CLAY COUNTY CENTER
NOVEMBER 2018 NEWSLETTER
November Volunteer of the Month
Lori Allen
Lori has been a leader for the Mountain Explorers 4-H Club for the last 3 years. She has done a variety of activities with this club. They have gone to the Mountain State Fair, raised and auctioned off pigs and chickens, had a table at the Summer Farmers Market on the square the last few years, and encouraged the club members to help volunteer during the Tractor Parade/Ag Day each year.
Three of her members submitted project record books to compete at the state level.
Thank you Lori for all you have done to help create more leaders in Clay County!


Young Computer Programmers
Who doesn't like acronyms? Well here are a few-the STEAM class participated in the NYSD during the month of October. This translates into a class of 6th graders, who work on activities involving Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math participated in the 4-H National Youth Science Day during the month of October. What is NYSD? Every year, the National 4-H council presents an activity for students across the United States to participate in. 




 Paint - National Lead Prevention Week 2018
Lead has been used throughout human history as an additive for a wide variety of housing products. When lead is added to paint it increases durability and enhances color. In plastics and vinyl, it helps increase rigidity and sturdiness. Lead has also been used as a fire retardant. Although lead has many excellent qualities, it also has one very negative quality:  it is TOXIC to humans and animals
Lead poisoning is a health risk for people of all ages.

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Coming Together, Staying Together, & Growing Together: A How-to for Rural Revitalization
Despite the diversity and unique characteristics among our nation's rural towns, there exists a widening gap between prosperous urban and distressed rural areas. To preserve the valuable resources and character of these towns, revitalization as a result of stakeholders uniting to identify pressing issues and highlight opportunities has emerged rapidly. Collaboration is strongly suggested as a means to maximize resources to achieve goals. 






AG Options Grants
Reminder the deadline to apply for Ag options grants with amounts of $3000 and $6000 awarded to various different Agriculture projects is on November 19th.
Call the NC Cooperative Extension Clay County Center at (828) 389-6305 Ext. 12 for further info.

                                        
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Teaching Values in your Family


N.C. Cooperative Extension
Clay County Center
will be closed 

Monday, November 12th for Veterans Day

  Thursday, November 22nd 
&
                Friday, November 23rd 
for the Thanksgiving Holiday
F or Sale
Beefmaster Standard Livestock Chute with split tail gate and Yoke trailer

The minimum bid starts at $3,500. Bidding ends at 5:00 pm on Friday, Decemb er 14, 2018. We will open the bids on Monday, December 17, 2018. Please bring your sealed bids to the Clay County Extension Office at 25 Riverside Drive, Suite 2, Hayesville(In the Community Services Building) For more information contact Craig Wininger at 828-389-6305 or [email protected].
NC State University and N.C. A&T State University work in tandem, along with federal, state and local governments, to form a strategic partnership called N.C. Cooperative Extension.

Extension's 4-H program is the largest youth development organization in North Carolina. We help over 247,000 young people grow into active, contributing citizens each year.