Robeson County 4-H

The 4-H County Council Volunteer Leader Association officers met tonight to make plans for a whole new and exciting County Council, Volunteer Leaders Association meeting that will take place on Monday, February 4, starting at 6:30 pm. The group is starting by making the first meeting of 2013 a sporting event. Actually they have asked everyone to come wearing your favorite team color. Any team, any sport, any age. They are expecting a whole lot of colorful people at our first event. As always the the meeting will start at 6:30 pm on the dot. For those that arrive early the group plans for ice bakers and games to entertain before everyone so the meeting can start on time. Although some of the meeting topics are meant to be a surprise, we can tell you club reports should be fun as everyone does their best to give their report in some type of sports them, weather as a sports announcer or with sports jargon. We are bound to have a good time. If you have any questions about the me...

  Tonight seven of our volunteers travelled to Cumberland County to take part in the 4 County 4-HVolunteer Revolution trainings .  Thanks to a grant from the Extension Foundation this series of popular trainings are taking place with a whole new focus.  This year the 4-H Agents are coordinating the trainings to follow the bronze level ACE Master Volunteer trainings.  the goal is that by the end of the year each volunteer attending will be able to submit their bronze level portfolio.   The first training, which took place in Cumberland County, focused on the fundamentals of 4-H.  Angela Shaver, the 4-H Agent in CumberlandCounty talked with everyone about the history of 4-H and the essential elements of 4-H.  She also covered the organizational structure of all the organizations that 4-H is associated and fall under.  Peggy Monk, Robeson County 4-H Volunteer, went over the some of the tell tale signs of 4-H.  Things like the emblem, ...

    2013 means a whole new adventure for our 4-H members as we step into a new district.  The move meant more than just a name change from the South Central to the Southeast district, it means new counties, new friends and different programs for one and all.   Today was the first of these programs as 11 teens attended the Southeast District 4-H Winterfest Meeting .  Our youth got up early on a day off from school to jump in the van and drive about two hours to the Wayne County Extension Center in Goldsboro.  Once there we joined forces with about 70 other youth from 18 different counties.  Youth broke the ice with a quick game of 4-H Jeopardy, and even learned a couple of things along the way.   The district officers lead a brief business meeting and then everyone took a break for lunch.   After lunch the group was broken into two smaller groups, one went to the kitchen to cook with one of their district officers, while the rest ...

4-H County Activity Day is one of the big competitive programs for our youth.  Essentially County Activity Day has two parts, Public Speaking competitions and Presentation competitions.  In Public Speaking youth must research, write, and deliver their own speech.  They can not use any props, just their voice to make their point.  Presentations is more like show and tell.  The youth demonstrate something and use posters, PowerPoint or other aids to help them demonstrate their point.  Topics ranged from how to make a fruit salad to peer pressure, and the competition was fierce.   Let's start with Public Speaking.  4-H Members compete by age division.  This year in the 9-10 Junior 1 Age division Jordan McKinnon with Inspirational Youth Leaders 4-H Club took first place with a speech on Epilepsy. In the Junior 2 (11-13 year old age division) there were four competitors  Page Freeman with...

  Things are never dull around our 4-H office.  With as many clubs, projects, programs, and just plain excitement it is a wonder that we don't have more of these type of posts.  You will want to read this whole post becuase this is more than 1 announcement it is several together.   I am pleased to announce  that the Horsin' Around 4-H Horse Club will now be known as the Horsin' Around 4-H Animal Science Club.  Now they will focus on all animals big and small, and watch out come animal science time, this club plans to take charge and offer a whole new experience for participants.   Not only will this club have a whole new look but the Kung-Fu Chicken 4-H Poultry Club has decided to merge with this Horsin' Around Club to make this a stronger club with more members and more opportunities.  The new club will continue to meet at 6 pm on the Third Tuesday of each month.  If you are interested in more information about this club please...

  We do all sorts of things in 4-H, and one of the big things we encourage is giving back to the community.   Today the All Around All Stars 4-H Arts and Crafts Club did just that.  You may remember an earlier post this month where club members made brightly colored fleece scarves, and adorned them with buttons and other decorations.  The goal at their club meeting was to make as many wonderful scarves as possible and donate them to those who might need and enjoy them.  Sort of a hug by proxy from club members.    Today two club members, Kierin Hatcher and Maggie Underwood, were able to stop by Robeson Pediatrics (along with a few adults that they allowed to take part) and deliver the scarves to Dr. Katie who will give them to patients who might need a warm scarf.  With cold and flu season upon us this is the perfect time for this type of donation.  Maggie modeled a scarf while Kierin talked about decorating them.  The club even ...

  The first meeting for the Spiritual Generations 4-H Community Club was an organizational meeting where the club members made big plans.  Mrs Beverly worked with the parents to make sure all the paperwork was done.  Then it was time to motivated and move the club members forward.  Every member of the club signed up for County Activity Day while four teen members signed up for the South East District Winterfest Meeting which will take place in Wayne County January 21st.   Miss Shea Ann and Ms Wendy were at the meeting to help out with the paperwork and talked about all the things coming up this year.  There are lots of opportunities and Mrs. Beverly wants to make sure all their club members take advantage of them.  If you are interested in becoming part of this community club that meets in the Pembroke are contact Wendy Maynor, 4-H Program Assistant, at Wendy_Maynor@ncsu.edu

      The monthly meeting of the DirtyRascal Junior Master Gardener 4-H club took place tonight at the 4-H office.    Club members started the meeting with Keiren Hatcher and Layla Locklear leading the pledges.  After an update and quick member introduction for all the new club members it was time to have fun and accidentally learn something.    This meeting we learned all about capillary action.  Capillary action is when liquid can flow in very narrow spaces.  Using capillary action we made our own self watering planters out of two liter bottles.  Some friends of Mrs. Tanya's donated the bottles that we used for our project.  She drilled holes in the caps, cut the bottles in half, and cut string.  We threaded the string through the hole and knotted it with a little bit hanging on one end and a whole bunch hanging on the other end.  The we lined the top with newspaper.  The next step was a little tricky a...

  "We are proud of this award and the role that 4-H and Cooperative Extension played in helping us obtain it," said Allen Faircloth, President of the Robeson County Fair.  Approximately 15 fair board members including our own Miss Shea Ann (who took the photo of course) and Mrs. Aggie, were in attendance at the  North Carolina Associations of Agricultural Fairs Conference in Raleigh.  Board members have the opportunity to attend workshops, learn about things going on in other counties, get entertainment ideas, and much more at the annual conference.   This year the Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair was awarded the Agricultural award.  This award is given for a combination of agricultural elements from crops, agricultural activities and animals on display as well as involved in shows.  Faircloth said, " Cooperative Extension works hard to educate folks about agriculture in our County and does that through displays, working with groups...

The following report was submitted by the members of the All Around All Stars 4-H Arts and Crafts Club.   The first 4-H club meeting of 2013 goes to the All Around All Stars 4-H Arts and Crafts Club .  The group met at the 4-H office tonight.  Mrs. Jessica had a special project for our January meeting that worked for all age groups.  We made scarves that will be donated to help keep others warm.  We hope to donate them to Robeson Pediatrics in the near future.  The brightly colored swatches of fabric were adorned with buttons (we learned how to sew) and other creative ideas.  We were so excited about making the scarves that we made bunches of them.  If you want to know how to make them feel free to ask Mrs. Jessica, she is really crafty like that.   Our next meeting will be held at the 4-H office on February 7.  If you are interested in being part of our club just call the 4-H office and they will put you in touch with our crafty gr...