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Washington County Office

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435-634-5706

Address
339 S 5500 W
Hurricane, UT 84737

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Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Closed 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

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Dutch Oven Delights

Have you ever wondered how to use a dutch oven beyond the traditional dutch oven potatoes? Here's your chance to learn!

Dates and Times: Friday, November 18, 2022, 5:30pm-8:30pm

Location:USU Extension - Washington County Office
339 South 5500 West
Hurricane, UT 84737

Who: Adult women who are 18 years or older

Santa's Sewing Workshop

Join us for this holiday sewing workshop where we will sew a fun tote bag and personalize it with custom graphics using dye sublimation. Make it for yourself or, better yet, make it for someone on your Christmas list.

Since it is holiday time, we will also learn how to make a healthy holiday snack that you can make at home. So grab a friend and come have some fun!

Who: 10-18 year olds with some sewing experience (or 10-18 year olds without sewing experience who bring an adult to help)

When: Tuesday, November 29, 4:00pm-6:00pm

Where: USU Extension office at the Washington County Fairgrounds

Cost: $10 (includes all supplies)

How We Can Help

USU Extension offers expertise and pertinent information specific to the needs of our county

With more than 480 farms covering 217,000 acres in Washington County, and adding more than $7 million in annual production; agriculture is still a strong part of our community. From the open space agriculture provides to the way of life many of us enjoy, keeping a robust and diverse base is important to us.

More Information

Utah Livestock Auctions:

4-H and Agriculture

Agriculture Education (Large and small animal shows, Horse program)
Color Country Natural Resource Camp

After and extensive literature review and analysis of the community assets and needs of Washington County residents, USU Extension has focused its economic development efforts to six prioritized recommendations for leaders to consider when creating economic and workforce development strategies and programs:

Build the broadband infrastructure of the future, and make sure people know where it is.
When attracting remote workers, incorporate housing into your economic development strategy.
Create spaces, places, and programs where remote workers can meet and network.
When working to increase remote employment for local workers, focus workforce development efforts on skills aligned with remote work professions.
When attracting remote workers, target workers that already have connections to your community.
Invest in quality of life.

One way for Washington County to participate in the nation’s tech sector will be by building our own tech ecosystems and quality of life. The opportunity of remote work has shifted our focus away from from business recruitment with special deals like tax incentives and towards talent recruitment with services and amenities.

Our local strategy for promoting connection will be to focus on the basic block-and-tackling of building out homegrown tech ecosystems that are compelling to firms, entrepreneurs, and workers. This includes the hard work of:

Building authentic, differentiated tech clusters
Developing a skilled, abundant, and diverse digital workforce
Providing excellent broadband connectivity
Cultivating a vibrant tech community with plentiful networking opportunities and acceleration programs
Crafting an excellent quality of place, complete with top-notch schools; parks and greenspace; bike lanes; and co-working spaces

Also, vital to our community is thinking about how to manage the growth that will follow the arrival of hundreds of relocating tech workers who hail from areas that previously struggled with growth-related quality-of-life issues.

For more information about USU Extension’s programs and partnerships that address these recommendations, please visit:

Remote Online Initiative - workforce development program

Remote Work Radio (podcast)

Southern Utah Code Camp (event)

Leadership Dixie (adult leadership development)

FIRST LEGO League (youth robotics)

VEX (youth robotics)

Tomorrow’s Innovators (podcast)

STEM Education (maker movement, computer science)

Atwood Innovation Plaza (community makerspace)

4-H Mountain Biking program (youth/adult leadership)

4-H County Officer program (youth leadership)

Learning to garden and landscape in the desert can be very challenging! We have gathered information specific to southwest Utah. Here are some quick links:

For Gardening Resources Visit USU Extension Washington County Gardening!

The Washington County Extension Family Life and Consumer Sciences Program is here to assist the community, families and individuals with information, education and other tools to increase the quality of life in Southern Utah. Our resources can enrich family life with money management skills, parenting and child development education, food and nutrition helps and life skills. For any questions contact Andrea Schmutz at 435-634-5706.

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USDA recommends that pressure canner gauges be tested every year for accuracy. Pressure canner gauges can be tested at our Washington County USU Extension office, 339 S 5500 W. Hurricane, UT 84737.
Please call 435-634-5706 to schedule an appointment.

Life Skills

Becoming an Outdoor's Woman (BOW) registration opening soon!
Washington County Sewing Conference

To join, login, register for events, or volunteer please visit 4h.zsuite!

4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential, working and learning in partnership with caring adults. 4-H is the nation’s largest Positive Youth Development Program. 4-H focuses on learning by doing. Through our unique partnership with USU Extension we are able to provide opportunities for youth throughout Utah.

4-H offers a wide variety of programs, projects, contests and events from livestock to sewing, and leadership to robotics.