Foothills Prepper School

Ever consider how you would react in an emergency situation? Maybe you love spending time outdoors hunting, hiking, camping, or fishing. Perhaps you love the show Doomsday Preppers?

The Foothills Prepper School is a class that will meet once a week and will teach youth survival basics such as; first aid, fire-starting, shelter creations, severe weather spotting, cooking, and emergency preparations for a variety of events including winter weather.

The purpose of this class is not to raise concern about potential events; but to educate youth on responsibility, resourcefulness, recycling, and leadership. This will be a fun class with all hands-on activities.

We will look at each lesson we learn scientifically to understand the science behind each lesson and how becoming resourceful can help us in our homes, environments, and in a variety of situations. Students will learn how to create survival bracelets and learn their uses.

This class will only have a limited number of spots and will meet for five weeks on Mondays after School. There will be a $10 fee to help cover cost of materials associated with the class. Any youth may join from ages 9-18, with a first come first served priority during signups.

Call Brandon at the Extension Office, 387-5404, to sign up and learn more information, or email at brandon.pharis@uky.edu . Meeting dates are scheduled for Feb 3rd, 10th, 20th, 24th, and March 3rd at the Extension Office from 3:30-4:30, you must be signed up prior to the start date in order to attend.

Junkyard Restoration

There is money to be made in junk! The 4H program will be offering a class to all youth ages 9-18 who want to learn more skills on “rust-oration”.

Youth will learn how to recycle old picture frames, furniture, metal works, etc. into something that looks modern and that can be potentially sold as a profit.

Different techniques will be taught on how to create crackle paint on wooden surfaces, recycle old junk into modern decoration, proper tool use, using stripper and sanding paper, how to care for and recondition old leather, reupholstering old furniture, and a creation of their own project. Students will also learn basic entrepreneurial skills that will carry with them throughout their life.

This class will only have a limited number of spots and will meet for five weeks on Mondays after school. There will be a $15 fee associated with the class to help purchase class materials. Any youth may join from ages 9-18.

Call Brandon at the Extension Office, 387-5404, to sign up and learn more information, or email at brandon.pharis@uky.edu .

Dates for Junkyard Restoration are scheduled for March 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st, and April 7th, you must be signed up prior to the start date in order to attend.

Kentucky Farm license plates

In the next couple of months, it will be time for most of us to renew our tags on our farm trucks.

Did you know that the optional $10 donation will directly impact the youth in Clinton County?

When you donate an additional $10 on the purchase of farm tags it is evenly distributed between 4-H, FFA, and the Kentucky Proud program.

Not only are you donating to directly help the youth in Clinton County, but you are helping your fellow farmers through the many programs that Kentucky Proud offers.

Your donation is directly affecting our community; we receive 100 percent of the funds that are evenly distributed among the three groups.

This is information that is not commonly known in our community, so please help us spread the word and consider donating an extra $10 to help the youth in our community through the many different programs offered by Clinton County 4-H and FFA. Thank you!

Educational programs of the Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, sex, religion, disability or national origin.