February 26, 2015
Section C
Feb. 21-28, 2015
New leadership; new chapter By James Hughey Hart-West Shore FFA Student
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Hart-West Shore FFA Parliamentary Procedure team members include, in front, left to right, Kayla Dean, Brooke Loudermilk and Lauren Hegedus; second row, Lars Mattson, Lane Stotler and Caleb Fuehring.
Bringing home the gold By Lauren Hegedus Hart-West Shore FFA Student
Hart-West Shore FFA Chapter members traveled to Coopersville to compete in the district leadership contests Feb. 4. Shelby junior, Gavin Porter competed in the Extemporaneous Speech contest and earned a silver medal. Hart-West Shore FFA also had a Parliamentary Procedure team compete as well. Team members included, Hart seniors, Lauren Hegedus, Kayla Dean and Brooke Loudermilk; Shelby senior, Lane Stotler; Hart junior, Caleb Fuehring; and Ludington junior, Lars Mattson. The Parliamentary Procedure team earned a gold medal at the contest.
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The Hart - West Shore FFA Chapter was chartered in 2013 under the leadership of Hart High School teacher Elizabeth Krhovsky. Originally from Corunna, Mich., Krhovsky was raised on a registered holstein dairy and 1,200 acre cash crop farm. Growing-up she was an active member of the Corunna FFA Chapter and later served as a State Officer for the Michigan FFA Association. Krhovsky is a 2012 graduate of Michigan State University where she majored in Environmental Studies and Agriscience; with minors in Agriculture Education, biology, and science and policy. This is Krhovsky’s second year at Hart High School where she founded the Hart - West Shore FFA Chapter. When asked why she chose to teach in Hart Krhovsky explained that she was excited to take on the challenge of starting an FFA chapter from scratch. Krhovsky is described by her students as, “Someone who strives to take her teams to higher levels of competition with her competitive attitude.” She constantly pushes her students to go the extra mile in ev-
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Hart-West Shore FFA Advisor Elizabeth Krhovsky feeds the chapter’s goats in one of the recently constructed barns located behind Hart High School.
erything, whether it’s a state competition or something as simple as their homework. “Krhovsky is an excellent teacher because of her capability to connect with her students socially. She knows
what its like to be in a high school experience similar to her students. She has experiences that prove to be more similar to ours than the majority of the teachers at Hart.”
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Congratulations to FFA on behalf of our entire farming community
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Hart-West Shore FFA members traveling to the FFA National Convention in Kentucky included, front row, left to right, Brooke Loudermilk, Haley Walsworth, Lauren Hegedus and Kaytlin Hildreth; second row, FFA Advisor Elizabeth Krhovsky, Caleb Fuehring, Alex Comstock, Lane Stotler and Gavin Potter.
FFA members travel to nationals in Louisville By Haley Walsworth Hart-West Shore FFA
Eight members of the Hart-West Shore FFA program traveled to Louisville, Ky in late October to take part in the FFA National Convention in the Kentucky Exposition Center. The convention included over 55,000 FFA members from all 50 states. Members from the Hart-West Shore FFA Chapter included, Caleb Fuehring, Alex Comstock, Lane Stotler, Gavin Porter, Brooke Loudermilk, Haley Walsworth, Lauren Hegedus and Kaytlin Hildreth. With a long drive ahead the students awaited the memories that would be made during the National Convention. While at the convention the students experienced the career show, watching hypnotist Dr. Al Snyder and
listening to Nick Vujicic speak. The career show allowed the chapter to meet new people and learn interesting facts about agriculture jobs around the nation. During the hypnotist show Hart-West Shore FFA member Gavin Porter participated in the act by volunteering to be hypnotized. Porter and a member from another chapter entertained the crowd as if they were the band Florida Georgia Line. The members also had a chance to listen to motivational speaker, Nick Vujicic. Members took his words to heart as he spoke about difficult times around the world. As the convention came to a close the students were excited to share the knowledge they gained at the convention with fellow FFA chapter member at home.
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FFA students at the Michigan FFA Broiler Chicken Contest in Fowlerville.
Students raise chickens By Sydney Scarbrough Hart-West Shore FFA Student
In September, the Hart-West Shore FFA program welcomed 150 chicks. To prep, they equipped the barns with chick guards, newspaper, sawdust flakes, red lights and a feeder and waterer. While unloading the chicks, they introduced each one to the feeder and waterer individually. The class even added CD players to keep out intruders and to entertain the poultry. Each student was required to complete chores twice a day for three
days, evenly distributing the chores amongst the class. Students periodically calculated feed intake to weight gain ratios and other conversions. Gavin Porter, Alex Comstock, Lars Matson and Lane Stotler raised a group of birds outside of the class to increase the chances of Hart-West Shore FFA placing in the broiler contest. Every two weeks FFA Advisor Elizabeth Krhovsky visited their houses to help examine the growing process and administer advice. After six weeks of vigorous feeding FFA members traveled to the
statewide chicken broiler contest in Fowlerville. Matson, Porter, Comstock and Stotler each brought five of their own birds to be judged. At the contest, the facility over-
flowed with judges, students and the birds. Schools from around the state competed, proudly presenting the weeks of dedication in the form of their best chickens. Chickens varied in
size, temperament and color. As a program, Hart-West Shore FFA earned a silver medal. Individually Gavin Porter won a silver medal as well.
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FFA donates to needy families By Lauren Hegedus Hart-West Shore FFA Student
Every year, the Hart High School Student Council collects canned goods and organizes them into food baskets for local families in need for Thanksgiving. Typically, the student council goes out and buys turkeys for the baskets from local grocers, but this year Hart-West Shore FFA wanted to get involved. Giving back to the community in some shape or form is something every FFA chapter desires. It is part of the motto that every chapter follows: “Learning to do, Doing to learn, Earning to live, Living to serve.” The food basket program presented the Hart-West Shore FFA with the perfect opportunity to serve the community. The chapter raised chickens in the fall and they had recently been slaughtered. As part of giving back to the community, Hart-West Shore FFA donated around 80 chickens to the food basket program. This allowed each family to receive two chickens with their food baskets. During the week of Thanksgiving,
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Hands on in the classroom By Genevieve Gottardo Hart-West Shore FFA Student
From executing different sutures to learning how to bandage a pet or taking TPR (temperature, pulse and respiration), Hart-West Shore FFA students have been engaging themselves in activities for the vet science unit. Suture (a type of stitch used to help close up a wound): FFA students used yellow sponges and needles to practice continuous and noncontinuous sutures. Students soon found out how tricky it is to make a perfect stitch teaching them how many veterinarians have truly mastered the art. Bandage: Students were asked to bring in household items that could be used for a bandage. Examples of items students brought in included; plastic wrap, ponytail holders and washcloths. They even practiced by wrapping them around each others arms and legs. TRP: Students learned to take the • Contributed photo temperature of canines and felines. Of course there are differences, like the Matt Wilson and Haley Walsworth, above, demonstrate the proper way to take average temperature for a dog is 102.0, TPR (temperature, pulse and Respiration) for a dog. FFA students, far left, work with elementary school students during Ag in the Classroom. whereas humans have a lower normal temp. for the dairy unit, growing plants in the poultry contest and teaching elemenAdditional hands on activities in- greenhouse, raising chickens for the tary students for Ag in the Classroom. cluded making homemade ice cream
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FFA members spread Christmas cheer
Local FFA students compete at discussion meet
Comstock awarded first place
By McKenna Littiebrant Hart-West Shore FFA Student
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FFA members at the Oceana County Medical Care Facility.
By Gavin Porter
During the Christmas season Hart-West Shore FFA members went Christmas caroling at The Oceana County Medical Care Facility. The idea of going Christmas caroling at the nursing home came up during one of the chapter’s meetings. All members agreed and advisor Elizabeth Krhovsky contacted the OCMCF to schedule the visit. FFA students met the morning of the visit and traveled to the OCMCF on a school
bus. Upon their arrival Krhovsky handed everyone five pages of carols to sing. The FFA students entered the facility and started to sing as they made two laps around the halls of the facility. Some of the residents were still asleep while others were in their doorways and common areas listening to them. It was great to see everyone’s smiling faces and the staff seemed to enjoy it as well. FFA students had a blast going and on the way home a few members were already talking about more ways Hart-West Shore FFA ccould volunteer.
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A trio of Hart-West Shore FFA members, Lars Mattson of Ludington and Gavin Porter and Alex Comstock of Shelby, attended the Farm Bureau Future Farmers of America Discussion Meet at Ravenna High School in November. The discussion meet featured FFA students competing against each other in a formal discussion to come Comstock to an agreement on a given topic. Each student was given 30 seconds to state their opinion, followed by a 15 minute open forum discussion, and the contest ended with each giving a one minPorter ute conclusion. The meet consisted of a preliminary round followed by a final round. Comstock and Porter advanced to the finals and compete against each other and four other FFA Mattson students. Comstock was awarded first place and was to competed at the state meet in Grand Rapids.
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Animal science is hands-on with livestock
FFA students, from left to right, Lauren Hegedus, Jessica Riggs and Haleigh Schaner show off the program’s baby lamb, Daisy, just days after she was born.
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The Hart - West Shore FFA barns are full of animals this month; currently housing two female goats, two sheep and one baby lamb, with more babies on the way. One of the sheep has delivered a baby lamb that the class decided the name Daisy. The program’s other sheep is due to have a lamb at the end of the month. The goats are also expecting to have their offspring in March. All of the animals were donated to the program. The sheep came from Shiawassee County Farmer, Dennis Matthews
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while the goats were donated by Shiawassee County producer, Dawn Reha; friends of FFA Advisor Elizabeth Krhovsky. The animals are used as teaching aids for the program’s vet science unit. Students were able to give vaccinations and dock the tail with the assistance of Merten Farms of Hart. Students are also learning the skill of responsibility. Students are required to complete chores twice a day; this includes feeding, watering, grooming and cleaning pens. This summer several of the FFA members will purchase the animals from the FFA Chapter and show them at the Oceana County Fair in August.
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