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| in our school presentation kids get to dress up and see the stages of beef production |
After this whirlwind week Erin and I parted ways and
returned home to start promoting. Since then I have attended 5 schools (one I attended four grade 4 class rooms
in two days). The
kids were very interested in seeing what beef animals were fed and how we take
care of them. When the 4-H program and junior Angus programs were mentioned
kids were very enthusiastic, they liked the programs we had to offer and
thought that raising their own cow would
be ‘fun’ and ‘neat’. I left all the kids with
registration forms for our junior associations and hopefully we see an increase
in membership!
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| talking to some young 4-Hers about showing heifers |
I am currently working on a presentation that I will be giving
to an entire elementary school on Tuesday with lots of pictures of junior Angus
events. As 4-H show and sale season is just
beginning to kick off I have had the opportunity to attend two of them
recently. First was Rimbey, it was a beautiful day with lots of young and
enthusiastic members. I talked to a lot of kids about the heifer project. These
clubs all must have done a very good job at recruiting because I had a lot of
first year 4-Hers tell me that they were only
taking in a steer to start with but next year they wanted to have a heifer too.
From there I headed over to Wetaskiwin
to attend their show and sale. This district had more older members who
were interested in the CJAA . In both clubs I talked with both the
enthusiastic juniors and also their
parents who were for the most part were very supportive of the heifer program.
I also answered a few questions about our green tag program and the Canadian
Angus Association. Overall it has been a very eventful two and a half weeks.
As school starts to slow down and 4-H shows begin it is scheduled to be a very eventful month, I can’t wait to continue promoting Angus, and will see all of you from the Brooks area at their show and sale May 28th.
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| this quote got the attention of a lot of 4-Hers |
Posted by Stacey Domolewski Feedback: cdnangus@cdnangus.ca
