by Jessie Berisford, Reporter

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FFA Meeting

            The next FFA meeting will be held on Monday, February 12th at 7:00 p.m. in the Ag Center. The Ag Challenge for this meeting is going to be Marshmallow Stuffing. Each grade will need one male and one female representative and the team who can stuff the most marshmallows into each others mouth will win.

 

Made for Excellence Conference

            The Made for Excellence Conference was held at Hillsboro High School this year. The members who attended were: Kyle Kennedy, Jessie Berisford, Madison Fausnaugh, Christine Boso, Stacey Sams and Jodi Roush. The members attended the conference and participated in various leadership activities. The members then traveled to the Hillsboro YMCA to spend the night. “It was a good experience and I had a really fun time,” said Stacey Sams.

 

Chapter FFA Degree

            The Chapter FFA Degree is the highest degree a chapter can bestow on one of its members. The members who received this award were: C.J. Broaddus, Nathan Brumfield, Josh Cordle, Ryan Davis II, Alyssa Diltz, Seth Farmer, Randy Forrest, Megan Gierhart, Alyssa Jenkins, Cassie McFarland, Brittany Pinkstock, Sarah Rogers, David Sams, Ray Spence and Matt Taylor. Congratulations to these members.

 

Proficiency Awards

            There were many proficiency awards filled out this year. The members who have submitted applications are: Jessie Berisford, Christine Boso, Greg Bowers, Josh Cordle, Ryan Davis II, Bobbi Edwards, Judd Ellinger, Seth Farmer, Kyle Kennedy, Ashley Lamb, Kayla Notestone, Jodi Roush, Stacey Sams, April Senften and Nic White.

 

Officer Elections

            The annual chapter officer elections are coming up soon. The elections will be held on February 12th at the FFA Meeting. The applications are due on Monday February 5th and the interviews will be held on Thursday February 7th at 6:00 p.m.

 

National Farm Machinery Show Trip

            As an incentive, any member who sells 25 or more of any combination of fruit gift baskets or boxes of fruit has the opportunity to attend the National Farm Machinery Show and Tractor Pulls held annually in Louisville, Kentucky in February. Attending members leave on Friday morning and return on Sunday evening, attending the machinery show, the tractor pulls and enjoy Louisville's hospitality.   Each year, Mr. Sharp, one of the chapter's two advisors, also plans an educational tour for the weekend in addition to the other activities. In past years, the chapter has visited the Louisville Slugger Plant, Churchhill Downs and the Dayton Airforce Museum. This is an excellent educational opportunity for the chapter's members and a great reward for those hard working fruit sellers. This years trip is going to be held February 16th, 17th and 18th. The members who will be attending are: Ryan Davis II, Brandon Bresler, Travis Hart, JD Stover, Aaron Wortman, Kyle Kennedy, Ashley Lamb, Bobbi Edwards, Brittany Pinkstock, Jessie Berisford, Lena Garrett, Kayla Notestone, Jodi Roush, Stacey Sams and Tiffany Hayman.

 

National FFA Week

            National FFA Week is going to be February 20th-23rd. All members are encouraged to participate in as many activities as possible. The activities are as follows:

Tuesday: A-C FFA T-shirt day

Wednesday: County Volleyball Tournament at 6:00 p.m.

Thursday: FFA Jacket Day and the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon

Friday: Truck and Tractor Day and Bib Overall Day

 

 

Upcoming Contests

            The Tractor Troubleshooting contest is going to be held on February 28th at Pickaway Ross CTC. The County and District Public Speaking CDEs are also coming up in February. The District speaking contest will be held on February 20th also at Pickaway Ross CTC. The Animal Health CDE contest is going to be held on February 27th.

            The contests coming up in March will be  District Ag Mechanics and all Spring Skills contests will be participating in the Mt. Gilead and Marysville Invitational contests. The State Spring Skills contests is going to be held on March 31st. There are members needed for some of these teams so if you are interested please sign up ASAP.  The Ag Mechanics team will be meeting soon to organize their team.  All freshman and sophomore members are strongly encouraged to participate in these Spring CDEs. The Spring CDEs that we are participating in this year are: Agronomy, Wildlife Management, Dairy Cattle, General Livestock and Nature Interpretation. This is a good way for members to get involved in the FFA and get to go different places and meet new people.