Beef bits - Jan. 16

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Published on Thursday, January 15, 2015

By Kate-Leigh and Kassidy Heapy

Club Reporters

Rivers 4-H Beef Club had a busy month in December, which started off with the annual Christmas party. Members curled, exchanged gifts and enjoyed pizza at Rivers Curling Club on Friday, Dec. 5. The evening was entertaining as they added fun mystery rules into their curling game.  

We then participated in the Santa Claus Parade in Rivers on Dec. 6. 

The following Saturday (Dec. 13) all members brought their 4-H projects to the Brian English farm for our important weigh day. All animals are weighed to provide the starting weight for their 4-H year. This weight is then subtracted from the animal’s project end weight in June and is divided by the number of days in between. The end result tells each member how much weight their animal gained per day during the 4-H year.   

Club speeches were held on Jan. 4. Winners included Layton Veitch (junior speech), Zach Veitch (intermediate speech) and Rachel Veitch (senior speech); Kate-Leigh Heapy won the junior one-person visual while Kassidy Heapy won the intermediate one-person visual; Naomi Best and Alice Rooke are also eligible to attend the Brandon zone communications at Crocus Plains Secondary School on Feb. 12. Judges were Lorrie Dyer, Leslie McFadden and Corina Lepp.

On Jan. 18 our club is gathering at Brandon’s Keystone Centre to clean equipment in preparation for Ag Days.  This is an annual fundraiser for our club.   

Brian English, our head leader, accepted grants from Reid Teetaert of Farm Credit Corporation (FCC), to help fund lectures and field trips for our club. Brian also accepted a grant on behalf of the Brandon 4-H zone, from FCC, to help fund the Outstanding Senior Member Awards and zone communication awards. We really appreciate FCC for their generous support of 4-H!

Our next meeting is Feb. 1.