National Guard Welcome Home Celebration

We'd like to give a big, huge THANK YOU to the 4-H kids and volunteers who helped out at the National Guard Welcome Home Celebration this Saturday. Keyonia, J.P. and Maggie helped out in the serving line while Shannon helped sign in the soldiers and their families. Everyone had such a good time and their assistance was invaluable.

The kids are standing behind the cake that was made especially for the celebration. There were over 250 cupcakes alone on that table! And we (by we, I mean, of course everyone there) managed to eat every one of them!

On the menu was steak, chicken, hamburgers, hotdogs, baked beans, cole slaw and potato salad as well as drinks and dessert.

Thanks again to all that helped!

Calhoun County 4-H

Back on Track

Let's get this blog back on track.

Good luck to all of our Livestock Members who are going to show at this Saturday's Lee County Fair. We know each of you will do your best and come out on top!

Thanks to the HUGE turnout at Kids in the Kitchen yesterday. I think that was the most fun we've ever had at a Kids in the Kitchen. The fruit tarts we made were to die for. I'll post the recipe in a separate blog post for those of you interested. Somebody remind me to have Trent take pictures next time. Our kids were very creative when it came to placing the fruit on the tarts. We had epic scenes and silly faces and tall stacks of fruit. Since all of them disappeared so quickly, I can only assume that they were delicious. I know I thoroughly enjoyed mine. Great job kids! Don't forget that next month, we're grilling hamburgers and making homemade french fries. We'll run it similar to the pork chop contest during the fair. Each kid will get enough meat to make one patty and they'll get to spice it up the way they choose. In addition, we'll make homemade regular AND sweet potato fries. Hope to see everyone there!

We also have the 4-H Horse Club Fun Day coming up in September. According to our Facebook page, this will include events as well as activities (riding and non-riding). There will be a concession stand and a Trade Day. Some of the events scheduled are: barrel pick-up, water glass, catalogue race, simon says, apple bobbing race, egg race, panty race, it takes two race, sweet potato sack race and ride a buck. Some of the non-riding activities are cake/gift certificate walk, stick horse race, color and name your horse contest and a boot race. Come one and come all! Support your local 4-H Horse Club!

We're going to start Shooting Sports back up in September. We will have one club meeting for shotgun only and one meeting for rifle and archery. See our schedule on the right for more information. And as always, we will start at 3:30 p.m.

We are now on Facebook! Yay! You can find us by doing a search for Calhoun Fourh. Add us as a friend!

If you have anything you want to contribute to the blog, just drop us an e-mail or give us a call. We'll start to take more pictures to post! Honest!

Calhoun County 4-H

Technology club meeting

We want to know if you want to learn how to do technology? On your computer!

Madison

new technology club

Do you want to learn about technology? Come to our next technology club meeting on May , 17, 2010 at 3:30 p.m.

austin

February Kids in the Kitchen

On Wednesday, February 17th, our Kids in the Kitchen group met to make pancakes.

We had a small but very enthusiastic group. We were delighted to have YaYa back as our instructor. Maggie Rennie and Gracelyn Missman were our two chefs for the day. Logan and Lillian Missman were our official taste testers. They held up their end of the job quite well.




Here Maggie is getting ready to pour the oil into our mixing bowl. Gracelyn explained to us that there are different kinds of oil. Here, we're using vegetable oil.

Gracelyn expertly poured in the milk to our egg and oil mixture while Maggie and YaYa looked on.

Here, Maggie shows us how much easier it is to get the flour out of the bag by standing up on a chair.

Don't laugh....it works!

Maggie shows Gracelyn how to stir the mixture together. Between the two of them, we had a nice smooth batter. Way to go girls!

Due to the extremely hot griddle, Yaya took over scooping the batter out of the bowl onto the griddle. We recommend that all young kids have an adult in the kitchen to help them when making pancakes.

Look at those delicious pancakes cooking on the griddle!

Here, Gracelyn is explaining to Maggie that you have to watch for the bubbles in the batter to go "pop, pop, pop" before you flip the pancakes.

Maggie is going to show us how to expertly flip a pancake while on the griddle.

Voila! Perfect, Maggie, just perfect!

Doesn't the finished product look yummy? Can't wait to dig in!

Maggie and Gracelyn show off their finished dish. Good job girls!

Add some maple syrup and something to drink and you have a delicious meal!

Just ask Gracelyn. That smile on her face shows us just how good they really are.

Maggie appears to agree!

Can't wait til next month when we do baked chicken nuggets!

See you there!

Calhoun County 4-H

Northeast District Livestock Show

Calhoun County 4-H and FFA youth competed in the Northeast District Livestock show in Verona recently.





4-H Meat Goat Judging Team I received 1st place in the Jr. Goat Judging competition. From left are C.J. Weddle, Mikayla Shelton, Julianna Cain and Todd Harrell. Harrell received High Scoring Individual Reason and Mikayla Shelton received 2nd place Overall Score Individual.

Calhoun County 4-H Meat Goat Judging Team II received 3rd place Team at the Northeast District Livestock Show. Ellen Harrell received 3rd place Overall High Score Individual. Abbigail Barefield received 3rd place High Scoring Reasons Score. Pictured from left are team members: Ellen Harrell, Abbigail Barefield and Madison Cox.

Carleigh Orr received 6th place with her Heavyweight II market goat, 2nd place with her Heavyweight III market goat, 2nd place Mediumweight II commercial doe goat, 4the place Mediumweight I commercial doe, 1st place Heavyweight II commercial doe, and Grand Champion Commercial Meat Goat Doe.

Hunter Barefield exhibited livestock at the Northeast District Livestock Show in Verona, MS. Hunter was selected to receive the 2010 Roy Cooper Sportsmanship Award. This award is in honor of Mr. Roy Cooper who as an Ag teacher who transported youth all over the state assisting them with their livestock projects. Hunter also received 7th place with his light heavyweight I market goat.

In addition, Mikayla Shelton won 1st place in Goat Showmanship, 1st place with her Mediumweight II market goat, 4th place Lightweight I market goat, 1st place Heavyweight II market goat, Champion Heavyweight market goat, 3rd place Mediumweight III commercial doe goat, and 7th place Heavyweight II commercial doe goat.

Abbigail Barefield received 4th place in Showmanship and 9th place with her Heavyweight I market goat.

Ellen Harrell received 6th place in Showmanship, 3rd place Lightweight II market goat, 3rd place Mediumweight I commercial doe goat, and 7th place Heavyweight I commercial doe goat.

Todd Harrell received 4th place with his Mediumweight II market goat, 4th place with his Mediumweight III and commercial doe.

Madison Cox received 5th place in Showmanship, 2nd place Lightweight I commercial doe goat, 4th place Lightweight I commercial doe goat, and 5th place Light Heavyweight I commercial doe.

Julianna Cain received 4th place with her Lightweight II market goat and 3rd place with her Lightweight I commercial doe goat.

C.J. Weddle received 5th place with her Lightweight II market goat, 1st place Heavyweight III market goat, 1st place Mediumweight I commercial doe, 1st place Light Heavyweight I commercial doe, 3rd place Heavyweight III commercial doe, and 5th place Heavyweight III commercial doe goat.

Congrats to all the winners! Calhoun County is so proud of all of our 4-H youth.

Calhoun County 4-H

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