Highlights of the January-June 2008 semester for Bienville Parish Extension Service office

National CHARACTER COUNTS! Week is a celebration of the values that form the core of this program: The Six Pillars of Character plus effective decision-making.

Three Bienville Parish 4-H adult volunteer leaders attended the area leader training held at the Ware Youth Center in Coushatta, La., during September.

This year's official Youth Wetlands Week will be held April 20-24, 2009, and will coincide with National Earth Day.

Bienville Parish Youth Celebrate National 4-H Week by "Keeping It Green."

Meet the faculty and staff in Bienville Parish-Revised.

Daisy, Elk Foundation Announce Video Essay Contest--the old essay contest goes high tech in a new competition for youths sponsored by Daisy and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Students 10-18 can create short video essays and post them online for the world-and contest judges-to see.

(Distributed 08/01/08) Fourteen Bienville Parish 4-H’ers learned about the world of work in professional jobs this summer in a new program that’s a joint venture between the LSU AgCenter and the Bienville Parish Police Jury. Called Jurors Empowering Teens, or JET, the six-week program was an experiment to see if investing in young people would pay off.

Bi-Monlthly Equine Newsletter

Several Bienville 4-Hers were rewarded for hard work throughout the past year and get to go to Magic Springs & Crystal Falls on their end-of-the year Awards Trip! Not all of our qualifying youth were able to go on this trip.