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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 05 - Issue 31 IN THIS ISSUE Agents Selected To Attend National 4-H Congress UPCOMING EVENTS August 15
August 15
August 15
August 22-27
September 9-18
September 9-18
September 15
September 19
September 23-October 2
September 24
October 1-2
October 2-8
October 6-9
October 15
October 15
October 17
October 30-November 3
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas05 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas05/05-index.htm AGENTS SELECTED TO ATTEND NATIONAL 4-H CONGRESS 4-H agents have been selected by their regional staff to attend the 2005 National 4-H Congress in Atlanta. They are Tonya Bain, Crockett County and Wayne Key, Putnam County; Tonya and Wayne will join Eastern Region program leader, Linda Bower; Extension specialist, Janie Burney; Hamblen County volunteer leader, Donna Morris; Assistant Director and State 4-H Leader, Alice Ann Moore; and state 4-H staff members Steve Sutton, Patrick Hamilton and Amy Wrye as chaperons for Tennessee’s 33 delegates attending the event. Steve Sutton The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards honor young people in grades 5-12 for their exemplary community service. Awards range from local to national, with prizes ranging from a certificate to $5,000. Deadline: October 7, 2005. For more information visit www.prudential.com/spirit. Patrick Hamilton NATIONAL 4-H WEEK MARKETING AND MEDIA RESOURCES KIT NOW AVAILABLE National 4-H Week is Sunday, October 2 through Saturday, October 8, 2005. National 4-H Week welcomes you to connect with the 4-H community where young people across America are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. This year's theme is Make the 4-H Connection. How can you promote events going on in your community? What do you need to get it all done in time? Where can you hold an event? The National 4-H Week 2005 Kit contains a wide variety of media relations and marketing communications collateral to help you successfully promote National 4-H Week 2005 events and activities in your community. To check out the kit, visit http://4hmediaresources.4husa.org/4hweek_kit.htm. The kit contains the following materials: activity guides, bookmarks, brochure, certificates, fact sheets, folder labels, interview information, letterhead, logos, name badges, news release template, newspaper ads, placemats, posters, proclamations, radio PSAs, table tents and many tips, resources and how-to guides. Many of the materials are available in a version that you can easily save and open in Microsoft Word, customize with your community and contact information and print on color printers. All files are in .jpeg (graphics), Adobe .pdf and Microsoft Word. There is a link on the site to help you download the Adobe Reader software. We hope you find these materials helpful and look forward to promoting National 4-H Week across the 4-H community. Once you have used the site, please take a moment to fill out our survey so we can make National 4-H Week 2006 even better! If you have any questions, please contact the state 4-H office at 865-974-7434 or Allyson McMahan via email at amcmahan@fourhcouncil.edu or by phone at 301-961-2915. Alice Ann Moore SRLF REGISTRATION DEADLINE APPROACHES Don’t pass up an amazing opportunity for you and your volunteers! The 2005 Southern Region Leader Forum will be held October 6-9 at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center in Eatonton, GA. The registration for this year’s forum is $190 per delegate.
Please visit the Tennessee Please note that ALL registration materials are due back to the state 4-H office by 5:00 p.m. August 15, 2005. Registrations received after August 15 will be charged a $10.00 late fee. Registration cancelled after September 1 will not be refunded except in extreme circumstances. More information about the forum, including photos of past forums, can be found at www.4hsrlf.org. Patrick Hamilton SARAH MCDONALD EXHIBITS CHAMPION FLEECE Smith County 4-H member Sarah McDonald entered the winning fleece at the 2nd Tennessee Junior Fleece Show. Sarah was awarded an embroidered director’s chair provided by Jane and Kim Caulfield, Cotswold and Romney breeders. The fleece show was conducted during the 2005 Tennessee Junior Sheep Exposition in Cookeville. Emily Hatmaker, Meigs County 4-H member, exhibited the reserve champion fleece. The fleece show was conducted and prize money provided by the Tennessee Sheep Producers Association through the Wool Outreach Program of the American Sheep Industry. The purposes were to showcase outstanding youth, to increase awareness of the importance of wool, to encourage producers to shear and package wool properly, and to help producers recognize the desirable characteristics of a wool fleece. There were forty-seven entries in the show. Judge for the show was Brant Hall, former 4-H member from Trousdale County and currently a student at Texas A&M University where he was a member of their national champion wool judging team. The top winners in each breed class were as follows:
Ben Powell TWO SELECTED TO REPRESENT TENNESSEE ON N4-HYDC Congratulations to Meredith McBride, Dyer County 4-H member, who will serve as Tennessee's youth representative on the National 4-H Youth Directions Council. Meredith will serve with Amy Wrye, Extension specialist in the state 4-H office, who will be Tennessee’s adult representative. Congratulations to you both! N4-HYDC is the national youth leadership team for 4-H and offers a unique opportunity for youth and adult members to further skills as leaders in the 4-H program at a variety of levels. As official members of N4-HYDC, they will participate in training alongside others from across the nation. Upon their return, they will be prepared to engage other youth and adults from the state in more fully supporting Tennessee 4-H Youth Development. We look forward to great things from Meredith and Amy's participation in this exciting adventure! Patrick Hamilton THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the
more I have of it.
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