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February 2009
WHAT'S NEW WITH THE ELK GROVE FFA
Last Updated: February 1, 2010
The 2009-2010 News of Current Events with the Elk Grove FFA Chapter and Agriculture Academy!
Old News from January:
Students for the month of January were Jessica Doran, Sam Gatejen and Cameron Goss. Look for their poster in the Ag Classrooms.
January 16, 2010 was the FFA Sacramento Section Basketball Tournament and the Project Ride Crab Feed. The Basketball Tournament was at Galt High School. Schools in the section gathered to compete and meet other FFA members in the area. Elk Grove walked away with the Championship Trophy. CONGRATULATIONS!! The Project Ride Crab Feed was at the Project Ride Barns. This was a very successful night.
Our Monthly FFA Meeting was January 21, 2010 and the theme was Letters to Troops. Student wrote letters from morning until night to help encourage our troops and thank them for their service of protection to us. We reached our 2-year, 10,000 letter goal that night.
The Sectional Public Speaking Contest was at the Elk Grove Agriculture Department at the high school. Prepared, Extemporaneous, Job Interview and Creed contests took place that night. Elk Grove FFA members were extremely successful:
Extemporaneous -1st place: Jake Carlson, 2nd place: Eric Frizzie, & 3rd place: Sylvia Bauer
Prepared – 2nd place: Jordan Albiani & 3rd place: Maddie Stone
Creed – 2nd place: Megan Feldman, 5th place: Jessica Doran, and 6th place: Mason Crump
Job Interview – 2nd place: Sarena Grossjan & 5th place: Josh Donnelly
What’s New- Upcoming News for February:
Hope for Haiti is our new community service activity. We are collecting money in all of our ag classrooms for this cause.
MFE/ALA will be February 5th and 6th, 2010. This is a leadership conference weekend where students can get together in Sacramento and learn to become stronger leaders.
FFA students from all over the region will join for this exciting event.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we will have a Cookie Drive for the elderly seniors in the area. You can bake cookies and bring them to your agriculture classes. We need cookies no later than February 11, 2010 because we are delivering February 12, 2010.
The Perfect Match will be the theme of our February Monthly FFA Meeting. This will be an exciting meeting full of love and laughs. Bring something sweet for an activity point. This meeting will be on Feb. 16, 2010 at 6:30 to 8 in the cafeteria.
FFA WEEK is here again. For the week of Feb. 16-19, FFA students will be encouraged to participate in many of the exciting FFA Week activities where each day you will be asked to dress up in a different way. Activity points will be given for your FFA spirit.
Another Canned Food Drive & Eye Glass Drive will be February 16-26, 2010. We collect cans all throughout the year so that needy families won’t go hungry through all the seasons. The seeing eye-glasses will be give to the local Lion’s Club so they can recycle them for use.
FFA raffle ticket sales will be Feb. 17- March 12, 2010. The raffle drawing will take place at the March FFA Meeting.
The Elk Grove FFA’s Community Service Efforts:
November 2009-Feburary 2010
The Elk Grove FFA Chapter goes above and beyond when it comes to servant leadership. Throughout Elk Grove FFA’s history, community service has always been emphasized, whether it’s students serving at a dinner night or collecting money for a charity. But just recently this chapter has decided to do so much more. In just the last semester, we have seen how the passion and hearts of Elk Grove FFA members stand out with their commitment to helping others.
In October, our Pumpkin Delivery for Twiglight Preschoolers was a success. 350 pumpkins were donated and collected from the Davis Ranch so that the children from the non-profit Twilight Preschools were able to take a pumpkin right before Halloween and decorate it. Students collected the pumpkins October 27th and then delivered them October 28th. Children were so excited to pick out their own pumpkin, sing pumpkin songs, learn some facts and meet high school students. It was a very successful experience.
The Elk Grove Agriculture Leadership Class and FFA Community Service Committee came up with different ideas to help the world around them and the whole month of November was dedicated those ideas. The Elk Grove Chapter’s monthly FFA meeting for November was “Giving Back to our Roots”. At this meeting all of the community service activities for November, December and January were announced and introduced so that each member from the chapter could get involved with some of the service events including: Heifer International, Run to Feed the Hungry, Coats for Kids, Canned Food Drive, Herd Pride Clean Up, Celebrate the Season Program, Threads of Hope, and Letters to Troops.
In November, over $1000 of student donations were donated for Heifer International. When money is collected for this charity, you are able to decide what type of animals you wish to donate to poor, needy, starving and struggling families in 3rd World Countries.
Also in November, around Thanksgiving, Run to Feed the Hungry sign ups began and students were given an opportunity to run a marathon and help feed needy families have a warm and delicious dinner on that special holiday of thanks.
In December, 420 coats were donated to Coats for Kids, over 34,000 cans were collected for the Canned Food Drive, the Elk Grove Campus was voluntarily cleaned on Herd Pride Clean-up Day, and a needy family was completely taken care of for the Celebrate the Season Program.
For the Kids Canned Food Drive, an amazing 34,000 cans were collected from all of Elk Grove High School. These cans guaranteed families meals during the holidays.
Herd Pride Clean-up Day, which Elk Grove FFA was apart of, is an opportunity to get together with other peers from school to help pick up trash, clean up the area made messy from the students themselves and show some genuine respect by creating a cleaner school environment for both themselves and others.
For Christmas, the Agriculture Leadership Class participated in the Celebrate the Season Program where an abundance of gifts were collected in class and then delivered to a family in need for the holidays. The family thanked Elk Grove FFA members in tears because they felt so blessed that someone would choose them to help out.. This experience ended December and the 2009 year on a great note.
In January, over 300 Threads of Hope bracelets were sold by the Elk Grove FFA Chapter Reporter, collecting money from donations and sales for Threads of Hope Inc. in the Philippines. Every 25 bracelets sold helps save one young girl from human trafficking. Each bracelet is made by the families of the little girls and overall, about 13 girls were helped.
The Letters to the Troops was started by the Elk Grove Chapter’s President. His passion for supporting our United States troops overseas has helped give a positive and uplifting message to over 10,000 troops so far. Since November 2008, 8,000 letters were written and sent overseas to troops from over 20 other FFA Schools and over 15 organizations have donated to the cause. At our January FFA Monthly Meeting, we reached the 10,000 letter goal.
Our new community service effort is collection money for Haiti called Hope for Haiti. As you know hundred of thousands have died and the people of that county continue to suffer through this natural disaster. We have jars in every Agriculture Classroom and there are places to donate everyday at lunch by the ASB office. Look for Hope for Haiti signs and updates.
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