Greetings! 4-H is really the HEART of our volunteer-ism with much to do with our HANDS and create with our HEAD and present in HEALTH. Yes, we are the standard for our VLA organization as we model to our future members – the 4-Hers in our current clubs and community. Please join us at the Marriott Hotel, March 11-13, 2011 as we celebrate and share the volunteerism which keeps 4-H alive and well in our great state of Louisiana. Remember Louisiana i-4-H: There’s An App for THAT!! Sincerely, Yvonne L Normand VLA President – 2010-2011

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only way to experi-

ence the richness of

life is to live in an

attitude of gratitude:

to appreciate what

you have and what

you can give. The

best way to ensure

your happiness is to

assist others in ex-

periencing their

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Message from the President

Robotics Program

Volunteer Voice

Volunteer Voice

A Publication for the Louisiana 4-H

Volunteer Leaders Association whose

mission is to provide its members with

opportunities to inform, educate, and

support one another to better serve

Louisiana youth.

Louisiana 4-H Volunteer Leaders Association

Newsletter Date

Winter 2011

HIGHLIGHTS:

Message from the President...page 1

Robotics...page 1

4-H dog club….page 2

Canine events...page 2

Tailgate Party...page 3

Hornets game...page 3

Collegiate 4-H...page 3 LA Visits KY...page 4

This is the robotics club in Ascension parish, in which the students are learning how to program robots. They also are talking about their exhi-bition projects for Ascension Demon-stration Contest and Robofest.

Upcoming 4-H Canine Connection dog club sponsored youth events:

There will be canine and youth information and activities at the

following events:

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Page 2 Volunteer Voice

Kids & K-nine’s: April 26th 2:00 to 5:00 at the Cane’s Dog Park (City Park) All Youth grade K-12 can bring their

dogs to learn responsible dog owner-ship that includes behavior, safety, train-ing, etiquette, and more.

There will be a $30 fee that includes training material and supplies.

March 19th - Bluebonnet Swamp Dog Days 10-4

March 26th - BREC Pets and Pals Day at Burbank Dog Park 9-12

April 3rd - the 2011 Tour For Life Event at the Animal Control & Rescue Center from 11am-4pm.

April 30th – LSU Ag Day: Animal Sci-ence, Food & Fashion, and Environment. 5K run, displays, and demos – 9-11.

May 7-8th – Ag Magic at LSU

Thanks to each of you for your part in making the 4-H Night With The Hornets a success again this year. Over 1400 4-H members purchased tickets for the game and 250 4-H members participated in a program on or near the court prior to and during the game. Thanks for working with each of the groups to ensure a great experience and a great relationship with the Hor-nets personnel. Both of the display tables were excel-lent.

Tamla South, a 4-H volunteer with Martin Lu-ther King School in Ouachita Parish, had 144 4-H members attend for the largest delegation. The group received free tickets to the I-Max Theatre from the Hornets for the entire delegation. More 4-H volunteers are becoming involved in the Hornets program and getting new areas of the state involved.

For the first time, 4-H had the entire basketball court for the 4-H halftime presenta-tion. The Hornets even added to the introducto-ry comments and pro-vided a great marketing tool for 4-H.

Tailgate Party and Hornets Game

Collegiate 4-H at LSU is very excited about starting a new semester. We have numerous plans for this semester. We will begin our new service-learning project at the Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital at the end of January by making silly putty with the children there. We will also be at-tending Collegiate 4-H National Conference in April in At-lanta, Georgia. This will allow us to network with other Col-legiate 4-H clubs and learn about financial literacy, which is important for every college student to know. Throughout the fall semester, we had the opportunity to assist with an officer training in East Baton Rouge and judge a cookery contest in West Baton Rouge. Please contact us if you would like our help with anything in your parish; we would love to be in-volved in your parish. You may contact Todd Tarifa (club sponsor) at the State 4-H Office at 225-578-2196 or Katie LeBlanc (club president) at klebl28@tigers.lsu.edu.

Collegiate 4-H at LSU

Page 3 Volunteer Voice

Thanks for the great job each of you did in preparation for and during the 4-H tailgate on in November. Your extra time and effort and ideas made the tailgate a success for 4-H members and their families. It’s a great team effort from each of you that made it fun for everyone. The facilities, games, food, face painting, groups, door prizes were all great, the water bottles donated by David Boldt’s friend even had the 4-H clover. It was es-pecially great for so many of the 4-H members and collegiate 4-H members volunteering for various responsibilities on Saturday. Crowd estimates were again estimated at 1800 with over 500 4-H mem-bers actually signing the registration sheet. 1,000 bowls of jambalaya, 100 pizzas, and 1,000 cups of ice cream lasted until almost 2PM. Thanks for making it special for the 4-H members.

Page 4 Volunteer Voice

Greetings, I am Chuck Stelly, a 4-H volunteer. I recently attended a conference in Lexington, Kentucky of the State 4-H Teen Council held at the Lake Cumberland 4-H Center in Jabez, KY. This camp is located in remote south central Kentucky, where a reservoir was created on the Cumberland River. It was a beautiful place for the Teen Council to meet for some reflection and planning of upcoming events for the 2011-2012 4-H season.

The Kentucky 4-H State Teen Council is made up of 6 selected delegates from each of the seven districts in Kentucky. They are selected at the district level and can serve for one or two years consisting of one or two terms each. As a member of the State Teen Council, youth help to plan the 4-H Teen Conference, review educational materials for teens, learn about teamwork and leadership, assist with the Kentucky Teen Summit program for youth aged 12-13 and many other things. The State 4-H Officers serve as leaders of this group as a result of their election to state office.

Mark Mains, Extension Specialist for 4-H Youth Development and Teen Programs, hosted us. Mark, with the help of some loyal 4-H agents and student/members, made our stay comfortable and enjoyable. We appreciate the new ideas Mark shared with us.

The objective of our visit was to share leadership skills and styles. While it is true that the 4-H mission is to foster leadership and responsibility in youth across this nation, we owe a special shake of gratitude to those at the LSU AgCenter/4-H Youth Development who have shown faith in our Louisiana youth to take ownership of this process.

Some time in the recent past the LSU AgCenter/4-H Youth Development chose to assign more responsibility to those kids who were elected to the boards and positions of leadership in our parishes. The vision we have been provided from LSU Baton Rouge has fostered the development of youth with skills necessary to become successful young adults.

Hats off to our LSU leaders it is clear that much thought and de-liberation was given to the process in Louisiana, and the results have filtered upward from those who were young campers several years ago to those kids who are now our leaders.

Louisiana Visits Kentucky