2017 4-H ENROLLMENT
4-H club advisors were recently trained on the process at the annual Advisor Appreciation and Enrichment Night. You can plan on learning how your family will enroll at your next club meeting. It's a fairly easy process especially since you can just use the email and password that you used to make your fair entries last year!
Also note that this year all members will pay a $20 county activity fee. This is in addition to any fees that your club may possibly have.
The registration booklet and form are available on the website at:
http://www.ohio4h.org/events/ohio-4-h-conference
Registration forms and payments are due to the Franklin County Extension Office by February 4.
- CHECKS SHOULD BE MADE OUT TO FRANKLIN COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL.
- Current Franklin County teen 4-H members and club advisors will be able to attend for FREE if their registration is postmarked by February 4. As long as attendance at the conference is verified, your check will be shredded and not cashed. Those that don't show up to the conference will have their check cashed.
- Parents and other non-4-H members and official club advisors are welcome to attend but should submit a separate check and expect it to be cashed.
- Note that the deadline on the state's registration form is not for you. Get your registrations in the county office by February 4 so county staff have time to get your registrations to the state office via their registration system.
- Please do not mail anything to the old address after February 4.
- Do not plan to visit the extension office the week of February 13.
- The new address is 530 W Spring Street, Suite 275, Columbus, OH 43215
- The phone number will stay the same: (614) 866-6900
- We will no longer have faxing capabilities.
We appreciate your patience as we work through the challenges of moving to a new location.
4-H CARTEENS is a program taught to teens by teens to help reduce the number of second time traffic offenders in Ohio. All participants that you will be teaching have been mandated by the courts to attend. The program is held one Tuesday a month from 6-9 p.m.
We are currently looking for 4-H'ers and other youth who have at least a learner’s permit to present at CARTEENS. Benefits of becoming involved in CARTEENS are:
- You can receive service credits which can be used for graduation
- At least one senior CARTEENS member who graduated and attended nine CARTEENS events in that school year, and has been accepted into an institution of higher education will receive a $250 to $500 scholarship towards the purchase of books, etc. in late fall of 2017.
- Fun! Friends! A chance to brush up on your public speaking skills!
If you are interested contact Sue Hogan at: hogan.239@osu.edu
Franklin County 4-H Unites for Community Service & Healthy Living
Walk and Serve - NEW WEBSITE: 4hcouncil.org
- Plan, Prepare, and Provide guidance for a hands-on community service project to benefit a Central Ohio non-profit. We are looking to have a variety of projects and non-profits. *Please arrange for approval of non-profit and project with the Committee Chair before progressing with club members.
Clover 5K
Help with promotion to your school, co-workers, family, friends, community!Run start time 8:30 a.m., Awards at 9:30 a.m.
https://runsignup.com/Race/OH/Hilliard/Clover5K
Event Planning
Each club contact (older teen and/or advisor) is encouraged to attend the online planning meetings at 6:30 p.m. on:
February 6
February 20
March 6
March 20
Click here to join meeting using a computer, smart phone, or tablet (you will need to download an app if you are using a phone/tablet).
ATTENTION: CLOVERBUD CLUB ADVISORS
This is an excellent opportunity for clubs that want their Cloverbuds to get engaged in 4-H. See details of how your club can participate in the Cloverbot Challenge HERE. This year's theme is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! and the Challenge event will take place on June 3.
Deadline to Order LEGO Kit: March 20, 2017
Deadline to Register Team: April 15, 2017
HEART OF OHIO 4-H WINTER VOLUNTEER TRAINING
ATTENTION CLUB ADVISORS:
Do you want to improve your 4-H Cloverbud program or learn tips on welcoming new members and families into your club? If so, then this winter workshop is designed just for you.
4-H personnel from the Heart of Ohio will present two workshops on these topics which will include ideas and activities. You can choose to attend one or both workshops.
Details: Saturday, February 25, Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center
Session A: 9-10:30 a.m. - Cloverbud Meeting Management & More
Session B: 10:30 a.m.-noon - Ways to Welcome New Members and Their Families to Your Club
All 4-H members taking a horse project for the first time this year are REQUIRED to participate in a Horse Safety & Ethics session prior to participating in any 4-H activities with a horse. A parent or legal guardian must attend with the member. The member must also purchase and read the book Horse Safety & You prior to attending.
Two sessions are held. Members may choose which one they want to attend.
April 25, 2017, 6:30pm, Extension Office, 530 W Spring St., Suite 275, Columbus, OH
PLOWBOY PROM - SAVE THE DATE!
On January 1, 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new regulations addressing on-farm antibiotic use in food-animal production were implemented. The agency’s effort is aimed at eliminating the use of medically important (to human illness) antibiotics for growth promotion purposes in food-animal production and bringing therapeutic use in feed and water – to treat, control or prevent specific disease – under additional veterinary oversight. Producers, veterinarians, feed mills and suppliers will all face new requirements. This affects everyone (including 4-H members as youth producers) keeping, owning, and/or raising food-producing animals.
Ohio 4-H members (parents/guardians) are the owners/caretakers of their livestock projects and will need to obtain any VFD they might need to properly care for their food-producing animals. To write a VFD, veterinarians must personally see the 4-H members’ animals, become acquainted with their care, and have done so recently enough (within the last six months) that they can make medical judgements.
It is very important that 4-H members and their families establish a veterinarian-client-patient relationship (VCPR). Click on this link to download the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) Fact Sheet for 4-H Youth Livestock Producers and Families. It contains important information to read and understand when taking Ohio 4-H food-producing animal projects, even if they are not intended for food production.
Are you taking any of the following 4-H projects to the Franklin County Fair this year?
- Lactating Dairy Cows
- Market Rabbits
- Market Poultry
- Market Lambs
- Market Goats
- Lactating Dairy Goats
- Market Beef (including beef & dairy feeders)
- Market Swine
If you answered yes to the question above, YOU MUST ATTEND a livestock quality assurance session by June 1. NO EXCEPTIONS. There are numerous opportunities across the state to attend a session.
Franklin County 4-H will be holding a session on April 26, 6:30pm. Location to be determined.
Other approved LQA’s are shared below and more will be included in future newsletters.
OSU Extension, Franklin
For an accessible format of this publication, visit cfaes.osu.edu/accessibility.