4-H Mule Tales University of California Cooperative Extension—Modoc County

SeptemberSeptember--October 2014October 2014

SEPT 1 4-H Enrollment Officially Opens 4-7 TULELAKE BUTTE VALLEY FAIR 30 4-H Record Books Due to Your Club for Club-Level Judging 30 Club Secretary and Treasurer Notebooks with Year End Reports due in 4-H Office by 5 pm OCT 1 Emerald Star Project Applications due in 4-H Office by 5 pm 14 Modoc 4-H Leader’s Council Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Farm Advisor’s Office Conference Room 16 4-H Record Books due in 4-H Office for County-Level Judging — 4-H Clubs: Please plan to Send One Judge for Every 3-5 Record Books Your Club Submits 16 4-H Club Award Applications (for 2013-2014) due in 4-H Office by 5 pm 25 4-H Record Books—County-Level Judging — 4-H Office Conference Room — 9 to 3 NOV 6 4-H Enrollment, All Star & Hi 4-H Nominations, Pre-Registration for Presentation Workshop & formal New Leader Orientation Training due in 4-H Office by 5 pm. 12 Junior Show Board Meeting, 4:30 pm @ Farm Advisor’s Office Conference Room 15 PRESENTATION WORKSHOP @ Farm Advisor/4-H Office, Noon to 4 pm 22 NEW LEADER ORIENTATION TRAINING @ Farm Advisor/4-H Office, 1-3 pm DEC 31 Last date to appoint New Leaders JAN 10 Presentation Day Entry Forms due in 4-H Office by 5 pm. 13 Modoc 4-H Leader’s Council Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Farm Advisor’s Office Conference Room 24 MODOC COUNTY PRESENTATION DAY, 10-2, Cedarville @ Surprise Valley Elementary FEB 5 Science Saturday Registration Forms due in 4-H Office by 5 pm 28 SCIENCE SATURDAY, 8:30 to 12:30, Veteran’s Memorial Hall in Alturas MAR 5 Home Economics Day Entry Forms due in 4-H Office by 5 pm 22 HOME ECONOMICS DAY @ Veteran’s Memorial Hall in Alturas APR 9 Milano Family College Scholarship Applications due in 4-H Office by 5 pm 9 Registration Forms for Natural Resources Management Day Camp due in 4-H Office by 5 pm 14 Modoc 4-H Leader’s Council Meeting, 5:30 pm @ Farm Advisor’s Office Conference Room

Results are in for the 2014 State Shooting Match --- and whooeee --- Modoc youth and project leaders alike won BIG!!! Here are the results:

Rifle Iron Peep: Advanced: Mavrick Farnam - Gold; Intermediate: Nash Warnock - Bronze; Natalie Walton –

Juniors: Bronze; Anabel Farnam - Silver; Riley Atkins - Bronze.

Rifle Open Sights: Advanced: Paden Smith - Gold/Trophy; Kaden Knight - Silver/Trophy; Zack Bickford - Bronze/Trophy; Grady Ingraham - Bronze/Trophy; Intermediate: Nash Warnock - Gold; Chance Galvin - Sil-ver; Lane Galvin - Silver; Mavrick Farnam - Silver; Scott Lewis - Silver; Riley Lake - Bronze; Juniors: Anabel Farnam - Gold; Jacob Worch - Silver; Riley Atkins - Silver; Jenna Nelson - Silver; Jess Dancer - Bronze; Jake

Cuzick – Bronze, Leaders: Warren Farnam - Gold; Ken Smith - Silver; Jack Nelson - Bronze.

Rifle Open Sights (Prone Only): Advanced: Paden Smith - Silver; Intermediate: Natalie Walton-Gold; Nash Warnock - Gold; Chance Galvin - Silver; Mavrick Farnam - Silver; Scott Lewis - Silver; Riley Lake - Bronze; Juniors: Jacob Worch - Silver; Riley Atkins – Bronze, Leaders: Warren Farnam - Gold; Jeff MacDonnell -

Silver.

.22 Rifle Telescopic Sights: Advanced: Paden Smith - Silver; Mavrick Farnam - Gold; Intermediate: Nash Warnock - Gold; Chance Galvin - Gold; Elly Viehdorfer - Silver; Natalie Walton - Silver; Scott Lewis - Silver; Riley Lake – Bronze; Juniors: Anabel Farnam – Silver, Leaders:Ken Smith - Silver; Jeff MacDonnell - Bronze.

.22 Rifle Telescopic Sights (Prone Only): Advanced: Paden Smith – Silver, Intermediate: Nash Warnock -

Gold; Chance Galvin - Silver; Michael McCrary - Bronze; Lane Galvin – Bronze, Juniors: Anabel Farnam - Sil-ver; Jake Cuzick – Bronze, Leaders: Jeff MacDonnell - Silver; Warren Farnam - Bronze.

Competition Rifle Results: Advanced: Paden Smith – Trophy, Intermediate: Mavrick Farnam - Gold/Trophy;

Nash Warnock - Gold/Trophy; Chance Galvin - Silver; Lane Galvin – Bronze, Juniors: Riley Atkins - Gold; Anabel Farnam – Silver, Leaders: Ken Smith - Gold; Jeff MacDonnell - Silver.

Skeet Results: Advanced: Paden Smith -Silver; Leaders: Ken Smith - Gold; Warren Farnam - Bronze.

Trap Results: Advanced: Paden Smith - Silver; Kaden Knight - Bronze; Grady Ingraham - Bronze; Interme-diate: Scott Lewis-Gold, Mavrick Farnam - Silver; Zane Still – Bronze, Juniors: Anabel Farnam - Bronze; Co-

dy Sphar – Bronze, Leaders: Ken Smith - Gold; Warren Farnam - Silver.

Participation awards were given to Haley Dancer, Cody Sphar, Noelle MacDonnell, Hayden Fredrick, Joe McNamara, Garrett Schmitt, Seth Gibson, Reagan Dahle, Konnor Gerig, Desten Davies, Tanner Bidwell, De-stanie Withrow, John Thomason, Ty Pedotti, Austin Grove, Elias Antunez, Alaisa Heffington, Kody Smith, Charley Simpson, Megan Nelson, Megan Banwarth, Jettie Heffington, Mackenzie McGiffin, Brett McGiffin,

Kimberly McCaulley, Brian McCaully and James Wilson.

Special Thanks to all of the Leaders; John Garee, Tom Warnock, Jim Worch, Steve Atkins, Michele Dancer, Jack Nelson, Jeff MacDonnell, Warren Farnam, and Ken Smith.

This year, participation by Modoc County youth and project leaders boomed --- with about 50 total partici-

pants compared to about half that number in 2013!!! WAY TO GO EVERYONE!!!!

Take your Best SHOT! Modoc did at the State 4-H Shooting Match!!!!

You won’t want to miss this, so register soon!

I PLEDGE MY HEALTH

As of July 1, 2014 drinkable water, without

anything added, must be available at all 4-H meetings, activities and events. In addition,

any 4-H fundraisers that include the sale of beverages must include water as an option.

The health and safety of 4-Hers is a priority at all activities and events. Drinking water is

crucial for good health and will help prevent dehydration and heat illness. Having water

available ensures a healthy beverage choice.

Water is the best option for rehydration

when participating in physical activities, and ensures more stamina to complete events.

Water contains no sugar, which helps ensure stable energy levels and reduces fatigue.

Water contains no caffeine, so hyper activi-

ty, loss of concentration, and possible be-havioral problems are avoided. Water is of-

tentimes free. Choosing water when thirsty is a natural instinct, and should be encour-

aged. There will be a Pit River Clean Up

Day on Saturday, September 20th at

9-11am. If your club would like to

help please contact, Lorissa Soriano

at 640-0125.

4-H Water Policy

Revolution of Responsibility Service Learning Mini-Grants

4-H groups can apply for up to $1,000 to identify, plan, and carry out a

service-learning project in their com-munity. Projects will be focused on

three key content areas that form the core of all 4-H programs, Science,

Healthy Living and Citizenship. Let’s start dreaming Modoc 4-H! 2014 Application Dates

September 15, 2014 & November 15, 2014

Heather Hadwick Joins Modoc 4-H Team Heather Hadwick of Alturas, has joined the Modoc County 4

-H office Team. Heather started in August, replacing Susie Stokke as the Modoc County 4-H Coordinator.

Heather has a degree in Agriculture Science Education from CSU, Chico. She grew up in Dorris, CA along with her hus-band Bryon. They have two boys, Sam and Zack. They live just outside of Alturas and raise Alfalfa. Heather is very

active in the community and currently serves as a den lead-er for Cubscouts, President of the New Day Academy School Board, coaches little league and flag football, and is the Chil-

dren’s Director at her church. “Heather has jumped in and is full of ideas. She will make a

great asset to our team.” says-Director, Steve Orloff. “I think that this will be a great job, I am excited to work with Modoc youth. 4-H is an amazing organizations that truly is

preparing our kids to be leaders of tomorrow. I am glad I get to be a part of it.”

adds Heather Hadwick. Heather will be coming to Community Club Meetings in our County this fall to intro-duce herself to everyone. She looks forward to working with all of the members, leaders and parents.

Congratulations to all of the 4-H fair kids!

What a great year at the Modoc District Fair, Intermountain Fair and

Tulelake–Butte Valley Fair. Pictured at right is Jacqueline Perez,

from Winema 4-H Club.

Congratulations to Winema 4-H Club’s, Colton Dillabo with

his Grand Champion at the Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair.

Fair Season is Officially Over!

A big thank you to all of the Leaders and Parents that made it another great year

in the books. The Modoc County 4-H office was able to have a booth at the Modoc District

Fair this year. We handed out free wa-ters to kick off the new 4-H water policy. A Special Thank You to Alturas Ranches and Pepsi Distributing for donating the 2,000 bottles of water that were given away. Thank you to all the local clubs

who covered shifts for the booth.

44--H Leader’s Council MeetingH Leader’s Council Meeting Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Meeting Begins: 5:30 pm

Modoc County Farm Advisor/4-H Office Conference Room

If you cannot attend in-person, please plan to attend via conference call:

Call-In Number: 605-475-4850 *** Participant Access Code: 854137#

Among the agenda items for this meeting are review of the actual budget for 2013/2014 and results of Peer Review

Audit as well as review/approval of the proposed budget for 2014-2015.

A copy of the agenda and other meeting materials are available at: http://cemodoc.ucanr.edu/4-H_-

_Youth_Development_Program/Modoc_Leaders_Council/. Please remember...regular attendance at 4-H Council

meetings is required to maintain your 4-H Community Club’s Charter. Meetings are held the second Tuesday of

October, January, April and July. We look forward to seeing you there!

―On behalf of the Modoc County 4-H and UC Davis Extension office, we would like to thank Susie Stokke for her peerless performance during the past three years as we

congratulate her on her retirement.‖- Offers Director Steve Orloff. The years that Susie has worked for the Modoc County 4-H program have been

marked with efficiency and excellence. Susie created and organized the first ever Nat-ural Resources Day Camp last year for the county 4-Hers and was instrumental in get-

ting more 4-H actively involved in the Modoc District Fair this year. She also estab-lished the county wide event, Science Saturday. Susie has dedicated the last years to improving our 4-H program and has worked with the 4-H Leaders Council to stream-line the handbook and enrollment process in our county. She is a valued member of

the team and will be dearly missed. Susie has been a great personality around the of-fice and we are honored that she will be serving as a County Advisor Volunteer for the

Natural Resources Day Camp and Science Saturday. Susie and her husband Sean, plan on traveling during retirement. Susie will be riding

her horse and driving Sean crazy with honey do’s. The Modoc County 4-H office wishes Susie the best and wholeheartedly thanks her for

her contributions to our 4-H program.

4-H MuleTales Newsletter

The MuleTales newsletter provides your family with im-

portant information about the 4-H Youth Development

Program. Each bimonthly issue provides information

about meetings, events, activities and due dates. We mail

one copy to each 4-H family who has one or member en-

rolled in 4-H. Please share your newsletter with others in

your home.

We encourage clubs and individuals to submit articles

and photos. All information must be received in the 4-H

Office by the 3rd Monday of each month. The best way

to submit information is to email it to:

hhadwick@ucanr.edu

For more information check out the Modoc 4-H

Webpage at http://cemodoc.ucdavis.edu.

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