Exploration Days Orientation #2

June 7, 2016     6-8:30 p.m.

Thompson Community Center

11370 Hupp Avenue

Warren, MI 48089 

Horse Project Members Clean Up Camp Rotary

On the cold and cloudy 14th  of May, members of the Macomb County 4-H Horse Program Committee and 4-Her's met at Camp Rotary in Ray Township for their annual spring cleanup. Members and leaders from several different 4-H horse project clubs met to help replace broken boards around the rings and shade huts while other in the group split up tasks, including cleaning the announcing stand, putting snow fencing up, replacing shingles on the roofs and clearing the road of debris and garbage. The team worked all morning and into the afternoon. Many improvements were made to the space that is used for the Macomb County 4-H horse shows. Thank you very much to all who came out to help that day. We look forward to a fun and safe show season at Camp Rotary. Don't forget that the first Armada Fair clean-up day is scheduled for May 22nd. Come out and help clean the fairgrounds that puts on a spectacular fair for Macomb County! The clean-up starts a t 10 a.m. Bring rakes, garbage bags and other tools to make the work a little easier. After the cleanup, be sure to stop and shop at an exciting new garage sale fundraiser put on by Alarro 4-H Club's own Gina Colombo. Spring garage 

saleing couldn't get easier as vendors meet to sell their goods at the fairgrounds. The sale starts a t 9 a.m. and runs unti l 4 p.m., which leaves plenty of time for shopping. Hope to see you at a 4-H event soon!

Spring 2016 4-H Paper Clover Fundraiser

Special thanks to the Macomb County 4-H'ers who volunteered at the Romeo and New Haven Tractor Supply Company (TSC) stores to talk about 4-H, demonstrate, and show their projects to shoppers during the Spring TSC 4-H Paper Clover Fundraiser. From April 13-24, 2016, customers at TSC stores were able to buy paper 4-H clovers for $1 at checkout. Proceeds from paper clover sales at the Romeo and New Haven TSC stores will benefit Macomb County 4-H programs.

Nationwide, Tractor Supply Company (TSC) and Del's stores raised $935,351 during the Spring 2016 

4-H Paper Clover Fundraiser event. Sixty-five percent of all funds raised will support the county 4-H program, five percent supports the state 4-H program, and 30 percent will go to National 4-H Council for underwriting the cost of the program.

Elly Karam-Burk, Michelle Karam, Al Burke, and Donna, Cidnee and Carlie Schramm volunteered at the TSC 4-H Paper Clover event on April 23rd.

Local Youth Send "Visual Letters" to the Children of China

Thousands of Michigan kindergarten through sixth grade children participated in the 2016 Michigan 

4-H Art Exchange with China. Of those thousands, one hundred pieces were selected to send to China.  Fifteen youth participating in this year's 4-H Children's Art Exchange through Macomb 

County MSU Extension are part of that select group. Congratulations to the following artists:

As part of the art exchange, Michigan children are asked to paint or draw "visual letters" for Chinese children their own ages. A visual letter is like a written letter in that both tell stories, share important ideas and feelings, and connect children regardless of where they live. However, the medium is different in that visual letters use images, written letters use words.

The Michigan children's artwork sent to China will be exhibited in schools in Shandong Province. The artwork will also be featured on the Michigan 4-H China Art website http://4h.msue.msu.edu/programs/arts/china_project.

For more information about the 4-H Art Exchange and other 4-H programs, contact Elizabeth Duran, Macomb County 4-H Program Coordinator, at duraneli@anr.msu.edu or 586-469-6090, or Jan Brinn, MSU Extension China Art Coordinator, at  brinn@anr.msu.edu   or 269-673-0370.