Robeson County 4-H

  Can you smell it in the air?  It's the smell of the fair.  About a month or so out we always invite youth who are showing large animals (goats, heifers, lambs, and steers) out to the fair grounds to meet with a very important person.  Dr. Bruce Akers is our representative from the state vets office.  He was kind enough to spend a couple of hours at the Robeson County fair grounds to examine these animals and make sure they have health certificates.  This service is offered to our 4-H members showing animals so they can comply with the rules and regulations are various fairs including the Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair.  We appreciate Dr. Akers coming out to check our animals and ensure they are healthy.  We also appreciate those who came from other counties to receive their certificates.

                              The second Tuesday of the month must mean its time for the Dirty Rascal Junior Master Gardener 4-H Club meeting .  Tonight's meeting was missing a little of its pizzazz as club leader Tayna Underwood was taken in.  Stepping in our 4-H Agent did her best to update us on what is coming up and what has been going on over the summer.  We talked about our upcoming fair booth project and got excited about set up.  Then it was time to get down to business.   Tonight we learned about tie dye.  No we didn't make a mess.  We used sharpies to make a design and dropped rubbing alcohol on it to make the pigments in the ink spread out.  When the alcohol had evaporated it left a really cool design that looked like we had tie dyed it.  It was awesome!   Due to the fair our schedule may be adjusted slightly so we can set up our fair booth. ...

Each September we hold our election for 4-H County Council and Volunteer Leaders Association officers.  This year our current officers wanted to try something different.  Since traditionally, this meeting has the poorest attendance of all four meetings the officers put their heads and budgets together to come up with a plan.  Each group voted during their last meeting to take $100 out of their budgets to hold the election at Mr. P's Skateworld in Lumberton.  Their goal was to increase the number of meeting attendees, number of possible officer candidates, and voting groups.  Boy did they succeed.  We had almost 60 people show up to the meeting which is three times the normal number that usually attend this meeting. Just after 6:30 we had enough officers and members present to call the meeting to order.  Shabreya Vample, President of the County Council, called the meeting to order and with the help of Megan Hurst, the Sergeant at Arms enlisted the ...

  Tonight marked the monthly meeting of the All Around All Stars 4-H Arts and Crafts Club .  As you also know September is often the last meeting for our clubs before the fair.  So we can tell you much of the meeting can not be discussed because 4-H club fair booth plans are top secret.  This is tough competition and our youth and volunteers take the educational fundraiser seriously.   So the club called their meeting to order and the first point of business was to discuss the booth.  After working together to come up with a stroke of genius, they got down to business.  They made phone calls to make sure it could happen and people were in place to help create their work of art.  As part of their booth many canvases will need painting.  We can't tell you the theme, what, or why they are doing things the way they are but we can tell you art and creativity ensued and by the end of the meeting they had some awesome works of art.  As a m...