By: Addy Hunt, Reporter-Paulding FFA
On Wednesday, October 9th, the Paulding FFA Chapter had 25 members travel around Paulding County to feed the farmers in the fields.
The chapter first started doing this service project four years ago and it’s one of our favorite projects to do each year. The chapter found that it was a great way to support local farmers and thank them for their countless hours of work to feed our world!
The students prepared snack packs in various bags to give to the farmers while they were working in the field or just needed a snack in the combine. These bags contain items such as homemade chocolate chip cookies, granola bars, peanut butter crackers, slim jims, chips, candy bars, a can of pop, and a bottle of water. We also included a first aid kit in the bags.
The chapter would like to give special appreciation to Ag Credit, Beck’s and Paulding Hospital for their contributions to making this yearly community service project happen. A handwritten, sincere thank you note was also included in each bag.
The FFA members delivered 150 snack packs to farmers in Paulding County. It was a very rewarding experience for our members as they got to interact with the farmers directly and learn about what they do every day!
Feeding our farmers is one of the many ways we try to thank our farmers and show our support for them! The Paulding FFA is very excited to continue this project in the future.
We are striving to continue to increase the number of snack packs each year and thank more of our hard-working farmers!
On Saturday, October 12th, 10 members from the Paulding FFA chapter attended the October trap shoot at The Paulding Fish and Game Club.
This was the second trap shoot of the school year that we have done this year. The members went through the safety precautions with a fish and game member before the competition to ensure that everyone had a safe and fun day hitting clay pigeons.
The members competed in two rounds where they had five different positions to shoot from. The members were placed 16 yards away from the electric clay pigeon thrower. The first round was practice but the second round is what determined the winner of the day. The winner was Matthew Bail and he received a plaque for his trapshooting skills shooting a 17 out of 25 clays.
Mackenzie Leatherman placed 2nd in the competition with Remington Boroff and Nolan Schlatter tying for 3rd place. We had several new members participating in the trapshoot. We have our third trapshoot scheduled for November 16th at 11:00am. We would like to thank the Fish and Game Club of Paulding for all their help and support of the Paulding FFA program.
