Junior/Intermediate/Club Records
The deadline for Volunteer/Junior/Intermediate/
Club Records to be turned in to the County 4-H office is July 12, 2011. This will give us time to review them and make any needed changes. Remember story and pictures MUST be changed and be current. If you need forms, they are available at the county office.
4-H Advisory Council
The next 4-H Advisory Council will be held on July 14, 2011.
Exhibit Days
The 2011 Oktibbeha County Exhibit Days is just around the corner. Booklets will be ready to pick up in August. We will check exhibits in on Monday, September 19, 2011 at our office. NEW LOCATION. More information will be coming in next month’s newsletter.
2011 4-H Shooting Sports Volunteer Training
Holmes Community College in Grenada, MS will be the meeting site for the next 4-H Shooting Sports Volunteer Leader Training Workshop to be held August 27-28. Discipline training will take place inside the Holmes Community College Campus with all outdoor activities being held at a local range. We are encouraged to send one or more volunteers to this training workshop.
Participants must be at least 21 years of age in order to become a certified volunteer. Each county may bring one or more agents or
volunteers in each of the six disciplines that will be offered; however, at this training session each person can complete certification in only one of the following disciplines*: Pistol, Rifle, Muzzleloader, Archery, Shotgun, and Coordinator.
The registration cost is $75.00 per person. This will cover the cost of Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner, and breakfast Sunday morning with snacks at break times on both days. This fee also covers workshop materials, training equipment, and ammunition. REGISTRATION WILL BE FROM JULY 19TH TO AUGUST 19TH.
Please email your name, address, date of birth and preferred discipline to latrells@ext.msstate.edu. Also include an alternate discipline in the advent that the primary does not make. Participants that sign up for a discipline that does not make will be notified that they have been moved to their alternate discipline. County will pay registration fee. THIS IS THE ONLY TRAINING THEY WILL BE OFFERING!!!!
Southern Region 4-H Volunteer Leader Forum
Southern Region Volunteer Forum will be held October 5-9, 2011 at C. A Vines Arkansas 4-H Center in Ferndale, Arkansas. Registration forms and fees are due in the County office by July 20, 2011. Cost is $350.00 per volunteer.
To help you take advantage of this opportunity, the Mississippi 4-H Foundation will provide a travel scholarship to procure a 46-passenger bus. First come first serve. The theme for the conference this year is “4-H It’s a Natural.”
4-H volunteers can submit entries for the Golf Shirt Design Contest that will go on the Mississippi delegate golf shirt. The Mississippi 4-H Volunteer Leaders Association will provide a $125.00 scholarship to the delegate who enters the winning design. 4-H will pay for some of the cost of this training depending on the number wishing to attend.
LIVESTOCK NEWS
If you plan on showing livestock in 4-H this year, remember the ownership deadline is September 1, 2011. ETHICS - The Mississippi State Fair will be here soon and ethics training for NEW exhibitors, parents or guardians, and volunteers must be completed by September 1, 2011. ALSO if you were a junior 4-H’er last year and now are a senior (14 and older – 4H age) you will need to be recertified. Call our office to schedule this.
CONGRATULATIONS CORNER
Anna, Maggie, Abby, Millie, Amble, Myra, and Levi Thompson; Lillee and Logan Alpe; Doug and Taylor Teague, Noel Teaster, Joy Nabors; Rachel and Hayden Moore; Colby and Cali Freely; Taylor Dunn; Taite Henson; Jadee Sexton, and Lila Carter.
We had the following high point winners:
· Senior High Point – Rachel Moore
· Senior High Point Horse – Rachel Moore
· High Point JR Horse – Millie Thompson
· 2nd High Point JR Horse – Amble Thompson
· High Point Western – Rachel Moore
· 2nd High Point Hunter – Rachel Moore
· High Point Pony – Millie Thompson
· High Point County - Oktibbeha
Volunteers sold t-shirts that were designed by the youth. We also held a Silent Auction. Special thanks to my office staff and volunteers and youth who helped before, during and after the show. The 2011 NE District Horse Show was a success.
State Horse Show
Anna, Maggie, Abby, Millie, Amble, Myra, and Levi Thompson; Lillee and Logan Alpe; Rachel and Hayden Moore; Colby and Cali Freely; and Taite Henson;
Regional Horse Show Qualifier
Rachel Moore (Speed classes)
If we left anyone out of our announcements it was not intentional, let us know and we will put you in the next newsletter!
Other workshops this summer: Be on the lookout for a 4-H Fun Day and 4-H Science Day, August 2011
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!!!!
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. – Peter T. McIntyre
LaTrell Stokes
Oktibbeha County 4-H Youth Agent
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