2010 Achievement Days!

Green Gazette

Summer 2010

Judges 2,3

State Fair results 4

Club Reports 5

Update from Colleen 6

Sweet Lesson 7

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Special points of interest:

October 3—Awards’ Night

5:00 pm—potluck—dessert will be provided Program to follow— Re-enrollment forms will be completed that night— Parents and leaders will be assisting.

Awards’ Night Commit-tee—Starlights Club Theme—”Taking the Lead”

October 3-9—National 4-H Week

Richland County

4-H

Danielle Lentz in Beef Showmanship!

Heidi Eberhardt, Samantha Goerger and Cassie Podliska getting ready for judging!

Anne Manstrom and Emily Lothspeich waiting to be judged.

Judges Encouraging 4-H’ers

GREEN GAZETTE Page 2

Karen Platt—Teen Foods

Deb Sagvold—Photography

Wayne Hankel—Engineering

Tami Metzen— Clothing/Child Development

Dale Siebert—Horticulture

Gale Link— Home Environment

SUMMER 2010 Page 3

Elaine Hankel—Needle Arts

Julie Hassebroek—Crop Produc-tion/Outdoor Skills/Pets

MaryAnn Kostuck—Arts

Rose Dotzenrod—Cloverbuds & Treasures of 4-H

Brooke Jameson—Livestock

Joan Zettel—Rabbits and Poultry

Kristine Kainz— Pre-teen Foods

SUMMER 2010

2010 State Fair Champions

Page 4

Richland County Champions:

Abby Braaten, Reserve Champion—Pets

Alexa Jelinek, Reserve Champion— Child Development

Catherine Manstrom, Reserve Champion—Citizenship

Charlie Wynn, Champion—Photography

Chase Heley, Champion—Poultry

Jamie Keller, Reserve Champion—Small Engines

Laura Manstrom, Champion—Photography

Levi Heley, Champion—Chicken Eggs

Matty Wynn, Champion—Drawing and Painting

Molly Wynn, Champion—Food Preservation

Therese Weber, Champion—Decorate Your Duds; Champion—Glue Solution

Charlie and Molly Wynn received blue ribbons on their lambs and sheep showmanship!

Award of Excellence—Sew and Show Clothing Revue

Therese Weber—Champion— Glue Solution and Decorate Your Duds; Award of Excellence—Sewing

SUMMER 2010

Club Reports

Page 5

Energizers 4-H Club March 6, 2010 Club met at the Lidgerwood School. Cody Knudson gave a demo on scrapbooking; Chase Heley gave a demo on potting a plant and Jackson Jelinek gave a demo on mistakes in building a dog house.

May 8, 2010 Club met at the Lidgerwood School. Demos were given: Katelyn Heley—star cookies; Eli Jelinek—cake cup; Levi Heley—pressing flowers; Daniel Novotny—turkey hunting

June 12, 2010 Club met at the Lidgerwood School. Demos were given: Seth Harles—How to make a picture frame; Wyatt Harles—Latch hooking Crystal Johnson showed how to do wood burning.

August 14, 2010 Club met at the Lidgerwood School. Lunch was served by the Harles Family.

Starlights 4-H Club June 6, 2010 Club met at the Wynn home. Leslie Hibl gave a demo on how to make a sausage roll pillowcase and Justin Nelson gave a knitting demo. Recreation was kickball. Snack was S’mores and juice.

June 29, 2010 Club met at the Wynn home. Charlie Wynn have a demo on sanding different types of wood. Crys-tal Johnson helped prepare the members for the judging process at Achievement Days. Recreation was basketball. Snack was grapes, watermelon and juice. The club participated with the Believers 4-H Club in the Wyndmere Centennial parade.

Helping Hands 4-H Club June 9, 2010 Club met at Weber’s house. Sue and Mary Goroski volunteered at Ruby’s Pantry for 2 hours. Everyone worked on their leather project.

July 18, 2010 Club met at Weber’s house. Discussed award forms to be turned in by September 1. Recreation was trampoline.

August 8, 2010 Club met at Weber’s house. Club will volunteer at Abercrombie Fort clean-up and tour museum. Healthy Snack was peaches. Demo on peach fruit smoothie.

August 22, 2010 Club met at Kipp’s lake cabin on Long Lake, . Rec-reation was water sports, skiing, tubing, swimming and boating. Healthy snack was potluck. Jamie gave a speech on “The 4-Cycle Engine.”

Therese, Allison and Heidi volunteering at the “Fort” in Abercrombie.

Comments from Colleen

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great summer and you have experienced a smooth transition back to school and fall ac-tivities. I have appreciated all the patience you have shown me on my road to recovery from cancer. I have com-pleted my fifth of six chemo treatments. Hopefully by the end of September those treatments will be behind me and I will whiz through the radiation treatments. I am glad to announce that we received $600.00 in support from the JCPenney August Round-up Dollars! Please make an effort to complete the JCPenney Customer Satisfaction on-line survey (you will receive a 15% off coupon that can be combined with other offers) and mention that we appreciate the support that they have shown to Richland County 4-H. We have been able to support: our local developing archery programs; appreciation gifts for our leaders; members attending enrichment programs, etc. Basically this keeps the 4-H council out of the poor house without the need to conduct bake sale and other time consuming dollar gener-ating activities. We have three great incentives to offer to members and clubs who choose to become Healthy North Da-kota 4-H Clubs. Please refer to these two websites to find out more information: http://www.ndsu.edu/4h/projects/group_projects/#c58124 http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/news/newsreleases/2010/sept-20-2010/4-h-clubs-practice-eating-smart-playing-hard/view First aid kits sponsored by Sanford Health: Each member that commits to doing a club demonstration focusing on first aid kits or Health Project will receive a very nice first aid kit. These demonstrations should be recorded in the club meeting minutes. Bike helmets sponsored by Betaseed, Wal-Mart and JCPenney (All small and medium helmets were donated by Betaseed.): Each member that commits to doing a club demonstration focusing on the importance of bike helmets or leads a bike fitness activity will receive a bike helmet. These activities need to be recorded in the club meeting minutes. Twenty-five dollars to each club for fruits and vegetable activity demonstrations or snacks sponsored by the Moving More Eating Smarter Grant and JCPenney dollars: Each club that commits to fruit and vegetable activities or demonstrations will receive cash to support your club activities as leaders see fit. These activities need to be recorded in the club meeting minutes. Deb, Crystal and many leaders have been working hard preparing for the annual 4-H awards banquet. Please thank your leaders for a great year at the annual banquet! I hope to see you and your families at the 4-H ban-quet. (Bring grandparents and/or your special friends or family to the banquet.) On that note, if you bring a non-4-H friend to the 4-H Awards Banquet, who would be a poten-tial 4-H member, you will receive a certificate for a free 6-inch sandwich at Subway. 4-H week is coming! J What are you doing to promote 4-H? What can we do to help you???

Leaders please bring your calendars to the awards banquet so we can plan a council meeting.

See you soon, Colleen

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RICHLAND COUNTY 4-H

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Sweet Lesson! Carmen Paquin, Paquin's Sweet Harmony in Breckenridge, taught cake decorating to members of the Believer's Club on Sunday, Sept. 12. The kids came prepared with one- or two-layer cakes that they baked at home and Carmen taught them how to correctly frost and decorate their cakes. The kids used a variety of frosting tips to make stars and shells and Carmen even helped them to roll out and cut shapes and letters from fondant. In addi-tion to teaching the kids about frosting and decorating, Carmen showed them how to give a good presentation on frosting, com-plete with visual aids, and gave them numerous baking tips for creating award winning cakes. The finished cakes were beautiful and unique, just like the kids who created them, thanks to Paquin's Sweet Harmony.

Members of Believers Club attending the cake decorating class:

Jack Manstrom

Daniel Stephens

Evan Braaten

Lydia Stephens

Anne Manstrom Sunny Shih (Stephen's foreign exchange student from Taiwan)

Laura Manstrom

Abby Braaten

Catherine Manstrom

Emily Lothspeich

Ana Braaten

Pictures and story submitted

by Teresa Braaten, Believers

Club leader