Congratulations 4-H Project Award Recipients

Note-Wood plaques to display your project awards (discs) are available from the UW Extension Office.

Recipients of project awards will be recognized at their 4-H club meetings. On these two pages are the names of the youth who will receive project awards from their club leaders

A

Griffin Albaugh

Evan Anthony

B

Jacob Barnett

Danielle Blum

Brooke Bowser

Hallie Brant

Bode Brokhopp

Kari Brokish

Addie Burris

Jaxon Busse

C

Lucas Christiansen

Marissa Cleary

D

Nathan Daniels

Anastasia Dannenberg

Isabella Dannenberg

Laurianna Dannenberg

Tucker Dannenberg

Kaleb Dolan

Blake Droessler

Brady Durni

E

Logan Eastman

Jon Elliott

Leah Elliott

Grace Engels

Laney Evans

F

Amiah Fisher

Maddox Fisher

Katie Fitzsimmons

Morgan Fitzsimmons

G

Bree Gaffney

Kelly Gaffney

Piper Garthwaite

Skylar Garthwaite

Emma Giddings

Natalie Giddings

Emily Graber

H

Dana Hanson

Kelsey Hardy

Alex Harman

Bethany Harman

Jack Hebgen

Payton Heins

J

Andrea James

Chad James

Colton James

Estella James

Grant James

Lance James

Morgan James

Nolan James

Carlene Jenson

Olivia Jenson

Jaydon Johnson

Colin Judd

Sydney Judd

K

Jaylee Karls

Danee Karls

Evan Kearns

Haylee Kearns

Quinten Kite

Tatum Kite

Alexandra Kleist

Avri Kleist

Brianna Kleist

Tanner Kleist

BreAnn Kohlenberg

Abbey Kraisinger

Macey Kraisinger

Wes Kraisinger

Kassidy Komplin

Quentin Koss

Cade Kuhls

Ethan Kuhls

Lexie Kuhls

L

Noah Lange

Donald Laufenberg

Darren Laufenberg

Noah Lawinger

Kage Lemanski

Makayna Lemanski

Miah Lemanski

Ryan Levin

Olivia Liddicoat

Issac Limmex

Stephanie Limmex

Tasha Limmex

Sam Lundell

Sydney Lundell

Anthony Luu

L cont….

Zachary Limmex

Kaycee Lindner

Elyse Linscheid

Lauren Linscheid

Reid Lundell

M

Ellery Massey

Makaya McCarthy

Miranda McCarthy

Mya McCarthy

Alana McCarville

Hunter McCarville

Ava McDonald

Lily McDonald

Owen McDonald

Colin Merwin

Bryn Meyer

Lilly Michek

Brandon Miess

Mallory Miess

Olivia Miess

Paige Miess

Landyn Moellers

Abby Murphy

N

Jarvie Nafzger

Trapper Nafzger

Jenna Niemeier

McKenna Niemeier

O

Morgan Oxnem

Wyatt Oxnem

P

Ella Parish

Cameron Patterson

Faith Pearson

Rachel Pearson

Emily Perez

Lily Petit

Miles Petit

Jalene Pierick

Faith Pilling

Atley Potterton

R

Angel Rakow

Carley Rider

Mackenzie Ripp

Annie Robinson

Ellie Robinson

Joey Robinson

Bryce Rolli

Isabelle Roske

Lola Roske

Lyndsey Roum

Paula Roum

S

Christy Schlueter

Julia Searls

Austin Shearer

Maddie Siegenthaler

Claire Steffes

Emma Steffes

Madelyn Steffes

S cont….

Martina Steffes

Liam Stumpf

Madison Stumpf

Regan Suddeth

Jadyn Swinehart

T

Maya Tarrell

Siri Thronson

Owen Thronson

Owen Tiber

Anna Tisch

David Tisch

Joseph Tisch

Loretta Tisch

Paige Toay

Ridge Toay

Ryan Toay

Zach Tolzman

W

Kylie Washburn

Morgan Washburn

Alec Webb

Emma Webb

Alexa Weier

Alisa Weier

Keegan Wenger

Kennedy Wenger

Will Whitaker

Jenna Wiker

Megan Wiker

Adam Wolfe

Carissa Wunderlin

Y

Bryar Yelinek

Haley Yelinek

NEWS FOR FAMILIES AND LEADERS

Leaders Council Nominees Needed Would you like to serve as a youth or adult repre-sentative on the 4-H Leaders Council? One adult representative (3 year terms) and 2-3 youth representatives (2 year term) will be elected at the January meeting. Do you know someone who would be a good candidate? Call Jackie today if you are interested or to nominate another leader.

The Iowa County Extension Office has one paid 4-H internship opening beginning on or about May 14th through the week ending on or about August 24th, 2018. This limited term position is full-time (35 hours per week). Primary job duties include assisting with the 4-H program in Iowa County and working with adult and youth volunteers in the implementation of educational programs, and helping with Extension programming. Qualified applicants must possess organizational, leadership, and communication skills, access to transportation adequate for the job responsibilities and the flexibility to work some weekends and evenings. Minimum age is 21 by June 1, 2018. 4-H experience is a plus. Employment applications and job descriptions available at the Iowa County website: http://www.iowacounty.org/employment/employment.shtml or contact the Iowa County Courthouse-Employee Relations Office, 222 N. Iowa St., Dodgeville, WI 53533 or call (608)935-0374. First review is sched-uled for Wednesday, December 20, 2017. EOE

Horse

BOARD MEETINGS The 4-H Equine Board will meet on the first Thursday of January, April, June and August at 6:30pm at the Health and Human Services Building. Youth in the Horse Project, parents and leaders are invited to attend these meetings.

4-H……

Opportunities for All

Iowa County 4-H in 2017 By the numbers

525 Youth Members

59 General Club Leaders

133 Volunteers

17 Clubs

1 Attended

Citizenship

Washington

Focus

30 Attended

Cloverbud

Day

1 Attended the Leadership

Washington Focus Trip to

Washington DC

18 Ambassadors

7 Leaders Council

4 Youth Reps

8 Camp Counselors

46 Attended 4-H Camp

at Upham Woods in

Wisconsin Dells

200 Attended Project

Learning Days in

February and July

1 Attended the 4-H and

Youth Conference in

Madison

State Horse Expo results:

Ella Barnett: top 10 in: Saddle Seat Pleasure, Sad-

dle Seat Equitation

Isabelle Roske: top 10 in draft showmanship, jr.

judging with reasons

Jessica Vinger: top 10 in draft showmanship, jr

judging with reasons, drawing, other crafts, poster,

reserve champion horse photography and model

horse.

Kristina Vinger-grand champion woodworking and

poetry, reserve champion drawing, top 10 in horse

related photo

Ella Barnett, Isabelle Roske, and Jessica Vinger

took a top ten in jr. team judging with reasons.

Graduating Cloverbuds

The following Cloverbud 3 names were missed in the last newsletter: Jason Bartolo, Emma

Christensen, JJ Cleary, Jacob Dannenberg, Abigail Droessler, Elizabeth Evans, Noah Gilbert,

Emily Heisner, Elliot Kite, Max Kelley, Kaleb Kreul, Lillian Linscheid, Payton Meili, Riley Reynolds,

Jessica Schubert, Faye Schuette, June Spurley, Lily Tarrell, Jackson Wiker, Oliver Wolfe, Owen

Wyatt, and Clayton Yanna.

4-H Camp Counselors and Chaperones

Iowa County will be camping with Lafayette County

on June 10-12, 2018. Older youth who enjoy t

he outdoors and working with younger youth are

encouraged to apply to be camp counselors. Applications are available at the Extension Office

and online. They are due on December 11th. All counselors, even those who participated last

year, are required to submit an application. Required camp counselor trainings will be scheduled

in the winter and spring.

If you are an adult interested in joining the adventure at 4-H Camp please contact Jackie for more

information. Applications for camp will be emailed out at a later date.

Did you know?

Did you know that there is

literature available to all

members for almost every

project at no charge? The

Extension Office carries an

inventory of project literature that

has lots of information and

projects for you to work on

throughout the whole year.

Order forms are available by

asking your Club Leader, or

calling the Extension office at

930-9850, or stopping in the

Extension office to see what is

available.

YQCA (Youth for the Quality Care of Animals)

Starting in the fall of 2017, Wisconsin will replace the MAQA program with the YQCA national program. YQCA was created for youth in the beef, dairy, goat, poultry, rab-bit, sheep, and swine projects. Anyone who plans on showing market hogs at Iowa County or Wisconsin State Fair MUST be YQCA certified. ALL State Fair exhibitors (Dairy, Beef, Sheep, Swine, Goat, Rabbit, Poultry) must also be certi-

fied in YQCA in 2018.

Iowa County will only offer the face to face classes for youth in grades 3-4. Everyone else must take the class online. In the online version, the youth exhibitor will com-plete 3 interactive online modules and corresponding quizzes. The 3 modules in-cludes information about animal welfare, food safety, and character education. The modules will provide new information every year. The modules take roughly 60 minutes to complete each year. There are also fees associated with YQCA. The online version is $12 per youth and face to face is $3. Youth must register and pay for YQCA at http://yqca.org and follow the step by step instructions.

The Extension Office will offer an YQCA certification sessions at Project Learning

Day in February and again in June.

4-H Livestock Quiz Bowl Practices

Practice for the 2018 state contests will be starting in Decem-

ber. This group will be working on preparing for different

competitions. The Quiz Bowl involves a game show style for-

mat with buzzers. The Skillathon portion includes wool judg-

ing, meat id, feed id, livestock judging, animal handling, and

much more.

Practices will be held from 6:30-7:30pm at the Iowa County

Health and Human Services Building in Dodgeville on the

following Mondays:

December-11 and 18

January-8 and 22

February-5, 19, 26

The State Skillathon and Quiz Bowl contest will be held

March 3, 2018 at 9am at the UW-Madison Animal Sciences

Building.

If you have any questions, please contact Val Gaffney at

gfc@mhtc.net.

Clothing Workshop

Grant County 4-H has invited inter-

ested youth from Iowa County to at-

tend their clothing workshop. It is be-

ing held on January 20th at the Youth

& Ag Building in Lancaster. Youth

will be making baked potato bags

along with learning sewing tech-

niques. The workshop runs from

9am-1pm. Please RSVP to Jackie

by January 10th. Cost is $5.

4-H Meats Judging

The 2018 State 4-H Meats Judging contest

will be held at UW-Madison on February 17,

2018. If you are interested in participating

or just learning more about meats judging,

please contact Ron Patterson at

repatterson@mhtc.net. Iowa County has

the opportunity to work alongside the Grant

County team as they prepare for the contest.

To learn more please visit

https://fyi.uwex.edu/youthlivestock/

programs/4hmeatscontest/

Calling all 4-Hers with an interest in livestock and meat!

The Clover Connection

IOWA COUNTY 4-H FAMILY NEWSLETTER December 2017

LOOK INSIDE FOR…..

Project Award Winners

Camp Counselors

2017 in Review

Livestock Quiz Bowl

Dairy Quiz Bowl

Meats Judging Practice

This newsletter was mailed

on

December 6, 2017

IOWA COUNTY 4-H LEADERS COUNCIL UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN EXTENSION

President – Shelly Osterndorff - 2019 303 W. Chapel Street

Vice President – Kari Brokish - 2018 Dodgeville WI 53533

Co-Secretaries – Maddie Siegenthaler – 2017 Phone (608) 930-9850

Deena Vinger - 2017 FAX (608) 930-9795

Treasurer – Muffy Swingen - 2019

Directors - Julia Harman - 2018

Bill Mitchell Jackie McCarville, Interim 4-H Youth Dev Educator

Beth Graber – 2018 Sarah Weier-Interim Family Living Educator

Muffy Swingen, Department Assistant

Paul Ohlrogge, Area 17 Extension Director

Youth – Kari Brokish, Jessica Vinger, Gene Schriefer, Agriculture Agent

Maddie Siegenthaler, Brady Palzkill Donna Peterson, Nutrition Program Coordinator

Stephanie Rollins, Nutrition Educator

Register for 4-H programs by fax or e-mail:

FAX: 930-9795

E-mail: jaclyn.mccarville@ces.uwex.edu

http://iowa.uwex.edu/4h

Office Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. There is also a phone with voice mail avail-

able nights and weekends and a drop box by the flag pole.

THE CLOVER CONNECTION

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Requests for reasonable accommodations for disabilities or limitations should be made prior to the date of the program or activity for which it is needed. Please do so as early as possible prior to the program or activity so that proper

arrangements can be made. Requests are kept confidential.

An EEO Affirmative Action employer, the University of Wisconsin-Extension provides equal opportunities in

employment and programming including Title IX and ADA requirements. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information should contact the UW-Extension Office at 608 930-9850

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

DECEMBER

1 Online re-enrollment due

2 Horse bowl, 5pm HHS Bldg

11 Livestock Quiz Bowl, 6:30 pm HHS Bldg

11 Camp Counselor Applications Due

22 Livestock Quiz Bowl, 6:30 pm HHS Bldg

22 & 25 UW-Extension Office Closed

Club Officer Training will take place

in the afternoon of Saturday,

February 3rd (after project learning

day). Pizza will be provided for

lunch. Any 4-H member (even if you

are not an officer yet) is invited to

attend. We need a minimum of 10

kids to hold the event, so please pre-

register by calling the Extension

office or emailing Muffy at

muffy.swingen@iowacounty.org

to let her know how many from your

club are coming.

4-H...Opportunities for All

JANUARY

1 UW-Extension Office Closed

4 Horse meeting, 6:30pm, HHS bldg

8 Livestock Quiz Bowl, 6:30pm

20 Clothing Workshop, Lancaster

21 Livestock Quiz Bowl, 6:30pm

22 Leaders Association meeting

29 Livestock committee mtg, 6pm

29 Dairy project mtg, 7:30pm