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Talk-Line: Katie Baker on Lee County 4-H youth programs · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Wixcent It is a quarter past the hour, this is Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: It's August twelve, the year is twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: it's time for another informational edition of talk Line here
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  Speaker 1: at WIXN Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. Time to
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  Speaker 1: touch base with Lee County Extension. We do it every
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  Speaker 1: month and we usually talk about youth activities and four
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  Speaker 1: H activities with our good friends from Lee County Extension.
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  Speaker 1: So we have the four HU Development program coordinator live
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  Speaker 1: in studio with us to give us the update for
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  Speaker 1: August of twenty twenty five. Katie Baker joins us today
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  Speaker 1: in the talk Line Spotlight. Katie.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Steve.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you back with us. Man, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. It's time to review and preview with Katie
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  Speaker 1: today here at wix and we are going to review
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  Speaker 1: the recently held Lee County Fair and four EH show
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  Speaker 1: on the fairgrounds near Amboy that was the tail end
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  Speaker 1: of July. Katie, the four day run, and you have
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  Speaker 1: kind of a recap for us. Kendeb First of all,
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  Speaker 1: before you get to the information that you really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to share, you know you were on the fairgrounds for
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  Speaker 1: many of the days, you know, yes, yeah, just give
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  Speaker 1: us the general you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, hot, very hot, Okay, not as hot as it's
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  Speaker 2: been some years, I think, but still very warm.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Weather was wasn't terrible, but it was it was you
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  Speaker 2: know who was weather. It was there. I think we
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  Speaker 2: had pretty good numbers this year overall for the fair.
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  Speaker 2: We we had to do some schedule changes because of
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  Speaker 2: the heat and humidity and stuff and big things. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: for being flexible about that. I know, we bumped up
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  Speaker 2: our reb and go shows to like seven o'clock in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, and I think some people really liked having
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  Speaker 2: it that early. So that's that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, maybe something to think about and maybe fairs
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  Speaker 1: upcoming because you know the weather, You're right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it got warm and you had to protect you know,
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  Speaker 1: not just the animals and livestock, but the youth, you know,
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  Speaker 1: showing the livestock and the exhibits and the displays and all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously want to make them more comfortable, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the warmth of the region in that you know,
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  Speaker 1: particular period is usually with us. There. Did the rain
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  Speaker 1: get it?
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  Speaker 2: Did the ring not too bad? I think it rained
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  Speaker 2: pretty heavy during I think it was Thursday. During show,
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  Speaker 2: it was fine. I mean it was a little bit wet,
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  Speaker 2: but it seemed to just kind of go right through.
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  Speaker 2: And then Saturday morning, I think it kind of started sprinkling.
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  Speaker 2: We were a little worried about having to adjust the
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  Speaker 2: horse show, but it wasn't bad enough to do anything
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  Speaker 2: about that. So the ground stayed dry enough that they
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  Speaker 2: were able to do the horse show as planned, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean it worked out pretty perfect.
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  Speaker 1: The attendance was good and well attended at the Lee
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  Speaker 1: County Fair and four Eah Show. And again Katie's going
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  Speaker 1: to recap. Now, what was a couple of important aspects
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  Speaker 1: of the four eight show? And that was your Federation
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  Speaker 1: donation drive spot like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So every year our Federation kids pick a nonprofit
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  Speaker 2: or a topic or whatever somewhere to give collect donations
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  Speaker 2: for and give away stuff. I think one year they
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  Speaker 2: did like animal donations. They've done a food drive. This
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  Speaker 2: year they did it like theme so make a birthday
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  Speaker 2: fun again. And we collected cake mixes, frosting candles, gift bags,
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  Speaker 2: paper plates, anything that you could use for like a
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  Speaker 2: birthday party. And then they divided it up and got
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  Speaker 2: it out to several of our local food pantries and
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  Speaker 2: overall they collected around six hundred and forty items, So
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  Speaker 2: great job. All the clubs that brought stuff out are
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  Speaker 2: Dixon Wonder Workers Club here out of Dixon won our competition.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever brings the most items gets a pizza party. So
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  Speaker 2: congratulations to them, and thanks for all of you bringing
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  Speaker 2: stuff out to the fair. For that. That'll help a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: All right, before we get to those scholarship winners and
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  Speaker 1: were those announced at the fair? Katie?
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  Speaker 2: Those were announced at the fair, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, before we get to that. Obviously, you know we
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  Speaker 1: had four hers competing for high honors in many categories.
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  Speaker 1: And I, as a matter of fact, when I called
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  Speaker 1: Katie to make this interview with her, she was at
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  Speaker 1: Springfield's Illinois State I know. I I was online with
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  Speaker 1: you and you were at the Illinois State Fair in
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  Speaker 1: Springfield representing Lee County. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Friday went down there just to help and see
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  Speaker 2: the projects. And on Saturday was our Lee County Day
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  Speaker 2: and we had about forty five four eachers that were
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  Speaker 2: selected and were able to go to State Fair. We
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  Speaker 2: had several more that were selected. Not everybody's able to
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  Speaker 2: go though, because of vacations or whatever. They've got things
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  Speaker 2: to do. But forty five of our kids went down
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  Speaker 2: there on Saturday, and I don't have the list in
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  Speaker 2: front of me, but we've got We had a bunch
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  Speaker 2: that like took home some kind of award where there
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  Speaker 2: was champion for their class or reserve champion. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of our kids got the Inspire Award from State so
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  Speaker 2: that like the judge just selected it because it was
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  Speaker 2: inspirational to them. They thought it was really neat. So
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  Speaker 2: congratulations to all of you.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's fantastic, Yeah, absolutely, and good compliments. Really, forty
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  Speaker 1: five four achers at the Illinois State Fair. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: quite a few representing Lee County. And this was Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday again at the Lee County area of the Illinois
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  Speaker 1: State Fair. Counties were again off for an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: come down and show off, and we did that. And again,
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  Speaker 1: as Katie mentioned, a lot of those four achers at
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  Speaker 1: State Fair were named winners in their category. So congratulations
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  Speaker 1: to those that again competed and won high honors at
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  Speaker 1: the Illinois State Fair. Out of the forty five fourachers
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  Speaker 1: that went to State Fair on Saturday, Now, one other
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  Speaker 1: activity and as you mentioned, Katie, this was done at
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  Speaker 1: the Lee County Fair and four eighth show was the
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  Speaker 1: announce of announcement of the Extension Foundation scholarship winners and
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to recognize.
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  Speaker 2: Those, Yes, So every year our Extension Foundation gives out
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  Speaker 2: three one thousand dollars scholarships and this year the winners
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  Speaker 2: for that for RGC scholarship was Bryson full from the
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  Speaker 2: Maytown Comments. So congrats Bryson. And then forar Lee County
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  Speaker 2: Extension Foundation Scholarship went to Brooklyn Stroop from the Junior
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  Speaker 2: Garden Spin Club and then Howard Greenfield Memorial Scholarship that
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  Speaker 2: went to Emily Socks from Young Seekers. So big congratulations
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  Speaker 2: to all those kiddos. I know Emily just moved out
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  Speaker 2: south and I think Brooklyn is off to Anna you
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  Speaker 2: to be a teacher. Wonderful she's got another scholarship team.
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  Speaker 1: Well there you go. Me. Absolutely, this is a you know, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: this is what you compete and this is you know,
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  Speaker 1: winners of scholarship funding for their again upcoming run through
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  Speaker 1: college and here you go. So congratulations to all of
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  Speaker 1: those that again won the scholarship honors at the Lee
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  Speaker 1: County Fair and four h Show. Kind of a nice
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  Speaker 1: wrap up to the Lee County Fair and four EAH
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  Speaker 1: Show for twenty twenty five. Obviously, plans are in the
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  Speaker 1: works for next year, so yeah, all right, as again
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  Speaker 1: we wrap up the twenty twenty five edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Lee County Fair and four h O. Katie Baker's our
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  Speaker 1: guest today from Lee County Extension. Our four ET Development
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  Speaker 1: program coordinator, joins us for the talk line today. Well,
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  Speaker 1: school is starting this week across our Northern Illinois educational
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  Speaker 1: facilities Dixon, I know, will start very shortly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with again a half a day coming up and then
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  Speaker 1: a full day this week. I believe the half day
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  Speaker 1: is tomorrow, the full day is on Thursday. And with that, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: you know, comes the new year of four.
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  Speaker 2: Each new school year, it's pretty much our new four
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  Speaker 2: each year, so September versus at the beginning of our
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  Speaker 2: program years. So clubs will get a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a break here after Fair and then they kind of
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  Speaker 2: get right back into it. So if you're interested in
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  Speaker 2: checking out four each, now is the time to kind
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  Speaker 2: of reach out and start seeing what clubs you're interested in.
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  Speaker 2: They typically meet a couple of times and then they
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  Speaker 2: hold elections in October, November, September if if they're meeting
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  Speaker 2: that early. And then we've got ten community clubs in
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  Speaker 2: Lee County, so that means they're just like your regular
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  Speaker 2: four Each club they meet month's month throughout the year,
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  Speaker 2: maybe every other month for a couple of our clubs.
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  Speaker 2: And then we've got several spin clubs and that's not
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  Speaker 2: like the bike thing, right, that's our special interest clubs.
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  Speaker 2: We've got goats. Goat club meets all year round. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a dog obedience club that'll meet in like late winter.
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  Speaker 2: We've got we had a food deck, great club, but
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  Speaker 2: last year, so hoping we're bringing that back. Gardening, cooking, Opaka's.
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  Speaker 2: If you're interested in lamas and alpakas, I've got a
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  Speaker 2: club for you.
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  Speaker 1: All right. You know, these are regularly scheduled club meetings
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  Speaker 1: though that will take place in these categories, and and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that there are more, but again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just spotlighting. You know a few of the more popular
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  Speaker 1: clubs that meet on behalf of four h along with
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  Speaker 1: the spin clubs, and of course regular chapter meetings. As
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned, there are ten chapters in Lee County, which
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  Speaker 1: is great. You know, ten community clubs that are that
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  Speaker 1: are again active in four H here in our Lee
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  Speaker 1: County area, and they're pretty much, you know, covering all
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  Speaker 1: of Lee County.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's everywhere, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, wherever you're from or wherever you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: listening to us from, there's probably a four h chapter
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  Speaker 1: or club that is nearby that again would welcome you aboard.
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  Speaker 1: And so you have that running with renawble omens.
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  Speaker 2: Re enrollmentself will open on October first, so you can
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  Speaker 2: get in try out club in September and if you want,
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  Speaker 2: if you're set to it, enroll, you can unroll after
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  Speaker 2: October first. We've got an enrollment fee of twenty dollars
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  Speaker 2: or four each. Clubs are open at ages eight to eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and then we've got clubs for younger kids ages five
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  Speaker 2: to seven. Those are called our clover Buds and they
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  Speaker 2: meet sometimes they meet at the same time as the
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  Speaker 2: four each club, but they're just in a separate area
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  Speaker 2: and they do more age appropriate things. They do more
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  Speaker 2: exploration activities and less like business meeting. So if that's
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  Speaker 2: something you're interested in getting your little ones into, that's
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  Speaker 2: an option all right.
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  Speaker 1: And the way to get a board signing for four
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  Speaker 1: H and more information.
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  Speaker 2: How do they call me? Call me at the office,
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  Speaker 2: email me phone number eight one five eight five seven
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  Speaker 2: three five two five. You can find my email online.
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  Speaker 2: You can check us out on Facebook and reach out
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  Speaker 2: Illinois Extension website. You were easy to find.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right to you Google on that Illinois Extension website.
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  Speaker 1: That's again at Extension dot Illinois dot edu. And you
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  Speaker 1: can go to that website and find Lee County and
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  Speaker 1: again get a lot of information. But sign up for
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  Speaker 1: four each should be right now, you know, it should
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  Speaker 1: be taking place right now if you're if you're decided
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  Speaker 1: to get into four H, you know, before the school
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  Speaker 1: year starts.
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  Speaker 2: Here're shouting you start checking out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Caucasian. You call Katie at the office eight five
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  Speaker 1: seven three five two five and she'll give you details
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  Speaker 1: on sign up for four H for the new year upcoming,
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  Speaker 1: which coincides with the school year across our northern Aldanoi area.
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  Speaker 1: One more item Katie before we let you go, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a new spin club that you wanted to mention.
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  Speaker 2: So our kids in the kitchen spin Club. I think
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Wadsworth has been doing this for two or three
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  Speaker 2: years now, but they're cooking food. They use different vegetables.
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  Speaker 2: They usually pick like damn, I pick zucchini for one meeting,
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll make like four or five different zucchini dishes.
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  Speaker 2: They did pancakes one month. All the pancakes were delicious.
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  Speaker 2: They made apple pancakes, chocolate pancakes, just a variety of
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  Speaker 2: different stuff. So that club is going to meet on
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  Speaker 2: the second Tuesday of the month from October through March.
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  Speaker 2: They meet it Emmanuel Luther and here in Dixon. There's
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  Speaker 2: a twenty dollars club enrollment fee and then the thirty
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  Speaker 2: dollars supply fee. So if you're interested in that, if
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  Speaker 2: you're already a four each member, it's in z suite.
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  Speaker 2: If you are not currently a four each member and
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  Speaker 2: you're having trouble figuring Z Suite out, just reach out
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  Speaker 2: and we can get you set up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's kind of a different area of registration for
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  Speaker 1: this particular spin club. So again, if your need assistance
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  Speaker 1: in getting on that platform again, give Katie a call
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  Speaker 1: at the four Each office. But that new Kids in
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  Speaker 1: the Kitchen Spin Club will be starting shortly again. This
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  Speaker 1: will run from October through March, so we'll have probably
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  Speaker 1: one more opportunity to talk to you about this before
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  Speaker 1: it actually gets underway. But it's very it sounds to
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  Speaker 1: me like it's very popular.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty popular. I think we already have three or
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  Speaker 2: four signed up and I think we limit it to
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  Speaker 2: like eight to ten kids so and I think they're
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  Speaker 2: all new kids so far. So if you're interested, like
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  Speaker 2: reach out sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that spin club starts in October. Again, reach out
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  Speaker 1: to Katie at eight five seven three five two five.
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  Speaker 1: That's eight five seven three five two five the Lee
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  Speaker 1: County Extension phone number, Katie Baker. We thank you so
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  Speaker 1: very much for joining us. As always a pleasure having
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  Speaker 1: you on board. We'll see you down the line. Katie
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  Speaker 1: Baker is our Lee County Extension four h Development program coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: our guest on the Tuesday morning talk line here at
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  Speaker 1: WAX at eight thirty news Time with Tim lead