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GFF Information 2

Educator Article, Cook Book Update, AGNR Open House, Club Community Service List, Closings, Newsletter Deadline

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Club News 4-9

Calendar 9

Frederick County

4-H Newsletter

Frederick County 4-H Office 330 Montevue Lane (3rd Floor) Frederick, MD 21702 301-600-1589 Jennie Schiazzi [email protected] Frederick County Website

Upcoming meeting

Wednesday, August 16th Dinner is served between

6-7 pm for Leaders and Superintendents.

Leaders: 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Superintendents: 7:30-8:30 pm

Please RSVP to Jennie at

[email protected]

Poultry Set Up for Fair Anyone entering rabbits and /or poultry please mark August 26th at 9:00 am on your calendar. This is the day we will be cleaning and setting up cages for the fair (we will finish up September 2nd if needed). It is asked that each person give some of their time to help with the set up, thanks. -submitted by the Poultry & Rabbit Superintendents

Save The Date - New Family Orientation is scheduled for Monday, September 11th at 6:00 pm in the Dairy Show Ring, Bldg. 32.

Livestock Exhibitor Meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 11th at 7:00 pm in the Dairy Show Ring, Bldg. 32. Livestock exhibitor passes will be distributed at this time if all 4-H / FFA paperwork has been completed by the post-ed deadlines.

Royalty Please join us on Friday, September 15th at 7:30 pm in the Dairy Show Ring, Bldg. 32 as we crown this year’s Royal Court.

Best Kept Beef Barn All clubs wanting to be eligible for best kept BEEF barn exhibits must do a exhibit/poster/display for the center of the beef barn to be eli-gible. The booths need to be placed inside the beef barn by Sunday, September 17th by noon.

Cake Auction Did you know that most of the programs and activities that you enjoy through Frederick County 4-H are funded by cakes? We need all 4-Hers to contact family and friends to come out to the Great Frederick Fair on Sunday, Sep-tember 17th at 5:00 pm in the Livestock Show Arena, Bldg. 18 to bid on 4-H Cakes! We also need 4-H’ers to cheer on bidders during the auction. The more 4-H members show up and show their support of the bidders, the higher the prices go!

All Swine Exhibitors Swine Ambassador Essays are being excepted as of now. Just write an essay on why you want to be swine ambassador include what

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mailto:[email protected]

http://extension.umd.edu/frederick-county/4h-and-youth-development


University of Maryland Extension - Frederick County 4-H Youth Development

Frederick County 4-H Newsletter

The University of Maryland, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources programs are open to all and will not discriminate against anyone because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry, or national origin, marital status, genetic information, or political affiliation, or gender identity and expression.

Dog Project Fundraiser Fundraising raffle tickets are now available for purchase with proceeds to benefit the Frederick County Dog Program. Cash and prizes will be award-ed Thursday, September 21st in the Dog Tent at the Great Frederick Fair. 50/50 tickets are $1 each, Jar raffle tickets are $1 each, and tick-ets for a ‘meat package’ are $5 each. For more information or to pur-chase tickets please contact Lynda Bryant at [email protected]

Attention All Sheep Project Members There are one or two more great projects to prepare for the Great Frederick Fair. Please consider partici-pating in the Shepherds Lead Contest or the Decorat-ed Lamb Contest on Wednesday, September 20th at 6 pm in the Sheep Show Ring. Both of these contests are open to any 4-Her and are great ways to promote your sheep and clothing and/or fashion revue pro-jects. These contests can be a way to fulfill commu-nication or 4-H promotion in your project rec-ords. Sign up to participate at the Sheep Barn Bulle-tin Board at the beginning of the fair. The Decorated Lamb Contest is really fun and allows you to use your imagination to promote sheep, meat, wool or some other important topic that per-tains to the sheep industry. You and your sheep should be decorated or costumed. A short narration will be needed from the 4-Her for the narrator to read as you circle the ring. You can participate in this contest as an individual or as a team. To participate in the Shepherd's Lead Contest you must wear some type of wool clothing and mod-el with a sheep with a short narration about you, the sheep, and your outfit. If you plan far enough in ad-vance you can sew something yourself. If time is running short or you don't know how to sew, you can certainly wear purchased or ready made cloth-ing. A visit to a thrift store can be a great way to find an outfit for this contest. Also, ask older 4-Hers if they have any wool garments you could borrow. In this contest the participants are judged on the outfit, the appearance of your sheep and the informative content of your narration. If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Ransom or any Sheep Superintendent. Stephanie Ransom can be contacted at 240-271-4883 or [email protected] This is always a fun event and we hope more 4-Hers will participate this year.

you plan on doing as swine ambassador. You can email Mrs. Murphy the essay at [email protected] or hand it to her by the end of swine weigh-in at the Great Frederick Fair. Any questions call Mary Murphy at 301-401-2824.

Market Goat Sale Wednesday, September 20th; 7:30 pm in the Dairy Show Ring, Bldg. 32.

Beef Sheep and Swine Market Sale Thursday, September 21st; 5:30 p.m. in the Livestock Show Arena, Bldg. 18.

Indoor Building Awards Have you signed up to enter an item in the 4-H building for the Great Frederick Fair? Don’t forget to mark your calendar for Friday, September 22nd; 6:15 pm to attend the Building Awards Ceremony in the Dairy Show Ring, Bldg. 32. Awards will be presented by each depart-ment for most blue ribbons and champions.

4-H Dance Friday, September 22nd; 8:00 pm no over-night staying in the barns through 4-H. Permission forms will be available at the door, and each 4-Her may bring one friend under 18 years of age. Held in the Livestock Show Arena, Bldg. 18.

Exhibitor’s Breakfast (Livestock Awards) Satur-day, September 23rd; 7:30 am in the Livestock Show Arena, Bldg. 18 (ticketed event). Livestock awards will be presented.

GFF Superintendent Information questions about a specific species entry or a building department entry? Contact information is located at the Frederick County 4-H GFF webpage: http://extension.umd.edu/frederick-county/4h-youth-development/great-frederick-fair Check out this page for great FAQ’s and answers about the Great Frederick Fair!

Livestock orientations will be held on Saturday, September 16th:

Swine 12:15 pm Sheep directly following Swine Dairy 1:00 pm Beef 5:00 pm Goats 5:30 pm




http://extension.umd.edu/frederick-county/4h-youth-development/great-frederick-fair

http://extension.umd.edu/frederick-county/4h-youth-development/great-frederick-fair




A Note from Ms. Donielle

Frederick County 4-H had an amazing three weeks of camp this summer at the Frederick County 4-H Camp & Activities Center. Over 200 youth attended 4-H Camp. Brand new for 2017 was a three day Clover Camp for our youngest members. Campers participated in cooking and can-ning classes, outdoor classes and shooting sports, as well as a wide varie-ty of swimming, craft and STEM classes. A special thank you goes to our camp director, Mike Kuster and all the staff including Christy Fuss, Elea-nor Pittinger, Sara Arnold, Ashley Fuss, Terrance Nicholson, Natalie Schi-azzi, and our 15 counselors. Without their months of planning and prep-aration camp would not have been such an awesome experience for our 4-H'ers. Anyone interested in serving as a camp counselor for 2018 can complete a counselor application by January 1st or email Ms. Jennie at [email protected] for more information.

Donielle Axline, Frederick County 4-H Educator

Camp and Activities Center Community Service

Club Leaders - please contact Christy Fuss at the Camp Center 240-397-9442 prior to your club’s month to see when and if your club’s help is needed for any events. Aug - Jr. Dairy, Rocky Ridge, The 4-H Achievers Sep - (fair) Oct - Bug Patrol, Paddock Pals Nov - Greener Pastures, Johnsville Dec - Tom’s Creek, Walkersville

Oct-Nov Newsletter Deadline: October 1, 2017

Send articles and pictures to [email protected]

AGNR Open House Saturday, October 14th at the Central Maryland Research & Education Center (CMREC) Clarks-ville Facility in Ellicott City, MD. Please plan to join us to learn more about the College of Agricul-ture and Natural Resources’ academics, research, and extension programs.

Office Closing Labor Day

Monday, September 4th

Cook Book Update A big thank you to all who purchased one of Jane Smith recipe books. As of this date, a total of $8,548 has been given to the Frederick County 4-H Camp and Activities Center. In the photo is Christy Fuss, President of the Camp Center; Mike Custer, Vice President of the Camp Center; Jane Smith, Author; and Sally Arnold, Coordinator. If you have not ordered your copy, they are availa-ble by mailing $22 to Sally Arnold at 519 N Mar-ket St., Frederick MD 21701.

Shooting Sports activity!

Canning fun! Beautiful craft project!

Clover Camp






On July 9, 2017, the Robo Rangers of Frederick County, MD did their community service project at the UMD Exten-sion Office. As you know, this year's theme is military. The project had two parts. We chose to donate provisions to the charity, "Any Soldier". The second part of the service project was writing and sending letters to the soldiers. These let-ters were to show them our appreciation for their sacrifice. We wanted them to know that we do not take them for grant-ed. The letters said things like; "Hello, soldier of the U.S. military. I hope you are pleased to know that I appreciate you......." The project was organized by president, Daniel. For more in-formation about "Any Soldier", go to www.anysoldier.com

Fourth of July Parade in Walkersville, MD By: Isaac O’Hara, Reporter of Kaleidoscope 4-H Club

Our club decided to enter a float in the Walkersville Carnival 125th Anniversary Parade on July 4, 2017. As a club, we worked out what our theme would be: “Score BIG with 4-H” and we chose to use basketball as our sport. We painted our sign “Score Big with 4-H!” and hung it on the sides of a large baling cart. Then, we got some red, white and blue balloons, blew them up, and tied them to the cart with some ribbon. Then, we zip-tied some Stars ’n’ Stripes banners around the cart. Finally, we added streamers and decorations to the cart, and then added a basket-ball arcade game into the bailing cart. We had many people from our club helping to decorate and participate in the parade. Some of us walked alongside the float, dribbling basketballs and held signs. Others rode the float and played basketball, threw candy and waved to the bystanders. After one full hour of sweating and perspiration and exhaust billowing out from the tailpipe of the upgraded old-time Chevrolet in front of us, we emerged at the judge’s table, and received a special award for our float!




Valley Urbanites News Summer has been very busy!! From trans-porting pigs to weigh-in, in a dog crate to craft day, it has been a very interesting summer! Club members met in June for their annual picnic and achievement pro-gram. Everyone had a great time as we fellowshipped and recognized our mem-bers. On June 3rd, several members helped to prepare and serve dinner at a local church. On Sunday, June 4th, several members helped Meghan with a run, Todd’s Cause, to raise funds for cancer re-search in honor of her Dad. Members also volunteered to serve drinks at the Mid-dletown VFD carnival June 19-24. Craft Day was also held in June. Members com-pleted many crafts that they could enter at the fairs. A few members cleared the flow-er bed at the 4-H Camp Center. Three members are participating in Horticulture Judging which meets every Tuesday dur-ing the summer. Members are getting excited as they anticipate their involve-ment in the Maryland State Fair and the Great Frederick Fair!!

Craft Day

During the month of June 2017 the Rocky Ridge 4-H Club participated in several activities. The members collected and donat-ed dog and cat food for the local food bank for families with pets. The members of the field day committee pulled together and hosted a club field day at Eylers Stables and Flea Market for the young showmen to practice and participate in a fun filled day. Members of the club brought craft projects and cooking projects to be judged for prizes. Members also brought animal projects to practice for up coming fairs and shows. They played games and enjoyed lunch to-gether. A good time was had by all!! (picture on right)

Pictured left to right, back to front Peyton, Jacob, Lori, Jason, Travis, Livestock Judge- Michael Kinna, Justin, Kaitlynn, Colton, Samantha, Brittnee, Laura, Sierra, BreAnn, Braden, Kelsey, Katie, Caroline, Ashley, Cora, Chloe, McKenzie, Preston, Jacob, Kaitlynn.

Members preparing and serving a dinner meal at a local church

Working on the flower bed at the 4-H Camp Center

The Rocky Ridge 4-H Club is enjoying the warm weather! From outside club meetings with family din-ners to helping out the community. We planted flow-ers and mulch at the senior citizen building. Each member donated flowers to make this beauti-ful. (picture on left) Madison Ohler Rocky Ridge 4-H Club

See you at the fair!




On behalf of Josie Ritchie, Reporter of Monocacy Achievers Club:

At the July meeting, the Monocacy Achievers Club worked on preparing for the Great Frederick Fair. We planned our entries and discussed the fair theme and the decorations for the swine exhib-it. Then the club had a water balloon fight and had Slurpees to cool off from the July heat!

Tailwaggers 4-H Club – August Newsletter The Tailwaggers Club hosted their annual dog show on June 3rd, which serves as the county qualifier for the State 4-H Dog Show in August. Fourteen dog/handler teams participated in Fitting & Showing, Obedience, and Rally competition, along with Canine Good Citizen testing (a AKC title program). Sarah & Rosie took Grand Champion in Fitting & Showing, Joanna & Jack grabbed

the overall high score in Obedience, and Olivia & Cali earned overall high score in Rally. Six dogs passed the basic Canine Good Citizen test and earned their CGC ti-tles. Additionally, Mandy’s Maggie sailed through the Advanced CGC test. Many thanks to judges, Cathi DiGiacomo, Rebecca Wilson, Tim Corun, & Dee Lozupone, to CKC for hosting the event, and to Tailwag-ger, Cully who organized & ran the event.

Also in June, the Tailwaggers helped at the 4-H Camp Center to serve dinner to the life guards in training there. On June 25th representatives from the club visited Glade Valley Nursing Home with their dogs to greet the residents. Coming up on Au-gust 29th, eleven Tailwaggers and thirteen dogs will represent Frederick County at the State 4-H Dog Show. The show starts at noon at the Cow Palace Center Ring. If you can, stop by and cheer them on! If you have a dog project and would like to par-ticipate in Dog Bowl, please contact the club. Teams are being made and practices are being scheduled. Email [email protected] for more information.

Cully is busy running the Tailwaggers Show.

Sarah & Rosie win Grand Champion at the Tailwaggers Show.

Mandy & Maggie talk with judge Dee Lozupone after successfully com-pleting the Advanced CGC test at the Tailwaggers Show.

Joanna & Jack perform the Figure 8 exercise at the Tailwag-gers Show. Valerijs and Josie serve as posts while Rebecca Wilson judges.

(l to r) Kelly, Maggie, Ella, and Hannah visit Glade Valley Nursing Home with their dogs.






The 4-H Achievers have been very busy this sum-mer. In June, club members completed their beautifica-tion project by planting flowers around the Masonic sign. Club members also enjoyed an evening of cake decorating with Miss Kim. This is always a fun event, and members enjoy using their imagination to create a unique design.

The club also enjoyed its annual trip to Adventure Park where members had fun riding go-carts, roller coasters, and playing laser tag. In July, members and their families enjoyed food and fellowship at the club picnic. Members are gearing up for a busy fall and preparing for the Great Frederick Fair.

The finished designs: Top: Buck, Brandon, Wally and Sarah. Bot-tom: Wally proudly displaying his design, Miss Kim helping club members with cake decorating.

Club members working hard at planting flowers around the Masonic sign. Top photo, club members with the completed pro-ject: from left, Buck, Adam, Sarah, Wally and Brandon.

Club members enjoyed an evening at Adventure Park. Top photo from left, Brandon, Blair, Sarah and a friend, Wally and Buck. A fun time was had by all.

Members enjoyed a favorite activity, cake decorating. Shown with their finished cakes (top left, clockwise) are Adam, Brandon, Sarah, and Buck.




The Lewistown Mt. View 4-H Club celebrated June dairy month meeting at the Thurmont Grange Hall. Thank you to the 4-H members and parents for the speeches pertaining to dairy month. We enjoyed the remaining presentations for our club at this meeting. We played a game with me teams building sundaes and enjoyed eating them!

For our July meeting we had a picnic at Thurmont Sportsman Club. Each family brought two covered dishes, drinks, and the club ordered chicken. We had a short meeting. Because of the threatening storm we were unable to use the pool. Thank you to the Farmer family for giving us the opportunity to target shoot with guns. It was a lot of fun!

In August we plan to meet and work on our decorations for the Frederick Fair. See you at the fair!

Club Reporter: Tarrah Garner




Month Date Time Page

August 16 6:30 pm 1 Leaders Meeting @ UME Frederick 4-H Office

16 7:30 pm 1 Superintendents Meeting @ UME Frederick 4-H Office

24-Sep 4 1 The Maryland State Fair

September 4 1 UME Office Closed - Labor Day

15-23 2 The Great Frederick Fair

October 1 1 Deadline: Oct-Nov Newsletter

14 3 AGNR Open House @ Central MD Research & Education Center

Pictures: upper left - clockwise The Calico Clovers took an exciting trip to the Spy Museum on June 17th.

Zach showing club members how to prepare his calf for a cattle show. Ava and Aeriana giving a presentation at the 4-H Campfire.

Delaney giving her demo on parts of a pig.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EXTENSION

FREDERICK COUNTY OFFICE

330 MONTEVUE LANE

FREDERICK, MARYLAND 21702

Donielle R. Axline Principal Agent Associate

301-600-1590 [email protected]

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