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Clover Connections
Newsletter for Miller, Maries and Pulaski Counties
April 2016 Volume 2, Issue 6
Elaine Anderson
4-H Youth Development Specialist
Miller, Maries, Pulaski County
573-369-2394
Jennifer Kempker
4-H Youth Assistant
Miller County
573-369-2394
Jodie Leifer
4-H Youth Assistant
Pulaski County
573-774-6177
University of Missouri
Extension is an equal
opportunity/ADA institution.
County Fairs 2016 The county fairs are fast approaching. Please see the list below for dates, times and locations. Pulaski County Fair—June 15-18, 2016 St. Roberts MO June 15—4H project conference judging 4-6 pm Rabbit and Poultry Show June 16—Lamb/Goat Show June 17—Hog Show June 18—Beef Show Tri-County Fair—June 22-25, 2016 Richland Mo June 22—Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb and Goat Show 4-H project checkin—2-4 pm June 23—Hog Show June 24—Beef Show June 25—Sale Pick up 4-H exhibits 10-12 am
Miller County Fair— July 5-8 4-H exhibits check in Thursday June 30
Belle Fair—July 14-16 4H exhibits check in Tuesday, July 12 from 4-7 pm
SMQA Training
All 4-H members enrolled in food animal projects (including
beef, sheep, swine, dairy cattle, meat and dairy goats, rabbits
and poultry) must complete the appropriate level of Missouri
Show Me Quality Assurance (MSMQA) certification to be con-
sidered a 4-H member in good standing in that project.
To complete on line http://agebb.missouri.edu/smqa/ .
Please print off certificate and notify your local extension office
and a card will be filled out for you.
4-H Grow True Leaders Campaign*
National 4-H Council is launching Grow True Leaders, a campaign to empower youth with the opportunity to share their voice and show that their skills are making a differ-ence in their communities.
The campaign will begin in April and run through the end of 2016, focusing on three calls to action — Shout, Share and Support.
The first call to action — Shout — will start on April 11. We are asking all 4-H members, staff, volunteers and families to help raise the visibility of 4-H by posting “Shout Outs” on your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and websites using the hashtags #TrueLeaders and #4HGrowsHere.
This is your chance to shout out and recognize the 4-H members, volunteers and alumni in your county who are true leaders!
Fair Livestock Market Animal Weigh-Ins
Miller County Swine—April 30 8-10 am, fairgrounds Lamb/Goats—May 14 9-10 am, fairgrounds
Belle Fair Lamb/Goat-May 7 8-9 am, Hick Farms
Tri-County Fair Swine/Lamb—April 23 8-10 am, Shady Dell Park
CONGRATULATIONS Jacob Blank of Richland 4-H
Club. He attended the 4-H state horse judging contest and re-
ceived 3rd place high individual!
State 4-H Equine Event Dates Set
The following equine event dates have been set. 4-H Horse Demonstration / Public Speaking Contest
Contest Date: August 27, 2016 Registration Opens: June 1, 2016 Registration Closes: August 15, 2016 For more information please go to
http://4h.missouri.edu.
15th Annual 4-H Day with the St. Louis Cardinals
Missouri and Illinois 4-H members, parents, volun-teers and alumni will gather at Busch Stadium on Saturday, May 21, 2016 for the 15th annual 4-H Day with the Cardinals. The National League Central Champion Cardinals will be play-ing the Arizona Diamondbacks in a 1:15 p.m. game. Tickets for the game will be $25.00 each and includes a specially de-signed t-shirt featuring the 4-H Clover on the back and the Cardinals emblem on the front.
4-H members, leaders, alumni, and their families who purchase 4-H Day with the Cardinals tickets will have the op-portunity to participate in a parade around the Busch Stadium outfield. Pre-game ceremonies will include a recitation of the 4-H pledge and ceremonial first pitches by an Illinois and Mis-souri 4-H member. As an added bonus the Cardinals give-away item for the game is an adult Cardinals pullover. The first 30,000 fans age 16 and older will receive this one-of-a-kind item.
Tickets for the event must be ordered on the 4-H Day with the Cardinals order form. Ticket order forms are availa-ble at the University of Missouri Extension office, or on the web at www.mo4h.missouri.edu. Ticket orders must be post-marked by April 11, 2016. Tickets usually sell out before the order deadline so families are encouraged to order early. 4-H Clubs, counties, or groups of families who would like to be seated together must send their orders in the same envelope.
Families can also participate in the 4-H Day with the Cardinals raffle to win prizes such as throwing out the first pitch, autographed baseballs, and tickets to other Cardinal baseball games. Funds raised through the raffle support Mis-souri and Illinois 4-H programs. Complete information about the 4-H Day with the Cardinals raffle is on the ticket order form.
For the order form please go to:
http://4h.missouri.edu/4h-day-with/4h-day-with-cardinals
4-H Councils
Maries County—Monday, April 4—Belle City Park
Miller County—Thursday, May 4—Extension Office
Public Speaking Academy
June 21-22, 2015 CMU Campus, Fayette
Youth who participate at this exciting invitational event are guided through the basics and finer
points of writing and delivering a speech, in a non-competitive setting. The Public Speaking
Academy is open to all youth ages 11-13 years of age who are interested in learning more about
public speaking. One does not have to be a 4-H member to attend, but academy spaces are lim-
ited to a maximum of 20 and will be filled on a "first come" basis.
The academy takes place at the Central Methodist University campus, with caring adult chaper-
ones there to help every step of the way.
Questions about the Public Speaking Academy may be directed to Patty Fisher at [email protected].
Public Speaking Academy Brochure and registration information. Registration is due by May 16.
Volunteers
If you have not taken the volunteer orientation please click on link below.
http://bengal.missouri.edu/~gillespiet/volorientation/story.html
This only needs to be taken once.
State 4-H Congress June 1-3, 2016
University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo.
Congress is designed for Missouri 4-Her’s ages 14-19. The Missouri State 4-H Council plans and implements the event that is held on the University of Missouri campus.
What you'll do at State 4-H Congress Learn the life skills of a super leader, connecting with experts in quality workshops and learning opportunities!
Experience campus living — residence halls, cafeterias, classrooms, you name it!
Elect your representatives on the State 4-H Council!
Get to know other 4-H youth from across Missouri...and HAVE FUN!
Registration now open in 4Honline. Cost is $225. For more information: http://4h.missouri.edu/statecongress/congressregist
Maries County Shooting Sports
Shotgun (Trap) and Air Pistol Tournament
Vienna Gun Club Vienna, MO
Saturday, May 21, 2016,
8:30 a.m. to ?.
Maries County shooting sports is holding a tournament in shotgun (trap) and air
pistol. Registrations can be found at: http://extension.missouri.edu/maries/4-h.aspx. Forms due by May 11.
Summers@Mizzou
Do you have an idea you want to turn into your own busi-ness? Do you like helping people? Do you want to learn about drones? Are you interested in science? Do you want to put your coding knowledge to work? If any of these apply to you, Summers @ Mizzou is where you should be this sum-mer. Camps will be offered the week of July 17-21 and July 24-28th.
Summers @ Mizzou offers seven different camps: Scrub-In to a Health Career, Build-a-Business, Dog Days of Summer, SENSEi-ble Science: Dyeing to do Chemistry!, The Arts and a Portal to Science, Network Forensics for Hacker Trackers and GeoTech: Drone Camp. These camps are offered as residential or day camps. Camps are available for a wide range of ages beginning with 12 year olds; check the registration information for the age range of each camp.
Early registration is due by May 6. For registration and available scholarships see http://4h.missouri.edu/programs/summers For those without internet access call your local Extension Office or Teresa Bishop at 573-884-0554 for a brochure.
4-H AWAKENS! 4-H CAMP
Miller, Maries and Pulaski Coun-ty will be camping with Crawford,
Dent and Phelps County June 6-9. There is more infor-
mation included in this newsletter on the 4H Camps.
Registration Forms can be found on your county
website under 4-H.
4-H Move Across Missouri (MOVE)
is back for 2016! And, youth and adults can register for it on 4HOnline!! Enrollment for new and re-enrollment for current MOVErs begins January 1, 2016. As you know, MOVE promotes physical activity and encourages youths to engage in a broad range of activities such as walking, biking, running, swimming, dance, taekwondo, gardening and more.
There is no pre-registration required this year. Here’s what youth and adults need to do to participate:
Enroll in the Move Across Missouri (MOVE) project (HF775) in 4HOnline in their profile. Enrollment in 4-H MOVE does not count as a part of county limits on pro-jects.
Using a paper tracking system found on the 4-H website at: http://4h.missouri.edu/4hmove/moveinfo youth and their families can “log” the number of minutes they accumulate throughout the year and during the competitive compo-nent of the MOVE program (scroll to the bottom of the website page and click “My Move Activity Log”. Record keeping through the paper tracking system is important because the competition period will be from February 1 to April 30. 4-Hers and adults can register for the competitive event as individuals and/or as part of a team. An individual MOVEr may also be a part of a team. A team can consist of a family or members of a 4-H club or group. Youth and families will submit their total number of minutes logged throughout the competitive period at the end in 4HOnline. The final reporting take place inside of a no cost event registration that will only be open at the end of the competition period from April 30 and May 14. MOVE!
Not very long ago
In a camp not far away
A group of 4-Her’s gathered
In order to achieve
GREATNESS!
Clover Kid Corner
Through Clover Kids clubs, children learn how to get along, share, and work in groups, ex-plore their interests, and build self-confidence. Each Clover Kids Corner provides an activity,
information or other materials that Clover Kids leaders can use in planning and imple-menting experiences that introduce five to seven-year olds to the 4-H
Clay Candy
3 cups powdered sugar
¼ cup corn syrup
½ teaspoon salt
½ stick (1/4 cup) margarine, softened and cut into pieces
Steps
1. Begin by combining the powdered sugar, corn syrup, salt, margarine, and vanilla in a large bowl.
2. Mix these ingredients until the dough is not sticky. More powdered sugar may need to be added to make it less sticky
(from ¼ to 1/3 cup). However, add the extra sugar in slowly and be sure to stop when the dough feels dry.
3. Now divide the dough into balls and place each ball into separate bowls.
4. Add different colors of food coloring into each bowl.
5. Mix in the food coloring with a spoon to begin with. Once the coloring begins to blend, use your hands to really blend it
together.
6. Now you can make all kinds of sculptures out of your edible clay!
*Be sure to eat the sculptures soon after you make them so they do not turn into candy rock
sculptures!
Source: “Candy Clay.” Zoom 13 July 2006
Upcoming Events
April 4—Maries County 4-H Council—Belle Fairgrounds 6:30 pm April 24 –Highgate Preview Show—Belle Fairgrounds May 1—Swine Weigh-In—Vienna Park 1 pm May 5—Miller County 4-H Council—6:30 pm Extension Office May 7—Belle Lamb/Goat Weigh-in - 8-9 am Hicks Farm May 14—Miller County Lamb/Goat Weigh-in 9-10 am Eldon City Park May 21—Maries County Shooting Sports Tournament—Vienna Gun Club 8:30 am June 1-3—State 4-H Congress June 3-5—Counselor Camp June 5—Miller County Achievement Day 2 pm Extension Office June 6-9—Maries, Miller and Pulaski County 4-H Camp June 9-11—Shooting Sports Camp June 12—Maries County Achievement Day 2 pm Vienna City Park June 17-18—Canine Camp
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Different colors of food coloring
A large bowl
Mixing Spoons
Achievement Days
Youth may present a demonstration at their county
achievement day, if they would like to present it at
the Missouri State Fair.
Miller County—Sunday, June 5 2pm, Extension office
In Maries and Pulaski County, we ask youth to bring
their fair projects to be conferenced judged. Once all
projects are judged, items will be selected to go to
the Missouri State Fair.
Maries County—Sunday June 12, 2 pm,
Vienna City Park
Pulaski County—Wednesday, June 15 4-6 pm
St. Roberts Community Center
Missouri State Fair
August 11-21, 2016
For information of 4H exhibits please go to
http://4h.missouri.edu/statefair/4hbuildinginfo
Reminder: Submit pictures or meeting
summaries by the 25th of the month to be
included in the newsletter
