4-H Friday News Blast!
January 19, 2018
Special Garden Project Reminder
January 31st is the deadline to request free seeds for this year. Contact the Extension Office at 402-267-2205 or sondra.buell@unl.edu
Club Leaders - Year End Treasurer Reports due January 31st
Need a copy: https://go.unl.edu/vaqn
Enroll for 2018 - Due Date March 1st
To date we have 106 youth signed up for 2018, and 40 volunteers.
Help Guide can be found here: Re-Enrollment for 2018
For new families: New Member Enrollment
If you already have a profile make sure you DO NOT make a new profile. You will use the same login information as previous years. If you've forgotten your password, there is a link to click saying "forgot password" and that will help you to reset it. Use CHROME web browser; it's much friendlier with 4HOnline.
Volunteers - We also need you to re-enroll in 4-H Online.
Cass County 4-H Volunteer Training
4-H Shooting Sports Calendar
Cass County Horse Project Members:
And here's more information from the state website: https://4h.unl.edu/horse/state-expo and https://4h.unl.edu/horse/state-expo/horse-show
Spotlight on 4-H
This month's issue includes:
- Best Practices for Club Leaders
- Grab and Go - Parli Pro
- Contest - Presentations
- Special Garden Project
- Cooking up Some New 4-H Curriculum
- Focus on 4-H Food Preservation!
- Diamond Clover
4-H Spring Rabbit Show in Lancaster Event Center
Kudos to the Fairland Giants 4-H Club. On January 14, 2018, they had a food drive at their monthly 4-H meeting. Each member brought canned food, boxed dinners and many other items to donate. Club members decided to give the items to the Greenwood Food Bank, so on January 17th they toured the food bank and delivered the donations. 4-H members and leaders learned how the food bank works and that their donations will go to help several families who are in need in their community.
If anyone wants to donate to the Greenwood Food Bank call Jarid at 430-0238 to line up a drop off time.
KUDOS to Joslyn Stamp
KUDOS to our Cass County 4-Her, Joslyn Stamp! All on her own she started a ColorCycle Recycle Program for a community service project. She wrote letters to the teachers at Fairview Elementary School, and then put collection bins in the classrooms. So far, more than 700 dried out markers, highlighters, and dry erase markers have been collected. The markers will be recycled into clean-burning fuel.
The program is expanding. She now has collection bins at a daycare, a kindergarten class at a private school, a local MOPS group, and most recently at the Cass County Extension Office. Joslyn will continue to collect markers year round. Bring your (any brand) dried out and used highlighters, dry erase markers, and color markers to the Extension Office and help her with this great community service project!
4-H History Preservation
Agricultural News around the area:
Cass/Otoe Cattlemen's Meeting in Cass County - Jan 25th at Cass Co Extension Office
Pesticide Training in Cass County - March 15, 2018 at the EXPO Building, Cass Co Fairgrounds
2018 Master Gardener Program Applications now Available
Nebraska Extension Cass County
Brett Kreifels, Extension Educator & Unit Leader,
Tracy Ensor, Extension Assistant, tracy.ensor@unl.edu
Sondra Buell, Office Manager, sondra.buell@unl.edu
General Mailbox, cass-county@unl.edu
Email: cass-county@unl.edu
Website: www.cass.unl.edu
Location: 8400 144th Street, Weeping Water, NE, 68463
Phone: 402-267-2205
Facebook: facebook.com/UniversityofNebraskaLincolnExtensionCassCounty
Twitter: @UNLCassCounty