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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS IN THIS ISSUE 4-H Proud Partner Recognition Program Set for National 4-H Week UPCOMING EVENTS September 11- 20
September 11- 20
September 19
September 19
September 25-26
September 25-October 4
October 1-4
October 4-10
October 8-11
October 16-17
October 17
October 25-29
November 6-8
November 9
November 27-December 1
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09/09-index.htm 4-H PROUD PARTNER RECOGNITION PROGRAM SET FOR NATIONAL 4-H WEEK The Tennessee 4-H Foundation marketing committee has developed an activity by which county Extension 4-H programs may recognize local businesses during National 4-H Week, October 4-10. The agent resource page for the program is online at 4hfoundation.tennessee.edu/ProudPartner/ or go to the Foundation main page and click on “Resources for Agents.” Businesses who have donated $100 or more to the county 4-H program can be recognized by being invited to display the “Proud Partner” logo as a decal on their business window, as well as posting the logo to their business Web site. Decal requests and Web site posting requests may be done online at the above address. Please complete these by September 30. A fill-in-the-blank news release is also downloadable from the site. Let’s recognize those businesses that are so good to support 4-H! Mark Gateley COUNTY 4-H DAIRY PROMOTION WINNERS ANNOUNCED The Southeast United Dairy Industry Association (SUDIA) has announced the scrapbook winners in its annual County 4-H Dairy Promotion Contest. The winners are listed below.
In addition, a cash award will be given to the counties of the three division winners. White, Rutherford and Sumner counties will receive $200 for use in their 4-H youth development programs. SUDIA will be keeping all scrapbooks until after their fall board meeting, November 4. Scrapbooks will be returned to the county UT Extension offices after that date. The winners’ scrapbooks will be kept until next year so they might be displayed at the 2010 June Dairy Month Kick-off in Nashville. Steve Sutton ENTRIES DUE FOR STATE FALL JUDGING EVENTS State Fall Judging Day will be Saturday, October 17 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Registration will be at 12:45 p.m. in the lobby of the Hollingsworth (Plant Science) Auditorium with the competition starting at 2:00 p.m. (Please note exception: Consumer decision making and forestry judging will start at 1:15 p.m.) An awards banquet will be held at 6:00 p.m. Competition will be for senior teams in consumer decision-making, dairy products judging, forestry judging, outdoor meat cookery, plant and seed identification and poultry judging. Junior high competition will not be offered on the state level. The dairy products, plant and seed identification and poultry judging contests are non-qualifying events. Team members should be in the 9th-12th grades on January 1, 2009 in order to be eligible. There is no limit as to the number of teams that may participate from a county. Participants in the consumer decision-making, forestry judging and outdoor meat cookery contests will be determined by regional events. The top four (4) forestry teams per region and the top three (3) outdoor meat cookery teams (plus any of the four specie winners if they were not a member of a regional-qualifying team) will advance to state competition. In order to prepare for the judging day, we need to know how many are coming. There is a preregistration requirement for all teams. We must receive a COMPLETED Entry and Score Form (F615) for each team and/or individual participating. Please send this information to Steve Sutton, State 4-H Office, 2621 Morgan Circle, Room 205, Knoxville, TN 37996-4510 by October 5. Your completed forms will be your reservation for the awards banquet on October 17. Cost for the meal is $12.00 per person. This includes contestants, coaches, parents and other guests. You may pay at the registration table as you arrive. Counties will need to be responsible for any meals not cancelled by October 9. Guest reservations should come in with your team’s entry form. Extension staff meals will be taken care of internally. Steve Sutton HOLIDAY GIFT WRAP SALES PROGRAM UNVEILED Pegasus Paper Products and the Tennessee 4-H Foundation are collaborating to offer county 4-H programs a fundraising opportunity. Pegasus is offering premium gift wrap products from designer Nancy Yonko to county 4-H programs at cost. Neither Pegasus nor the Foundation are making money on this program, but are interested only in helping counties with their funding needs. The resource page for agents is located at 4hfoundation.tennessee.edu/Pegasus/. The sale is a pre-order, pre-paid program with counties keeping half of the retail price of the products. Pegasus Paper Products is a Tennessee company that supports the University of Tennessee Veterinary Teaching College. Pegasus president Jeff Ray and product designer Nancy Yonko are horse enthusiasts who live in Rutherford County. UT College of Veterinary Medicine staff recently helped Jeff save a horse named "Angel" using the hyperbaric chamber at UT. If your county needs a fundraiser, this one is rolling out just in time for the holidays. Mark Gateley LEAD AND LIVE YOUTH CONFERENCE Interested in free leadership training for your high-school 4-H members? The Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office is sponsoring the “Lead and Live” youth conference on November 13-15, 2009, at Paris Landing State Park. This conference is designed to provide leadership training to high-school youth, as it relates to drinking and driving. Teams of six teens, plus one to two adult chaperones may register for this conference. Registration and lodging are provided free of charge for this event. Please consider taking advantage of this excellent conference. Find out more information by visiting www.tntrafficsafety.org/CONFERENCES/LEAD/2009/lead.asp. In addition, you may nominate of your senior high 4-H members to be recognized as a youth leader. These outstanding youth will be recognized during the conference. Justin Crowe TENTATIVE 2010 CALENDAR OF EVENTS POSTED TO WEB SITE A tentative calendar of events for 2010 can now be found on the Tennessee 4-H Web site. You may access the calendar by clicking on the “Calendar” button on the main page. Please note this is a tentative calendar. Additional dates will be added as they are determined. Steve Sutton To celebrate National 4-H Week, we will be posting a photo of the 4-H Clover “cub” in a different location across the state each week in September and October. If you are a 4-H members and think you know where the 4-H bear is, please email the specific location to jcrowe3@utk.edu. The first person to guess correctly will win a prize which will be mailed to you. Be sure to include your name, complete mailing address and telephone number in your email. The first location can be found at 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas09/images/cloverbear2.jpg. Justin Crowe THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
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