State Representatives Roy Klopfenstein (R-Haviland) and Sean Patrick Brennan (D-Parma) introduced legislation that requires schools to allow U.S. Title 36, which permits patriotic organizations to provide information to students. Patriotic organizations covered by this legislation include the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H, FFA, Civil Air Patrol, Boys and Girls Club of America, and others. “These…
The checks are in the mail! Following a record breaking 2021 livestock sale of $297,000, The 2022 Paulding County Fair livestock sale was also record breaking. Thanks to the generosity of buyers, the total sale was just over $374,000! The youth participating, parents and fair board would like to thank the buyers for another incredible…
By: Elizabeth Bok The annual Fairview FFA Banquet was held on Saturday, April 9, in the Fairview Elementary Cafeteria. During the banquet, members’ accomplishments through the year are recognized, a farewell is said to members who have done so much to help the chapter, and new officers are installed. To get the banquet started there…
By: Carter Manz, Paulding FFA Reporter It’s that time of year again, the Paulding FFA is starting their annual fruit event fundraiser. The event kicked off on Thursday, October 7th, and runs through Monday, November 1st. Members will have citrus fruit, nuts, Ohio apples, BBQ sauce, jerky and butter braids. This is one of the…
By: Brenna Lake, Woodlan FFA Reporter During September, the Woodlan FFA collected brand new stuffed animals for the Milan Township Fire Department. We collected 25 animals for use by the Fire Department. In all of the trucks, there are many brand new stuffed animals for use by children at sites of fires or crashes. We were…
By: Carter Manz Paulding FFA Reporter On September 30th, Five Paulding FFA officers attended the Ohio Legislative Leadership Conference in Columbus at the State House. The members started off their morning by playing a game that taught about the Ohio government as well as interacting and meeting FFA members from around the state of Ohio.…
By: Carter Manz, Paulding FFA Reporter On Tuesday, September 21st, 24 Paulding FFA students attended the Farm Science Review in London, Ohio. There were hundreds of booths for the students to visit so they could learn more about the many different businesses in agriculture. There were also field demonstrations for the students to watch which…
By: Carter Manz, Paulding FFA Reporter The Paulding FFA chapter loves to teach and educate our younger members about the importance of agriculture in Paulding County. This year our members decided to donate a agriculture book to each of our elementary libraries as well as the Paulding Carnegie library system. The book was called…
By: Carter Manz, Reporter & Jaylyn McCloud, Assistant Reporter, Paulding FFA The during second week of May, the Paulding FFA helped Paulding Elementary with their Right to Read Week, their theme was “Superheroes.” The Food Science ag class members read a book called Pigs to the first graders and every student got to keep a…
By: Kaitlyn Zeedyk The Fairview FFA Officer team held their annual officer retreat on June 19-20. We kicked it off at 8 o’clock in the morning of June 19 by getting our officer shirts and watching a clip from Toy Story as a Welcoming activity. After watching the clip we had to pick a character…
By: Reporter, Paige Jones On June 24th-26th, the Paulding FFA officer team went to officer retreat in Laurelville, Ohio near Hocking Hills. The officer team this year is made up of President Riley Noffsinger, Vice President Sydney Reineck, Secretary Jordyn Merriman, Treasurer Baylee March, Reporter Paige Jones, Sentinel Riley Rue, Student Advisor Colton Howell, Parliamentarian…
The Woodlan FFA Chapter was recognized at the 91st National FFA Convention as a 3 Star National Chapter out of three possible stars. The Woodlan FFA received a plaque for this accomplishment on the National FFA Convention stage. This is the highest award bestowed to any chapter by the National FFA Organization. To qualify for…
By: Sydney Reineck, Reporter The Paulding FFA had 15 members attend Farm Science Review on Tuesday September 18th in London, Ohio. Farm Science Review teaches visitors about the new discoveries happening in the agriculture industry, as well as shows off Ohio’s local agriculture businesses and equipment dealers. There were over 700 different exhibits this year,…
