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FFA WEEK SCHEDULEMONDAY - FFA T-Shirt DayTUESDAY - Roller Skating and Favorite Sports Team DayWEDNESDAY - Camouflage DayTHURSDAY - Teacher Appreciation Breakfast and FFA Polo DayFRIDAY - Blue and Gold Day and deliver canned goods to Harvesting Hope

By: RUTH ANN MYERS - Chapter Reporter

LEARNING TO DO, DOING TO LEARN, EARNING TO LIVE, LIVING TO SERVE.

Kayla Lynn participates with her Greenhouse class in helping to beau-tify the Woodlawn Elementary Secret Garden with annual flowersgrown in the FFA Greenhouse.

Boyle County FFA had eighteen members attend FFA Camp over thesummer.

Ruth Ann Myers and Lexi Walters at the FFA Fall Cookout.The Landscape class worked on creating a new design for the front ofthe school this past fall and when we were done we decided to deco-rate the Spruce tree for the holidays.

Ross Nolan, Samantha Allen, and Ashleigh Koch competed in theAgriscience Fair at the National FFA Convention. All three did extreme-ly well and we are proud of their accomplishments!

Morgan Blevins and Wynter Bailey attending a session at the NationalFFA Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. The chapter took 20 membersthis past fall.

Kayla Lynn, Emmy Griffin, and Ruth Ann Myers are receiving their StateLeadership Awards at the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Center fromDr. Pete Dreisbach.

Boyle County FFA took twenty one members to the Kentucky FFA StateConvention in June.

Beckham Sharpe, Tyler Watts, William Myers, and Amanda Gogginreceived their State Degree at State Convention in June.

Ben Hunt, Brooke Gaddis, and Sara Burger having a great time at theKentucky FFA Leadership Training Center this past summer.

Kaitlin Ziesmer, David Faulkner, Kayla Lynn, and Hannah Ziesmercanoeing at FFA Camp.

Ross Nolan, Tucker Huntsinger, Brian Wray, and Caleb Cocanoughersporting their newest additions to Official Dress at NationalConvention.

Molly from Molly’s Flowers came into the Floral Design class anddemonstrated how to create a Christmas Centerpiece

All members of the Boyle County FFA on Club Day at school. We cur-rently have 100 members in our chapter.

The Boyle County FFA Chapter helped the Harvesting Hope food pantryunload a donation of food from Jim Gage on November 10th.

Morgan Burger and Ben Hunt attending the Bluegrass RegionFreshman Leadership Conference at Western Hills High School inNovember.

2011-12 BOYLE FFA OFFICER TEAMPRESIDENT - TUCKER HUNTSINGER

VICE-PRESIDENT - KAYLA LYNN • SECRETARY - KAITLIN ZIESMERREPORTER - RUTH ANN MYERS • TREASURER - BRIAN WRAY

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ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT - LEXI WALTERSASSISTANT SECRETARY - WYNTER BAILEY

ASSISTANT TREASURER - BROOKE GADDIS

ASSITANT REPORTER - BAILEY BLEVINS

ASSISTANT SENTINAL - CALEB COCANOUGHER

2 0 1 1 - 1 2 CO M M I T T E E C H A I R M E NALUMNI - SARA BURGER

ALUMNI SECRETARY - ROSS NOLAN

CONDUCT OF MEETINGS - CALEB COCANOUGHER • COOPERATION - CAITLIN CAMIC

EARNING SAVINGS AND INVESTMENTS - BROOKE GADDIS

LEADERSHIP - HALEY ROBEY • PUBLIC RELATIONS - BAILEY BLEVINS

COMMUNITY SERVICE - BEN HUNT • RECREATION - HANNAH ZIESMER

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FFA ADVISORS: MATTHEW WHITAKER & TONI MYERS

The theme of the National FFA Organization this year is “BelIeve” (the I is inten-tionally capitalized!) and the Boyle County FFA Chapter is incorporating thistheme into everything we do! Each year the Boyle County chapter designs a t-shirt for the members and this year this quote was featured on the back:

“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.” - Walt Disney

This quote has inspired our chapter to know that we can accomplish anythingif we just believe in ourselves. Through the actions of the Boyle County FFAmembers it’s obvious that “We BelIeve!”

This past June, at the Kentucky FFA State Convention, there were four mem-bers from Boyle County to receive their State Degree and other members com-peted in competitions while attending. We also had one member, Colby Myers;receive the highest degree in FFA that an FFA member can achieve – TheAmerican Degree.

Over the summer we took eighteen members to the Leadership TrainingCenter, also known as “camp” to the members, where we took part in officerclasses, recreation activities, and of course leadership training classes. At FFACamp Kayla Lynn, Emmy Griffin, and Ruth Ann Myers were awarded with StateLeadership Awards.

In addition, a list of goals were agreed on for the upcoming year. A few of ourgoals are:

1.Every member participate in two community service events2.Have all members fill out a SAE Proficiency 3.Start an FFA Alumni Newsletter4.Conduct an 8th grade recruitment day

Our FFA chapter continues to grow and develop the future leaders throughclassroom instruction, SAE projects and FFA activities. We are so fortunate in ourchapter to have the support of our local school board, administrators, commu-nity members and the Alumni chapter. We know that without this support wecould not come close to reaching our goals. A great example of this is this pastsummer eight of our officers attended the Washington Leadership Conferencein Washington D. C. This trip is by far one of the most inspiring and challengingconferences held in FFA but it is also very expensive. We took our idea and planto the Boyle County Farm Bureau and they sponsored each student by paying50% of their fees. Our FFA Alumni chapter also sponsored the trip and the bal-ance was raised by the students through fund raisers and work that they did topay their own way. Thank you!!

National FFA Week is a great opportunity for our chapter to increase agricul-ture literacy by having different events at the school to support FFA and theagriculture industry.

Our entire FFA chapter would like to thank our two advisors, Matt Whitaker andToni Myers for all of their guidance and effort that they put into our program, aswell as our Alumni Chapter, School Board and Community Members for theiryear round support of our chapter. Thank you for BelIeving in us!

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The Boyle County FFA Alumni Association will be sponsoring the second annualMachinery and Consignment Auction. The auction will be April 7, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.at the Boyle County Fairgrounds. Not only will this auction be for machinery, but wewill be taking consignments for livestock, firewood, hand tools, produce, nurserystock, and farm and poultry as well. The Boyle County FFA Chapter will be selling chiliand baked goods. We are pleased to announce that our auctioneer will be JohnnyDurham for the second year in a row. All proceeds from this auction will go to sup-port the Boyle County FFA Chapter. For more information, please contact Tom Rossat 859-326-7687, Will Ziesmer at 859-583-6265, or Tina Lynn at 852-583-9287.

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