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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 04 - Issue 05 IN THIS ISSUE 2004 4-H June Dairy Month Poster Contest
UPCOMING EVENTS February 1
February 2
February 13
February 14
February 21
March 1
March 5-6
March 6
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March 18-27
March 27
March 28-31
March 30
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ Online version of Ideas: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ideas04/ Ideas index: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ideas04/04-index.htm 2004 4-H JUNE DAIRY MONTH POSTER CONTEST The guidelines for the 2004 4-H June Dairy Month Poster Contest can be found at www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ideas04/links/dairyposter04.htm. Please note that your county winning poster should be sent to J.J. Collins by May 7, 2004. Posters are not judged on a district level. ADA of Tennessee will handle all judging. Also, please note that the 4-H member submitting the winning poster will receive a $500 savings bond and the county office will receive a $100 cash award. If your county has a Spiffy program, please share this information with the person who gives leadership to that effort. Steve Sutton CIVICONNECTIONS: CONSTRUCTING THE PAST, CREATING THE FUTURE CiviConnections is a new program of the National Council for the Social Studies funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Grants of $7,500 will be awarded to 33 teams of 3 teachers each (3rd through 12th grade, social studies teachers preferred) in schools or school districts across the nation this June. Please pass this message along to any 3rd through 12th grade social studies teachers who would like funding to support projects that integrate local historical inquiry around a chosen social issue with service-learning. The deadline is April 30, 2004. For more information and a downloadable application, go to www.socialstudies.org or contact Trevi Brown-Thomas at civiconnections@ncss.org. Patrick Hamilton DATE SET FOR STATE LIVESTOCK/MEATS JUDGING CONTESTS The 2004 Tennessee 4-H livestock judging and meats judging contests will be held June 1. The contests will be on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Additional information will be available to participating teams at a later date. Jim Neel GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading anti-hunger organizations, is re-opening the application process for funds raised via The Great American Bake Sale. Grants will be made available in the following states for this second round of applications: AK, AL, HI, KY, LA, ME, NH, TN, UT, VA, and WV. The goal of the grantmaking program is to increase the number of children participating in after-school and summer nutrition programs that take advantage of the USDA reimbursement or have a plan to take advantage of the USDA reimbursement. To this end, Share Our Strength will fund organizations that are: 1) Current or potential program sponsors (those who administer the programs) or 2) Organizations who help improve and deliver these two programs. The application deadline is February 6, 2004. For more information and grant application guidelines, please go to www.greatamericanbakesale.org/. For further information contact Karl Jones at kjones@strength.org or call (202) 478-6555. Patrick Hamilton NATIONAL 4-H PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST Do you have a state or county award-winning photo from 1999-2004? Submit it to National 4-H Council’s annual 4-H photo contest by March 1, 2004. Thirteen photos will be selected for the 2006 4-H Calendar. Winning photos will be displayed at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD and on www.4-hmall.org from September 2004 to December 2004 prior to being returned. They will be gallery-mounted and framed. An engraved brass plate with the photographer's name make this an impressive award. Winners will be notified around May 2004 and are required to sign (along with parent/guardian) a release to use the photo in the 2006 4-H Calendar. We will also request a second photo to display at the National 4-H Conference Center. Winning photographs will be returned no sooner than December 10, 2004. Submissions not selected for the calendar will be returned by August 2004. Submissions will only be considered for the 2006 4-H Calendar if they include the following information and criteria:
Please submit photos to:
If you experience any difficulties, please contact mcascioli@fourhcouncil.edu for assistance. Steve Sutton NATIONAL FAMILY VOLUNTEER AWARD NOMINATIONS DUE MARCH 15 The 2004 National Family Volunteer Award recognizes businesses, families, nonprofit agencies, and volunteer centers that have engaged in outstanding family volunteering activities in 2003. The award brochure, which includes background on the award, award criteria and nomination form is available online in .pdf format at /www.pointsoflight.org/awards/nominate.cfm. If you would like to receive hard copies of the awards brochure or have questions, you can also contact youthandfamily@pointsoflight.org or call (202) 729-8135. Patrick Hamilton The State LifeSmarts Contest will be held Saturday, March 6, at the Ward Agricultural Center in Lebanon. The following twelve teams and coaches have been invited to participate in the contest:
Coaches have until February 6 to notify Denise Brandon, state LifeSmarts contact, if they will be able to participate. If teams are unable to participate, alternate teams will be invited based on their order of finish in the online contest. All teams have worked with 4-H agents in their counties to provide training and information to participants. Congratulations to these teams and their coaches for advancing to the state quiz bowl. Denise Brandon YOUNG PEOPLE INVITED TO SUBMIT IDEAS FOR HELPING ADULTS QUIT SMOKING The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (www.tobaccofreekids.org) and the Consumer Healthcare division of GlaxoSmithKline have announced the "C.H.A.M.P.S.S. Help Parents Quit Smoking" Contest, which will reward young people for their ideas on ways to help a parent or adult loved one quit smoking. The contest, which is part of a national campaign called C.H.A.M.P.S.S. (Children Helping And Motivating Parents to Stop Smoking) invites youth ages 13-18 to log on to the program's Web site and explain what they did or plan to do to help their parent, or another adult smoker in their lives, to quit smoking. Three contest finalists will receive $1,500 cash scholarships, and from those finalists one grand-prize winner will be selected to receive a $5,000 cash scholarship and a trip for two to Washington, D.C., where he or she will be recognized at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids 2004 Youth Advocates of the Year Award Ceremonies. The application deadline is February 20, 2004. For complete program information, see the C.H.A.M.P.S.S. Web site at www.champss.org. Patrick Hamilton THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll
show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
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