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APRIL FFA REPORT
By: Rebecca Riley, Marengo FFA Reporter
On March 8, MCHS hosted the Ag Mechanics CDE. Marengo won the event with Callie Ebel placing 1st in surveying, Jon Holmes 1st in carpentry, Levi Martin 3rd in Ag power, David Ziller 2nd in welding, and Steven Bachleda 2nd in electricity. The state competition for Ag Mechanics will be held on May 18 at the University of Illinois. The Marengo FFA banquet will be held May 2. The Marengo FFA plant sale will start May 7 at 1:30 pm until 5 p.m. On Saturday, May 8, the plant sale will go from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. If plants are still left, the sale will continue the following week, after school. The section 6 FFA banquet is going to be May 12 at Hiawatha High School. FFA officers have been elected for next year. The students picked their top two choices for each position and then the alumni helped to determine which of the candidates would become officers. The President is Kevin Sonntag, Vice President is Devynn Ziller, Secretary is Brittany Bookwalter, and Sentinel is Meredith Ziller.
An FFA quilt is being raffled off! The quilt is designed with the club’s previous t-shirt designs. To purchase tickets, contact an FFA member or Ms. Schlesser. Drawing of the raffle ticket will be done at the chapter FFA banquet May 2. »
FFA NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
The state dairy products Career Development Event (CDE) was held at the University of Illinois on December 12th. Of the students that participated, Devynn Ziller placed 39th, Rebecca Riley-45th, Hunter Hauffe-89th, Chase Heinberg-100th, and Cole Quick-138th. One hundred forty-one students from across the state of Illinois participated. Meredith Ziller placed 4th at the creed speaking CDE held at Sycamore. There was an officer meeting on January 6th discussing the toy show which was on January 17th. The alumni met at the toy show as well. There was a mixer for North Boone, Harvard, and Marengo FFA chapters on January 19th, at Harvard High School. The job interview CDE is in January at Indian Creek. The Made for Excellence (MFE) conference is going to be held at Oakbrook on January 29th and 30th. Our annual plant sale will be coming up this spring, in May. ~Rebecca Riley, Marengo FFA Reporter »