May Meeting The May FFA meeting will be held on May 12th at 7:30 p.m. in the Ag Shop. This will be the only meeting before the banquet to be held on Saturday May 18th. The ag-challenge for this meeting is the peddle tractor pulls. In this event a male and a female from each of the classes; freshman, sophomores, juniors, and seniors compete against each other to see who gets the longest pull.
Chapter FFA Banquet The chapter FFA banquet will be held on May 17th at 4 p.m. in the new gym. This is a required event for all chapter FFA members. Every member is expected to follow official dress as closely as possible. This means tie/scarf, black slacks or skirt, white dress shirt, black shoes, and if you have an FFA jacket it should be worn. This is a carry-in event. Freshman and Sophomores need to bring a dinner item and Juniors and Seniors should bring a dessert item. The chapter will provide: ham, chicken, rolls, drinks, and table service. This is a great event. You can enjoy great food as well as see people you know get recognized. This is going to be the last year in the old school and the officer team would like to make this banquet one to remember. So if you were a past Amanda Clearcreek FFA officer or were a member, or just a loyal community supporter we would also love to have you attend the 2003-2004 FFA banquet. Remember this is a family event. Bring them with you. Please come and show your support for the Amanda-Clearcreek FFA Chapter and it's members.
Spring State Contest Results The 2003-2004 spring contests were held on April 5th at the Ohio Expo Center. This was the state level contest for the spring skills competition. These contests include schools all around Ohio. The Agronomy team consisting of Amie White, Sandy Larson, Ralston Foster, and Skyler Baldwin placed 21st out of 43 teams at the state level. The team received a silver rating. Thanks to Ben Blosser, an A-C FFA Alumni member who helped coach the team. The Dairy Cattle team consisting of Martina Stanley, Crish Alvey, and Amanda Cassidy placed 56th out of 92 teams. The Dairy Cattle team received a bronze rating. The Equine Management team consisted of Cassie Shaeffer, June Spires, Margo McMaster, Holly Edwards, Amanda Campbell, and Rebecca Gillian. The team received 14th out of 106 teams. They received a silver rating. Congratulations to Cassie who placed 42nd and June who placed 67th out of over 350 competitors. We would like to give a special thanks to Gail Ellinger for her many years of dedication to helping the equine team. The General Livestock team consisted of Brian Bussert, Ryan Sturgeon, Christian Hoffman, and Erika Hardman. The team placed 81st out of 153 teams. The team received a silver rating. Thanks to Eric Valentine, an A-C FFA Alumni member, for helping the team. The Poultry team which consisted of Rachel Makarius, Beth Fouse, Trent Strous, Krystina Preece, and Leslie McAfee placed 7th out of 59 teams. Congratulations to Rachel who placed 8th and Beth who placed 18th out of 206 individual competitors. The team as a whole received a silver rating. This was the second top ten team for this year. The first team was the Ag Communications team who placed 8th in the fall. Also, might I mention that this is Rachel's 4th time to place in the top ten individually in a state level competition. She is the only person in the chapter history to do so. Heather Makarius a previous competitor of the poultry judging team and A-C FFA Alumni member, helped them study for this event. The Wildlife Management team consisting of Devon Timmons, Heather Hines, and Cerene Kilbarger placed 15th as a team in the state, receiving a silver rating. Congratulations; all of you placed very well. | Award Applications Award applications were due April 24th. In order to be considered to receive any chapter awards at the banquet, you must take only a few minutes out of your time to fill out a very simple two page application that must be signed by a parent and accompanied by your general record book. There are many different awards you can apply for. A few of these awards that you can receive is the notebook award, ag-scholarship award, leadership award, Made for Excellence etc. There are many more awards you can receive. I hope that you took the time to fill out the application to receive your chapter awards for the 2002-2003 school year.
Ag Breakfast The May Ag Breakfast will be held on Thursday May 1st at Tee Jayes. It will begin promptly at 7:00 a.m. Come join your 2003-2004 officer team for an excellent breakfast and enjoy spending some time with your fellow FFA members.
State Convention The Ohio FFA State Convention will be held on Friday, May 2nd and Saturday, May 3rd. This is a great opportunity to meet other members of the FFA throughout the state of Ohio. We will be going up on Friday for the sessions and the dance. On Saturday, the option of going back up has also been given. At this session, a few of our fellow chapter members will be recognized. On Friday, Jace Spires and Erin Gilfillen will receive recognition for their gold rated officer books. Friday night, Jace Spires and Beth Fouse will be recognized for being in the top three in the state in their given proficiency award area. Those members being recognized on Saturday are Ryan Foster, Jace Spires, and Rachel Makarius, as they will be receiving their State FFA degrees. The chapter will also receive recognition for being a gold rated chapter, placing 27th in the state. The chapter will also receive recognition for being one of the top gator raffle ticket sellers. We will not know how we placed until Saturday.
Ag Challenge Points At every FFA meeting, we have an ag challenge. The ag challenge is a competition that the chapter has among the members. The teams are split up into grade levels. Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors. Then they participate in the specified activity for that night. The winning team receives a set number of points then the second place team receives a little less and so on and so forth. The points add up through out the school year and at the last meeting for the school year the chapter has a cookout and the winning class receives steak instead of the usual hot dogs. The points are currently as follows: Freshman-18 Sophmores-39 Juniors-21 Seniors-40 As of right now the senior class is winning, but, there is still more than enough time for someone to beat them. Look out seniors the juniors and sophomores are following close behind. And remember that grades, contests, and meeting attendance also count.
Summer FFA Camp FFA camp is almost here. We have only had a few responses from people who want to go. It is a great opportunity to get your summer hours this year and have a great time. It is held in Muskingum county. There are many fun activities you can take part in. Some of those activities are canoeing, camping, archery, backpacking, etc. Every member is required to get eight summer hours and this is a great opportunity to receive your hours. So don't delay; turn your application in today! For more information, see: http://www.ffacamp.com.
Adopt-a-Highway The April Adopt-a-Highway was held on Monday, April 14th. Those who attended this event were: Shauna Cornell, Michael Hedrick, Holly Arledge, Katie Bowman, Maggie Bowman, Stacy Manson, Crish Alvey, Greg Wehrle, Brittany Green, C. J. Little, Jamie Luck, Samantha Ried, and Quenton Chaffin. Thanks to these members for their hard work cleaning up our 3-mile section of St. Route 159. |