4-H Gives Back

Throughout the holiday season, the Person County 4-H Program always tries to give back to the community. Well, on November 14th, 4-H joined Golden Corral in honoring our Veterans at this year's annual Veterans Day Dinner. We helped open doors, carry trays, seat people, and even just walked around and talked to all of the veterans that evening. One 4-H'er, Logan Bates (pictured left), was chosen to sing the National Anthem that evening which was broadcast on the Roxboro Radio station. Throughout the month of October and November, we collected over 200 pounds of food (pictured right) that was donated to the Christian Help Center. Thank you to everyone that helped us reach our goal. A few short weeks later, the Woodland Lakers 4-H Club held a fundraiser for the Animal Shelter collecting toys, food, and other goodies for the animals there. (pictured below)

Ag Field Day & Farm City Week

On Thursday, November 3rd from 9am-2pm at Huck Sansbury Park, the Person County Extension Office hosted the annual Agricultural Field Day for the local fifth graders. Booths were set up allowing for the students to rotate around all of the booths throughout the day. The students will learn about the following topics: animals, dairy production, forestry, wildlife, soil and water, plants, locally grown foods, tractors and farm equipment, etc.

The theme for this year’s Farm City Week, which which was held October 31^st - November 4^th, is “Locally Grown Foods” which spotlights the importance of showing appreciation to our local farmers by purchasing their products. The 4-H poster contest was open to area 4^th graders and were judged on their orignality, creativity, neatness, and relativity to the theme. The winners were recognized at our Farm City Week luncheon.

2011 NC State Fair

Every year, we have a variety of 4-H’ers showing animals and submitting entries into the contests and the NC State Fair. This year was no different. Several youth from Person County 4-H submitted entries into the crafts and food categories of the fair and everyone brought home several ribbons. Congratulations to Hunter Alexander and Taylor Alexander on all of their ribbons from the Goat Show and also congratulations to McKayla Chambers, Eryn Haynes, Cathryn Haynes, and Hunter Alexander for their accomplishments within the different 4-H craft and food contests. If you are interested in participating in the livestock shows at the fair or submitting entries for one of the contests next  year, simply contact us at the beginning of August and we can help you figure out how to get registered.

4-H Achievement Night

All 4-H'ers who submitted record books were recognized with awards and ribbons at the annual  4-H Achievement Night Program that was held on October 7th. It was easy to see that the youth had done an outstanding job this past year. In addition to the projects, Michael Chaney was chosen as our Outstanding 4-H'er of the Year. Congratulations to Olivia Bottoms who was awarded the Distinguished Service Volunteer Award for her outstanding work as a 4-H volunteer at several of our 4-H events throughout the past year as well as serving on our Youth Advisory Council. And, the Special Merit Club Award went to the Woodland Lakers 4-H Club for all of their hard work over the past year. We had a lot of wonderful things happen this past year and I only hope with your help, we can continue to make the best better in Person County.