Calendar/Schedule
Club Activities for 2006
January 18th - Club meeting at Commissioner's Annex. Members started on their demonstrations early (due by June) so that they'd have time to also do the scores of other 4-H projects. Members brought their models to this meeting so we could decide tack & prop needs for our upcoming club show. The group also started a new fun theme project of making either a jump or trail obstacle with items from the country their ancestors came from.
February 17 & 18th - Evalyn, Hannah, Mary and Susan attended Horse Affairs Expo in Boise. It was a great experience and they all came back with new ideas to share. Our club mascot, Clover the 4-H horse, just returned from traveling to Kentucky with the Desperados 4-H Club in Boise. They went to compete in the national horse bowl contest and placed 8th in the nation. Clover got to go to the Kentucky Horse Park and Churchhill Downs. At Horse Affairs, he posed for photos with several clinicians and rodeo queens.
February 20th - Model Day Camp in which visiting 4-H Office Extension Assistant Diane Fisher showed everyone how to mend a broken model leg. Those needing saddles for our upcoming model show made them, plus the group made pop-top jugs for the future horse sale. Diane helped everyone take photos of their models, and Members officially voted in officers: Hannah B. is our President, Katie H. our Vice President and Kelsey A. our Secretary. Congratulations to all three!
March 2-5th - Club leaders Susan Dudasik & Diane Fisher headed down to the Western Regional Leaders Forum in Salt Lake to set up a model horse project display and teach a how to class on starting model clubs. Clover and his companion, Bud the Bear accompanied Susan & Diane and took in lots of photo ops, including one with astronaut, Don Lind, who flew on the space shuttle Challenger as part of the first historical Spacelab mission back in 1985.
March 6-9th � 4-H Promotion Week.
March 15th - Club meeting at Commissioner�s Annex. This was our 1st meeting with officers plus an official agenda. Additionally, Hannah and Mary did their 4-H demonstrations while Jamie did an impromptu "how to make mailbox obstacles" one. Following that, the group performed some interesting skits on horse safety.
April 7-8th - Salmon Select Horse Sale. We did not have a booth there this year but we still met for a scavenger hunt, still put out pop-top collection jugs, and managed to sell a few candy bars along the way.
April 19th - Club meeting at Commissioner�s Annex in which Katy and Kelsey A. did their 4-H demonstrations. As for the Abaco Barb Youth Project, to date we have presented ten awards with several more in the works. Our newest recipient is an eight year-old from the UK that raised over $200 for the horses by hosting a raffle at her school. So far recipients have ranged from 8 to 15 years old and came from ID, MT, UT OH, PA and NJ.
April 29th - Spring Fun Model Horse Show in which 6 exhibitors competed in a total of 19 classes. Our thanks to Diane Fisher for taking the time to come judge our show for us. We hope she knows how much we appreciate her!
May 3rd - traveled down to Twin Falls to give a class to a group down there wanting to start a model club. There are 3 model clubs already started in the Twin Falls area, plus one in Sun Valley so things are starting to look up! Would be nice if we were all on the same page rule wise so that we could get together and show with one another ever so often. There are numerous rulebooks that we can use, the state 4-H book, real breed association books like AQHA or AHSA, or perhaps even the official North American Model Horse Association (NAMHSA) book.
May 17th - Club meeting at local feed store in which the girls underwent a special project involving heritage jumps representing various countries. Did a tack scavenger hunt and the girls tried their hand at halter showmanship with the store's fiberglass mule, also trying to put on on leg wraps properly.
May 20th - Visited Tim Westfalls� Kiger Mustangs at the Big Flats Ranch. It was very educational. The girls learned about the halter showing requirements and distinctive markings of the Kiger horses, and Tim gave the girls a mini-groundworking clinic.
May 26th - School let out.
June 5-9th - Project Camp at the Sacajawea Center.
June 15th - We have a new ABYP certificate recipient, 12 year old Amanda B. from Wyoming, Delaware who did her science report on the Abaco Barbs and received an A on her project. Another gal is considering the Abaco Barbs as her topic for her state 4-H Speech Contest. Club photos were mailed off to Danielle K�s benefit photo show for the Abaco Barbs. Mary & Hannah did extremely well, picking up some championships in this show which raised $55 for the Arkwild. We picked up a new member, Shaylee H.
July 11-14th - 4-H Camp in Ketchum, ID.
July 20th - Club meeting where Heritage Jumps were due. Neat & creative, many had an international flavor to them. Kelsey and Mary then laid out a simple hunter/jumper course using the jump props. All in all a good excercise. 4-H model club informational flyers were sent to Lee Prigge and Danielle Keller to be passed out at Breyerfest in Kentucky the end of July. The flyer contained information on the 4-H model horse project, our website and on the Abaco Barb Youth Project. Additional promotional flyers were planned for Fair. In addition, the girls made some interesting pack saddles out of cardboard templets. Spoke to Peter Stone of Stone Horse Collectibles about our club & he seemed genuinely interested in the whole 4-H model horse project idea, esp. since Stone Horse is currently pushing a 4-H model horse book of their own.
July 23-26th - Lemhi County 4-H Horse Camp.
July 28-30th - Breyerfest, sent 4-H model club information flyers to Lee Prigge and Danielle Keller who passed them out at Breyerfest in Kentucky. The flyer contained info on the 4-H model horse project, our club's website, and the Abaco Barb Youth Project.
July 30th - August 6th - Custer Fair at Mackay.
August 14th - Record books due. We had a guest speaker planned but she called away on an emergency fire instead, so a short packing clinic was held so that members could try their hand at packing. We made pack boxes out of cardboard, very rough, with a mantee tarp, lash cinch, and rope. I had some neat unknown material for the lash cinches but unfortunately they wouldn't stay glued together. The plan is, at the next meeting, to get a hitch on each model so they can be linked together and have a packstring photo taken. That should be fun.
August 19th � Fair 4-H Horse Show. The girls took shifts working the Pop Booth at the fair and were compensated with free ice cream.
August 21 - 26th - Lemhi County Fair. Members� models were on display (like Mary B's Grand Entry rodeo scene) in either the club's main display case or covered with large fish tanks for protection. The judge was really impressed with everyone's scenes and costumes. We received rave reviews on our overall club display. In addition, everyone received blues for their record books. As always, there were Speech and Demonstration contests during fair, as well as the newly added, Cowboy Poetry. Four of our girls entered the speech/demo contest and did very well.
September ? - Club displays set up at the Eastern Idado State Fair. Kelsey A's unicorn scene won a special award while Diane Fischer's cowboy poetry puppets helped steal the show! Katy & Jami did well at the Style Review and Hannah was reserve champion in Dogs. Gabbie's photo of Aspen won one of the top 5 in the state 4-H photo contest. Congrats to everyone!
September - got collection bins set up at Salmon Internet and the 4-H Office for empty ink cartridges in which the club can turn in to Cash for Critters, who then make a monetary donation to the Arkwild foundation on behalf of the Abaco Barb horses.
September 25th - SMH4HC and Breyer Day mentioned on the Fox TV calender of events!
October 2nd - appearance on "Voice of the Valley" to help promote upcoming Breyer Fun Day.
October 4th - 4-H Achievement night was well attended by members and their families representing our club. Kris made model bags for everyone.
October 5th - article by Laura Zuckerman in the Idaho Falls newspaper, the "Post Register" to help promote upcoming Breyer Fun Day, the Capella model, and the Abaco Barb. Read "It's All in the Details: Salmon Model Horse 4-H Club to host Breyer Day." Over $11,000 has been raised for the horses through the brisk sales of the Breyer Capella model.
October 5th - article gets picked up by none other than the Associated Press and ran in the "Herald Tribune" retitled "Idaho Model Horse Club Helps Wild Bahamian Horses." It likewise appeared in papers throughout the Midwest, the Bahamas, France and Germany!
October 7th - Breyer Fun Day at Kings. Despite the nasty weather BFD was a success with 18 youth painting stablemates and over 25 entered in the coloring contest. The PAL mascot was a big hit and the girls seemed to have fun wearing it. Everyone worked well together from making the window display to doing various tasks and helping clean-up afterward. Diane brought her neat Halloween Horses display.
October 13th - officially the first club meeting of the new 2006-07 season, we made halters for new models we planned on showing in future shows.
October 19th - Regional 4-H meeting in Idaho Falls. Topic was plans for the upcoming Western Regional Leader's Forum that we are hosting March 5-9, 2008 in Boise. Diane Fisher, Katie and Susan Dudasik are in charge of the Share Fair exhibits.
October 21st - Whitewater hosted another fun show, this time with two Halloween Costume classes, one for riders and one for leadline.
October 22nd - regular club meeting. Finished working on our model horse halter projects. Club members voted on new club officers.
November 9th - 12th - Results from the State 4-H Photo Contest: Club Leader Susan sent in photos taken by Mary, Kelsey and Gabrielle. Results of that highly anticipated contest were released during the State Leader's Forum in Boise.
November 10th - 12th - State Leader's Forum in Boise, in which we set up a nice model horse display announcing the "Idaho Stone Horse of the Year" program sponsored by the Peter Stone Model Horse Company. Basically the program is: youth write an essay stating how their horse has made their life and the life of others better. This is for live horses and is a statewide program. Peter Stone then makes a single model of the horse in the winning essay. Stone is a big supporter of 4-H and feels it helps promote the model horse project while honoring a real living breathing horse. This program is very popular in Illinois and Massachusetts.
November 17th - Selected 3 finalists for the ABYP Capella drawing, sponsored by Breyer and members of the Salmon Model Horse 4-H Club. Mimi Rehor, director of W.H.O.A. (Wild Horses Of Abaco) and Arkwild, will make the final selection as to who will win a free Breyer Capella model horse, now discontinued from the Breyer line.
November 19th - Went as a club to see the movie, "Flicka."
November 24th - Parade of Lights - the girls decided to do a Christmas morning scene with toys, a tree, wrapped presents, two jack-in-the-boxes, and lots of twinkly lights all on a flatbed float. Turned out awesome, and what's more they made front page of the local newspaper, the Recorder Herald!
December 8th - Holiday baskets for the Discovery Care Center as part of our annual community service projects, made & delivered on the same day by club members.
December 16th - Bake Sale at King�s, traditionally our biggest fundraiser. The girls cleared $110 even after the jacket purchase for a toddler whose name they picked from the "Christmas is Sharing" tree. Everyone had a good time and improved their salesmanship skills tremendiously.
December 20th - ABYP Capella Drawing. At the November meeting, club members selected the top three nominees for the Abaco Barb Youth Project. They were Amanda B, Grace R, and Danielle K. Interestingly enough, members had individual votes and two of the three nominees were unanimous. The short list was then forwarded to Arkwild Executive Director, Mimi Rehor in the Bahamas and she made the final selection. Congratulations to Amanda B. who will receive a Capella model donated by Breyer, while the two runner-ups will receive stablemates. Thanks to everyone who entered!
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