PC 4-H Visual Presentation Info

Hello 4-H Leaders,

Attached is the info for the Plymouth County 4-H Visual Presentation Day which will be held on Saturday, March 5 at Silver Lake Middle School in Kingston. Please see updated class list and updated "terms used in judging" for new information this year.

Please make sure to pass this on to all of your 4-H'ers and their parents. I am in need of judges for this event. Please let me know if you are available to come for a judges training at 8:30 AM on March 5, then start judging presentations by 9:30 sharp. Our goal is to be all wrapped up by 12:30 that afternoon. This is only possible if we have enough judges to help with all of the presentations.

There will be a 4-H VP training at the Extension office during Feb School vacation week on Feb 16 from 2-4PM. Please let me know if your club needs additional help with visuals, we have DVD's to borrow and can arrange for other trainings if needed.

Hope to see you all on March 5!

Thanks,

Molly Vollmer

Extesnion Educator

Plymouth County Extension

266 High Street

Hanson, MA 02341

mvollmer@umext.umass.edu

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PC VP 2011

Minutes - for Jan. 10 meeting

Meeting 1/10

• We learned about geo-mapping and putting a geo-box at Marshfield Fair

• Registration date for mini-conference at Norfolk High School is by Feb. 1st

• We are looking for a parent to run and update the blog

• Visual Presentation are March 1st *mandatory for everyone except novices

• Jaime and Alexa both gave demonstrations of VP what to do and what not to do

Clean Up Day and Safety Meeting is August 13th at the fair

Truck-In is August 18th

The Fair is August 19th-28th

Truck-Out is the 29th

Some suggestions for the fair:

• shower curtain around sheep and goat pens

• cement sheep and goat pens

• some new games (people relay race, clean up pen fastest, pie eating contest, 3 legged race)

• do the t-shirts again

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Be sure to check the blog for up-to-date information, pictures and more.

http://farmtastic4h.blogspot.com/

Next meetings and important dates

Next meeting is this Saturday, Jan. 15th from 9:00a-10:30a.  We will be meeting at the Marshfield Fairgrounds to work on the clubs cow tree..and talk about Geo Caching.

 

The next monthly meeting will be on Monday, Feb. 14th from 6:00p-7:30p

 

Barn meetings for February: 

• Feb. 5th - 9-1030a
• Feb 19th - 9-1030a

 

An email will be sent out as to the meeting place for barn meetings either at O'Neil's farm or the Marshfield fairgrounds

 

The club is looking for a parent that would be willing to update the blog and send out emails as they become available.  Lisa, Jimmy and I would like to thank Lisa DiVasta for taking on that task last year. We feel that the club was well informed with all upcoming events and schedules throughout the year...Thank you Lisa.

 

 

Please mark your calendar for the Marshfield Fair:

 

This is our hometown fair for Plymouth County and is mandatory for all members of our club. If you are not going to be available for the Marshfield fair we would like you to please let Jimmy, Lisa or myself know this as soon as possible.This information is important as to which cows and how many will be going. We do understand that a lot of high school sports start that week. The hours that the club covers daily at the fair is from 8:00a-10:30p.  This allows many different hours to be worked around sport schedules.

 

• Aug 13th - will be the fair clean up day and safety meeting. 9a-1p pizza is served after clean up 
• Aug 18th - will be animal arrival day and safety meeting 3p-9p
• Aug 19th - opening day of Marshfield fair 8a-1030p
• Aug 28th - last day of Marshfield fair
• Aug 29th - animals depart fair and final clean up.

  

The club had its first meeting of the new year this past Monday and we will have the secretaries notes posted to the blog soon.

 

I also have the new Plymouth County T-shirts if you have not received yours please let me know...

 

Thank you,

 

Susan

 

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Be sure to check the blog for up-to-date information, pictures and more.

 

http://farmtastic4h.blogspot.com/

 

 

4H mini conference info

We just got this information about the upcoming Mini-Conference.

Susan & Jim

4-H Leaders,

 

4-H Mini Conference will be held this winter on Saturday, February 5 at the Norfolk Aggie School in Walpole, MA.  This again will be a regional event for Plymouth, Bristol and Norfolk County 4-H'ers and volunteers. 

 

Please see the attached packet for more information on workshops and registration information.  Registrations are due by Feb. 1, however workshops are first come first serve, so get your registration in as early as possible.  This is a great event were kids can learn much more about 4-H programs like visual presentations and also learn about new project areas in science, animal science, leadership, etc.  There are also workshops for parents and volunteers who would like to learn more about a specific project area.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions and please share this info with your 4-H club members.

 

Thanks,

 

Molly Vollmer

Extension Educator

Plymouth County Extension

266 High Street

Hanson, MA 02341

781-293-3541

mvollmer@umext.umass.edu

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Be sure to check the blog for up-to-date information, pictures and more.

http://farmtastic4h.blogspot.com/