Send your livestock record books to info@hch4h.org to have them reviewed. Then we’ll gather record books at the club picnic on Monday, September 9 and turn them in to the extension office for judging.
NOTE: Record books are due to the extension office by 12:00 p.m. on Friday, September 27. If you don’t turn record books in by September 9, you must transport your own record book to the extension office.
Meet at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, July 26 at Construction Supply House in Berthoud (806 North 2nd Street, Berthoud Colorado) to decorate the parade float. Bring a t-shirt to decorate as a farm animal if you wish. We’ll have markers available.
Our club will supply pizza. Bring your water bottle or something to drink, and also bring chairs!
The organizational leaders are ready to sign your record books! Bring them on Friday to have them reviewed and signed so you’re all ready for Interview Judging on Tuesday.
The parade is on Saturday, July 27 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Our float will be near the beginning of the parade: #8 for the club and #9 for the Cloverbuds. We will need to be all ready to roll at 9:30 a.m.!
Wear the t-shirt you decorate or your 4-H club shirt. It will probably be hot, so bring your water bottle, and remember your sunscreen and a hat.
Plan to park at Barnes Softball Park and walk the trail to Fairgrounds Park to find our floats, probably parked along the side of Railroad Avenue/Roosevelt Avenue. Meet at the floats at 8:45 a.m. Vehicles will not be allowed to enter and drop off members or supplies in the staging area to keep things less congested and safer for those prepping parade floats. (See the map below for the parking lot location and general location of the parade float.)
We’ll have candy to pass out. We can’t throw it from the float, but we can walk the route and hand out candy.
We would love to have more parents help on the float and walking in the parade. Our parade committee is outnumbered by 4-H members and it’s a large “herd” to wrangle without help!
Family members are welcome to sit and watch the parade as a group. Members can watch the remainder of the parade after the float finishes the route. We will be sitting at the house at 246 South Cleveland. Bring your chairs and look for the HCH group.
Record books require a signature from an organizational club leader before they can be turned in with your project on Interview Judging Day on July 30. Our club has two organizational leaders: Rob Ryan and Sharel Cameron. If your record book is complete and ready for review, send an email with a PDF, Word document, or scan of the pages to info@hch4h.org.
We will review your book and share any suggestions we might have. Then we can plan a time to sign it, or send it back signed for you to print.
We will sign record books when we decorate the club float on July 26 as well. Emailing is an option so we can review and give feedback before or after that date.
Record books have been updated for 2024 and are available to download now. Find your project and grab the Word document or PDF. Get started early!
Find the 2024 Project Information and e-Record Books on the Colorado 4-H website. Or download a ZIP file with all 4-H e-Record Books for 2024.
A big congratulations to everyone in the club who completed their projects this year! All of your hard work has paid off. It is hard to believe the 4-H year is over.
On Monday, September 11, our usual meeting night, we will meet at Fairgrounds Park off of Railroad Avenue in Loveland for an end-of-the-year potluck picnic. Start time is 6:00 p.m. Please bring a dish or two to share. The club will provide sloppy joes, the paper goods, lemonade, and water. For members enrolled in livestock including dog and poultry, please bring your finished record books at this time.
The Larimer County 4-H Open House will be on Thursday, October 5 from 5:30–7:30 p.m. in the McKee Building’s Exhibit Hall. Our club will have a table, and we need a few families who would be willing to talk about our club and 4-H in general to help get the public interested in 4-H. Yes, this is a community service to get you started on next year!
This Wednesday, September 6 is the day to pick up your state fair projects. Come to the Fort Collins room in the McKee Building between 7:30–10:00 a.m. If you are not able to make it during this time, please let me know and I will pick your project up for you. For those who sent a project to state fair for the first time, sorry, but state fair does not pay premiums.
Beef project members:
The Larimer County 4-H Foundation is the recipient of a very generous donation from Mr. Ed Hansen. Mr. Hansen is a cattle rancher in Livermore and believes very strongly in the 4-H Beef program. He would like to reward youth who started and completed their Breeding and/or Market Beef Projects.
Here are the awards for completing e-Records:
• 90%+ earns $30
Be sure to complete your Beef e-Record Book and submit it to the Larimer County Extension Office by September 25 to be eligible!
Record books require a signature from the club leader. Cindy will be available to review and sign record books on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. at Construction Supply House (806 North 2nd Street, Berthoud) when we are decorating for the parade, as well as Sunday afternoon at her office at Construction Supply House from 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Here’s a time-saver for members and Cindy! Email your record books for review. If you’re doing it on the computer, you can email the PDF. Or if you’re filling it out by hand and can scan it, you can send it that way. Email it to csh@frii.com, and she will review it and email you back with suggestions or approval. Then when you come to decorate the parade float on Friday or come by her office on Sunday afternoon, she can just sign it and you won’t have to wait!
Livestock and Animal record books are due to Cindy by Thursday, September 15. You can bring them to the HCH Club Picnic at Fairgrounds Park tonight at 6:00 p.m. or bring them to her office at Construction Supply House.
This is the last step to completing your livestock and animal project for this year. Included are record books for Beef, Dairy Cattle, Dog, Cat, Goat, Horse, Alpaca/Llama, Poultry, Rabbit, Sheep, and Swine.
Congratulations to all of our members who participated in the County Cake Decorating Contest, Shooting Sports Competitions, County Fair, Livestock Sale, and those who went on to the State Competitions, Contests, State Fair, and State Livestock Sale. Wow, did we accomplish a lot this year!
Our next club meeting is not a meeting, but an end-of-the-year celebration picnic to be held at Fairgrounds Park in Loveland. This is a potluck, so please bring a dish to share. We will start at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, September 12. The club will provide sloppy joes, paper plates, plasticware, napkins, and coolers of lemonade and water.
All members enrolled in a livestock project, including dog, please bring your completed record books to the potluck on Monday, September 12. I will sign them and turn them in at the extension office. If you were enrolled in a livestock project but did not show at the county fair, you still MUST complete your record books and turn them in. If you are unable to attend the picnic then I MUST receive them by September 15 at my office at Construction Supply House in Berthoud.
If you know anyone who is interested in learning more about 4-H, encourage them to attend the Larimer County 4-H Open House on Thursday, October 6 at 6:00 p.m. at the McKee Building.
Start thinking about next year—our first meeting for the upcoming year is October 10 at 7:00 p.m. at the McKee Building and enrollment will open on October 16.
I am very proud of all of our members and how well they showed at all the contests, competitions, and at fair. GREAT JOB!
Families, please find our float and be on it by 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 30. The parade will begin at 9:30 a.m.
The parade lineup will be on South Railroad Avenue at Fairgrounds Park. We are #27 and #28 in the lineup. The best place to park is at Barnes Park. You can then walk to Fairgrounds Park on the bike/walking trail to board the float. (Keep in mind that West First Street is closed.)
There will be a cooler of bottled water on the floats for the kids.
Thank you to the Cumpsten Family and Ryan Family for getting the trailers and pulling the floats.
Parents are welcome to ride on the float. Or if you plan to watch, we own a property at 246 South Cleveland, directly across the street from the former school district warehouse. Many of us sit here since it is near the end of the parade route. Feel free join us…bring your chairs and a plastic bag to gather candy. (The location is noted as HCH with the 4-H Clover on the map.)
We are decorating the float on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. at Construction Supply House, 806 North 2nd Street in Berthoud. Pizza and water will be provided, or you can bring your own drink. Please RSVP if you will attend so that we can order enough pizza for everyone. Also bring completed record books you would like to have signed.
Hi, parents!
We are excited to see you tomorrow night for our club’s parade float build!
This year’s theme is:
Our float design will have 3 trees (roots) in the center, surrounded by hay bales for the kids to sit on.
Each 4-H member will design (color) one cowboy boot, or more if they want. The boots will decorate the edge of the float.
Kids and parents are also encouraged to complete a 4-H Generation sign to carry and wave in the parade. (How many generations has your family participated in 4-H? We love having the 4-H legacy live on, and start anew!)
If you have cowboy boots and a club t-shirt, please wear them to the parade!
(No worries if your kids have outgrown boots or t-shirts—they grow so fast! 🤯😂)
Can’t wait to see you!
From,
The HCH Parade Float Committee
