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Calendar ............................ ....... 2 Food Resources ................. ....... 2 4-H Facts ........................... ....... 2 4-H News ........................... ....... 3 Office Hours ....................... 3 Bugle Deadline ................... 3

Arts & Communication ....... ....... 3 Younger Members .............. ....... 3 Youth Leadership ............... ....... 3 Club News ......................... ....... 4 Info for New Families ......... ....... 8 Music Contest Registration ....... 9 Contact Us ......................... ..... 12

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The Burnett County 4-H Leaders’ Association recently reviewed the budget for 2019 and decided that we will need to do some fundraising. So it’s a perfect time for the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation to roll out the new 4-H license plate program. Show your 4-H pride by ordering a Wis-consin 4-H license plate for the car, truck or motor home. The specialty plate, now available through the Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles, supports the Wisconsin 4-H program, and bears the message “4-H Empowering Youth.” The sale of the plate includes a fee that goes to the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation. Half of the proceeds from every plate sale will go back to the county 4-H program in which the plate was purchased. The other half will be used for state and regional 4-H programs. So, for every $25 annual donation from each license plate, Burnett County 4-H will receive $12.50. That is almost as much as we make from the sale of each plat book.

“This is a great way for our 4-H families, alumni and supporters to show their fierce love of 4-H,” says Brenda Scheider, Executive Director for the Wisconsin 4-H Foun-dation.

Vehicles that qualify for the 4-H license plate in-clude:

automobiles

motor homes (annual registration only)

motor trucks ○ 4,500, 6,000 or 8,000 pounds gross weight in-

cluding dual purpose farm and dual purpose mo-tor home

○ 12,000 pounds gross weight farm truck Persons requesting 4-H Foundation license plates

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DECEMBER 9 Junior Leaders Meeting

10 Winter Camp Registrations Due

10 Siren Countywide Cloverbud Meeting, 6pm, Gov’t Center

11 Grantsburg Countywide Cloverbud Meeting, 6pm, G’burg

24-25 Christmas, UW-Extension Office Closed

31 Deadline to Register for Space Camp

JANUARY 2019 1 New Year’s Day, UW-Extension Office

Closed 13 Jr Leaders’ meeting, 1pm, Gov’t Center

Room 165 14 Music Contest Registration Deadline 14 Siren Countywide Cloverbud Meeting,

6pm, Gov’t Center 14 Leaders’ Association Meeting, 7pm,

Gov’t Center 15 Grantsburg Countywide Cloverbud

Meeting, 6pm, Grantsburg 18-20 Winter Camp, Camp Crosswoods,

Mason, WI 21 Martin Luther King Jr Day, UW-

Extension Office Closed 27 Music Contest, 3 pm, Siren School

FEBRUARY TBD Art Beat! Registration Deadline

3 Super Bowl

10 Jr Leaders’ Meeting

11 Siren Countywide Cloverbud Meeting, 6pm, Gov’t Center

11 Leaders’ Association Meeting, 7pm, Gov’t Center

12 Grantsburg Countywide Cloverbud Meeting, 6pm, G’burg Library

18 Presidents’ Day, UW-Extension Office Closed

FOOD RESOURCES - Second Harvest Food Distribution dates at Connections in Webster from 11am-4pm

December 6 & 20 January 3 & 17 February 7 & 21

Children’s books will be given to families on food distribution days also! Free bread available at Trinity Lutheran Church in Falun every Friday from 11am until the bread is gone.

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will pay:

$25 annual donation. The donation may be tax deductible.

$15 issuance fee or an annual $15 person-alized plate fee, if requested.

The regular registration fee for the vehicle if the current plates expire within three months or the vehicles has no plates. At each plate renewal, 4-H supporters will

pay the $25 donation and the regular registra-tion fee for non-personalized 4-H license plates.

4-H license plates may be personalized by paying a $15 personalized plate fee each year in addition to the $25 donation and regular an-nual registration fee.

Contact the Wisconsin Department of Transportation or go to www.wisconsindot.gov/Documents/formdocs/mv2969.pdf for more in-formation.

The Wisconsin 4-H Foundation exists to pro-vide essential support for the 4-H Youth Develop-ment program – a program of the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension. Last year, in-dividuals, corporations and foundations provided support for a network of Cooperative Extension staff and more than 20,000 adult and youth vol-unteers in shaping nearly 150,000 youth who take part in 4-H programs throughout the state.

OFFICE HOURS - Beth G is in the office Tues-day - Thursday, from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Beth R is in the office Monday - Friday from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. BUGLE DEADLINE The deadline to submit all Bugle articles, news, photos, etc. is the 20th of the month. Please drop your items off at the of-fice or email either Beth. Anything received after the 20th will go in the following month’s Bugle.

CREX PHOTO CLUB meets the second Satur-day of the month, 10am - noon at Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. Learn more about digital photog-raphy. Share images with fellow photographers

to learn new techniques. Contact Crex Meadows Wildlife Area at 715-463-2739 or www.crexmeadows.org. INVESTIGATE Arts & Communication projects at http://fyi.uwex.edu/wi4hprojects/arts-communication/.

In November, Cloverbuds had a Visual Arts lesson. They made popsicle stick scarecrow pup-pets. Thanks to Grace Lahners and Maiya Fuller for leading the sessions. UPCOMING CLOVERBUD MEETINGS: In December’s meeting, Cloverbuds will make holiday ornaments!

Monday, December 10: Siren Countywide Cloverbud Meeting, 6pm, Gov’t Center

Tuesday, December 11: Grantsburg County-wide Cloverbud Meeting, 6pm, Grantsburg Library.

You may attend either meeting or do the project at home. INVESTIGATE the Cloverbud project at http://fyi.uwex.edu/wi4hcloverbuds/.

PURPOSE: Burnett County 4-H Junior Leaders’ group is open to all youth who are in 6th grade or higher. This group is comprised of youth from all 4-H clubs in Burnett County. It provides a plat-form to discuss and participate in youth leader-ship activities appropriate for older youth. JUNIOR LEADER MEETING MINUTES Burnett County 4-H Junior Leaders met on Sun-

day, November 11, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. in the Burnett County Government Center. Leader-ship positions were appointed by self-selection. Grace Lahners led the meeting and Maiya Fuller took notes.

Members present included: Grace Lahners, Mai-ya Fuller, Josephine Richards, Alex Peterson, and Joel Hillman.

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Beth led the group in an icebreaker called Birth-day Partners.

OLD BUSINESS

Achievement Night was reviewed and all agreed they liked how the event flowed quick-ly and smoothly.

The group tried to recall all the ideas previ-ously discussed about the education and rec-reation ideas that were brainstormed in Sep-tember and October. Ideas include: snow tub-ing at Trollhaugen in winter, ziplining at Trollhaugen in summer, touring the Humane Society of Burnett County, planning and going on a canoe trip, ice skating or roller skating, having a bake sale to pay for some of these adventures. Grace Lahners agreed to check into ice skating in Siren, bowling in Grantsburg and will talk with Alexis Slater who

recently shared information with her club about the Humane So-ciety. We will try to vote in De-cember on a few activities after gathering more information. NO NEW BUSINESS

Meeting was adjourned (can’t remember by whom).

Beth lead the group in a team building activity using bal-loons. Team building is espe-cially important to do early in the 4-H year to create a sense of belonging. NEXT MEETING is scheduled for Sunday, December 9 at 1pm in room 165 of the Siren Gov-

ernment Center.

INVESTIGATE the Youth Leadership project at http://fyi.uwex.edu/wi4hprojects/community-involvement/youth-leadership/.

Jolly H 4-H Club made Thanksgiving pump-kins, worked on their music contest song, and started on a model of Forts Folle Avoine at their club meeting. Branstad Bucks 4-H Club had fun helping or-

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Burnett County Cloverbuds made popsicle stick scarecrows at their November meetings.

Junior Leaders playing a teambuilding game

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ganize and pack shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. We also had a demonstration by Zoe Taylor. Orange 4-H Club had a sewing project meeting making Christmas table runners, scrap-book/record book meeting, worked together on the Lodge model for Forts Folle Avoine. Maiya led the November Cloverbud meeting. Wood River Beavers 4-H Club put up a 4-H Christmas display at Memory Lake Park in Grantsburg. Our theme was kids doing various 4-H projects.

ADDITIONAL LEADER TRAINING OPPORTUNI-TY: Washburn County 4-H will be holding their annual leader training on February 11, 2019 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the Oscar Johnson 4-H Center on the Washburn County Fairgrounds. This train-ing will be taught by Anna DeMers, Washburn County 4-H Youth Development Educator and Laura Richey, St Croix Tribal Coordinator for Spooner School District. The curriculum was cre-ated by a group of 4-H Youth Development Edu-cators and state specialists. If interested, contact Anna at 715-635-4444 to register. LEADERS ASSOCIATION MEETING MINUTES - November 12, 2018 CALL TO ORDER - President Phil Stiemann

called the meeting to order at 7:27 p.m. MEMBERS PRESENT - Steve Reinert, Beth

Rank, Marge Peterson, Carol Lanza, Heather Stahl, Greg Stahl, Bonny Moody, Roy Zeller, Tessa Zeller, Kristina Ronning, Jaime Nelson, Amy Thiex, Sheryl Stiemann, Phil Stiemann, Don Strabel, Charlene Strabel, Adrienne Fuller

SECRETARY’S REPORT - Reviewed. Motion to approve by Charlene, second by Marge.

TREASURER’S REPORT Steve reviewed report. Motion to approve by Marge, second by Phil. Motion to pay bills by Phil, second by Char-lene. Motions carried.

CLUB REPORTS-

BRANSTAD BUCKS - Club meeting, four new members, elected officers, planned Christmas party, Operation Christmas Child, planning

fishing contest fundraiser.

JOLLY Hs - No report.

ORANGE - Club meet-ing, ten new members, elected officers, sew-ing, scrapbooking and record book project meetings, new club t-shirts, Forts Folle Avoine model.

WOOD CREEK - Club meeting, six new mem-bers, Halloween party, Achievement Night, tie blankets, Fort Folle Avoine model, preparing for music contest.

WOOD RIVER BEAVERS - Club meeting, elected officers, Fort Folle Avoine model, Christmas light display at Memory Lake park.

EXTENSION REPORT - Beth stated there will no longer be a support staff position in the UWEX office in the UWEX office in 2019. There will be shared support between UWEX and Land Service Department. 4-H supplies in the cur-rent office space need to be condensed as it will become a break room in 2019. Clubs need to let Beth know how many green bind-ers to order for record books.

JUNIOR LEADER REPORT - Education, recrea-tion and activity planning at the November meeting.

OLD BUSINESS

2019 Plat Book - Phil stated two more ads to finalize. Waiting on GSI updated aerial maps in November. Phone app will also be availa-ble for purchase.

Achievement Celebration - November 4th - Overall preferred the earlier start time on a Sunday afternoon, condensed trip talks and club overviews were appreciated.

Trip Award Interviews - Sunday, October 14 - score sheets need to be updated, good to have members bring record books as a refer-ence for answering interview questions.

Music contest - date/time TBD dependent up-on judge availability on either Saturday, Janu-ary 26 or Sunday, January 27, 2019.

Develop judging sheet for club Community Service Award. What are criteria to be judged? Tabled for future discussion.

Shooting sports - Goal to have uniform sup-plies. County maintenance would allow stor-age in airport hangar.

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Wood River Beavers working on their park Christmas display.

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Branstad Bucks packing Operation Christmas Child boxes.

Jolly Hers made paper pumpkins at their November meeting.

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INFORMATION FOR NEW FAMILIES The Burnett County UW-Extension website is loaded with information to guide families through 4-H. Please share this information with new families. Re-enrolling families might not be aware of all these resources either!

PROJECT GUIDE - The 2017-2018 Burnett County 4-H Project Guide may be found on the For Members page under 4-H Youth Development. The link is https://counties.uwex.edu/burnett/files/2017/09/Burnett-County-4-H-2017-2018-Project-Guide.pdf.

ENROLLMENT HELP can be found in several links on the 4-H Support page. The link to that page, which includes Enrolling as a New Family, How to Re-Enroll, Club Manager Guide, and a link to 4HOnline, is https://burnett.uwex.edu/4-h-youth-development/4-h-support/.

AWARD GUIDELINES are also on the site on their own page, Youth Award Guidelines, under 4-H Youth Development/For Members. That link is https://burnett.uwex.edu/4-h-youth-development/for-members/youth-award-guidelines/.

COMMUNITY CLUBS are also located under the 4-H Youth Development tab. Contact information for each club as well as club location are included.

Club bench competition - tabled for future dis-cussion.

Fort Folle Avoine Lodge Models for Christmas at the Forts - Clubs on board and have started creating their models.

Christmas at the Forts Bake Sale fundraising opportunity for Leaders’ Association - Satur-day, December 8th at Fort Folle Avoine 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Bonny Moody will help Beth set criteria for donations.

NEW BUSINESS

4-H Land - We have a Tree Farm sign to be put up on the 4-H land. There is an old gravel pit on the property that could be used for shooting sports.

Meeting adjourned at 8:06 p.m. Respectfully submitted by Adrienne

Fuller, Leaders Association Secre-tary

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Thank you, Anna Treague, for hosting the Orange Club scrapbooking meeting

Orange 4-Hers working on their Forts Folle Avoine model

Wood River Beavers Fort model underway.

Area Extension Director

Lori Baltrusis

Phone: (715) 295-4112

Email: lori.baltrusis@ces.uwex.edu

Spooner Agricultural Research Station

Phone: (800) 528-1914

Kevin Schoessow, Area Ag Agent

An EEO/AA employer, University of Wisconsin-Extension provides equal opportunities in employment and programming,

including Title IX and ADA requirements. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of

program information should contact the UW-Extension office.

Burnett County 4-H Leaders Association Executive Committee

Phil Stiemann: President, Don Strabel: Vice President,

Adrienne Fuller: Secretary, Karin Reinert: Treasurer

Burnett County Extension Office

7410 County Road K, #107

Siren, WI 54872

Burnett County

Government Center

Phone: (715) 349-2151

Fax: (715) 349-2102

Email: beth.rank@ces.uwex.edu

Website: www.burnett.uwex.edu/4h

Beth Rank, 4-H/Youth and Family Development Educator

Julie Yezek, Nutrition Education Program

Beth Greiff, Support Staff