Gear Head Run at 4-H Park

4-H Junior Leaders will be selling pizzas at the annual Gearhead Run, Saturday, at the Wells County 4-H Park in Bluffton. Registration is 8 a.m. to noon; awards will be handed out at 4 p.m.




Megan Thompson is going to stack pizza boxes. The Jr. Leaders folded pizza boxes for a pre-order make and take pizza sale for Saturday's car show.



Kayla Taylor is folding a pizza box. The Jr. Leaders folded around a hundred boxes on Thursday.

Mini 4-H at LCES

Wells County Purdue Extension Agent Roger Sherer visited Lancaster Central Elementary School on Wednesday to talk about the Mini 4-H program with first- and second graders. Each of the students received information they will bring home to their parents about the program. Sherer will visit all first and second-grade students in the county.

4-H Extension Calendar

April 29 — 4-H Council Audit Committee, 4-H Park Community Center, 6:30 p.m.
April 29 — 4-H Jr. Leaders, 6:30-8 p.m., 4-H Park Cookhouse, Assemble Pizza Boxes for Fund Raiser

May 1 — Mini 4-H Enrollment forms due at County Extension Office
May 1 — Bluffton Farmer's Market Opens, 8 a.m.-noon at Dutch Mill Plaza
May 1 — 4-H Pizza Pick-up, 4-H Park Cookhouse, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

May 2 — 4-H Horse & Pony ID Day, Sheep/Swine Barn, 4-H Park, 2-5 p.m.

May 3 — Extension Homemaker's Presidents Council, 1:30 p.m. 4-H Park 4-H Park Community Center

May 4 — Election Day - County Offices Closed
May 4 — 4-H Camp Counselor First Aid Training, 6:30 p.m., Auburn

May 8 — 4-H Sheep and Goat ID Day, 4-H Park Multi-Purpose Building, 8-10:30 a.m.

May 11 — 4-H Leadership Training Night, 4-H Park Community Center, 6:30-8:30 p.m. For club officers, leaders and Jr. Leaders.

May 13 — 4-H Rodeo Committee, 4-H Park Community Center, 7 p.m.

2010 4-H National Youth Science Day to Focus on Water Quality and Climate Change

$-H News:

On 4-H National Youth Science Day, October 6, 2010, hundreds of thousands of youth nation-wide will engage in a hands-on lesson in water quality and climate change - two very important issues facing our global community.

Designed by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T), the 2010 National Science Experiment, 4-H2O, will use a three-tiered experiment model to engage youth of all ages to learn at the simplest level how carbon dioxide can affect aquatic animals, plants and other living organisms in lakes, streams, rivers and oceans....

4-H Junior Leaders

A group of 4-H Junior Leaders planted 10 trees at the Wells County 4-H Fairgrounds on Thursday, in honor of Earth Day. The group plans to plant more trees during the coming months. (Photos by News-Banner Intern Brandon Gephart)

Extension Calendar

April 12 — 4-H Club Leaders, Community Center, 4-H Park, 7 p.m.

April 13 — 4-H Horse & Pony Club, Community Center, 4-H Park, 6 p.m.

April 15 — Extension Homemakers Spring Program Fair, Community Center, 3:30 to 7 p.m.
April 15 — 4-H Rabbit Workshop, Community Center, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
April 15 — Northeast Indiana Council on Agriculture, Research, Extension & Teaching, DeKalb County Government Building, Auburn, 7 p.m.

April 16 — Northeast Indiana 4-H & FFA Dairy & Livestock Judging Contest, Steuben Co., 9 a.m.

April 17 — 4-H Park Clean Up Day, 8 a.m. to noon
April 17 — 4-H Dairy Feeder Calf ID Day, Multi-Purpose Arena, 4-H Park, 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
April 17 — Northeast IN 4-H & FFA Horse & Pony Judging, DeKalb County, 9 a.m.
April 17 — 4-H Shot Gun Safety Club Sign Up, Wells County Gun Club, 2555 E. 400 N., Ossian, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
April 17 — Open Horse Show, Wells County 4-H Park
April 17-18 — Spring Fest, Purdue School of Agriculture, West Lafayette

2010 Farm Program Signup

June 1 is the last day producers can sign up in the 2010 Farm Program, Approximately 1000 farms have not signed up in the farm program this year. Farms cannot be signed
into the program after June 1.

Interested producers should contact the Wells County FSA office for an appointment to sign up. Appointments can be made by calling 824-1930 or stopping by the office at 117 W Harvest Rd Bluffton, Monday through Friday 8:00 to 4:30pm.