County Coucil Election Night

November 1, 2012 La Plata County 4-H will have a meeting to elect new county council officer's for the 2012-13 4-H Calendar.

Each club can have two representatives vote.
The meeting will start promptly at 7:00 p.m.

Livestock Judging 2013

The LaPlata County Livestock Judging team is getting ready to begin its fundraising for 2013.  As many of you know, we do our fundraising before we start judging so we can concentrate on each task individually.  Each year we spend between $8-$9,000 training and traveling to contests in Texas and Colorado.  Through special donors and our fundraising, we're able to pay for all of the hotels and entry fees for everyone.  The county allows us to use the 4-H van to travel so that helps with expenses. 

Our primary fundraisers are selling homemade apple pies at Apple Days (October 14th from 11-4 pm) and then a citrus/apples/pie/cider sale that begins in November with delivery in early December.  So, next week on October 10th and 11th we'll be making pies in the commercial kitchen at the fairgrounds.  I have the kitchen reserved from 12 until 9 each day since we have some help from Master Gardener volunteers in the afternoons.  I'll be making pie dough on Wednesday beginning at 3 pm.  We'll be making 360 small 5" tarts,,  30 baked 10" pies and 100 frozen 10" pies.  We usually sell all of the tarts and 30 baked and 30 frozen apple pies at Apple Days.  The additional 70 pies are for you to sell during the Nov/Dec sales. 

There is something for everyone to do.  Other than the actual pie construction, we need help peeling apples, vacuum sealing pies, baking pies, labeling pies, putting tarts in plastic containers, transporting pies to James Ranch refrigerator.  On Sunday, the 14th Apple Days is from 11 am until 4 pm in Buckley Park.  I'll be there at 10 am to set up tent and I'll need help transporting coolers of pies from James Ranch.  We'll have three shifts:

10:30- 12:30

12:30 - 2:30

2:30 - 4:30

I'd like to have three people during each shift.  It is easy to sell these pies so don't worry if you don't like selling things.  If it is cold, we'll add coffee and hot chocolate to our booth.  Sign up soon!!

For those of you that are new, this is a great time to get to know everybody.  Please forward this one to anyone who is interested in judging next year.  Call Beth at 759-1387 if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Beth and Brad

October HUBS

Please check out the October HUBS!

http://www.co.laplata.co.us/sites/default/files/departments/extension/oct_2012.pdf