Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign, Sunday, April 30

We had a good crew today at the Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign, Sunday, April 30. Pulaski County 4-H loves our Pulaski Tractor Supply Store. Please come out this week to support Pulaski County 4-H and buy 4-H Paper Clovers.

Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign, Saturday, April 29

Cotton Candy by Mr. Tolliver.

Helping clean up the Tractor Supply Parking Lot

Too cute posing for the Paparazzi.

Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign Friday April 28

Destiny and Stephanie pause for the paparazzi. They're so amazing.

Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign

Kylian, Stephanie and Destiny working hard Thursday night, April 27, during the Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign.

It's Time for Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign

It's time for the Tractor Supply Company 4-H paper Clover campaign April 26th through May 7th. Come out to the Pulaski Store to support Pulaski County 4-H and help us raise money toward our future 4-H programs.

First 4-H Embryology Lesson & Candling at Pulaski Elementary

Morgan Paulette working with students from Mrs. Alls' Classroom

Morgan Paulette, Pulaski ANR Extension Agent, and Chris Lichty, Pulaski 4-H Extension Agent, with the Virginia Cooperative Extension - Pulaski Office, spent the morning at Pulaski Elementary School with five third grade and one fourth grade classroom for the first 4-H Embryology Lesson and Egg Candling.  Each classroom was provided a Brinsea Seven Egg Automatic Incubator by the Virginia Cooperative Extension for the project and seven eggs were set last week in each classroom incubator, Wednesday, April 19.  
  

Morgan and Chris talked about the parts of egg with the students and cracked an unfertilized egg to provide a more “hands-on” educational experience.  Morgan and Chris then candled each classrooms eggs showing the students the chick development on Day 6 of the incubation period.  Fifteen days are left in the 21 day incubation period with hatching to occur beginning May 9. 

Morgan and Chris will return two more times to each classroom, once next week for the second lesson and last candling before hatching, and then in two weeks to talk about the parts of the chicken, with the chicks in hand, and then how chickens are used in the agriculture industry from layers to meat chickens.
  
 

Chris Lichty working with students from Mrs. Hamblin's Classroom

 Chicks will head off to their forever farm between May 19-22.     

Come help with our Annual 4-H Area Contest, May 6, 2017, at Riverlawn Elementary School

Hello 4-H Friends and Friends of Extension,

We are looking for folks to help with our Annual 4-H Area Contest, May 6, 2017, at Riverlawn Elementary School.

 

For those not familiar, this is our culminating 4-H Contest for the year for 4-H'ers, ages 9-19, to showcase their talents in Dramatic Reading, Presentation, Public Speaking and Share the Fun, and compete for top honors as a Grand Champion.  We are expecting close to 100 4-H'ers and need Adult Judges and Teen Room Chairs to make the event a success.  Day begins at 8:15am and concludes typically within an hour of your designated room assignment and category.  Of course, you're welcome to stay with us until around noon to help tidy up and put the school back in order.    

Please click on the link to record your interest and help "Make the Best Better" in 4-H across the New River Valley.

4-H Area Contest, May 6, 2017 @ Riverlawn Elementary School

Hope we can count on your support.

Thanks,

Chris Lichty

Senior 4-H Extension Agent

Co-Chair 4-H Area Contest

 

No 4-H Shooting Club nor 4-H Camp Training today, Monday, April 24

Spring 2017 Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign

The Spring 2017 Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign  is scheduled for April 26 - May 7.

And we, Pulaski County 4-H, need our 4-H community (4-H'ers, parents, adult leaders, teachers, school staff and community partners) to show support by signing up.  We plan to greet customers, help them to their cars with purchases, return buggies inside the store, help inside the store if needed, and just be there with a friendly smiling face to maybe recruit a new member or two. We can even set up our displays showcasing "What We Do" and offer Homemade Baked Goods for additional donations.

We need a minimum of two 4-H'ers and two parents/adults to work weeknights, 5:30 - 7pm, and Saturday, 1 - 3pm, and Sunday, 1 - 3pm, and then from 1 - 7pm on the last Sunday.

Each of us is asked to participate at least once. 

Tractor Supply Stores who have 4-H club participation in-store during the 4-H Paper Clover Campaign raise an average of 40% more than stores who don't.  

And for those 4-H'ers that come out to represent Pulaski County 4-H, you will earn credit to attend leadership events for Fall 2017 and 2018 such as 4-H Camp, 4-H Day at the State Capitol, 4-H Congress, Teen Leadership Retreats, to name some.  4-H'ers will also be entered in gift card drawings to Tractor Supply aned 4-H Clubs will be entered for gift cards to Tractor Supply and gift certificates to the 4-H Mall.

And for the Fall 2016 Tractor Supply Company 4-H Paper Clover Campaign we raised almost $1,100 for Pulaski County 4-H.  We were ranked in the top 10 in the Nation for 4-H Clover Sales to Transactions, 2nd in the Region, 2nd in the State and 1st in the District. We ask that everyone come out strong to support this great cause for our 4-H program and 4-H clubs.  As you can see we all walk away winners in the end.  And we'd really really like to be recognized Nationally as one of the top 10 stores in the nation. 

Click here to sign-up for the Spring 2017 4-H Paper Clover Campaign 

Look forward to seeing you at Tractor Supply Company - Pulaski.
Cheers, Mr. L and Mrs. Hurst

4-H County Share the Fun Winners from Thursday, April 20, 2017

Nadia Jackson - Instrumental Champion, Elena Vance - Instrumental Runner Up, Katrina Collins - Vocal Champion, Morgan Price - Variety Champion, Laurin Ervine - Variety Champion, Kendra Trail - Variety Runner Up, Molly Parsell - Dance Runner Up, Kameron Carden - Vocal Runner Up, Ava Stanley - Dance Champion

Thirty-seven youth, with 34 acts, from five Elementary Schools were invited to our Annual 4-H County Share the Fun, on Thursday, April 20, 2017, to compete for Top Honors and the opportunity to represent Pulaski County 4-H at the PD-4 4-H Area Contest.  Winners and Runner-Ups were selected for Vocal, Dance, Variety and Instrumental Categories.