Permian Basin 4-H Modeling Show

The Permian Basin fair will soon be kicking off.  Its an exciting time for 4-H members as we also have the opportunity to promote our club and clothing project throught the 4-H Modeling Show.  This event will be help September 17th this year and the deadline to sign up is September 7th at the Ector County Extension Office.  This event is designed to give our clothing and textiles project members an opporutnity to show off their clothing projects and also get some modeling experience!

This year a workshop entitled "extreme makeover" will also be available to 4-H'ers.  The workshop will take place before the fashion show and will provide educaiton on personal presentation skills.  Come learn more about creating your own "personal style" for on stage appearances!  Hands on makeup and hair styling will be a few of the highlights!  For more information - call our office!

National Shooting Sports Competition

Ector 4-H was proud to have three members attend the National Shooting Sports competition this year in San Antonio!  Texas hosted this year's contest - next year participants will have to travel to Nebraska to compete.  Congratulations to Amelia, Blake, and Dan for their efforts in securing the National Shooting Sports trophy back to Texas!  Texas now holds the National Shooting Sports title.  All three participants did well!  Pictures are coming soon...

Blake Estep:  1st place overall individual (archery) archery team placed 2nd overall
Dan Smith: 5th overall individual (air pistol)  air pistol team placed 2nd overall
Amelia Springer: air rifle team placed 2nd overall 

Ector 4-H Achievement Banquet - Friday, August 12th

This year's Achievement Banquet is approaching quickly!  Ector 4-H will honor all members who have completed a 4-H project!  Please join us for a night of fun and recognition.  This years theme is "4-H Worldwide Adventures" and Rose BBQ is catering the meal.  Tickets will be $10 and can be purchased at the Ector County Extension Office beginning Monday, July 17th - August 4th.  The meal will begin at 6:30 with award presentations beginning at 7:00.  Dont miss a time of celebrating the accomplishments of Ector 4-H!

Betty's Bobbin Box

Today was absoutely fun!  Betty's Bobbin Box in Odessa, TX welcomed our Ector & Andrews County 4-H members into their store!  Betty's is a wonderful little place to get lost in fabric - especially if you have a tendency to enjoy quilting.  Here is their web address just in case you want to check it out //www.bettysbobbinbox.com/.

Our clothing members learned some basic sewing skills and took home a project embroidered with their name.  The staff at Betty's even supplied pizza to top off the project meeting.  WOW!  We will definitely be shopping at Betty's for all of our sewing and crafting needs!  Thank you to Kamie, Billie, and Elaine for making us feel right at home.  Pictures will be posted soon!

P.S.  Betty's Bobbin Box also does embrodiery work - if you will scroll down a little further you can see our food challenge team's aprons - which were done with their handy work! 

Quilt Challenge

Ector County 4-H was pleased to have a quilt entry in this year's Texas 4-H Roundup Quilt Challenge Contest!  Katie and Ryanne did a fabulous job putting their ideas together and coming up with this quilt!  In the quilt challenge, each team is given a challenge fabric that must be incorporated into the quilt design.  Quilts may have any design or theme but must incorporate the use of some of the challenge fabric in combination with other fabrics determined by the quilters!  Thank you to Kellye Lewis for leading this project.  If you would like to particpate in next year's quilt challenge, send us an email sfclawson@ag.tamu.edu or give us a call!

Food Challenge Team

The Food Challenge Team did an amazing job participating at Texas 4-H Roundup!  The competition was stiff with over 40 teams participating in the food challenge contest.  This was the first year for Ector County to have a Senior Food Challenge team.  They placed 5th in their category at the contest!  Congratulations to Blayne, Heston, Kye, and Tandie for a great year!

Record Book Reminder!

4-H Record Books are due Wednesday, June 8^th by 5:00 pm to the Ector County Extension Office.  The record book will be used as the application for the Ector County 4-H Achievement Awards. 

The interviews for the 4-H Achievement Awards will be held on Friday, June 10^th starting at 9:30 a.m.   If a 4-H member has a conflict with the June 10^th date set for the interviews, please let us know as soon as possible.  We are willing to work around 4-H’ers schedules when possible.  If you have a preference for your interview time on June 10th, please let us know. 

A 4-H member must  turn-in a 4-H record book in order to be eligible to apply for the Ector County 4-H achievement awards.   Below is a link to the state 4-H website on record books.

https://owa.agnet.tamu.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=4cd6b2e9ee834f559d9bebb5a196a515&URL=http%3a%2f%2ftexas4-h.tamu.edu%2fyouth%2frecordbooks%2findex_youth_recordbooks.php