Atwater FFA
Our Poultry
Program is
No Yolk!
Submitted by Audrey Esau
Expanding
access
and
opportunities for students to
get involved and explore
new opportunities towards
academic success, personal growth, and career exploration is an annual objective for
the Atwater High School agriculture program. Last winter and spring, with support from
the district, high school, local community, agriculture industry representatives, and the ag
mechanic Atwater was able to build a new poultry facility. The vision was to have a small
poultry unit with about fifty laying hens. A group of agriculture students were assigned
to take the responsibility of caring, feeding, and maintaining the poultry facility, while
collecting, washing, and marketing the eggs to staff on campus and other community
supporters. As of late summer and early fall, the chickens are producing about three dozen
eggs a day. It’s been a great SAE opportunity!
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Red bluff FFA
Chapter Socials
Submitted by Madison McCarty
FFA is a huge part of many students’ life
here at Red Bluff High. We have many
members actively involved, but are
looking for more to attend our monthly gettogethers. This year the ag advisors came
up with a great idea in hope to get more
members to attend with the officer team’s
help. Instead of calling our monthly get-togethers, “meetings” we now call them “socials”.
Hopefully, by removing the word “meeting” will make the time less intimidating and more
appealing for members to attend. The socials will include fun filled time spent together as
we socialize amongst the chapter and participate in the activities we have planned for
each social. The month of September was the annual swim social, October was a carnival
social, and many other fun socials are scheduled for this year!
Firebaugh FFA
FLDUSD New Teachers, We Welcome You!
By Jacquelin Tinoco
To start this school year off with a bang, we welcomed new teachers to the FirebaughLas Deltas Unified School District. We had two speakers playing music as our executive
committee cheered loudly for our new teachers to the district before their meeting started.
The teachers would walk in between two lines composed by our executive committee
and be cheered on as they made their way into the library. The Firebaugh FFA Executive
Committee also handed out Hot Tamales as a welcome gift to our district’s new teachers.
The new teachers seemed happy and cheerful as they were greeted and welcomed
by our chapter. In the end it was a successful event in which we warmly welcomed our
teachers for the 2016-2017 school year.
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Gustine FFA
32nd Annual
Tractor Pull
By Marco Marsigli
On Sunday, July 3rd, the Gustine FFA
hosted their 32nd Annual Truck and Tractor
Pull. The Truck and Tractor Pull is the longest
ongoing high school pull in the nation and
more than 1,000 people attended to watch
the participants compete for the farthest
pull. There were over a hundred pullers
that pulled trucks, antique tractors, and even
dragsters. FFA members helped keep the
night running smoothly by assisting with the
snack bar, selling tickets at the ticket booth,
handing out sponsor books to the many
people that came to watch, and staying to
help clean up. Gustine FFA would like to
thank the FFA Ag Boosters for preparing the
delicious food and for the ongoing support
that made the night possible.