December 2015

Franklin 4-H Newsletter

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Franklin Parish Extension Service 6562 Main Street

Winnsboro, LA 71295 318-435-7551

Fax: 318-435-8216 - Dates to Remember -

December 1 Reg. Leader Board; 5:30 pm 4 Swine validations due 14 Explorer’s Club 17 Jr. Ldrs; 6:00 pm 17 Ag Photography Contest 18 Honor cord app due 24-3 Holidays (office closed) January 4 Office reopens 11 Explorer’s Club 13-16 Ag Alley/Expo 18 MLK (office closed) 21 Jr. Leader’s mtg; 6:00 pm 22-24 State Fashion Camp February 3-6 District Livestock Show, Delhi 16-22 State Livestock Show 23 Area Cookery Contest Reg. Leader Board 5:30 pm 25-26 Ag Adventures March

13-15 Jr. Leadership Conference 17 FFF Club; 4:00 at 4-H office 19 Jr. Leader mtg; 6:00 pm

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Winners of the Leaf ID contest:

1st place: Jackson Cordill Crowville

2nd place: Dani Parker Fort Necessity

3rd place: Jace McMurry Crowville

Other participants: Crowville: Diego Tapia

& Kaylee Humphrey; Fort Necessity: De-

stany Cassels, Sarah Cooper & Dallas

Harr; Baskin: Samantha Shelton & Anna

Hatten; Homeschool: Landry Smith.

Visit our website: www.LSUAgCenter.com

Louisiana State University Agricultural Center

Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station

Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service

William B. Richardson, Vice –President of Ag; Dean of Ag.

January Club meeting dates: Please note some have changed days because of

Ag Alley/Ag Expo this month.

5th: Crowville 8:00/Baskin 1:00

6th: FA 2:00

7th: Homeschool 3:00 (Scott Center)

8th: FPHS 9:36 (?)

11th: Fort Necessity 1:00

20th: Gilbert 8:35 (?)

21st FCCS 12:30 4-6/2:00 7-8

Seniors: Honor cord applications are due

December 18th, 2015. Don’t forget.

Ag Expo/Ag Alley Photo Contest

Remember your entries are due to

the 4-H office by Thursday, De-

cember 17th by 4:30 pm. You

may enter each category if you

wish. There are 3.

Congrats to George Adam Faulk &

Maddie Taylor for being selected for

the 2015 4-H & FFA Livestock Educa-

tional Trip to Louisville, KY. Great

job, have fun and learn lots.

The Franklin 4-H

office will be closed

on December 24,

2015-January 3, 2016. We will

reopen at 8:00 am on January

4th, 2016. I hope everyone has a

happy holiday.

Remember that Ag

Expo is January 15 &

16, 2015 at the Ike Hamilton

in West Monroe.

Character Counts: Character Development

Pillar of Caring:

Do you easily forgive when someone has wronged you? Are you

willing to help out a stranger? Caring comes in many ways.

Helping to carry a package for an elderly person, being grateful

to your parents for making sure you have food on the table and

a house over your head and showing kindness to someone in

need are all characteristics of the pillar caring.

Make sure today that you are a person who is caring. Do you

want someone to show you kindness when you are down? Do

you want someone to be grateful to you for something you have

done for them or given them? Then you need to show the

Mark Twain—”One learns through the heart, not the eyes or

the intellect.”

Beef Poster Contest

Entries will be due at your January

club meeting.

There are 3 divisions: 4th-6th grades,

7th-9th grades, and 10th-12th grades.

All 1st place winners in each division will have

their entry go to the state competition.

Make sure you get a flyer and submit an entry. All the details are on the flyer. Make sure you

follow the guidelines.

White poster board must be used and it must be 11” x 14”. All other sizes & colors will be disqual-

ified.

Make sure you use nothing that is copy righted.

January Contest-Photography

I’ve changed the amount of pictures due for each division.

Contest division will be: 4th-6th grades and 7th-12th grades

4th-6th grades need to submit 2 pictures. 7th-12th grades need to submit 5 pictures. The photography portfolio should show-

case the

4-H’ers photography skills, consists of 2 or 5 white, 8 1/2 x 11” pages of pictures taken within the past year. Pages should be

white and placed in a suitable binder. NO Captions.

A cover page with name and parish should appear first. A 1 or 2 page story (typed, double-spaced, with 1 inch margins). Story should be about the 4-H’er and their interests in photography as

well as telling why you selected the 2 or 5 photos.

Portfolios will be judged on choice of subject, composition, depth of field, sharpness, lighting, exposure, and skill. Photos can be black/white, color; from film or digital. Edit, edit, edit—

show only your best work.

2016 Honey Bee Essay Contest

Topic: “Bees and Pollination. How im-

portant is it”?

Essays must be double-spaced, 12-pt times or

similar type style. Must be submitted by

1/27/16.

Contact 4-H agent if interested in details.

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Additional info follows & forms are located in

the “Honey Bee Essay” folder

Copy and paste the above address in your web

browser to get more information about the

contest.

Photography entries

are going to be due at

your January club

meeting. Please make

sure that you follow

the rules.

Made Available By:

Kelly Lafferty

Extension Agent(4-H) Franklin Parish

klafferty@agcenter.lsu.edu

(318)435-7551

Assistance Needed??

If you have a disability which requires special

assistance for your participation in any of the

meetings or activities, please contact the

Franklin Parish Office at 435-7551.

Commodity Cookery Contest: The cookery contest was held on Nov. 21st, 2015 at FCCS.

Here are the results of the contest.

Sweet Potato: 1st Bailey Crawford, Baskin; 2nd Derrick Austin, Baskin; Garrett Hunt, Gilbert.

Egg: 1st Matthew Kramer, Homeschool; 2nd Kaitlyn Thomas, FPHS; Sarah Miller, Homeschool (other participants

were Katie Hall, LauraLi Walters).

Quick & Easy Ground Beef: 1st Bailey Crawford, Baskin; 2nd Garrett Hunt, Gilbert; 3rd Derrick Austin,

Baskin (other participants were Katie Hall and Matthew Kramer).

Pecan: 1st James Cotten, Baskin; 2nd Emma Cotten, Baskin; 3rd Emily Miller, Homeschool.

Healthy Heart Ground Beef: 1st LauraLi Walters, FPHS.

Rice Any Other: 1st LauraLi Walters, FPHS.

Chicken: 1st Derrick Austin, Baskin; 2nd Katie Hall, Crowville; 3rd Kaitlyn Thomas, FPHS (other participants:

Gabriel Freeman, Baskin; James Cotten, Baskin; Emma Cotten, Baskin.

Rice Main Dish: 1st Kaitlyn Thomas, FPHS; 2nd Garrett Hunt, Gilbert; 3rd Matthew Kramer, Homeschool.

Best of Show: Kaitlyn Thomas will here cheesy chicken enchilada rice.

Participants for the 2015 Cookery Contest.

Missing from the picture was Gabriel

Freeman.

While the judges were busy judging, the Jr. Leaders

lead some SET games for the participants. Thanks to:

Marvin Scott II, Derrick Austin, Tiona Harris, LauraLi

Walters for leading the activities.

Homeschool 4-H Club Officers for 2015-

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President: Patrick Finley

Vice-President: Cameron Smith

Secretary: Galen Miller

Reporter: Matthew Kramer

Treasurer: Noah Cardin

4-H Leader: Carolyn Cardin

Challenge Camp was “A-mazing” this year with

our theme of Amazing race. Those that attend-

ed were: Elijah Ward, Cary Cheek, AJ Ward,

Derrick Austin, Paige Chapman, Jeremiah Kerry,

Alexis Harrison and Ariana Miller. Challenges

were made to create team building and leader-

ship skills. Participants’ main goal was to navi-

gate through a maze blindfolded. Great job!

Thank you to all of our cookery judges for your time and commitment to the contest. This year we had Wink Alison, Neal West, Casey Beavers, Saundra Raines, Brittney Seay and Karen Cupit. They had a hard time coming up with the Best of Show and several catego-

ries were real close. Thanks again.

Other winners of the Parish T-shirt contest were:

Best Use of Theme: Derrick Austin

Best Artwork: Kaitlyn Nielsen

Most Creative: Cheyenne Barlow

The winner of the Franklin 4-H Parish

T-shirt contest is…

Antoinette McMahon

1st Annual Franklin Parish 4-H Royal Court.

In order to be on the court, you needed at least 5,000 votes or $50.

Here are the court for 2015. 4th-6th grade: Queen: Emma Cotten,

Baskin; Princesses: Montana Wright, FCCS & Destiny Cassels, Fort

Necessity/King: Joshua Kemp, Fort Necessity. 7th-12th grade:

Queen: Katie Hall. Other participants were: Ivy Flint, Crowville & AJ

Bryant, Baskin.

2015 Franklin 4-H Royal Court