March 2015 - Utah State University Extension

MARCH 2015
March 2015
State 4-H Leadermete
UTAH 4-H LEADERMETE
Date: April 9-11, 2015
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Who: Your mission, should you choose to
accept, is to join us in Salt Lake City.
Leadermete is a three day educational
4-H conference for high school aged
youth, adult leaders and volunteers,
though anyone is welcome to attend.
2015 Leadermete offers opportunities
to develop new ideas and skills to work
more effectively with youth. Classes have
been designed to help you in your respective areas with tried and true ideas that
have worked for generations as well as
new opportunities for learning.
Registration
Regular
$70.00 by March 26, 2015
Single day registration is also available.
After March 26, registrations will be accepted at the door.
Scholarships: The Juab County 4-H
office will provide up to $25.00 towards
registration for the first ten volunteers
that sign up to attend this year’s
Leadermete. Come to the Extension
office for a complete packet of all the
workshops offered, or go to
www.utah4h.org to access the workshop
packet and to register.
Workshops include: Identity Theft-Is
your child at risk? , Beach Towel Bags,
Ace the 4-H Horse Test, Feeding Additives for Market Beef Projects, 4-H Junior Master Gardeners, Duct Tape Mania, Introductory Web Design/Blogging,
Serging Beyond the Basics, Chocolate
Alchemy, Cooking When the Lights Go
Out, Present Yourself as a Winner, Thai
Chef, and Easy Peasy Knit Cap.
With over 100 workshops to choose
from and places to visit there will be
something for everyone. Special performance by Comedy Sportz Utah at the
Awards Program. Come learn, have
fun, and enjoy Salt Lake County sites
and hospitality.
Robotics
FLL Robotics Team inspires young open until March 25. Contact the
people to be science and technology
Extension office for info.
leaders by engaging them in an exciting mentor-based program that builds
communication, engineering, and
technology skills. Team members will
practice thru the year and compete in
January. Team registrations are
Extension Office
Calendar Events
Mar. 17— Better Breakfasts
Mar. 18—Pruning Class
March 18 — VITA Tax
Preparation
Mar. 19 — Steer Weigh-in
March 24— VITA Tax
Preparation
Mar. 25— Compost and
Raised Bed Class
March 31—VITA Tax
Preparation
April 6-16—Disaster Open
House
April 9-11—State 4-H
Leadermete
April 14—FS Wontons
April 22—Love & Logic
April 29—Love & Logic
May 6—Container Pots/
Hanging Baskets class
May 6—Love & Logic
May 14 — Hog Tagging
Jun. 3— Lamb Tagging
Inside this
Issue:
Livestock
Information
2
Leadership Summit
2
Jr. Fair Board
Members
2
Upcoming
Extension Classes
3
Sewing Lab
3
4-H Family Life
Council
4
Junior Youth
Conference
4
Teen Council Corner
4
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Livestock Information
To be eligible for the Junior
Livestock Show and Auction,
all exhibitors must be
enrolled at the Extension
office before the individual
species tagging date.
Steer Weigh-in
Thursday, March 19, will be
the county fair steer weigh-in
date. Steers will be weighed at
the fairgrounds from 4:30-6:00
pm. All steers must be tagged
before coming to the weigh-in.
Tags are available at the office.
will take place at David Jones’
residence, 145 East 100 South,
Mona, from 6:00-6:30 pm and at
the Nephi fairgrounds from 7:308:00 pm.
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State Livestock Shows
The shows with livestock auctions include the shows held at
Spanish Fork, Delta, Ferron, and
Salt Lake City. Any market lamb
or hog must be tagged at least 60
days and market steers at least
100 days before the opening day of
the show you want to enter. Stop
by the Extension office for a copy
of the show schedule/rules.
The traditional steer carcass
contest results program held
after the fair will be eliminated. The top 5 carcass
winners will be announced
at the first of the county fair
auction.
Individual steer photos will
no longer be taken at the
fair. Only group shots will
be taken. Individual steer
photos will still be taken at
weigh-in.
All market livestock exhibitors will be required to attend one of the county sponsored workshops or activities. A number of these will
be offered.
Youth Leadership Summit
Presented by 4-H State Officers, this is a wonderful opportunity for youth to be exposed to
information on Leadership, SciHog Tagging
ence, Citizenship, and Healthy
Thursday, May 14, will be
Living. Registration is only $10
the date for the county fair hog
Fair
Livestock
2015
Changes
(lunch is included) and open to
tagging program. We will be
At a recent junior livestock auc- all 9th-12th graders and adult
tagging them from 5:00-6:00 pm.
tion
meeting, a few changes were volunteers. The Conference will
at the fairgrounds. If you are
made
to continue to improve the
be held on May 16, 2015 from
unable to attend that evening,
county fair junior livestock pro10 am to 3 pm, at the Sevier
you will need to make arrangegram.
These
changes
include:
County Fairgrounds. For more
ments to have someone take
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Each
family
can
tag
two
aniinformation, contact the Extenyour hogs to the tagging.
mals per species for each mem- sion office.
ber. The tagged animals can
be exhibited by any member of
New to Juab County!!
the immediate family. At the
weigh-in members will be
Junior Fair Board
asked what animals they want
Members
in their name. With this opAs a teen volunteer, attend
tion, family members can
fair board meetings, and
switch the animals around for
Lamb Weigh-in
bring your ideas, energy,
the fair.
On Wednesday, June 3, we
and service to our great fair!
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The top weight for the steers
will weigh and tag all lambs
For applications go to:
has been raised from 1350 to
that will be exhibited in the
juabcountyfair.com
1400 pounds.
market classes at the fair. This
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Upcoming Extension Classes
UPCOMING FOOD $ENSE
CLASSES
Better, Healthier Breakfasts
March 17, 7-8 pm
Extension office
Whether you like to sit down
to breakfast or need to grab
something on the run, these
easy breakfast recipes will get
you started off on the right foot.
Come learn how to create a
healthy breakfast that’s sure to
satisfy.
Wonton Wrappers
April 14, 7-8 pm
Extension office
Versatile wonton wrappers
are an inexpensive item to keep
in your kitchen. What can you
do with a wonton wrapper?
Come learn to make the wrappers from scratch with simple
step by step instructions. Take
home some fun recipes that use
wonton wrappers in delicious,
clever ways!
PREPAREDNESS
Great Utah Shake Out
At 10:15 am on April 16, thousands of Utahans will DROP!
COVER! and HOLD ON!
in the largest earthquake drill
in Utah history! We encourage
all Juab County residents to
register at shakeout.org/Utah
and participate in this important event to help individu-
als and families be prepared for
an earthquake emergency. A
variety of activities and informational video clips to utilize
are also on the website.
 Register now even if you
need to hold your drill at
another time or day.
 Pass the word on to your
family, friends, fellow
4-Hers, and neighbors to
register.
 Go to beready.utah.gov for
more information on disaster and emergency preparedness.
4-Hers, Don’t Worry—Be
Prepared!!
Attend Extension’s Disaster
/Preparedness Open House.
April 6-16, 7 am –noon, 1-6 pm
Extension office
Extension is helping 4-Hers
and families BE PREPARED!
Come check out our resource
display which includes information on sheltering in place,
food storage, water storage, 72
hour kits, and more!
GARDEN CLASSES
The Fruits of Your Labor
March 18, 5 pm
340 N 900 E, Nephi
Learn to prune, train, and manage fruit trees to encourage bigger and better fruit with Jody
Gale, USU Extension Agent.
Composting & Raised Beds
March 25, 7 pm
Juab Co. Center Cultural Hall.
Taun Beddes, USU Extension Horticulturist will present
why, what, and how to compost.
The benefits of gardening with
raised beds will also be discussed.
Container Pots/Hanging
Baskets
May 6, 6 pm
Kings Nursery, 250 S. Main,
Nephi
Learn how to design and assemble beautiful flower pots.
Community Garden
For Juab County residents
who love to garden, but don’t
have ground for one— the
Juab County Community
Garden will provide the opportunity for residents to enjoy the
benefits of gardening. Get more
information or reserve your plot
at the Extension office.
4-H SEWING LAB
Thanks to a grant from Utah
State University, Juab County
Extension has a mini sewing
lab consisting of 8 Bernina
sewing machines, a Bernina
serger, and sewing tools. This
is an opportunity for Juab
County residents, adults, and
youth, to learn useful sewing
life skills without having to
travel.
The lab is available for reservation at the Extension office.
This allows local 4-H sewing
clubs to come to the Extension
office and work on projects all
together, with each 4-Her having a machine to use. Plan a
project, and call the Extension
office to reserve your sewing
project date!
4-H Family Life Council
4-H Family Life Council Volunteers Needed!
Are you a parent, adult, or 4-H member interested in Family Life and Consumer issues? If you
are, WE NEED YOU! The 4-H Family Life Council will identify and plan 4-H activities, day camps,
and programs for the youth of Juab County.
If you are interested in becoming involved, and
could volunteer to contribute a minimal amount of
time to this council, please call us at 623-3450 and
we will give you more information.
Junior Youth Conference
JYC will be held June 8-11, 2015. Registration
opens April 1. Every summer in Ephraim, on the
Snow college campus, 4-H presents its camp for
those youth who have just completed 5th and 6th
grade.
While at the conference, all youth get the opportunity to go through many workshops that teach
them about teamwork, trust, friendship, and many
other life skills. Teen Leaders manage each group
in order to keep the youth always busy with
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NEPHI, UT 84648
Check us out on the web:
http://extension.usu.edu/juab
games, activities, or a project of some kind, including “Snow Follies” a huge water fight that everyone gets involved in. A limited number of partial
scholarships will be available.
Teen Council Corner
"A leader leads by example whether they intend
to or not." Unknown. Southwest Ambassador Region retreat at the Rockn' R Ranch was a great
success. Juab has some amazing leaders in the
making.
Upcoming Events:
 March 13-Jr. Council activity 5-7 at Ext. office
 March 28-Sr. Council activity 7-8:30 at Ext.
office
 April 18-Jr. Council activity, 5-7 at Ext. office
 April 21-Family Community Night Out
"Relationships for Dummies"
 TBD May-Hang Time Activity
 June 9, 10-Summer in the Park
 June 15-17-”i4-H”camp for exiting 7th and 8th
graders
It's time to start thinking about County and
State Contests. Amy and Susan have details.