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P.O. Box 107

1201 E. Columbia

Okemah, OK 74859

Phone: 918-623-0641

Fax: 918-623-0103

Website:

oces.okstate.edu/Okfuskee

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Okfuskee County 4-H

Garden Day Camp When: July 25-26 Time: 10:00 am– 3:00 pm Where: Okfuskee County Fair Building Registration Due: July 15 to the County Extension Office Are you interested in Gardening?

Garden Camp is an excellent chance to learn about real world ideas at an early age,

and have fun at the same time! Campers will learn about soil, plants, pests, nutrition

and so much more. Each day at camp is filled with classes and projects. Each camper

will work on a container garden one day and a terrarium the next day. Each camper

will be able to enter each of these projects into the county fair in September.

This year at camp we will be learning about: plant parts/functions, flower parts/ dissec-

tion.

IMPORTANT: Please make sure to send a sack lunch with your child both days?

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Photography Workshop When: July 22, 2016 Time : 10:00 am– 3:00pm Where : Okfuskee County Fair Building Cost: $10 Registration Due: July 15 to the County Extension Office. Do you like to take photos? Are you interested in photography ? Okfuskee County 4-H is having a one day workshop for all 4-H members. We will learn how to use a camera, how to choose the right setting on a camera, and we will go over what makes a good picture . We will also go out and take pictures. 4-H members will be able to pick from the pictures they have taken that they want en-tered in the fair in September. The cost of camp will help pay to get the picture printed and to buy the foam board. If you have a digital camera that you would like to bring you are more than welcome to, but you don’t have to bring one. We do have two cameras here in the office that the kids will be able to use. PLEASE REMEMBER: To bring a sack lunch the day of the workshop.

July/August 2016

Okfuskee County 4-H

You can find both of these registration forms on the county website and on the Facebook

Reminders Junior Roundup

July 8

County Interviews

July 11

Big Three Field Days

July 19-21

Photography Work-shop

Reg. Due: July 15

Workshop: July 22

Garden Day Camp

Reg. Due July 15

Day Camp: 25-26

State 4-H Roundup

July 27-29

Teen Leader/POV Meeting

August 1

Achievement Banquet

August 6

County Fair Dates: September: 8-12

Attention 4-H members county fair will be here before you know it. Its time to start thinking about what projects you want to bring to the fair.

Fair Books are now available at the OSU Extension Office.

4-H Camp This year at 4-H camp we started a new camp tradition , we part-nered up with Lincoln County, and went to Wentz Camp in Ponca City. This years theme was Piecing Our Future Together. We had a great turn out, having 87 kids all together. This year our workshops focused more on things that could be entered in to the fair. Kids made bottle cap flowers, Painted and picture using recycled paper towel rolls, they made candles, drink coaster made from tile, puzzle piece picture frames or any kind of craft, little storage containers made out of water bottle caps, and had a leadership work-shop to learn new team building tech-niques.

Next years camp dates are:

June 27-30, 2017

Shooting Sports Practice

Archery Practice:

July 10th @ 2:30 p.m.

August 7th @ 2:30 p.m.

Shotgun Practice:

July 16th @ 7 p.m.

August 6th @ 7 p.m.

If you have any questions about practice you can call the Extension Office or Club Leaders Matt and Melanie Young.

“ If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more , you are a leader “ - John Quincy Adams

Tulsa State Fair: September 29th– October 9th

Livestock entries and payment must be submit-ted online by midnight September 1st.Online entries open on August 1st.

Don’t forget if you are showing poultry, rabbits, and other non-nominated animals will have to be entered online as well.

Horse Show Entries:

All entries and payment must be submitted online by midnight, September 1st. Online en-tries open August 1st.

Please contact the office if you have any ques-tions.

You can find more information with rules and guidelines at the link below.

http://www.tulsastatefair.com/index

Tulsa State Fair

The Oklahoma City State Fair is September 15-25

Online Registration is now open

Livestock Entries are due no later than August 15, 2016.

Livestock Judging Contest September 15, 2016

Entry fee: $5.00 for individuals and $20.00 for a team.

Horse Events: Online registration is now open for all horse events.

Before entering in any horse event I would make sure to read over all guidelines for any horse events.

If you are interested in barrel racing the Oklaho-ma State Fair will be have an Advanced Horse-manship Clinic for Barrel Racers with Phil Haugen.

By going to the website listed below you will be able to find additional information on any event, with rules and guidelines.

http://www.okstatefair.com/content/livestock-competitions

OKC State Fair

America is facing a leadership crisis. Many young people today aren’t being given the opportunity to learn the tenacity, strategic-thinking and people skills that they’ll need to lead – now and in the fu-ture.

For me, leadership started at home as a big sister. As the oldest of four kids, I took on a lot of responsi-bility early on in my life. My dad worked two jobs and my mom was my first mentor, and she saw the unique potential in me and each of my siblings and helped us cultivate it. Caring adults like my mom and others stepped up and gave me the opportuni-ties I needed to grow essential life skills.

But recent research conducted by 4-H suggests that today’s youth aren’t getting the leadership opportu-nities they want and need. In the 2016 4-H National Youth Survey on Leadership, two-thirds of respond-ents said they don’t have the tangible skills they needed to lead. Half of high school students said they don’t feel prepared to lead in college or a fu-ture career.

That’s a discouraging statistic. But even more dis-couraging is that, as adults, we’re not stepping up to help young people get the leadership opportunities they need. When our survey asked youth why they hadn’t taken opportunities to learn leadership skills, the number one reason they gave was that no one had asked them.

4-H wants to change that. This spring, we’ve launched our Grow True Leaders Campaign to high-light the experiences offered to young people that

grow leadership skills. Through self-chosen projects, kids will be paired with mentors and given opportu-nities to lead. These projects will bring out their po-tential, their passions and their drive to help others, as we empower them to become true leaders.

In 4-H, we believe that every child has the potential to be a leader, and in order to fulfill that potential they need caring adult mentors, chances to develop practical skills, and opportunities to take on leader-ship roles. As America’s largest youth development organization, we know this approach works and our results are second to none.

If we’re going to fill the coming leadership void, adults must play a larger role in encouraging kids and offering them the hands-on experiences that will help them build confidence and grow skills.

4-H’s Grow True Leaders Campaign highlights those experiences. We’re asking young people to tell us which problems facing the world need stronger leaders, or which problems they themselves would like to lead the way in solving. Then they’ll have the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to these problems.

We’re also asking adults to champion the positive work that today’s youth are doing by recognizing young leaders in their own communities through a Shout Out and by helping us provide more opportu-nities for youth to gain the skills they need to lead.

We’re supporting our youth, and we’re asking adults across the country to do the same. Let’s rally the nation to grow a generation of true leaders.

4-H Is Growing True Leaders By: JENNIFER SIRANGELO

On Tuesday June 21st we had a great day full of workshops and fun. We had a good turn out of 4-Hers come to 4-H Fun Day. Some workshops offered during the event. Cookie Decorating, Leather Bracelets, 3D Drawings, Kinet-

ic Energy, Planting flowers, Origami, and Yoga for Kids. After lunch we went to the Okemah swimming pool a fun activity to end the day.

We hope to see you next year, 4-H Fun Day is open to all 4-H members.

4-H Fun Day

You can find more articles like this one at : http://4-h.org/about/blog/#!pledge_to_youth

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Since I am publishing a 4-H newsletter, feel

free to contact me with any articles or infor-

mation about your county 4-H club. Also

contact our office with anyone you would

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newsletter.

Sincerely,

Amanda Tresslar

Ext. Educator, 4-H/Youth Development

atressl@okstate.edu

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