4-H Ambassador Forms Due June 29

Applications are now available for the 4-H Ambassador Contest. The contest has two age categories for 4-H members: junior ambassador, grades 7-9, and smbassador, grades 10-12, as of January 1 of the current year.

Selection is based on personal interview and overall 4-H record as submitted on the application. Interviews for the event will be held Wednesday, July 6th, at 6:30PM at the Wells County Community Center at the 4-H Park.

The 4-H Ambassador Contest results will be announced at the opening evening events, Saturday July 16th, 7:30 PM. Applications are available at the Extension service web page at www.extension.purdue.edu/wells or at the Wells County Office of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service or for more information call 824-6412. Forms are due June 29th.

4-H Record Book Deadline July 1

Wells County 4-H members are busy finishing their project manuals and records (what can be completed) so that they can be checked by the 4-H Club Leader on or before July 1. Once members have their manuals and records checked, the 4-H Club Leader will issue them a signed certificate stating they have completed the required activities. This certificate will be shown upon check-in at the 4-H Fair Expo Hall (non livestock projects) and at the 4-H Park West Road (livestock projects). Dog and cat exhibits will be checked at a June workshop or club meeting. Members who do not have a signed certificate from their leaders will not be able to check their 4-H projects in at the 4-H Fair.

Livestock members should complete as much of the feed record sheet as they can. Once the 4-H Auction is finished you will be able to finish your record and turn it in.

Club boxes will be on display in the Community Center for members to turn in the finished record notebooks and folders during the 4-H Fair.

Mini 4-H members rules remain the same. They simply complete their project exhibit and bring it to the 4-H fair.

The Wells County 4-H Council along with the 4-H Association and 4-H Leaders all endorse the July 1 rule, which helps encourage youth to complete their entire projects. For more information about record books, check your Wells County 4-H rule book or contact your 4-H club leader or the Wells County Office of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, 260-824-6412

4-H Livestock Health Rules Announced

The Indiana State Board of Animal Health will not be requiring a “Certificate of Veterinary Inspection” for the livestock show this year. This policy was started in 2007 and will continue this year. What this means for many 4-H exhibitors is that they will not have to have their local veterinarian look at the animals and write a CVI as was done for many years. It will be up to the livestock exhibitors to carefully monitor their animals during the summer months. Most county fairs will still have a veterinarian, and their livestock shows are now required to record animal identification numbers for cattle, swine, sheep, and goats. This is done in order to locate various animals and exhibitors in the event of some type of livestock disease outbreak.

For more information about your counties' livestock health requirements, contact the Indiana State Board of Health at 1-877-747-3038, your local 4-H rule book or your veterinarian.

4-H Caley Award Forms Due July 1

Two Wells County 4-H members will be selected for this year’s Caley Memorial Award at the annual 4-H Fair, July 16-21. 4-H members 14 years of age or older can be considered for the award.

Judging is based on the following: 4-H, 45%; school, 20%; community service, 20%; church or youth group, 15%.

The award will consist of a $500 scholarship. Selection will be announced on Saturday, July 16th, at 7:30 PM on the opening day of the 4-H Fair.

The Caley Memorial Award is presented in honor of members of the Caley family, who were killed in an automobile accident in 1965 on their way to the 4-H Fair. Bill, the father, and four children — Kirby, Kent, Kris and Kevin — were all killed. Their mother, Marge, survived.

Applications for the award are available at the Wells County Office of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service, 1240 S 4-H Road, Bluffton, IN 46714. For more information call 824-6412.

Applications and recommendations are due July 1.

4-H Fair Talent Show to be held July 19th

Entry forms are now available for the 4-H Talent Show which will be held on July 19 at 7:30 PM at the Wells County 4-H Fair.
Participants must be enrolled in 4-H in Wells County. Age groups include Class A (grades 1-2), Class B (grades 3-6) and Class C (grades 7-12). Categories include vocal, instrumental and other (novelty, dance and clogging.)

Awards will be presented to winners in each category; the Mack Shultz Award will be presented to the top talent winner. The award is presented in memory of Mack Shultz, who was a ten-year 4-H member who loved music. His Air Force jet disappeared off the coast of Florida in the Bermuda Triangle. Mack was the son of the late Shirley and Galen Shultz and brother to Peggy (Norman) Schweikhardt of Warren, Indiana.

Entry forms are available at the Extension service Web page at www.extension.purdue.edu/wells
or at the Wells County Office of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service. For more information call 824-6412. Entry forms are due July 11th.