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Macon County 4-H Newsletter
August 2025
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Summer Activity: Stained Glass Class
Thursday August 7th 10:30 or 2:30
Make your own beautiful piece of stained glass to decorate your window or give as a gift. This is a long standing Macon County summer activity and so fun!
Call 828-349-2046 or email tlcole2@ncsu.edu to get one of the remaining limited spaces.
$8 per 4-Her
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Do You Know About the WNC Pony Express?
Each year the Mountain State Fair send out a Pony Express van to pick up arts and crafts entries from our counties. That saves you a trip if you would like to enter arts, crafts, woodworking, garden items, etc. in our regional fair. How does it work? You go onto the MSF website and register your entries. They you bring them to the Cooperative Extension office boxed up and protected. The Pony Express will come pick them up and deliver them back here after the fair. You will want to go visit the fair (of course) to see how your item placed!!
Go check out the Mountain State Fair website: (www.wncagcenter.org/p/mountainstatefair) for a description of each category. The Youth Department is for youth ages 6 to 19. A separate category is "Participation" and that is for kids 5 and under.
Youth Horticultural Products
Youth Agronomic Products
Youth Art
Youth Photography
Youth Baked Foods
Youth Preserved Foods
Youth Crafts
Youth Clothing
Youth Quilted Items
Youth Hand Weaving and Spinning
Youth Jewelry
Youth Wood Crafts
Youth Building Blocks
Youth Recycling
Youth Flower and Garden
Youth Poultry Egg Show
Make sure you have your items into our office by Friday August 22nd.
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Bragging Rights - Right Here!!
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Congratulations to our 2025 Livestock Judging Team
This team has been working hard since February to learn about livestock breeds, how to judge, equipment used around livestock and more.
4-Hers from across North Carolina met up this week to show off their knowledge. Let's congratulate them for a job well done.
They received multiple team and individual awards for their hard work and great spirit!
Intermediate: Kenleigh Deal, Ben Holland, Macie Ledford, Charlie Scruggs
Senior: Addie Deal, Issabel Scruggs, Catie Breedlove, Timothy Bishop, Lane Boatwright
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Congratulations to Lily Powell for Being Elected to this year's office of 4-H West District Vice President
Lily Powell attended the 2025 NC 4-H Congress in Raleigh NC. She placed 3rd statewide in her presentation category: Safety. She also ran for and won West District Vice President for the next year. Congrats Lily.
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Three Macon 4-Hers Attended the 2025 Fur, Fish and Game Camp at
Millstone 4-H Camp
Andrew Holmes, Luke Krebs and Anthony Jackson attended this year 4-H Fur, Fish and Game. They spent the week learning about hunter safety; shooting different types of hunting rifles, shotguns and black powder guns; canoeing, fishing, trapping and bird hunting. This was FFG's 36th year and a great week or fun and learning. We will start taking application for 2026 in November.
Pictured: Nathan Wilson (Cherokee), Anthony Jackson, Luke Krebs, Andrew Holmes and Clay Burrell (Cherokee Co.)
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Make Sure You Re-enroll
Please make sure you have re-enrolled for 2025. If you have questions, please call Tammara at 828-349-2046.
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Macon Mountain Goats 4-H Club
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday August 12th at Deitz farm to practice our showmanship - 6:00pm. If you are bringing your own goat please park at bottom of hill and we will practice in the field below the driveway. Also, we need to know who plans to attend the Macon County Fair and who is interested in Mountain State, Haywood County Fair and State Fair in Raleigh.
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Macon Archers
Here we go to competition. Our West District Tournament will be on Saturday August 9th. Please wish us luck and good shooting. We have 8 Macon 4-Hers shooting archery - stay tuned for our results. Our meeting dates this month will be August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
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Macon Sharp Shooters
We are also heading to competition on Saturday the 9th. We will have 4 shooters competing in rifle, shotgun and pistol. Rifle will also have it's regular practice on Saturday August 16th at 10am.
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Budding Chefs and Top Chefs
We will be meeting on a different week this month. We will meet most all months on the second Tuesday but please be flexible this month and join on Tuesday August 19th at 3:45. We will be trying out different and interesting kitchen gadgets to start our year off. We will also make our own kitchen wonder to take home for our own kitchen.
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Sassy Stitchers
Our first meeting of the fall will be in September. Thank you to our volunteers for helping us with summer projects to keep our skills "sharp". We still have spaces available in the 2025-2026 Beginners Class. Please call Tammara to add your name to this group.
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4-H Market Lamb Club
We will have two multi-county lamb clinics this month: State Livestock Specialist Brent Jennings will be here on Thursday August 7th and we will also practice on Thursday August 22st.
We will also be showing at the Swain County Fair on Saturday August 23rd. Make sure Joe knows if you are interested in showing at Swain County.
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Fluffy Feather Poultry Club
We will take a trip to the Youth Serama Table Top Show in Jefferson Ga on Nov. 8th starting at 9 a.m. This show is for youth participants only. Serama club will have classes one hour prior to show for youth to learn how to show their birds and tips and tricks for getting your bird to pose. Will also be trophy’s, prizes, and free drawings. If interested please sign up with Ms. Cindy or Ms. Stacey. You don’t have to bring a bird; if you don’t own any Serama’s, don’t fret…the Georgia Serama senior club members will be bringing birds for youth to show. if you have your own birds and are NPIP AI certified you may bring your own.
Turkey Poult club members will be updating the club on the progress of their turkey’s and how they are preparing for the show in Raliegh at our next meeting. We will be making plans for the Macon County Fair in September. Let’s plan on doing some showmanship practices at our next meeting on Thursday August 21st at the Extension Office. Please let us know if you plan to attend this meeting as we reserve room and time for Club to meet.
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Macon 4-H Beekeepers
This month we extracted our honey and were able to treat our bees for killer mites. In August, we will bottle, label and start selling honey to help fund our take home hives. We will meet on Wednesday August 13th and 27th. Watch for a text to see where we will meet.
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Stained Glass Summer Activity 10:30 or 2:30
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West District 4-H Shooting Sports Tournament 8:30 am
9
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Fluffy Feathers 6:00pm
21
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Pony Express Items Due
22
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Market Lamb Clinics 6:00
7, 21
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Macon Mountain Goats 6:00
12
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Macon 4-H Beekeepers 5:30
13, 27
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Sharp Shooters 10:00 am
16
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NC State University and N.C. A&T State University work in tandem, along with federal, state and local governments, to form a strategic partnership called N.C. Cooperative Extension.
Extension's 4-H program is the largest youth development organization in North Carolina. We help over 247,000 young people grow into active, contributing citizens each year.
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