Stevens County June Newsletter 🌅👓

In this newsletter, we will share our 2024 Stevens County 4-H Premium Book , learn about the club feature of the month, and view our summer catalog of opportunities as well as other events coming up!

Welcome to the month of June! For me, this is one of my most fulfilling seasons with 4-H camps, conferences, and project adventures! I am so excited for these opportunities to interact and engage with families! One of my favorite quotes is from a poem by Marianne Williamson. It says “And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” I am excited to see the “lights” that our youth are radiating as they gear up for our county fair! I am looking forward to seeing how their excited “sparks” impact others, volunteers, families, and our county! How can you help our youth “light” up and get excited for this summer?

-Savannah Aanerud (Stevens County 4-H Extension Educator)

Rendsville typically meets the first Sunday of the month at St. John's Church in Donnelly. They are active with a lot of community projects right in Donnelly. They are actively involved with livestock and non-livestock projects. Each year, club members vote on a club project that they focus on throughout the year with activities and speakers. This year, the Rendsville 4-H club project is featured around Arts & Crafts.

Want to learn more about this club? Reach out to the club leaders Lorie Oelke and Shannon Olson for more information (or connect with Savannah Aanerud).

Learn more about our Stevens County 4-H Clubs here.

Hey folks! The 2024 Stevens County 4-H Premium Book is now available electronically! If you would like a paper copy, they will be available at your June club meeting OR pick one up at the Extension Office! Our office hours are from 8-4 p.m. Monday-Friday.

• Fair Preparation Letter

• Electronic premium book

***Premium List and FairEntry: Use the Stevens County 4-H Premium List to complete your fair registration. Make a list of all the projects you want to enter, and then go online to FairEntry to register them. Note in the Premium List the number of exhibits you are allowed to enter for each class lot; use the “quantity” drop down box in FairEntry to register the desired number of exhibits. There are instructions and additional resources to aid you in completing your registration online found on page 3 of the Premium List.

Thank you,

Savannah, Katie, Jazlynn

• Summer Catalog | Find here.

• Horse Summer Practices | Begins June 5 | Find info here.

• Shooting Sports Practices | Find info here.

Stevens County 4-H is EXCITED to BLAST off our Shooting Sports & Wildlife series with a Family Picnic! We will be having a supper (pizza) and providing information on our summer series and the MN 4-H State Shoot Invite!

Where: East Side Park Shelter

When: Sunday, June 9th @ 5:30 p.m.

Sign up HERE by Friday, June 7

We are excited to see you!

-Savannah (Extension Educator) and 4-H Shooting Sports & Wildlife Coaches

Interested in learning more about 4-H and the opportunities that are available to your youth/family? Want to learn more about projects that one can bring to the fair? Interested in making 4-H connections? Then, this event is just for you!

This evening welcomes those who are interested in joining 4-H and/or have recently joined!

When: Monday, June 10 (6-8 p.m.)

Where: Stevens County 4-H Dairy Barn

Cost: FREE

All you have to do is fill out the Google Form below by Friday, June 7 to RSVP for this evening.

Fill out Google Form here.

Our spring 4-H Cloverbud Lock-In was a SUCCESS! Focused on the theme "Elemental", our Cloverbuds were able to watch that movie as well as have fun creating "element" crafts (earth, rain, wind, fire)!

Thank YOU Stevens County 4-H Ambassadors for all of your hard work with prepping and planning for this event! Appreciate you all!

Check out the rest of the pictures on our smugmug website here.

Cloverbud STEM Adventures | June 10 & 12

Water Cycle Adventure | June 14

Time to Sprout | 4-H programming for K-6th graders at the Farmers Market

• June 13 | 3-6 p.m.

• June 20 | 3-6 p.m.

• June 27 | 3-6 p.m.

Animal Discovery Adventure | July 18

For more information on Cloverbud Summer Opportunities, check out our summer programming catalog here.

Stevens County is in need of volunteers to help with their annual June Food Drop! Can our 4-H Clubs encourage each other to volunteer for this opportunity?

***Sign up to work at the June 11 Food Drop here.

Learn more about food support opportunities in Stevens County here.

Every year, Stevens County 4-H provides a Livestock Quality Assurance and Ethics (LQA & E) training to 6th-13th graders who are planning to show livestock (not horses) at the county fair. This year, we are promoting a Feeding for Success program for folks to take part in. On the last day of this program, there will be an in-person LQA & E training in Morris. Youth must be at the event the full day on June 10, to receive credit for this training (6 hours). The below link will share more info about this training and provide other options to receive LQA & E training if the June 10 date will not work.

Learn more about this here.

Haven't registered? Email Savannah to get signed up today!

The nonprofit Conexiones, in Morris, hosts a Conexiones Day every year. Roughly 400 people from the Latino Community attend:) Stevens County 4-H is once again partnering with Conexiones to add a "4-H Farm Animal Alley" to the Conexiones Day event! We would LOVE families to sign up to bring animals to this experience:)

When: June 29, 2024 (the event itself is from 4:30-10pm. Our animals are only needed from 5-7 p.m.). I ask that all animals be in the horse barn by 4:30 p.m.

Where: Lee Community Center will be the base for Conexiones Day, however, our 4-H animals will be in the horse barn.

Sign up HERE if you can commit

We are using a new communication tool to communicate with our Stevens County 4-H families! Going forward you will be receiving most of your information from the Stevens County 4-H office via Spond. If you have not done so already please accept the invite that was sent out last week! If you want to be added please email Katie Kalina. Her email is kalinak@umn.edu.

Did you know that Stevens County 4-H has an Instagram account? This in addition to our Stevens County 4-H Facebook page is another place for us to keep everyone updated on current happenings here in Stevens County!

• Find our Stevens County 4-H Instagram Page by clicking on the link

June 5 | First day of horse practice. See full schedule on the horse flier.

June 9 | Shooting Sports Family Picnic (Orientation night)

June 10 | New Member Family night

June 10 | LQA & E Training

June 10, 12 | Cloverbud STEM Series

June 11 | Stevens County Food Drop

June 12-15 | Youth Exploring Leadership and Learning Opportunities (YELLO) conference

June 13 | Time to Sprout Farmers Market Series (part 1)

June 14 | Water Cycle Adventure

June 18, 25 | Beginner Archery Sessions @ 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

June 20 | Time to Sprout Farmers Market Series (part 2)

June 20-27 | Citizen Washington Focus Conference

June 25-27 | Southwest Region 4-H Camp

June 27 | Time to Sprout Farmers Market Series (part 3)

June 29 | Conexiones Day (4-H providing the animal alley experience)

July 9 | Floriculture Adventure

July 9, 10 | First week of shooting sports & wildlife practice (see full schedule on the flier)

July 16 | Cupcake Decorating Adventure

July 17 | New family walk through at the fairgrounds

July 18 | Animal Discovery Adventure (9-11 a.m. at the 4-H dairy and FFA barns)

July 22 | Pre-fair clean up

July 23 | Presentation Day

August 3 | Stevens COunty 4-H Horse Show

Let Savannah know if you have any questions by calling Stevens County 4-H at 320-208-6575 or email her at aaner032@umn.edu!

• Minnesota 4-H Website
  

• Stevens County 4-H Website

• Stevens County 4-H Facebook Page

• Stevens County 4-H Instagram Page

• Stevens County 4-H Calendar

• Stevens County 4-H SmugMug Pictures

• Join or re-enroll as a 4-H Member

• 4-H Volunteer Page

• Projects 4-H has to offer

Email: mnext-stevens@umn.edu
Website: extension.umn.edu/local/stevens
Location: 400 Colorado Ave., Ste. 103, Morris, MN 56267
Phone: 320-208-6575
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stevens-County-4-H-101660486563830/
Twitter: @UMNExt

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