The Clover Connection “For families in Lawrence, Dade, and Greene Counties”

Karla Deaver

4-H Youth Development Specialist

2017 Lawrence Co 4-H Council Brandi Freiburger, President

Debbie Pankau, Vice-President Tiffany Davis, Secretary Jamie Lowry, Treasurer

2017 Greene Co 4-H Leader’s Council

Jim Sontheimer, President Sherry Burkhart, Vice-President

Jean Cobban, Secretary Gail Driskell, Treasurer

417/466-3102 http://extension.missouri.edu/lawrence

deaverk@missouri.edu

May 2017

Dear 4-H Families: It’s that time of year! One of the most exciting, busiest times in 4-H is sum-

mer, and that means fairs, achievement days, and camps! This issue will

focus on the upcoming Lawrence County Youth Fair and Achievement Day

activities!

For Lawrence County 4-H members, our Achievement Day will also be held

during the Lawrence County Youth Fair. A schedule is enclosed with the

newsletter for your information. All members are encouraged to bring pro-

ject exhibits, participate in member judging, personal appearance, fashion

revue, public speaking and demonstrations. This is your time to shine!

You will also want to check out the information in the fair book on the

Brownfield/KRMO LCYF Gold Buckle Award! Now in it’s fifth year, this

award will recognize one boy and one girl based upon a point system. The

highest point categories are in public speaking and demonstrations, so con-

sider adding one or more of these events to your plans.

Why is participation in the county fair and achievement day so important?

The fair and achievement day, along with completing a report form, are real-

ly the completion steps for the 4-H year. The fair gives you an opportunity

to share what you have learned this past year in 4-H, and to earn the oppor-

tunity to compete at regional and state events. How often have we gone

through some kind of program, but never really stopped to consider just

what all we have learned? The fair and achievement day give us all an op-

portunity to reflect on our year and see where we want our 4-H career to go

from here. We use conference style judging in Lawrence County, which

simply means our 4-H members sit down with the judge and discuss the

exhibit item.

For those that live outside the county and are not members of Lawrence County 4-H,

the fair livestock shows are open to 4-H members from other counties.

Camp registrations are due May 15, and it will be a blast this year! A few scholar-

ships are available for those wanting to attend camp but not able to pay the full fee.

Contact me for more details.

As always, if you have questions about anything, please don’t hesitate to call, text or

email. My goal is to help each and every member and volunteer be successful in the

4-H program.

Karla Deaver

4-H Youth Development Specialist

UPCOMING EVENTS

Enrollment for New 4-H year is now open!

MAY

1 Camp Counselor Applications due

1 Camp t-shirt designs due

15 Camp registration due

24-26 Dairy Cow Camp

31—June 2 State 4-H Congress

JUNE

1-4 Lawrence County Youth Fair

CAMP (see dates on page 3)

24 Dade County Achievement Day

30 Greene County 4-H Fair

JULY

1-2 Greene County 4-H Fair

11 Regional Shoot, Bois D’Arc

17-19 Dairy Judging Camp

27-Aug5 OzarkEmpire Fair

31 Regional Achievement Day

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Vietnam-era veteran. This policy shall not be interpreted in such a manner as to violate the legal rights of religious

organizations or military organizations associated with the armed forces of the USA.”

4-H is a community of young people across America who are learning

citizenship, leadership and life skills.

Lawrence County Youth Fair book was not available at press time. It wil be post-ed on the Lawrence County 4-H website as soon as it becomes available!

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Lawrence County Fair Concession

Stand Schedule Lawrence County 4-H Clubs share the responsibility for

handling the concession stand at the Youth Fair each year.

The 4-H Council splits the proceeds of the concession

stand with the Fair Board. Here is the schedule for this

year:

Thursday, June 1st

5-9 pm Aurora Blazing Arrows

Lucky Charms

Friday, June 2nd

1 – 5 pm Verona Wild Clovers

(In Lions Club Building)

5-9 pm Mt. Comfort 4-H

Saturday, June 3rd

8—11 am Miller Champs

11am—1 pm Jolly Ranchers

1 - 3 pm Kountry Kids

3—sale end Council Members, volunteers

Council members Tiffany Davis and Jamie Lowry are in

charge of the concession stand this year. Usually it re-

quires 4 or 5 people to run the stand efficiently. You can

have your club members sign up for a shorter time slot if

that works best for you.

Premium Sale Reminders For those members who plan to participate in the premi-

um sale, there are a few requirements.

All Market Sale Exhibitors must meet at 4:30 on Satur-

day to help set up for the premium sale and then clean

up afterwards. They must sign a sign out sheet after

clean up in order to receive their premium check.

Each exhibitor that participates in the premium sale is

required to provide 3 pre-sale contacts of potential buy-

ers by May 20, 2017 in order to be eligible for the sale.

Please pre-register so the sale committee can assist you!

* Each exhibitor that participates in the premium sale is

required to assist the Lawrence County Youth Fair in

fund -raising by selling five raffle tickets prior to the sale

in order to be eligible for the sale. This year’s raffle items

include a Big Green Egg, a wire feed welder, a Stihl chain-

saw and a gun from Hunt’s Hardware. $100 prize to high

YOUTH seller. In case of a tie prize will be split.

Lawrence County Youth Fair and

Achievement Day June 2-3, Freistatt

Achievement Day Schedule: Lions Club Building

Friday, June 2nd

1:00–4:00 pm: Achievement Day

Exhibit Judging

Member Judging

Personal Appearance

4:00 pm: Fashion Revue

Saturday, June 3rd

2:00 p.m. Demonstrations

Public Speaking

Share the Fun

Awards immediately following

EXHIBITS MAY BE PICKED UP IMMEDIATELY FOL-

LOWING JUDGING FRIDAY, JUNE 2ND OR ANY

TIME BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 4 PM.

For a description of the events, check out the Achieve-

ment Day Guidelines here: http://

extension.missouri.edu/lawrence/documents/Lawrence%

20County%20Achievement%20Day%20Events2017.pdf

Exhibit Guidelines can be found here:http://

extension.missouri.edu/lawrence/documents/2016%

20OEF%20Guidelines.pdf

Exhibit Tags can be printed from here: http://

extension.missouri.edu/lawrence/documents/TAG1

(1).pdf

The Achievement Day Registration Form can be found

here: http://extension.missouri.edu/lawrence/documents/

ACHIEVEMENT%20DAY%20REGISTRATION.pdf

Silent Auction Fund-Raiser Lawrence County 4-H Council will hold their silent auc-

tion fund-raiser during the fair again this year. Each

club is asked to bring baskets that have a total value of

$100, so that could be one $100 basket, 2 $50 baskets, etc.

This is one of our two major fund raisers each year. Pro-

ceeds go toward Recognition Day awards and other

county activities. Bring your basket on Friday, along

with the list of items and an estimated value. We had

such a great response to the auction being down at the

Wright Pavilion last year, we will be doing that again

this year! Last year’s silent auction raised nearly $1000—

Let’s see if we can make 2017 the best silent auction to

date!!

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Summers@Mizzou Do you have an idea you want to turn into your

own business? Do you like helping people? Do you

want to learn about drones? Are you interested in sci-

ence? 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 summer. Camps are offered

the week of July 9-13 and July 16-20.

Summers @ Mizzou offers seven different

camps: Scrub-In to a Health Career, Build-a-Business,

Dog Days of Summer, Network Forensics for Hacker

Trackers, Robo Palooza, Telling the Story of the Stars

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 5. For registra-

tion 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 Kids and K-9 Camp Now Open This camp is designed for the dog

lovers at heart. Bring your dog to

camp and be ready to train it to

greater heights all while enjoying

the camp traditions such as

swimming, canoeing and camp-

fire.

When: June 22-24

Where: Camp Clover Point at

Lake of the Ozarks State Park

For: Campers ages 8-18 -- Kids

and dogs at all levels of skill are welcome!

Register at https://mo.4honline.com; 30 spots available,

registration open NOW!

Southwest MO 4-H Camp Explores

National Treasure Question: What do you call

something that combines hunt-

ing for treasure with national

history? Answer: 2017 SW MO

4-H Camp! This year we will

explore some of our National

Treasures. Games, crafts, and

learn-shops will focus on our theme. Traditions we have each

year include hiking, fishing, swimming, skits, campfire, etc.

Camp applications are now available and are due May 15.

You can find them on the Lawrence County Extension web-

site or in 4-H Online. They have also been emailed to club

leaders.. Need more information? Contact me at the Exten-

sion office in Mt. Vernon for details.

Clover Kids camp is a one night overnight experience with a

parent. Member Camps are for 4-H ages 8-12. Teen Camp is

for 4-H ages 13 and

over. Counselor

Training will begin

at 1 pm on June 10.

Member Camp 1

counselors will stay

and all others will

leave at 11 am on

the 11th.

Sportfishing State Event The Missouri 4-H State Sportfishing event will be held Satur-

day, June 3rd , 2017 in Mid-Missouri. The event is open to all 4

-H members enrolled in the sportfishing project (if a member

is not enrolled in the project they will not see the event in

4HOnline when it opens). Event registration for youth will

take place in 4HOnline and will open April 1 and close May

15. This event is generously supported by Missouri Depart-

ment of Conservation and Bass Pro Shops. Cost of the event

is $20 per member (additional cost for family members who

want us to provide lunch rather than bring it). More infor-

mation about the 4-H sportfishing project can be found at:

http://4h.missouri.edu/go/projects/sportfishing/

4-H Move Across Missouri (MOVE) MOVE is back for 2017! And, youth and adults can register for it on 4HOnline!! Enrollment for new and re-enrollment for current

MOVErs begins now and continues until May 1 (please make sure to register by May 1 so you can participate in the competition!). 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. 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 projects. 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 component 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. Youth and families will submit their

total number of minutes logged and activities throughout the 12-week competitive period between May 1 - 15 in 4HOnline. 4-Hers

and adults can register for the competitive event as individuals and/or as part of a team. MOVE awards will be provided.

June 10-11 Counselor Training June 11-14 Member Camp 1 June 14-17 Member Camp 2 June 17-18 Clover Kids Camp June 18-22 Teen Camp

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Lawrence County Extension Courthouse

P.O. Box 388 Mt. Vernon, 65712

Don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook! You can find Lawrence County 4-H here: https://www.facebook.com/LawrenceCounty4H Greene County 4-H can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/greenecountymo4h

Save the Date August 26 State Livestock Judging Aug 27-30* Horse Judging Contest September 30 State Public Speaking

October 7 State Fashion Revue

State Poultry Day June 17, 2017 , Animal Science Building, Uni-versity of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Registration opens April 15. Open to all 4 -Hers, $20 for both the youth and adult regis-trations until May 15, and then $25 until the June 1 deadline. T-shirt ordering — Deadline: May 8, 2017 Activities for the day include: Two Educational Sessions for 4-H Day Production Poultry Judging –Hands-On Work-

shop for Beginners and Judging Classes for More Advanced:

A Production Judging Contest, including egg and carcass grading and laying hens plac-ing. If desired, a senior 4-H Judging Team may be identified to qualify to enter the 4-H National Competition in Louisville, KY in November. Other Events of the Day:

Fun Poultry Quiz Bowl Domestic Poultry Photo Dozen Egg Contest

For more details: http://4h.missouri.edu/poultry/statepoultryday Entries for Ozark Empire Fair will be coming soon for this year and are due by June 15. Broiler order forms are now available for the Gold buckle Gala and are due by May 15. See the updated information at http://www.ozarkempirefair.com/p/fair/livestock/livestockentryforms

Through Clover Kids clubs, children learn how to get along, share, and work

in groups, explore 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 implementing experiences that intro-

duce five to seven-year olds to the 4-H concept of learning by doing.

Mother’s Day Tote Bags Transfer the following poem onto computer t-shirt transfers. Iron the poem onto a canvas tote bag. Have children place their hands in fab-ric paint and make handprints on the bags for a very personal Moth-er’s day gift! I know you get discouraged Because I am so small And always leave my fingerprints On furniture and walls But every day I’m growing I’ll be all grown up someday These tiny fingerprints Will surely fade away So here’s a final handprint Just so you can recall Exactly how my fingers looked When I was very small! Clover Kids idea Book, Missouri 4-H