Holdrege FFA Members Celebrate National FFA Week
Several Activities Held Throughout the Week
February 26, 2009
February 16-20th found the Holdrege FFA Chapter Celebrating National FFA Week with various activities throughout the week. To promote the week Chapter Officers Blake Rademaker, Jeremy Vonasek, and Cheyenne Fulk produced Public Service Announcements at Radio Station KUVR / KMTY that were aired throughout the week. On Monday, the Chapter Officers conducted seat belt check of students, teachers, and parents of students driving to Holdrege High School. Those who were wearing seatbelts earned a reward of candy. The results came back that 53% of students wore their seatbelts compared to 70% of the teachers. Also that morning FFA members brought rolls and juice to teachers prior to the start of the school day. On Tuesday, the chapter sponsored the annual Producers Luncheon at the Phelps County Ag Center and served several area producers. The luncheon is a way to recognize and thank the many area producers and supporters of the Holdrege FFA Chapter. On Wednesday the officers headed to the middle school to present a presentation and play a few games for 8th Grade Recruitment Day to inform incoming freshman about FFA and Agricultural Education. While they were promoting FFA to the 8th Graders their fellow members were back at the high school proudly displaying their new FFA t-shirts. Friday’s activity was a new adventure for the FFA Chapter as eight chapter members conducted a little fund raiser called Pass the Goat. Two groups of members used Friday afternoon to go to several businesses with their goats. If the business did not want to have the goat in the business they were asked to donate ten dollars to the FFA Chapter. For another five dollars the business could also suggest another business for he goat to arrive at. To prevent the goat from returning the business could also pay an insurance fee to keep the goat from returning. In all, the chapter collected $400 from local businesses as part of the fundraiser. The goat even thanked a few of the businesses by leaving some ‘thank you’s’ of his their own. The FFA Chapter would like to thank the businesses and individuals who played along with the game and supported the chapter financially. This past week Nebraska State FFA President McKenzie Steger from Chappell spent the day with all of the Ag Education students and FFA Members presenting several different workshops for classes.
Thank you to all the members, parents and sponsors that participated and were proud to represent the Holdrege FFA Chapter during National FFA Week. The next activity for the FFA Chapter will be the Annual Labor Auction and Beef Feed at the Phelps County Ag Center March 23rd starting at 6:30pm.
