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Note from our Office
Dear Calumet County 4-H,
One month down, the rest of 2025 to go!
A lot of project meetings are starting to take place this month, so make sure you are taking advantage of those oppourtunities. If you are interested in leading a county-wide project meeting, please reach out to our office. Youth can lead project meetings, too! Some things we are looking for specifically are additional Food Workshops, a leader for a new Explorers Club, a Teen Ambassadors Leader, and volunteers to lead hands-on projects for Festival of Fun or any other project meetings they'd like throughout the 4-H year. 4-H does rely heavily on volunteers, and we can only provide as many hands-on project learning opportunities for our members as we are able to recruit volunteers.
As always, please feel free to reach out to our office with any questions or concerns. I can be reached on my work cell at 920-483-0646 or by email at carlea.liermann@wisc.edu.
Sincerely,
Carlea Liermann
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| Wednesday, February 12th - 6pm - Camp Committee Meeting, Room 025
Wednesday, February 12th - 7pm - Leaders Council Board of Directors, Room 025
Thursday, February 13th - 6:30pm - Teen Ambassadors Meeting at Courthouse, Room 020
Friday, February 14th - 4-H Dance 7:00pm-10:00pm at Cobblestone Creek, Brillion
Saturday, February 15th - 9am-12pm - Food Workshop at Chilton High School
Sunday, February 16th - 4pm - Livestock Quiz Bowl & Skillathon Practice at Courthouse, Room 025
Wednesday, February 19th - 6:30pm - 4-H YQCA Meeting at Courthouse, Rooms 015 & 017
Thursday, February 20th - 6:30pm - Dog Project Meeting at Courthouse, Room 017
Thursday, February 20th - Cloverbud Club - Group A at 5:30pm in Room 017; Group B at 6:00pm in Room 025 at Courthouse
Monday, February 24th - 6:00pm - Market Goat Meeting at Courthouse, Room 015
Monday, February 24th - 7:00pm - Poultry/Rabbit Meeting at Courthouse, Room 017 & Room 025
Tuesday, February 25th - 6:00pm - Swine Project Learning Meeting at Courthouse, Room 025
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We are officially hosting Area Animal Science Days this year! We would love to have you come and volunteer for the day, and there will be opportunities for youth to participate as well. Some of the things that will be taking place are as follows: Dairy Judging, Dairy Showmanship Contest, Livestock Judging, Horse Judging, and Animal Poster and Photo Contest. Will be sure to be a great day!
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ArtBeat Registration is NOW OPEN and there are scholarships available thanks to the Calumet County 4-H Leaders Council. Don’t miss this chance to join 4-H ArtBeat, an introduction to Wisconsin 4-H Expressive Arts & Camp Adventures!
Who: 4-H members (grades 3-5), parents, and leaders
What: Explore visual arts, drama, music, and STEM with amazing adult volunteers
Where: Experience camp life and stay in cozy cabins with awesome high school counselors
Come create, learn, and have fun!
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Wisconsin 4-H is excited to offer two Wildlife & Woods virtual series again in 2025 - Explorations and Careers & Competitions! Wildlife & Woods Explorations are suggested for grades K-5 through elementary school youth and their families. The sessions will be interactive and will include wildlife, forestry, wildlife art and more.
Wildlife & Woods Careers & Competitions Series are suggested for middle school through high school youth and their families. The sessions will be interactive and will include guest speakers talking about careers, information about wildlife and forestry competitions and resources available to learn more.
Registration for these events is now open in 4HOnline!
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Looking for VolunteersWe are looking for volunteers both youth and adults to help with various county-wide programming that we have taking place throughout the 4-H year:
Explorers Club - We are looking for a volunteer who is interested in helping launch a new program for Calumet County 4-H, Explorers Club! This is for youth in grades 3-5 who would like to explore different projects each month. The members will choose each month what project they'd like to explore the following month.
Food Workshops - We are looking to expand our offerings for this year's Food Workshops, and are looking for volunteers interested in leading some sessions. You have the option to hold them at the Calumet County Courthouse or at Chilton High School in the Foods Lab. Some examples of workshops we are looking to host are pie crusts, fruit pies, cake decorating, etc.
Festival of Fun - This year's annual project day is scheduled for Saturday, April 5th. Cloverbuds will have sessions 9-11:50am and Grades 3-8 will have sessions 1-3:50pm. We are looking for volunteers to help lead sessions and to assist throughout the day. Sessions are about 50 minutes each.
Please reach out to Carlea or Lori at the Extension Office if you are interested or if you have any questions about volunteering!
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Pinewood Derby
A popular event for our 4-H program last year is returning in 2025, and it is open to all 4-H members (Cloverbuds through 13th grade), adults, and even non-4-H members! Invite your friends to join you.
- Practice - Friday, March 7, 6:00 pm (location TBD)
- Derby Finale - Sunday, March 9, 1:00 pm (location TBD)
A pinewood derby is a racing event where you build your own car from kits containing a block of pine, plastic wheels, and metal axles. The Leaders Council will purchase the kits for our 4-H members to participate! If an adult or non-4-H participant would like to compete as well, they would need to pay $5.00 for their kit. Blocks can be whittled with a hand knife, bandsaw, or Dremel carving tool for major shaping. Decals can be bought to decorate your car, or you are encouraged to use your imagination to paint and decorate the way you’d like!
Car kits can be picked up at the Calumet County Courthouse from the Extension Office. Register using this Google form! Please coordinate a pick-up time with Lori or Carlea.
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Join Explorers!
Youth in grades 3-5 are invited to join the newly forming Calumet County 4-H Explorers. This is a great way for you to learn more about the different projects available within 4-H, through hands-on learning. The scope of Explorers is that the group will decide on what they would like to learn about.
Explorers will take place on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6-7pm at the Calumet County Courthouse starting Thursday, March 20th at 6pm. If interested, please fill out this google form to be added to the email list:
https://forms.gle/GazQ5tb6uPbpXgF96
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Teen AmbassadorsJoin us each month on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm at the Calumet County Courthouse in room #020. All members in grades 7 and up are invited to join us. The Teen Ambassadors have already started brainstorming ideas for this year's Teen Travel Experience. They decided in November that they will travel outside of WI every other year, so this year they are making plans to stay within our great state. At their January meeting, they decided to travel to Madison for a few days in July and we would love to have you come help us plan!
If you want to join in on the decision making, meet other teens from around Calumet County, and work on your leadership skills, come and join us!
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Dog Project
Our Barn Hunter Winter activity will be held on Saturday, February 8th, at 1:00 pm. You will be participating in this activity with your dog. The activity will be held at the following location
Oh Rats Dog Training
5504 Co Rd V
Sheboygan Falls, WI
We will be holding a Dog Project meeting on Thursday, February 20, at 6:30pm in Room 017 at the Calumet County Courthouse in Chilton. Anyone that is interested in the Dog Project may attend. At this meeting, we will be deciding dates and time of the dog training, some dates for the mandatory sign-up meeting and the date of the show for this year. We will also have some board positions open for adults and juniors. If you're interested and want to get involved with the Dog Project and have an opinion on the dates for this year, I would recommend attending.
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All youth intending to show a market animal at the 2025 Calumet County Fair must complete one YQCA course in order to be elibile for the Market Animal Sale. Go to yqcaprogram.org and select “Register/Sign In” from the menu. Directions on how to create an account or to register for one of our trainings can be found here: https://yqcaprogram.org/local/pdf/YQCA_HelpDoc_GettingWBTCertification_2024.pdf
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The first meeting will go over the basics of show and market poultry & rabbits. They will also discuss changes to the fair next year. During the meeting, youth will help decide what you'd like to learn over the next two meetings. As a reminder, 1 meeting is required in order to show at the 2025 Calumet County Fair.
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Thank you to Anna Zastrow, we will be having a series of Market Goat Project Meetings this year, and they are the same nights as the Poultry & Rabbit meetings to make it a little easier on our families. They will be at 6pm in room #015 here at the Calumet County Courthouse.
- February 24th: Basic animal care. Do you have your animal sourced? Animal care/welfare on feed, housing, vaccinations, delicing/deworming
- March 31st: About the animal & Foot care
- April 28th: Showing & Showmanship preparation for the fair
These will be great opportunities to get your species specific education in required for the market sale, and it'll help a lot of you who are newer to the Market Goat Project.
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Join the Calumet County Market Animal at Farm Wisconsin Discovery Center on Saturday, March 29th at 9:30am to see Bob & Brayden Peter of Peter Family Show Pigs present a Show Pig Selection & Feed Workshop.
This is a FREE workshop open to all youth. Please RSVP by completing this google form: https://forms.gle/uTzZeF4HtfRiJV738
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