Newsletter - January 24, 2025

4-H Community - 4HOnline is open for you to enroll/re-enroll for the 2024-2025 4-H year. Click on the image above for two tip sheets the State

4-H office put together on enrolling in 4HOnline. One is for families and the other is for volunteers. Click here to access 4HOnline.

Important Enrollment Dates:

1/31/25 Returning Cloverbud & 4-H Member enrollment deadline with $25 per Cloverbud/Member late fee.

1/31/25 Returning Volunteer/Leader enrollment deadline.

4/1/25 New Cloverbud & 4-H Member enrollment deadline.

5/1/25 Project add/drop deadline.

Dog

Hello Dog 4-H members and families! Dog Classes are at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds, East Hall. Classes are held TUESDAY evenings.

Tuesday, JANUARY 28

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 4

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 11

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 18

Tuesday, FEBRUARY 25

If you should have questions, please call or text Janele, 303-880-5538.

2025 Dog Fun Match

Save the date! The 2025 Dog Fun Match will be held on Saturday, May 10, 2025.

More information will follow at a later date.

FCS & General Projects

Horse

Please click on the image to the left for info on the Arapahoe County 4-H Horse Project and upcoming events!

The Horse Record Book is available online as a doc and PDF. Please visit the Colorado 4-H Animal Project page here to find the e-records accordingly.

Remember to check out the Colorado 4-H Horse Resources page for more information on the levels program, helpful equine webinars, and more.

Shooting Sports

Save the Date (Registration information will be available in January)

Colorado 4-H Shooting Sports Leader Trainings:

• March 7-9, 2025: Morgan County (Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, and Archery) 
• March 14-16, 2025: Weld County (Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, and Archery) 
• March 21-23, 2025: Pueblo County (Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Archery, Muzzleloading, Western Heritage, Hunting and Outdoor Skills)
• March 28-30, 2025: Garfield County (Rifle, Pistol, Shotgun, Archery, Muzzleloading, Western Heritage, Hunting and Outdoor Skills)

Reminder: All volunteers must be enrolled and approved through 4-H Online before they can register for the trainings.

Shooting Sports Practice Updates

Attention families:

• This year, check in for shooting sport practices will begin at 1:40 PM. The safety briefing will be held promptly at 1:45 PM.
• Any youth who is not in attendance for the safety briefing will not be able to shoot that day. You MUST be at the safety briefing that day in order to participate in practice.
• For youth in shotgun disciplines, the safety briefings are held prior to shotgun practices. If a youth attends a safety debriefing prior to shotgun practice, he/she will not be required to attend a second safety briefing in order to shoot at practice that same day.
• In other words, youth who attend a shotgun practice that morning will not need to attend a second safety briefing that same day, but they are welcome to do so.
• Overall, every youth must attend at least one safety briefing the same day as practice in order to participate in practice that day.
• Our first safety meeting will be Saturday February 22 at 10:00 AM at Centennial Gun Club.
• The second safety meeting will be March 1 at the Fairgrounds at 1:30 PM. This safety meeting will be followed by an indoor practice for all disciplines except shotgun and muzzleloading.
• Keep an eye out for the signup genius to sign up for practices soon. Email Hannah Henderson with questions please.

Livestock

Junior Livestock Committee

If you are interested in joining our Junior Livestock Committee meetings, please reach out to Hannah Henderson (hhenderson@arapahoegov.com).

National Western Stock Show (NWSS)

Are you going to the National Western Stock Show this year? If so, please email Hannah Henderson and let her know which classes/dates you are participating, so our community can come support you!

4-H Suggestion "Box"

4-H Contests

The Front Range Creative Cooks Contest is coming up! Registration is up and ready to go. It will close on Friday, February 7. Click on the image above to register for the contest.

The cost to enter the contest is $6 per member. Click here to pay the $6 contest fee.

The contest will be held on Saturday, February 22 in the Waymire Dome Building at the Adams County Fairgrounds. After registration closes, we will send out an email to everyone with more details about the contest.

Click here and scroll down to "Contests" to read the rules for the contest.

Please contact Julia at jhurdelbrink@adcogov.org or Shaylen at sflorez@arapahoegov.com if you have questions about the contest.

For more information and the rules for the 2025 Front Range Regional Speech Contest, click here. Once you are on the page, scroll down to the "contests" section.

Camps

Cloverbud Camps

When: Saturday, March 1

Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Location: Arapahoe County CSU Extension Office

This camp is for Cloverbuds, ages 5 - 7 as of 12/31/24. It will feature Cookie Decorating and Pizza Making.

Click on either image above to register.

For questions, email Shaylen at sflorez@arapahoegov.com.

When: Saturday, March 29

Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Location: We hope to have this at Byers Library, we are waiting on confirmation.

This camp is for Cloverbuds, ages 5 - 7 as of 12/31/24. It will feature Rockets and Arts & Crafts.

Click on either image above to register.

For questions, email Shaylen at sflorez@arapahoegov.com.

Arapahoe County 4-H Foundation Scholarship Application Available!

Are you an Arapahoe County 4-H Member who is a Senior in high school this year? Are you starting to think about college scholarships? If you are, the Arapahoe County 4-H Foundation scholarship application is now available.

Thanks to our Arapahoe County 4-H Foundation, scholarship amounts have increased this year!

Click on the image to the left to access the application. Once on the 4-H Foundation page, scroll down to "2025 4-H Foundation Scholarship Application."

It's never too early to start the application process. The application is due 2/1/2024 to Hannah Henderson. Interviews will be held on 2/26/2025, so save that date if you are going to apply.

NEW 4-H Scholarship!

These scholarships are for $1,000 per student, and we have 20 available this year. The deadline to apply is February 25, 2025. All scholarship recipients will be invited to the 2025 Canvas Scholarship Banquet which will take place in Thornton, Colorado on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Click on the image above for the application.

The funds for these scholarships are raised through our Northern Colorado Golf Tournament and we would welcome any help with the planning and promotion of our tournament in 2025! Please let us know if that’s something you’re interested in and we’ll be sure to provide you with additional information once the planning process begins early next year. We would love to grow the tournament enough next year to either (a) double the total number of scholarships or (b) double the amount of each scholarship.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide and please contact me with any questions.

Vincent Neal, Executive Director

Cell: 614.634.3940

Email: vincentn@canvas.org

(303) 730-1920

CSU-Extension@ArapahoeGov.com

6934 S. Lima St., Suite B

Centennial, CO 80112

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