh Maneuver Application Forms 6 Awards Night, Bossier Instructional Center, 6:00 pm 9 Last Day to Sign Up for 4-H Day at the Capitol 9 Last Day to Turn in Horse Entry Forms for District Horse Show 13 FUN DAY for 4

th - 12

th graders, Bossier Civic Center

28 4-H Day at the Capitol, Baton Rouge June 6 4-H NW District Horse Show, TBA 17-20 4-H University, LSU Campus, Baton Rouge 23-27 4-H Summer Camp, Camp Grant Walker July 9-13 4-H State Horse Show, Ike Hamilton Expo Center, West Monroe

What: 4-H AWARDS NIGHT When: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Time: 6:00 p.m. Where: Bossier Instructional Center (Next to Airline High School)

All 4-H’ers, volunteers, their

families and friends are invited!

APRIL COMMUNITY SERVICE Our 4-H agents will be picking up packages of new socks for adults and children for the fire station kits at this month’s meetings. This will be the last community service until October, and we would like to thank all of our members for their contributions

throughout the school year! We love our 4-H’ers!

Recruiting 4-H

University Participants

Are you interested in competing in fashion revue, automotive driving, bicycle, public speaking, computer simulation, presenting a demonstration, consumer judging, etc.? Did you turn 13 before January 1, 2014? Would you like to spend four days on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge during the week of June 17-20? Maybe you’re not interested in competing, but you want to travel with us and attend a session in Clover College.

All of these opportunities will be discussed at a 4-H meeting to be held April 10, at BPCC, Bldg. F, Student Services Bldg. Room 203, 6:15 pm. Call our office at 965-2326 to sign up. See you soon!

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 We still have room if you want to go with us to the Capitol.......it doesn’t cost anything! Give us a call at the 4-H office at 965-2326 to sign up by May 9!

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ANNUAL PENNY DRIVE The deadline for all pennies to be turned in to the 4-H office is Friday, April 11, 4:00pm. If you would like to have your pennies ready by the date we meet with your April club meeting, we can pick them up at that time. The top donating club will be recognized at 4-H Awards Night.

Thank you for your support!!

When: June 6, 2014 Where: TBA

If you are interested in showing horses in 4-H this summer, please contact the 4-H office at 965-2326 as soon as possible.

The community service in March brought in 764 stuffed animals for the fire station kits. The top donating clubs were: Princeton Elementary 255 Curtis Elementary 90 CNP 72 Bossier Elementary 50 Special thanks to the Cloverbud members for their contribution of 29 stuffed animals.

Thank you, 4-H Members and Parents!!!

VERY WELL DONE!!

Congratulations to the following clubs for scoring a perfect 100% at their March 4-H club meeting:

Elementary: Apollo, Benton, Bossier, Central Park, Curtis, Kerr, Princeton, Stockwell Middle: Cope, Elm Grove Other: Barksdale AFB, CNP, Louisiana New Tech

OOPS…We forgot to mention the following clubs for scoring 100% in last month’s newsletter: Kerr Elem. and W. T. Lewis Elem.

Raegan Bates – Benton Middle School

Anyone may purchase a T-shirt for $9.00 each by completing the T-shirt order form. You may submit your order to the Bossier 4-H Office by mail: PO Box 370, Benton, LA 71006.

Deadline to order is April 11!

Design A T-Shirt Order Form

Name_______________________________Phone______________ Address________________________________________________ School______________________ Teacher____________________ Adult Sized Shirt ___Small, ___Medium, ___Large, ___XLG, ___XXLG # of shirts ____ x $9.00 = ____________Total Enclosed

Make check payable to: Bossier Parish 4-H • PO Box 370 Benton, LA 71006

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CONGRATULATIONS to Tyler McDonald, who won the Bossier Parish 4-H Shooting Sports T-Shirt Design Contest. The design is on T-shirts which were worn by the shooting team at the North Louisiana shooting sports competition. Tyler is also the State Shooting Sports Ambassador for the Northwest Region and is very active in the shooting sports program. Tyler is a senior at Benton High School.

CLOVERBUDS MEETING Date: Tuesday, April 8 Time: 5:30pm to order dinner (if you are going to eat) and meeting will be from 6:00 to 6:45pm Place: Chimi V’s Fajita Factory Patio Room, 2050 Old Minden Road…right off I-20 Community service items to bring: Packages of children’s and adults’ socks and/or 50 loose pennies in zip lock bag.

4-H Marsh Maneuvers, Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Grand Chenier, LA

July 14-18, 2014

4-H’ers in Grades 9-12

CONGRATULATIONS, SENIORS!

To our Bossier Parish graduating 4-H’ers: You’ve done it! All your hard work has finally paid off. Congratulations and best of luck in all you do. Bossier Parish 4-H will miss you.

Benton High Bossier High Haughton High Louisiana New Tech

Chris Conway Unique Uster Chelsea Crow Robert Hunt

Tyler McDonald Kaitlyn McEachern Jacqueline Jones

Renwick Scott Timothy Newell Taylor Pilgreen

Amber Shamsie Le’Kayla Smith Angelique Stiles

Faith Watson

May 13, 2014 → ALL GRADES

Make plans to attend 4-H Fun Day. You will have a great time! It is your responsibility to make sure you qualify by participating in three community service projects, two activities, and project book completion or your specific club requirements. You should have received a form to keep up with what you have done.

YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS FUN DAY!!

BOSSIER

PARISH

4-H

BOSSIER

CIVIC

CENTER

DATE: Monday, April 21

TIME: 6:00-7:30pm

PLACE: Caddo 4-H Office, 2408 E. 70th, Shreveport

We will have brisket sandwiches, chips, drinks and dessert. The cost will be $4.00

per person, and you MUST let us know if you will be attending by Wednesday, April

16, 4:00pm. You may bring guests/parents/friends, but they must pay the $4.00

also, if they plan to eat with us.

Bossier Parish 4-H Fundraiser Raffle The two club leaders for selling the most raffle tickets are Shetwan Roberison of Haughton Middle School who sold 401 tickets and Nancy Moore of Elm Grove Elementary School who sold 200 tickets. They each will receive a $100 VISA gift card. The two winning raffle tickets were drawn at 4:00pm on Monday, March 17, and the recipients will each receive a $200 VISA gift card. The winners are Marlys Marlow of Bossier City (ticket sold by Elizabeth Gallagher, leader at Curtis Elementary) and Eileen Ballard of Waskom Texas (ticket sold by Kristena Wroblewski, leader of CNP). A HUGE THANK YOU to all of the leaders who participated in this fundraising event.

This camp is only offered to a parish every 4 years, and this is Bossier’s year to attend Marsh Maneuvers. Are you ready to go cast netting, fishing, crabbing, water chemistry testing, seining, seafood processing, boating and much more? And, at no cost to you!! Those attending will be responsible for their own transportation to and from the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge in south Louisiana. Registration forms may be picked up at the 4-H office located on the Fourth Floor of the Courthouse Building in Benton and returned by Thursday, May 1, to the 4-H office.

Jeannie Crnkovic Erika Anderson Jeannie Crnkovic Erika Anderson Extension Agent Associate Extension Agent 4-H Youth Development 4-H Youth Development mcrnkovic@agcenter.lsu.edu ekanderson@agcenter.lsu.edu

Note from the editor: This will be our last newsletter until September. If you would like to remain on our newsletter mailing list, or if you would like to be added to the list, please call our office to let us know. Have a safe and wonderful summer! Ms. Alison It is the policy of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension

Service that no person shall be subjected to

discrimination on the grounds of race, color, national

origin, gender, religion, age, or disability. If you have a

disability which requires special assistance for your

participation in a meeting, please contact the 4-H Office

at 965-2326 three days prior to the meeting so that

special needs can be met. s

. Alison

It is the policy of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service that no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the grounds of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, or disability. If you have a disability which requires special assistance for your participation in a meeting, please contact the 4-H Office at 965-2326 three days prior to the meeting so that special needs can be met.

Anyone interested in showing livestock for the next school year needs to make sure they notify the 4-H office with contact information. Since the livestock project starts during the summer, we need to be able to contact you. The following are the deadlines for purchasing animals in order to be eligible for participating at the state fair: May 1st – Market Steers July 1st – All Lambs, Goats, Dairy and Beef August 1st – Swine and order Broilers September 1st – Exhibition Poultry October 1st - Rabbits

Showing Livestock

Logan McGrath – 6th Showmanship, 4th Market Goat, 8th Market Goat Mason McGrath – 3rd Goat Showmanship, 8th Market Goat, 6th Commercial Doe Matthew Weeks – Top Ten Market Goat, Top Ten Commercial Doe Marshall Nesbit – Top Ten Market Goat, Top Ten Commercial Doe Kylie Maldonado – 8th Commercial Heifer Eli Stinson – 6th Swine Showmanship, Top Ten Market Swine Anna Grace Stinson – Top Ten Market Swine Amber Shamsie – 1st Beef Breeding, Reserve Grand Champion Overall Beef Breeding, Grand Champion Louisiana Bred Beef Breeding

LSU Livestock Show Results

Southern University Livestock Show Results

Catherine Dupree: 2nd & 3rd Lamb classes, 1st Lamb Showmanship, Reserve Grand Champion Lamb Showman, 2nd Goat class, 1st Goat Showmanship, 1st Lamb Costume Contest, Lamb Costume Contest Grand Champion. Caroline Dupree: Two 1st Lamb classes, Medium Weight Lamb Division Champion, Reserve Grand Champion Market Lamb of Show, LA Bred Grand Champion Market Lamb of Show, 2nd Lamb Showmanship; 3rd Goat classes, 2nd Goat Showmanship, 1st Goat Costume Contest, Goat Costume Contest Grand Champion. Riley Lear: 2nd Lamb class, Reserve Medium Weight Lamb Division Champion, 3rd Lamb Showmanship. Riley Rousseau: 4th Lamb class, 2nd Lamb Showmanship; 3rd Goat class, 4th Goat Showmanship, 2nd Goat Costume Contest. Caitlyn Thompson: Two 1st Commercial Beef Heifer classes, 1st Beef Showmanship, Grand Champion Beef Showman, 2nd Goat class, 8th Goat Showmanship. Kalee Wich: 1st & 3rd Lamb classes, Light Weight Lamb Division Champion, 1st Lamb Showmanship, Grand Champion Lamb Showman, 4th Goat class, 7th Goat Showmanship. Bossier Parish also won 1st Parish Group for Lambs and 1st Parish Group for Goats.