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NEWS Kentucky 4-H Foundation QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME V, ISSUE 2 | 3RD QuaRTER 2013 State Fair Cloverville IN THIS ISSUE If you have been to A Message From the Kentucky State Fair Executive Director ...................................2 in the last 40 years, chances are you had Guest Column ...........................................3 the opportunity to explore the famous Board Spotlight ........................................4 4-H Cloverville in the General 4-H News ...................................5 West Hall. Cloverville is an annual exhibit that A Message From creates a village where The State 4-H President .........................6 4-Her’s from all across the Commonwealth History Corner ..........................................6 display their skills and compete for state-wide Donor Spoghtlight ..................................7 — is excited to announce the launch of a ribbons and awards. Foundation News .................Back cover The project categories in the Cloverville campaign to purchase a new Cloverville exhibit range from photography to forestry. exhibit. This project will bring endless These exhibits show off the amazing skills possibilities to the State Fair. This exhibit will have a 4-H Paper Clover promotion that are offered and developed through 4-H allows 4-H youth from all over Kentucky to where fair visitors can donate $1, put their programming here in Kentucky. show case their outstanding work all while name on a Paper Clover and hang it in the improving the image of our Kentucky 4-H Cloverville exhibit. There will also be larger Cloverville has gone through some facelifts, program. dollar amount Paper Clovers available. This is but the main structure has not been a perfect way for 4-H members, volunteers, upgraded. After 40 years of setting up, In order to get our bright and ambitious and alumni to support the construction taking down, and constantly moving the 4-H’ers a new Cloverville, the Kentucky 4-H of the new Cloverville. We hope that 4-H exhibit, it needs to be replaced. Foundation is launching the Cloverville fundraising campaign. The Foundation alumni and supporters remember their own The Kentucky 4-H Foundation — in will seek eight major sponsors: an overall Cloverville experiences and want to be a part coordination with the Kentucky 4-H Program Presenting Sponsor, a Cloverville Stage of this project. at the UK College of Agriculture, Food and sponsor and six storefront sponsors. The Kentucky 4-H Foundation would like to Environment-Cooperative Extension Service During the 2013 State Fair, the Foundation thank the Kentucky State Fair Board for all of its support over the years and for allowing the Foundation and 4-H to undertake this campaign. We would also like to thank Corman and Associates, Inc. for helping to design and providing the rending for the new exhibit. We are eager to start this campaign and bring a new Cloverville to the Kentucky 4-H family in 2014. With your help, we hope to keep Cloverville growing for many generations to come. A Message FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRectOR Donors Wow! What a year it has been for the 4-H Foundation. I EmERALD CLUB ($25,000+) KY Extension Homemakers 4-H / Army Youth Development Assoc., Inc. enjoy writing my column for the summer newsletter simply Project KY Pork Producers Association because it’s my opportunity to provide you an annual Farm Credit Mid-America KY Vegetable Growers report on the Foundation’s work. Harlan County District Association Cooperative Extension Board Clark Kidwell First, I am pleased to report the Foundation ended its fiscal KY 4-H Youth Development Pamela Rowsey Larson KY Corn Growers Association Limestone Farm Lawn Worksite year on June 30th with donations totaling $732,880.44. KY Department of Agriculture Neogen Corporation Additionally the Foundation, through endowments, Knox County Extension District Owensboro Grain Company, LLC Board R. C. Durr Foundation, Inc. provided another $94,659.01 in support of Kentucky’s 4-H National 4-H Council Dr. Christine N. Riley program. Tractor Supply Company Keith & Holly Rogers RUBY CLUB Shelby County 4-H Dairy Club There are several milestones this year. We launched our ($10,000-$24,999) Silver Dew Farms, LLC marketing and public relations initiative with a new KY Farm Bureau The Allstate Foundation KY’s Touchstone Energy David Wallace website, weekly blogs, earned media, along with increased Cooperatives Toyota BRONZE CLUB ($500-$999) activity on Facebook and Twitter. 4-H Fridays quickly Ale-8-One Bottling Co., Inc. Dr. Jerry D. Westerfield, M.D. became a favorite. This video testimonial of a 4-H alumnus each Friday helped to raise American Dairy Science DIAMOND CLUB Association awareness of the Foundation, while bringing back many 4-H memories. ($5,000-$9,999) Marc & Louise Ashby The results of our first year with the Ag Tag voluntary donation with Commissioner of JCPenney Company Brenda Bandy KY Soybean Promotion Board Blue Grass Palomino Horse Agriculture, James Comer, and the FFA Foundation were tremendous. Thanks to the KY State Fair Board Association thousands who made the donation when you renewed your Kentucky farm license plates, Laurel County 4-H Council Cal-Maine Foods, Inc National Rifle Association of Community Trust Bank Kentucky 4-H received $121,708.64. Half of these funds were returned to the county where America CPC Commodities the donation was made and the other half going to support state 4-H programs. For County Whitley County District Farmers Feed Mill, Inc. Cooperative Extension Ed. Federal Cartridge Co. 4-H Councils, this was a new source of funds and the 4-H Foundation with the support of Board Paul & Jill Hall Commissioner Comer is very proud to have made this happen. GOLD CLUB Harlan County 4-H Council ($2,500-$4,999) Dr. Jay Hellmann In November, we kicked-off phase II of our 4-H Camp Improvement Campaign. The first part Heritage Bank Tim & Ruth Ann Hendrick of this four year effort was a fund raising campaign for a cabin and storm shelter at the J. M. Monsanto Holland Roofing Group Perry County 4-H Advisory Howell Contractors, Inc Feltner 4-H Camp. With the help of Farm Credit Mid-America, Knox County District Extension Council Steve & Debbie Jackson Board and many more we reached and surpassed our campaign goal of $280,000 in just over United Way of the Ohio Valley Patrick R. Johnston Zalla Enterprises two months! Keeneland SiLVER CLUB ($1,000-$2,499) Jim & Renee Kelley Other highlights of the year: Our partnership with Tractor Supply Company for the TSC Paper AG & HES Alumni Association KY Nutrition Service Boyle County 4-H Council KY Veterinary Medical Clover promotion again reached a new highpoint with a total of $46,316 raised during two Breathitt County 4-H Council Association Foundation campaigns this year. We hosted two very successful events: the Kentucky 4-H Homecoming Dennis L. Cannon Kimberly-Clark Mr. & Mrs. Shane Carlin Cathy Kunkel-Mains & Milton and a Sporting Clays Tournament with a net return to 4-H of $14,110.42. Also the Foundation Mains Central Kentucky Ag Credit Darren & Jane Lacefield was selected as one of ten to participate in the National 4-H Alumni Pilot, a two year project Central Kentucky Radiology, PLLC Lawrence County 4-H Council to reconnect with 4-H alumni. George & Ruth Duncan Madison County 4-H Council Marianne Smith Edge National Dairy Shrine All of this is our base from which we begin a new year. As you will see in this newsletter, we Emerson Charitable Trust North American Equine Fayette County 4-H Council are taking on the challenge of replacing Cloverville. The West KY 4-H Camp is the focus of the Ranching Information Council Jake Fink Rockcastle County 4-H Council Camp Campaign this year, not to mention tending to all the growth we have experienced in Dr. & Mrs. Jimmy Henning Daniel L. Schadler Helen F. Horton the past few years. Select Sires, Inc. H & R Agri-Power David Stetson Hyden Citizens Bank To all our donors we say thank you, we couldn’t do this without you. You are the reason for The Race for Education Dr. Charlene Jacobs our success! United Group Services Jefferson County 4-H Council United States Equestrian Lockheed Martin Corporation Keith L. Rogers, Executive Director Federation, Inc. KY Cattlemen’s Association OUR MISSION KENTUCKY 4-H FOUNDATION Lead fund development 212 Scovell Hall, Lexington, KY 40546 | (859) 257-5106 | [email protected] for the Kentucky 4-H Youth Development Program and FOUNDATION STAff Keith Rogers, Executive Director advance support by alumni Tony Burnett, Administrative Assistant and other stakeholders to ensure 4-H remains a vital PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING STAFF center of excellence in the Strategic Advisers, LLC Patrick Crowley Shayna Crowley Commonwealth. Meredith Fossett Jay Fossett 2 GUEST COLUMN 4-H FOundatiON The more things change, the more they remain the same. Or at least the more we should be thinking about BOARD OF DIRectORS that which we want to hold constant, such as the values underlying 4-H. OFFICERS Chairman: David Wallace Since 2001, the year I became Dean of the UK College of Agriculture, we have experienced a torrent of change in our First Vice Chairman: agricultural and rural economies. In Kentucky particularly, Marianne Smith Edge farms and many communities have been transformed by Second Vice Chairman: Mike Bach the combined effects of the end of the federal tobacco Treasurer: Joey Spalding program, global forces, and deep cultural changes related to food, energy and natural resources. Secretary: Jenny Cocanougher Public education, certainly higher education, has also Immediate Past Chair been challenged to respond to changing expectations, of the Board: Paul Hall new demographics, rising costs, and in some cases, reduced funding. At the national level, BOARD MEMBERS budget conflicts create a cloud of uncertainty over the future of our land-grant system of Mike Bach education, research and extension.