Happy February! When we think of February, we think of snow (sometimes), love, Na-

tional Heart Awareness Month, African-American History Month, and several other

awareness efforts. Did you know February is also Earthquake Awareness Month, Na-

tional Wedding Month, Gum Disease Awareness Month, Children’s Dental Health

Month, and Library Lovers’ Month, to name a few? We can do our part to share a piece

of information in areas that interests us personally.

Many programs were cancelled in January due to snow. FCS Extension cancels programs

at the Extension Office or in the community for the safety of participants. If we can re-

schedule programs, we will do that. Hopefully you can join us for the upcoming programs

in February. We have Cooking Around the World, Embracing Aging, Vision Board

Workshop, Keys to Great Parenting, and our Leader Lesson on the Ins and Outs of

Downsizing Your Home.

Also, FCS Extension is partnering with the local school system to have a Valentine’s Day

Workshop at Crossroads Elementary School. Ask your parents if you can attend. The

Halloween Bash at Owingsville Elementary was a great time and this one should be equal-

ly as fun!

Jr. Homemakers

Family and Consumer Sciences Extension News!

Inside this issue:

KEHA News 2-3

DIY/KP Recipe 4

Russian Village De-

clares Rare “Snow Day

5

Youth Health Bulletin 6-7

Activity Sheets 8-9

Valentine’s Day Bash 10

Valentine's Day Histo- 11

Bath County Cooperative Extension

Special points of inter-

est:

2/20—10 am: Leader

Lesson: the Ins and Outs

of Downsizing Your

Home

2/26—5:30 pm: Exten-

sion Homemaker Coun-

cil Meeting

A Message From Your President! Hi All! I hope you all are adjusting to the new year! For me, I am assisting in the care of

my oldest son. If you haven’t heard, my son was in a serious accident right before New

Years and he has been in the hospital ever since. He has a long recovery ahead of him

and I that you keep him in your thoughts.

With that being said, Emily Tubbs is our Vice President and will be acting as President

in my absence. She is a wonderful young lady and I am confident she will handle this

task successfully. Please extend your encouragement and support with her as well.

Also, there will be a special council meeting scheduled for February 26. I know this is

not the regular date or time, but is only available date. There are important matters to

discuss and I hope you will join Emily on that date.

Thanks for your support and understanding during this time in my family’s lives.

God Bless! Lois Ginn

Nicole Gwishiri Bath CEA for Family and Consumer Sciences Education

Ever wonder what a vision

board is? Or how to create one to

achieve your goals? Join us at the

Bath County Extension Office as

we create this powerful tool to

achieve personal, financial, health,

and relational goals! You bring

magazines, pictures, scissors and

we’ll provide the food, fellowship,

and all other materials!

When: February 12

Where: Bath County Ag Center

Time: 5:30 pm

Call the Extension Office to sign

up

KEHA News!

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Happy birthday to all of

you who have birthdays

in the month of Decem-

ber and January!

Cynthia Barber

Charlene Brearey

Heather Chattos

Samantha Collins

Gabie Cox

Wanda Cox

Mary Crouch

Claudette Faudere

Gekita Fawns

Natalie Gwishiri

Velma Gwishiri

Margaret Harmon

Jerri Highley

Faye Johnson

Pat Skaggs

Martha Whittington

Please send in your birth-

day so that you may be

recognized!

Ever want to travel the world just to

taste the wonderful food? Want to do

something different? Join us for our new

program! The third country is an Asian

country—Bali, Indonesia! We will ex-

plore their culture, habits, prepare the

food they eat.

When: February 6

Where: Bath County

Ag Center

Time: 10 & 5:30 pm

Call the office to re-

serve your spot!

The 11th session of Keys To Em-

bracing Aging is on learning more

about sleep. These sessions are

open to all ages, have been so much

fun, and we learn a lot.

When: February

7

Where: Bath

County Library

Time: 10 am

Bring a friend or share with some-

one think may be interested!

Join us for this program that focuses on giving parents

essential skills that will be beneficial for all parents to

advance their child-rearing skills. Parents will get tips on

taking care of themselves, childhood milestones, read-

ing to their child, and activities to do with their children

at any age.

When: February 20 Where: Owingsville Elementary School Time: 5:30 pm (dinner) - Program starts at 6 There will be childcare services available! Parents at-

tending sessions will get a chance to win gas cards,

iPads, and more! Free program!

Downsizing a home is an increasingly popular trend among homeowners. Downsizing to a smaller home offers homeowners a number of advantages, including less maintenance and significant savings on utlities , taxes, and insurance. It’s also appealing as it allows for the realization of retirement goals, a simplified life-style and to live closer to family. Join us as we learn the simple steps to downsizing your home! When: February 20 Where: Bath County Ag Center Time: 10 am Bring a friend!

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February 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Bethel Nite (6p) Bethel Church Pesticide Training (6p) Ex. Off.

2 Sharpsburg Country (10:30a) Sharpsburg Church

3

4 5 County Ex-tension Council (6p) Ex. Off.

6 Cooking Around the World (10a & 5:30p) Ex. Off.

7 Scrapbook Club (10a) Ex. Off. Embracing Aging (10a) Bath Co. Li-brary

8 Salt Lick (12p) Valentine’s Day Work-shop (4p) Crossroads Elementary

9 10

11 12 Sewing Day (9a) Ex. Off. Vision Board Workshop (5:30p) Ex. Off.

13 Slate Valley (5:30p) Sher-rie’s Pizza Country @ Heart (6p) Blue Isle

14 Harpers & White Oak (10:30a) Ex. Off.

15 Jr. Home-makers (5p) Ex. Off. Master Hay-maker (5:30p) Ex. Off.

16 17

18 19 Hill-N-Dale (6p) Los Ro-deos Town & Country

20 Downsizing Your Home(10a) Ex. Off.

Keys to Great Parenting (5:30p) Ow-ingsville Ele-mentary

21 22 23 24

25 26 Homemaker Council (5:30p) Ex.

27 Cattlemen (6:30p) Ex. Off.

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Check It Out: Valentine’s Day Succulent Planters

Try It Out! Kentucky Proud Recipe

Supplies

Mini metal buckets in pink and white

White fish tank gravel

Pink spray paint

Wood kitchen skew-ers

Assorted cacti and succulents

Valentine plant tags

Rubber Cement

Nail and hammer

Succulent soil Directions 1. Punch a few holes

in the bottom of your buckets with a nail and hammer.

(Succulents need well drained soil.) Add soil.

2. Plant your cacti and succulents in the buckets. To avoid getting hurt on the cacti, use a few lay-ers of butcher pa-per.

3. Spread out a thin layer of gravel and spray paint it. When dry, layer it over the exposed soil. Do not water for at least a week.

4. Add Valentine’s Day tags onto skew-ers and decorate succulents.

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By Meera Dolasla from DOGOnews

If you live on the US East Coast, you have probably already enjoyed several “snow days” due to this year’s extreme win-

ter weather. Unfortunately, children in the remote Oymyakon village in Siberia, Russia are not as lucky. They do after all

reside in the “coldest inhabited place on Earth,” where the town's sole school closes only when temperatures drop below

-61.6 degrees Fahrenheit (-52 degrees Celsius).

However, on Tuesday, January 16, near record-low temperatures forced lawmakers of the rural community of 500

residents to announce a rare “snow day.” While the official declared temperature was -74.2 degrees F (-59 degrees C),

Oymyakon’s recently installed digital thermometer recorded an even chillier -79.6 degrees F (-62 degrees C) – so cold

that the thermometer broke promptly after

registering the temperature. Reports from

residents indicated an even lower -88 de-

grees F (-66.7 degrees C), just a hair’s

breadth away from the record-breaking -89.9

degrees F (-67.7 degrees C) experienced in

February 1933.

While Oymyakon holds the record for the

world’s coldest permanently inhabited settle-

ment, it is not the coldest place on Earth. That

title belongs to Antarctica, which, based on

NASA’s satellite data, dipped to -138.46 de-

grees F (-94.7 degrees C) in 2013!

Though just reading about these ex-

treme temperatures is enough to send most of us scampering for warmth, the area’s residents take it in stride. In the

nearby city of Yatusk, which recorded a slightly “balmier” -58 degrees F (-50 degrees C), 24-year-old Anastasia Gruzde-

va declared the weather, which froze her eyebrows and eyelashes, to be “kind of hot.” However, even the locals seemed

to be in awe of a group of Chinese tourists frolicking in the ice-free waters of the local thermal spring.

Though the recent weather was severe even for the “northern pole of the cold,” Oymyakon experiences below

freezing temperatures almost eight months of the year — from late September to mid-May. If that is not bad enough,

during the peak winter months of December, January, and February, the area is often shrouded in darkness for 21 hours

a day! However, the hardy souls that live in Oymyakon and the surrounding areas do not seem to mind. They are so ac-

customed to the cold that even their winter diet, which comprises fish, reindeer meat, and horse liver, is often

consumed frozen! Brrr!

Russian Village Declares Rare “Snow Day” After Temperatures Dip to –88 Degrees Fahrenheit!

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Every February we celebrate Valentine's Day by giving flowers, candy and cards to those we love. We

do this in honor of St. Valentine. You may be wondering, "Who is St. Valentine"? Time to brush up on

your Valentine's history!

There are different ideas as to where or how the celebration of Valentine's Day began. The Roman's

celebrated a festival called Lupercalia on February 15. This festival was held to ward off the danger of

wolves to their flocks and honored their God Lupercalia. Some people think that Valentine's Day is

based on this festival.

Another legend is that St. Valentine was a priest who served during third century Rome. During that time, there was an Em-

peror who ruled Rome named Claudius II. Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those that

were married and outlawed marriage for all young men serving in his army. Supposedly, Valentine, decided this decree just

wasn't fair and chose to marry young couples secretly. When Emperor Claudius II found out about Valentine's actions he had

him impisoned, and later put to death. Some stories say that the young couples, who Valentine had married, gave flowers

and letters to Valentine when they visited him in the prison.

In a slightly different version of the legend, Valentine was an imprisoned man who fell in love with his jailor's daughter. Before

he was put to death he sent the first 'valentine' to his love when he wrote her a letter and signed it 'Your Valentine'. These

words are still used on cards today.

Perhaps we'll never know the true identity and story behind the man named St. Valentine, but this much is for sure...February

has been the month to celebrate love for a long time, dating way back to the Middle Ages. In fact, Valentine's Day ranks sec-

ond only to Christmas in number of greeting cards sent.

Another famous person from Valentine's Day that you may be wondering about is Cupid (Latin cupido, "desire"). In Roman

mythology Cupid is the son of Venus, goddess of love. His counterpart in Greek mythology is Eros, god of love. Cupid is of-

ten said to be a mischievous boy who goes around wounding both gods and humans with his arrows, causing them to fall in

love.

Valentine’s Day History

Lois Ginn, our County Extension Homemaker President, is in need of positive vibes! Her son was in-

volved in a car accident a few weeks ago and has a long road of recovery in front of him. Please keep her

family in your thoughts and prayers, if you choose.

If there is anything we can do for you at the Extension Office, please feel free to let us know! We know

many of you are surviving the past few weeks of snow and ice. If you are interested in getting out, please

join us for any of the several programs we have going on!

I look forward to seeing you all in the near future! Have a great February and I challenge you to do

something different than you’re used to this month. Take extra time to enjoy family, create new tradi-

tions, try a new food, or play a new game.

Sincerely,

Nicole Gwishiri Bath County Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences Education

Phone: 606-674-6121 Fax: 606-674-6687 Email: mcgw222@uky.edu

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