Our 4-H year is off to a very busy start! This email contains lots of important dates, deadlines and additional information so please share it with those who need to know. I will be sending this out via 4-H connect as well, however, we still don't have everyone registered, so PLEASE pass this information along.
PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED IN 4-H CONNECT. WE ARE IN A NEW 4-H YEAR SO IF WE HAVEN’T DONE THIS--- YOU AREN’T A 4-H MEMBER. Livestock Information: Cass County Cattlemen’s Association Steer and Commerical Heifer Validation will take place on September 25th at the Expo Center in Atlanta. Rabbits for the Cass County Junior Livestock Show will be picked up at the Extension Office (227 Rush St, Linden, Texas) on September 30th. Chickens for the Cass CountyJunior Livestock Show will be delivered on 10/1. We don’t have the locations for this yet. Major Show Goat and Heifer Validation will take place at the Expo Center on 10/22 at 4 pm. If you are validating a heifer you need to make sure that all tattoos are in place prior to validation. You also need to have emailed a color copy to [email protected] prior to this date. I will need all spring major show livestock entries to the office by November 4th. If you need to be excused from school for a livestock show, you must send me the dates (two week prior would be awesome). Once your school official has signed off on the form I need a copy of this form back, showing that you are indeed eligible to compete. Project Information: If you are participating in a HORSE or SHOOTING SPORTS project, you need to make sure that your club manager has a copy of the 4-H Waiver on file prior to practice. (http://texas4-h.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/19-20_TX4H_Waiver_Idemnification.pdf County Shooting Sports Round-Up is taking place on 10/26/2019. Registration is now open. You can register via the link found below. We will also be taking orders for additional shooting sports round up t-shirts. They are $10 each if you are not competing. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIV71zhHjirBDnGuXfomlq7GvTrQy7xb6iW8rfNlgWWFLSXA/viewform?usp=sf_link There is a hay judging contest on 10/10 at 2 pm. Please send me an email if you are planning to participate. The District 4 Horse judging workshop registration opens on October 1st. The date of this event is November 9th. Photography entries for district contests are due on 4-H to connect on November 1st. I need to have all pictures submitted to the office on November 8th. These need to be mounted and labeled. County Wide Events: One Day 4-H will take place on 10/5. Please join us on this day and bring a friend who isn’t in 4-H. We will have free 4-H enrollments on this day. We are ordering Cass County 4-H T-Shirts. T-shirt orders are due to our office by 9/24. Shoot me an email and I can invoice you if that is easiest. These are $12.50 each. We are hosting a Rummage Sale as a county fundraiser on 10/4-5. We are taking donations for this event and will need help working on this event. Please bring all donations to the office. We are sponsoring a community service project. We are taking donations for the area foster closets. All donations can be brought to the office. We will be celebrating 4-H Week on October 8th at the Cass County Commissioners Court. We invite ALL 4-H MEMBERS to be in attendance. If you are planning on coming and need a school excuse, please let me know as soon as possible. Club Manager Information: We will have a club manager training on 10/21. Please let us know if you will be able to attend. Please remind 4-H members that we take submissions for the 4-H newsletter during the last week of the month. We would love to have articles and pictures from the kids. Our next PAC Meeting is October 28th at 5 pm. We need to make sure that we have a quorum at this meeting. We only have them every other month now. If you ordered 4-H Shirts from the district office, I have those available for pick up now. Please continue to submit your monthly documents before the end of the month so that I can report on all of these activities. I also need sign-in sheets for any practices, project meetings, etc. I will be going on vacation on October 13th- 20th. If you need anything during this week, please contact Karen or John as I will be out of pocket.
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