Newsletter - February 7, 2025 | |
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Arapahoe County CSU Extension Office Closed to Walk-in Clients on Fridays
If you have any questions, please feel free to email our staff:
Shaylen Florez - sflorez@arapahoegov.com
Hannah Henderson - hhenderson@arapahoegov.com
Shawn Tallant - stallant@arapahoegov.com
Jean Walton - jwalton@arapahoegov.com
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Holiday Closures
The office will be closed on Monday, February 17th for Presidents' day.
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February 22
Front Range Creative Cooks Contest
March 8
Market Beef Tag-In
April 1
New 4-H Member & 4-H Cloverbud Enrollment Deadline
April 26
2025 Regional Speech and Demonstrations Contest
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4-H Community - 4HOnline is open for new 4-H Members and Cloverbuds to 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:
4/1/25 New Cloverbud & 4-H Member enrollment deadline.
5/1/25 Project add/drop deadline.
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Hello Dog 4-H members and families! Dog Classes are at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds, East Hall. Classes are held TUESDAY evenings.
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 11
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 18
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 25
If you should have questions, please call or text Janele, 303-880-5538.
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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.
2025 Cat Fun Match
Save the Date! The 4-H Cat Fun Match will be held on Saturday May 24, 2025 at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds in the Windmill Rooms.
Please watch for more information.
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Attention Dog Project Members!
Please make sure to enter in your Dog ID information in 4HOnline. That includes pictures and vaccination records. Without that information it is considered incomplete. Please remember that members need to be 8 and older as of December 31 to enroll in animal projects. The deadline to submit your animal ID info is Thursday, May 1. Click on the image to the right for instructions.
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Attention Cat Project Members!
Please make sure to enter in your Cat ID information in 4HOnline. That includes pictures and vaccination records. Without that information it is considered incomplete. Please remember that members need to be 8 and older as of December 31 to enroll in animal projects. The deadline to submit your animal ID info is Thursday, May 1. Click on the image to the left for instructions.
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Hello 4-H Dog and Cat Parents and Guardians!
You are welcome to attend the Companion Animal Committee Meetings. You will not be a voting member of the committee (unless you are already a current Companion Animal committee member) as our committee is full.
Some of our meetings are done via zoom and others in-person. Our next meeting is scheduled for TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 6:45 PM in-person. We typically meet in the Windmill room at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds. If that should change after we receive our monthly confirmation from the Fairgrounds team, we will make sure to update that in upcoming e-newsletters.
If you should have questions, please email Shaylen Florez.
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Please click on the image to the left for info on the Arapahoe County 4-H Horse Project and upcoming events!
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Clubs have started indoor horse meetings. Check with your club leaders for more information please!
Our Horse Safety Meeting and Q&A is April 3 at 6:30 PM
Open Horse Show is Saturday, June 7at 9:00 am
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Please click on the image to the right for info on the Shooting Sports project!
Our Fall Fun Shoot has been cancelled this year, but we look forward to bringing it back in the future!
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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.
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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.
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The signup genius for Shooting Sports is coming soon. In the meantime, please reserve the following dates in your calendar!
2025 Training and shooting schedule (1st Saturday & 3rd Sunday):
Feb 22nd - Centennial Gun Club – Safety Meeting – 10:00 AM - Youth who shoot pistol and rifle, would you be interested in having an indoor practice after this meeting? If so, please email Hannah Henderson today at hhenderson@arapahoegov.com to express interest.
Mar 1st - Fairgrounds - Safety Meeting & Indoor Practice – 1:30 PM. After the safety meeting, there will be practice for pistol, rifle, archery, and hunter safety and outdoor skills.
Mar 12th - Fairgrounds – Indoor Practice – 7:00 PM
Mar 16th - Sorber’s Ranch – 1:40 PM
Apr 5th - Sorber’s Ranch – 1:40 PM
Apr 27th - Fairgrounds – Indoor Practice – 1:40 PM
May 3rd - Sorber’s Ranch – 1:40 PM
May 18th - Sorber’s Ranch – 1:40 PM
Jun 7th - Sorber’s Ranch – 1:40 PM
Jun 22nd - Sorber’s Ranch – 1:40 PM – ***This will be the final shoot prior to County Shoot and the deadline to register.
Shotgun practices are at 10:00 AM Saturdays at Golden Gun Club for skeet only and Sundays at Kiowa Creek Gun Club at 8:00 AM for clays only. Shotgun trap practices will still be at Sorber’s Ranch (1st Saturday & 3rd Sunday).
COUNTY SHOOT - JUN 28th & 29th
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Please visit our Livestock page by clicking on the image to the right.
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Colorado State Fair Master Showmanship
The Fair Planning Committee has decided to nominate a youth in our county for the Master Showmanship event this year.
The event is similar to Round Robin. Participants will be asked to show a market steer, goat, lamb, hog, and horse as well as take a written exam. A Grand and Reserve Grand Champion Master Showman will be selected based on the highest combined scores of the live show classes and written exam. To enter, participants must have won their county's Master Showmanship class or their county's equivalent.
The rules and date for 2025 are not published yet, but you can read a copy of the 2024 Colorado State Fair Master Showman rules here. There is also a video of last year's show here. We will have more information in our Fair Book and will continue to post updates in our newsletter.
Stay tuned, and know that we are excited to have someone represent Arapahoe County this year.
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Targhee Sheep Association – Starter Flock Program
Calling all young producers! Apply now for a chance to be awarded your very own sheep through our Starter Flock Program. This is an amazing opportunity to grow, learn, and make new friends. Don’t miss out—apply today! Applications are due March 1, 2025. Please click the link for More information and how to apply
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Upcoming Dates for 2025:
MQA:
Thursday, February 20 at Byers Ag Shop in the evening
Saturday April 5 at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds – Time TBD
Animal Tag Dates:
Beef tag-in: Saturday, March 8
Swine tag check-out: Thursday April 17
Sheep and Goat tag-in: Monday, May 5
Red Carpet Show: Saturday, May 17
State Conference: June 17-19 (Livestock Quiz Bowl)
Urban Ranchers: June 23-27
Achievement Night: Wednesday, October 8
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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.
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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. | |
Save the Date!
The Regional Cake Decorating Contest will be held on Saturday, May 24 in Boulder County. Please watch for additional information coming soon
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When: Saturday, March 29
Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Byers Library
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.
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Arapahoe County 4-H delegates had a great time at the 2025 Leadership Development Conference, January 25-26, 2025. Jacoby, Grant, Garrett, Daphne and Cadence were busy with senate meetings, workshops, dances, and banquet where we had special guests Commissioner Baker, his wife Yangson, and Dina Baker Arapahoe County CSU Extension Director attended. | |
Colorado 4-H Scholarships
Colorado 4-H awards scholarships annually to outstanding youth who have actively engaged in Colorado 4-H clubs for at least three years. The scholarship process is open from December 1, 2024, through March 1, 2025. Scholarship recipients will be announced in May 2025. There are opportunities available for all kinds of students, including those attending CSU or other universities, trade schools or junior colleges, transfer students, and continuing students. We encourage our 4-H participants to apply.
For more information on the scholarship process and scholarships available, visit https://co4h.colostate.edu/about-us/scholarships/. If you have scholarship questions, please contact OEE_4-h_scholarships@colostate.edu.
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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
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(303) 730-1920
CSU-Extension@ArapahoeGov.com
6934 S. Lima St., Suite B
Centennial, CO 80112
Colorado State University Extension is an equal opportunity provider. | Colorado State University does not discriminate on the basis of disability and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. | CSU’s Office of Engagement and Extension ensures meaningful access and equal opportunities to participate to individuals whose first language is not English.
Colorado State University Extension es un proveedor que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. | Colorado State University no discrimina por motivos de discapacidad y se compromete a proporcionar adaptaciones razonables. | Office of Engagement and Extension de CSU garantiza acceso significativo e igualdad de oportunidades para participar a las personas quienes su primer idioma no es el inglés.
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