Intro to Sewing – Clothing & Textile Workshop
Monday, November 17, 2014 – 6pm
Mansfield Park Rec Center
Open to all 4-H members.
Contact the Extension Office at 830-796-7755 to register
Holiday Cookie Workshop
Saturday, December 20, 2014
9am-12noon, Mansfield Park Showbarn Kitchen
Open to all 4-H and non 4-H members
Cost: $5.00
Registration Deadline: Monday, November 24th
Contact the Extension Office at 830-796-7755
February 12, 2015 will be the date for S.A.L.E Senior Food Challenge. It is for Senior 4-H members 14-18 by Aug 31st and is a individual cooking event. No teams just individuals. Its a great opportunity for a $10,000 scholarship.
Good Fall morning to everyone,
I love this time of year. It’s a promise that change is coming. Yeah for fall!! Ok, on to my topic. Reimbursement forms, yes, what a great way to stay organized. As your community projects, monthly meetings and many other fundraising ideas come to mind, also keep in mind when you come to hand in receipts that the Extension office will have you fill out a expense reimbursement form to keep all records straight. So, say you plan a community project with your club and you have some expense that went with it, you will need to fill out a form with all receipts for that specific event to the Extension office. Paper trails are still a very effective way of record keeping. Thank you for implementing this in your program. I will also attach the form in an email along with my blog topics.
Fall is in the air and I know we are all ready for this change. 4-H has had a great start to the year. I know you club managers and project leaders have been busy organizing your clubs and projects. I wanted to pass along to you the Texas 4-H event calendar so you can be aware of upcoming events that will apply to your club. Please take the time to visit this website and view their upcoming events calendars.
http://texas4-hpractitioners.blogspot.com/2014/09/natural-resources-program-event-schedule.html
Thanks,
Debbie
Lyndi Starr is proof that it doesn’t take a high dollar horse and a professional trainer to succeed in the Texas 4-H horse program. The champion of the Stock Horse Horsemanship class at the 2014 show had never seen a horse show until four or five years ago. But a 4-H horse vaccination clinic opened her eyes to what opportunities 4-H could provide.
After walking her horse a half-mile two and from the clinic, the local 4-H leader encouraged Lyndi to become active in the 4-H horse program. That led to some riding lessons and tremendous opportunities for the Mount Vernon, Texas, teenager.
Her horse, an unregistered gelding that was the result of an accidental breeding, started out as a two-year-old futurity project. Starr trained the horse herself and showed him at the State 4-H Horse Show as a two-year-old. It was her third time to ever enter a horse show.
From there, she advanced the gelding to the three-year-old futurity program and also started attending various stock horse association shows and clinics. “We went through some rough spots, but I earned reserve in the 4-H Three-Year-Old Futurity on him. We also won the Oklahoma Stock Horse Association youth high point saddle that year.”
The next year, Starr and her gelding made the finals in Stock Horse Pleasure and Stock Horse Trail at the state show, finishing in the Top 10 in pleasure.
All of those accomplishments drew attention from collegiate stock horse teams, and Starr was recruited by North Central Texas College (NCTC). This past year, the duo received the Trainer Award at the Collegiate Stock Horse National Championships, an award presented to the highest placing individual who has trained his or her own horse.
Starr is now a sophomore at NCTC. She has continued to improve her horse and her training, and is trying to qualify for the NRCHA World Show in the Youth Limited division. Starr is a shining example of how the 4-H horse program can lead young riders through the training process to accomplish their goals.
Complete results for the Texas State 4-H Horse Show are available online at http://animalscience.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2012/04/class-results.pdf
The Texas 4-H Youth Development Program is excited to announce another exciting event during National 4-H Week. This one includes an opportunity for 4-H youth and adults to visit the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas for a fun-filled day of educational experiences in the aerospace and rocketry project. The Texas 4-H Program has partnered with NASA’s Summer of Innovation and the Texas A&M University Department of Geology to select up to 30 4-H members and adults to take an educational tour of Johnson Space Center on Wednesday, October 8, 2014.
School is in session and a new 4-H year is beginning to take shape. Summer is going to be the thing of the past very soon. There is an opportunity coming this Friday August 29th at 2 pm to attend a 4-H happenings web meeting. Information in this web meeting is very important for a 4-H club and I hope you can make time to set in and get some good information. I am attaching the email and link for you to attend. Have a great day.
From:
Chris Boleman, Texas 4-H Youth Development Program director
This Friday at 2 pm, I will host a “4-H Happenings.” These are typically on Lync, but this one will have a PPT I need to use to cover the main topic so it will be AgriLife Extension TTVN WebMeeting System instead. The main topic is: “4-H Club Finances, Cash Management, and Budgeting.” Please click on the link below to sign-up! The event ID is below too.
https://ebs-saba.ads.tamu.edu:443/GA/main/0000018ad69200000147cac07b988e92
Event ID: SMQ296080