KC Global Conference will be held March 9-12, 2005, at the Airport Hilton Hotel in KC, MO.  Delegates may only attend the conference one time during their 4-H career.  Extension Units are not limited on the number of youth they can bring.  Registration forms and fees are due from local Extension Offices in the State 4-H Office by December 10. Wiebers/Hinshaw

Kansas Youth Leadership Forum - Late registration forms and fees including the $20 late fee are due in the State 4-H Office by October 22.  Extension Units with delegates and youth council candidates will receive additional information about the conference after registration is complete. Hinshaw/Wiebers

NE  Area:  Dec. 2, Pottorf Hall, Manhattan, KS
SE  Area:  Dec. 3, Community Building Eureka, KS
SW Area:  Dec. 8, SWREC Garden City, KS
NW Area:  Dec. 9, 4-H Building, Russell,

Kansas Agenda topics include:

• Essential Elements of 4-H Youth Development
• Update on State 4-H Leader / Assistant Director Position
• 4-H Youth Development Strategic Plan and 5 year Action Plans
• Kansas 4-H Foundation Update
• Growing 4-H - Looking at Critical Numbers
• 4-H Advisory Report - Area 4-H Advisory Representatives
• Area Concerns and Questions

Registration Fee: $15.00. Make checks payable to: KSU. Payable at site. Lunch will be served on site.

Please call or email the following Office Professional by November 22 if you plan to attend:
December 2 - Corrine Huse, NE Area Office, 785-532-5833, chuse@oznet.ksu.edu
December 3 - Karen Walters, SE Area Office, 620-431-1530, kwalters@oznet.ksu.edu

Please call or email the following Office Professional by December 1 if you plan to attend:
December 8 - Eva Rosas, SW Area Office, 620-275-9164, erosas@oznet.ksu.edu
December 9 - Sally Patten, NW Area Office, 785-462-6281, spatten@ozet.ksu.edu

Mack/Hinshaw/Buchele/Barker

Plan to join us as we spend time focusing on strengthening 4-H clubs. The purpose of this training is to strengthen our capacity to work with adults and youth to develop and support strong, effective 4-H clubs. Topics will include the latest research on characteristics of successful (strong) 4-H Clubs; creating a positive environment; leading club meetings that youth choose to attend; and sharing program management tools for club organization and operation.

You will go home with new resources and ideas to share with your club leaders. Please call or email Corrine Huse, NE Area Office by December 6 to register for either site. Registration fee is $10 which includes lunch. Make check payable to KSU. This training is supported through an Epsilon Sigma Phi Innovation Grant.  Mack/Hinshaw/Buchele/Barker

4-H Camp Theme Contest - Something New, help select a theme for Kansas 4-H to use during the 2005 camping season! The 4-H camper whose theme is chosen will receive a camp scholarship courtesy of the Kansas 4-H Foundation.  Have 4-Hers submit their idea to the State 4-H Office % Camp Theme committee by December 31.2004. A theme idea, sketch and 25 words or less on why they choose that particular theme. If their theme is chosen, they will attend camp with a free registration fee. More information contact Lisa Long 620.532.5131 - llong@oznet.ksu.edu.

All of the recruitment issue articles are on the state 4-H web page under Resources/Marketing. Please feel free to use them to help you in your marketing efforts.  Mack

HOW TO PILOT 
The pilot will begin in October and run until January 1, 2005. You may complete the activities at any time during these months. If you wish to pilot the Express Yourself Communications Series , please email jamisonk@vt.edu. Include your name, email, mailing address, phone, and fax. In the subject line type: 4-H Communications Pilot. More information will be sent to you via email about how to download the pilot materials. The pilot process enables the team to gather feedback from youth and adults to improve the series. The commitment includes completing as many activities as possible between October and January and completing an evaluation.

Kathleen Jamison, Ph.D.
Virginia 4-H Curriculum and Learning Specialist
107 Hutcheson Hall (0419)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Email: jamisonk@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-6372
Fax: 540-231-7866

Since 1997, it has been illegal to feed any material containing ruminant protein to ruminant animals, due to the risk of generating or amplifying Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE). 

It is imperative that this action be followed in a complete and thorough fashion and that there be no leaks in this very important firewall.  Therefore, we at Pet Food Institute ask your assistance in educating farmers, ranchers, dairy owners, and those who exhibit beef, dairy or sheep show animals that pet food is not allowed as a feed for any of those animals. 

Historically, salvage and/or distressed pet food served as a superior source of rumen by-pass proteins and high quality fats and was much sought after as a feed for ruminant animals.  The nutritional science hasn’t changed, but the pathological science has, and by Federal Regulation 21CFR §589.2000 the use of pet food in ruminant rations is forbidden. 

Please help us in making sure that these products are properly used and in educating those who might use them improperly as to the inappropriateness of that action.

 For more information, please visit www.petfoodinstitue.org and download the brochure Handling Salvage and Distressed Pet Food.  You may also contact Nancy K. Cook at nancy@petfoodinstitute.org; or Stephen Payne at steve@petfoodinstitute.org for more information. 

Thanks for your help in dealing with this critical issue. 

Nancy K. Cook
Vice President, Technical and Regulatory Affairs
Adams

2004 Kansas State Fair 4-H Exhibit Report

Note: Does not include 4-H entries in the Youth Shows for Beef, Sheep and Swine. Adams