February ended with the 4-H Favorite Food Show and Achievement Night! This year there were 21 youth participants and 6 adult participants, making a wide variety of foods. The following 4-H’ers participated in the cloverbud category (5-8 year olds): Evan Andrews, Hunter Asbury, Cheridan Heath, Dylan Heath, Nicholas Gillen, Brygel Murrell, Cassidy Rouse, Adrien Sanchez, and Karly Wynne. In the Junior Division (9-13) in the fruit category Lane Stewart placed first, and second place went to Ashley Murphy. In the vegetable category Hannah Stewart placed first. In the grains category Bryson Murrell placed first, Christian Ray placed second, and there was a tie for third between Brandon Gillen and Coleman Stewart. In the meat category first place went to Megan Downs, taking second was Morgan Rouse, and in third was Logan Murphy. In the Senior Division (14-18) dairy category first place went to Bailey Jordan. In the meat category Mary Downs took first place.
In the Adult Division, there were six entries this year, with a wide variety of foods. Placing first was Aimee Gillen, in second place was Dianne Bell, and in third place was Eldo Jones.
The Favorite Food as voted by all those in attendance was Brygel Murrell’s sausage cheese dip. Congratulations to everyone!
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| Bailey Jordan and Mary Downs waiting for their "Favorite Food" to be judged. |
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| Hannah Stewart, Ashley Murphy, and Lane Stewart anxiously waiting to serve the judges. |
Achievement Night was held immediately following the Favorite Food Show. During Achievement Night 4-H’ers were honored for all of their achievements during 2011. Some of the highlights included volunteer awards, the 4-H slide show, awards for numerous 4-H activities, and the naming of Junior and Senior 4-H’er of the year. The 2011 Junior 4-H’er of the Year was Coleman Stewart and the 2011 Senior 4-H’er of the Year was Mary Downs. The evening started to wind down with the induction of the recently elected County Council Officers: President – Mary Downs, Vice President – Kiarra Hill, Secretary – Frederica Smith, and Reporter – Cheryl Rhodes. In addition to the general 4-H awards, the Lords and Ladies 4-H Club was recognized as an official 4-H club and received their 4-H charter. Congratulations to everyone!
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| Coleman Stewart receiving Jones Co. 4-H 2011 Junior 4-Her of the Year! |
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| Mary Downs receiving Jones County 4-H Senior 4-Her of the Year |
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| County Council Officer Inductions |
Moving on from Favorite Food Show and Achievement Night, 4-H had six teens attend 4-H Teen Retreat in Wilmington the weekend of March 9-10. Four of the teens that attended teen retreat did an awesome job teaching workshops at the event. Way to make Jones County proud! The teens that attended were: Mary Downs, Megan Downs, Kiarra Hill, Andrew Reid, Cheryl Rhodes, and Frederica Smith.
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| Frederica Smith, Kiarra Hill, and Cheryl Rhodes teaching a workshop on the importance of preventing substance abuse. |
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| Andrew Reid explaining how to play a "Minute to - Win it" game during the district officer workshop |
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| All the Jones County Teens who attended Teen Retreat |
The Jones County Livestock Club are doing great things! After practicing diligently for the past several weeks we are proud to say we held our own ground at the TriLivestock Skillathon Contest in Sampson County on March 10th. Our teams consisted of: Team A: Ashley Murphy, Logan Murphy, Paul Pike. Team B: Cheyenne Pike, Brandon Gillen, Evan Andrews. With several newcomers to the team, I think we did awesome! Team A was able to hold on to the Stockman's Bowl first match with a score of 6 to -1. But, we were unable to hold off Wayne County in match 2! In overall standings, we are happy to announce that Paul Pike placed 7th in overall high score individual Junior livestock judging and Ashley Murphy placed 1st in overall high score individual junior skillathon! If anyone is interested in coming by for a practice and seeing if you like it. We would love to have you! See Mary Murphy - Jones County Livestock Club Leader or Margaret Bell - Craven/Jones Livestock Agent, for more details.
The Clover 4-H Club, an after school science and technology club at Comfort Elementary, recently elected and installed the following youth as club officers: President – Zoe Taylor, Vice President – Megan Jones, Secretary – Allie Semones, Treasurer – Parker Whaley, Recruitment Chair – Summer Humphery, Program Chair – Elizabeth Heath, News Reporter – Chelsea Eubanks, Community Service Chair – Michael Trask. Congratulations to all these newly installed club officers.
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| Clover 4-H Club Officers being inducted |
Congratulations to all these 4-Hers for the amazing job they are doing! You all are a great group to work with :)
Reminder: Club leader please remember that we need to plan our spring meeting. Be on the look out for a doodle poll to select the best date for all of us to meet. I promise to try to keep it to an hour.
County Council members and teens interested in joining County Council please be sure to have our next meeting - March 30 on your calendar. We will plan to meet at 1pm, if this time does not work for you let me know ASAP.
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