Robeson County 4-H

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    We have a large area that 4-H, EFNEP, and FCS are joining together to decorate at the fair on Thursday.  If you would like to help come on out to the fairgrounds Thursday, September 27 between 1 and 6 pm to help us fill the booth and tell folks about our incredible Extension Programs we would love to see you.  We will be in the main building (where the vendors set up) and we will have all sorts of things to get done.  Come on out and have some fun as we make this an interactive booth with a good time and a great healthy message.   Hope to see you there!

  4-H Members, families, Volunteers...are you the crafty type?  Do you maybe knit? Bake? Have  green thumb?  Well think about entering your items in the Robeson Regional Agricultural fair.  Not only will you have the chance to have your hard work viewed by thousands you might also win premium money and ribbons.  Imagine being able to say you grew a blue ribbon fern, or your bush produces award winning pomegranates. How many folks can say that?   Entering items is easier than ever.  Drop off times at the Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair are from Sunday, September 24, 1-6 pm; Monday-Wednesday from 4-8 pm.  This year they have something new, to help you stay out of the lines.  You can register your items online before you get there with their new fair entry system.  One of the benefits to that is if your family has a 4-H Online account  you should be able to sign in with your 4-H Online email and password.  If you prefer no...

 4-H Artastic is our visual arts contest for our talented youth.  Artastic encompasses all the youth categories of the fair and allows our youth to enter their items in the fair after judging for our contest.  This year we had more entries than we have had in more than five years.  It's wonderful to see this program grow and pick up steam from our 4-H members.  Without further ado, here are our winners for 2023.  Ribbons and checks will be given at 4-H appreciation night on December 8.   Cloverbud Division 5-7 year olds (Non Competitive, will receive ribbons and a prize) Emeree Chavis-Self Portrait Drawing Anna Malloy-Drawing & Watercolor Kingsley Roberson-Acrylic Painting, Paint on Object, and Woodcraft Junior Division, 8-13 year olds Malachi Jones took first place for a crochet item and second place for an acrylic painting. Ian Malloy received first for his woodworking entry Walt Malloy took home a blue ribbon for woodcraft Jahari Roberson i...

Showmanship Circuit families:   I am very excited to say that our Fair Entry Registration system for the 2023 Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair is up and running this morning.  That being said, this is a new system and may have a couple of bugs, so we are asking for folks' patience and constructive feedback as they register. The link to register is https://fairentry.com/Fair/SignIn/19121 The following counties have accepted our request for 4-H Online integration: Columbus, Cumberland, Lee, Randolph, and Robeson.  What that means is that you should be able to sign in with your 4-H Online email and password to register in the Fair Entry System.  If you prefer not to do that, or your county has not accepted the request, you can create your own account with fair entry.  I realize some of you already have an account from registering for the Lee County Show so you should be familiar with it, and can register with the same account you used for them. ...

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      It is with a sad heart that we share the news of one of our own volunteers who has passed away.  Peggy Monk was a 4-H Volunteer in Bladen and Robeson Counties for almost two decades.  Peggy started her 4-H Club after starting to homeschool her children.  Her home school grew and she was looking for other outlets for socialization and learning for her children when she started her 4-H Club.  She was active in all aspects of 4-H and was recognized on the district and state levels for her volunteer work with the clubs.  She served as an officer for our leaders association and was always willing to help out.   Peggy was also the assistant club leader for our Dirty Dozen shooting sports club and loved leading the Citizenship section of any program.   One of my favorite memories of Peggy was when she was trying to offer incentives to her home school students to pass their end of grade test.  She told them if they all scored abo...

 This article was written for the Robesonian by our own Shea Ann DeJarnette, Extension 4-H Agent. I can almost smell the popcorn, hot oil for the funnel cakes, and ribs slow cooking on the cooker as the Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair gets ready to open September 29. You can expect some of your old favorites like great food, incredible rides, and animals that will make you smile. We also have a lot of new things going on this year, and you won’t want to miss out. Here are a few new things you can experience as part of this year’s fair. One of the things you will see prior to the fair opening is our new Fair Entry system. This is an online system that will make entering home exhibits and animal entries easier than ever. Folks who submit entries will be able to go online and pre-register their items if they wish. If not, bring your items in and we will register the way we have before, it will just be done on a tablet this year instead of paper. Our tags will have bar codes that wi...

Trying something new with our upcoming club meetings.  Let us know if you like a menu of upcoming club opportunities.  Dirty Rascals Jr. Master Gardener Meeting will take place at the 4-H Office (455 Catonn Road, Lumberton 28360) at 5:30pm on September 12.  This month members will get a chance to select the club sunflower for compeitition at the fair and make a craft to enter in Artastic.  To register for the meeting please click on this link or register on our app under programs.   https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dirty-rascals-jmg-4-h-club-meeting-september-tickets-713039579577?aff=oddtdtcreator Teen Leads is our new club for our 13-18 year old members.  This club is meant to introduce our teens to new opportunities available to them through 4-H as teens as well as introduce them to leadership skills, and other skills they will need to be successful as adults.  This will be a fun club that our teens will take responsibility for the schedule and prog...

  Well folks Summer is officially over and we are excited to jump back into regular 4-H Fall activities.  At this point everyone is back in school and we hope you are already having a great year! Please note, we have a lot of new folks in 4-H after our wonderful summer program and we would like to welcome them to the Top 4.  This is our version of a weekly newsletter with information about upcoming programs.  You can register from the links posted here or if you need to check on schedules, feel free to register from our 4-H AppIt is a free download from your app store.  Just search for 4-H Now!.  Download it, and when you open it you should be able to find Robeson County 4-H.  On our app we have our blog (which is an electronic newsletter), our current programs listed under programs where you can register for upcoming events, a calendar of annual events, and more.  It is a great resource and makes program registration easy. With that being said on...