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At the first session of the convention on May 2nd, Corbin’s essay was named top essay in the state of Ohio. For this accomplishment he received a plaque and sixty dollars. The chapter would like to congratulate Corbin on a great essay! |
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Parkway Ag Engineering Team Places at FFA State Convention |
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Do you have what it takes to answer 100 questions about Engineering? The questions range from Environment to Equipment from Natural Resources to Market. To be able to answer these questions you have to study very hard. The Parkway team Brandon Riley, Paul Brown, Mark Sheets, and Aaron Bollenbacher did just that. After the written test, the top twenty teams compete in finals. In finals, they may work with small engines, welding, and problem solving. The team placed 8th out of 16 teams in the state of Ohio. For their accomplishment, they received a plaque. Congratulations to the Ag Engineering team on a job well done! |
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The Parkway FFA Chapter attended the 80th Ohio FFA Convention on May 1st
to May 3rd. The chapter had four members take their Agri-Science Fair
Project to the state level.
The chapter on Thursday night ate at Mongolian Grill and many of them learned how to eat with chopsticks. The group then toured The Cheesecake Factory and many bought some for themselves. The chapter attended the five sessions in Columbus. All the sessions had a theme; each pertained to one line of the FFA motto. The first session was held on Friday and the theme was “Living to Serve.” The second sessions keynote speaker was Mark Scharenbroich and “Learning to Do” was the theme. The third session on Friday night was about “Earning to Live” with the keynote speaker being Shawn Harper. The last two sessions were on Saturday with the themes being “Doing to Learn” and “Blue Jackets, Bright Futures.” Friday morning the chapter had each member take a CDE test. The different tests were Cooperative Learning, Agriculture Engineering, Grain Merchandising, Farm Business Management, and Greenhand Quiz. The students all studied very hard and did well in what they participated in. The students, as you can see, were very busy this week and worked hard to earn recognition at the 80th Ohio FFA Convention. |
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National FFA Scholarship Awarded to Parkway Graduate INDIANAPOLIS – The National FFA Organization awarded a $1,000Garst Seed Company Scholarship to Daniel Knapke of Parkway HS - FFA. Garst Seed Company, as a special project of the National FFA Foundation, sponsors the scholarship. Daniel plans to use the funds to pursue a degree at The Ohio State University – Columbus.
Scholarship recipient’s were selected from 8,420 applicants across the country. Selections were based on the applicant’s academic record, FFA and other school and community activities, supervised agricultural experience program in agricultural education and future goals. Danny is the son of Steve and Deb Knapke, Rockford. |
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Parkway FFA Students Compete in Agri-Science Fair |
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Three students received the top gold rating and one student received the bronze rating. Travis Guggenbiller and Michelle Thomas competed together in Microbiology, division four, with their project, “To Treat or Not to Treat?” It was about whether or not seed treatment would affect seed germination or emergence percentage. Guggenbiller and Thomas received a 3rd place gold rating.
Danielle Matthews of
the Parkway FFA received a bronze rating in Botany. Her project, “Which
Way Is Up?” was about the placement of the eye of a soybean would affect
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Parkway FFA Chapter held their 79th Annual FFA Banquet |
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On
April 23, the Parkway FFA Chapter held their 79th Annual FFA
Banquet in Parkway High School commons area. The banquet began at 6:30
with a toastmaster from the president, Melinda Miller. A welcome was
then given by the 2008-2009 president, Ashley Trafzer. Corbin Hellwarth
gave the invocation before being served a delicious meal of sliced ham,
cubed steak, mashed potatoes, noodles, corn, tossed salad, and an array
of many desserts. After the wonderful meal, the program was continued
with the FFA Year in Review slide show given by Danielle Matthews and
Travis Guggenbiller. The slide show gave just a few pictures of the many
accomplishments of the chapter. The guest speaker for the night was
District 4 president, Brittani Regula. She talked about detours in
striving to success. How eventually, there are ways around them and you
just have to keep looking. Once ended, the awards were given out. The
Greenhand Degree was given to 33 members and the Chapter Degree was
given to 24 members. Awards were given also for top ten fruit sellers
and 24 members received the Chapter Scholarship award for being on the
honor roll for 2 of the 3 nine weeks. The Proficiency Awards were given
to three members, Sara King, Brett Sheets, and Danny Knapke. Recognition
was given to Corbin Hellwarth for being 3rd in Ohio for the
essay contest as well as the books sent in by Travis, Michelle Thomas,
and Megan Monroe. Four year members were awarded pen sets with their
names engraved. Star Greenhand award was given to Olivia Houts and the
Star Chapter Award went to Travis Guggenbiller. The Star Three Year
Member and Star
Agribusiness went to Brandon Riley and
Sara King. Parkway was very lucky to have 5 members receive their FFA
State Degree, which only 2 percent of all FFA members across the United
States receive. Two members, Kendra Smith and Brett Sheets, received
recognition for their
American
Degrees that they will receive at 2008 National Convention. The officer
team then announced the Honorary Members, Dwight Sheets
and John Sites for their
contributions to the chapter.
Mr.
Post then was presented gifts from the officer team that was a Brutus
the Buckeye table
and an OSU Scoreboard alarm clock. At this
time Melinda Miller gave her retiring address and talked about important
life lessons she learned from the FFA. All FFA members then presented
their parents with potted plants and seniors gave their
parents yellow roses.
Lastly, the new officers for 2008-2009 were introduced. They consisted
of President: Ashley Trafzer, Vice President: Samantha Jackson,
Reporter: Danielle Matthews, Secretary: Dee Dee Knapke, Treasurer:
Corbin
Hellwarth, Student Advisor: Jenifer Thomas, and Sentinel: Jackie King.
The Parkway FFA Chapter would like to thank everyone who attended the
banquet. |
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Parkway FFA Students Attend Tractor Trouble Shooting
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The Parkway FFA Chapter Competes in Wildlife
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Parkway FFA Chapter
Competes in Outdoor Power Equipment Contest |
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Parkway Sends Team to Horse
Judging Contest The Parkway FFA Chapter recently attended an Equine Judging contest. The team consisted of Caleb Caffee, Crysti Hoehamer, Ashley Trafzer, Melinda Miller, Garth Louth, and Vickie Teboe. The judging was held at Marysville and the Parkway FFA team placed 28th out of 64. Caleb Caffee placed 98th out of 226, Crysti placed 138, Melinda placed 142, Garth placed 156, Vickie placed 160 and Ashley placed 203. The tasks the teams had to judge were three horse classes where they had to place the top horse to the bottom. Then they had to judge the quality of the hay from best to the worst, identify tack, and take a written test. The team worked very hard and the chapter would like to congratulate them for their hard work |
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Students Apply for State Degrees ~ Officer Books Win Top
Ratings The Parkway FFA recently sent an enormous amount of State Degrees and Officer Books to the District evaluation. To obtain a State Degree the students must put in many hours of work filling out record books about the SAE’s they have participated in. The students who applied for State Degrees are Travis Guggenbiller, Dee Dee Knapke, Jenifer Thomas, Brandon Riley, and Brett Sheets. All of them made it through District evaluations and are now being evaluated at the state level. The students who sent their Officer Books were Michelle Thomas, Travis Guggenbiller, and Megan Monroe. Michelle Thomas, treasurer, received a silver rating on her treasurer’s book and Megan Monroe, secretary, received a gold rating. Travis Guggenbiller, reporter, sent his officer book and received a gold rating and 1st place at districts. The Parkway FFA Chapter would like to congratulate all of the students for their hard work and wish them good luck at state. Editor's Note: Travis Guggenbiller has done an awesome job of reporting the Parkway FFA activities with pictures to the Parkway Independent Online Newspaper and area newspapers. Thank you Travis! |
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Public Speaking Contest Held in Delphos The Parkway FFA recently had five students that competed in sub-districts at Delphos for the Public Speaking Contest. The students were Olivia Houts, Corbin Hellwarth, Crysti Hoehamer, Abby Evans and Samantha Jackson. Olivia Houts and Abby Evans competed in the Creed Speaking and did very well. Olivia Houts received 3rd place and Emily Evans received 4th. Samantha Jackson competed in Extemporaneous Speaking and received first place with a gold rating. Corbin Hellwarth and Crysti Hoehamer competed in Beginning Prepared and did very well. Corbin Hellwarth received 1st place with a gold rating and Crysti Hoehamer received a gold rating. Corbin Hellwarth and Samantha Jackson moved on to districts at Cory Rawson on February 19th for their public speaking. Corbin Hellwarth received 6th place in Beginning Prepared and Samantha Jackson received 2nd place in Extemporaneous Speaking. Sam will now compete at the state level for the Parkway FFA Chapter under Extemporaneous Speaking. The Parkway FFA Chapter would like to congratulate everyone for their hard work and wish Sam best of luck at State.
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National FFA Week Celebrated from
February 19th - 22nd One special activity that everyone at school enjoyed this week is the petting zoo of local farm animals.
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Parkway Parliamentary Procedure Team Goes To State The
Parkway Parliamentary Procedure Team went to state on December 15, 2007
at Columbus, Ohio. The team placed second at state in their room with a
score of 1175.5. They placed first at Sub-Districts and second at
Districts which gave them the spot to go to State. The team consisted of
Melinda Miller, Corbin Hellwarth, Michelle Thomas, Travis Guggenbiller,
Sara King, Megan Monroe, Jenifer Thomas, Abbea Hoehamer, Sam Jackson,
and Ethan Hayes. Congratulations to the team for making it to state. |
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| Parkway FFA Places 2nd at District Parliamentary Procedure Contest | |||||||||||||||
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Parkway Parliamentary Procedure Team placed first at the District
contest held at Sentinel on December 4, 2007. The team consisted of
Sentinel-Jennifer Thomas, Advisor-Abbea Hoehamer, Corbin Hellwarth, Sam
Jackson, Secretary-Megan Monroe, President-Melinda Miller,
Reporter-Travis Guggenbiller, Treasurer-Michelle Thomas, Ethan Hayes,
and Vice-President-Sara King. The team will move on to state on December
15, 2006. Good luck and Congratulations. |
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The Parkway FFA attended a leadership conference at Coldwater on Thursday November 19, 2007. The Conference was hosted by the Coldwater FFA Chapter and pizza and refreshments were provided at the conclusion of the conference for all the members who attended. Leadership skills were brought to our attention by Ohio’s Brittani Regula, District 4 President, Tyler Church, District 5 President, and Anna Hall, State Secretary. The three officers broke everyone up into three groups and rotated them into three different stations. The first station was “Describe a Leader”. In this station the students had to build a leader out of craft items and describe how the parts of the body relate to leadership. The second station was “Discover Everyone”. This station helped students interact with other members of their group. They learned about their favorite color, ice cream flavor, vehicle, and future career. The last station was “Design Your Own Avenue”. This station taught students how to work together as a team and make a bridge out of straws. Therefore the leadership conference taught everyone an enormous amount of information on how to become a better leader. The Parkway FFA Chapter would like to thank the Coldwater FFA Chapter for hosting the Leadership Conference and the officers for taking the time to teaching leadership skills to the students. |
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| Parkway FFA Chapter Attends National Convention | |||||||||||||||
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The students started off on Tuesday
with a tour of the Top Cut Boar Farm in Ohio. At the boar farm, the
farmers showed six of their boars that range in price from 15,000
dollars to 50,000 dollars. They use these boars to collect semen which
must stay at a certain temperature; otherwise it could kill the sperm.
Abbea Hoehamer who attended the boar farm stated, “The boar farm was
very intriguing and informative. I was shocked at the prices of the
boars. On Thursday, the students’ morning started off on a tour of Campbell’s Seed. The tour included a tour of their facility and an explanation on how they breed their corn. Jackie King who thought the Campbell’s Seed Company was very interesting states, “The process of the seeds going through the facility to be sorted into bags was very interesting.” On Friday, the last tour we took of the week was the tour of Traders Point Organic Farm and Creamery. The tour guide gave us a tour of the milking parlor and the barnyard. They also explained to us that their cattle pasture grazed and how the cows heal themselves if they become ill. Olivia Houts who attend the convention said, “Living on a non-organic farm, it was interesting to see how an organic farm works.” Throughout the whole week of convention the chapter went to many sessions and listened to many guest speakers. Two guest speakers they had were Dr. Rick Rigsby and Mr. Henry Winkler. Dr. Rick Rigsby gave a speech on how everyone one needs to live their lives the best they can. One of his key notes that he spoke on was “In Whatever You Do, Do Your Best.” Rick Rigsby was trying to tell the students that doing your best will lead you to a great future. Mr. Henry Winkler also told the students a powerful message. Winkler’s message was to never let anyone put you down for whom you are and that you should follow your dreams and achieve great things. Both of these guest speakers were outstanding and had great leadership techniques. The national officers also gave their retiring addresses during the sessions. They all talked about their family lives and how the FFA helped them become great leaders. Also during the week, the Parkway FFA Chapter had two students place second place at the national level on their Agriscience Fair Project. The two students were Michelle Thomas and Travis Guggenbiller. The Parkway FFA would like to congratulate them on their accomplishment. On Saturday we woke up in the morning and went to the American Degree Ceremony where we watched members from Ohio, four of which were members were from our chapter, and members from other states receive there American Degree. After the ceremony we went our way home. The convention was a wonderful time for all the students that attended the convention. |
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The Parkway FFA competed
this year at the Sub-District Competition on Tuesday, November 28, 2007
at the Delphos Jefferson High School. |
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Agriscience Students Prepare for Future Success |
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Indianapolis, In., -- Travis Guggenbiller and Michelle Thomas, members of the Parkway FFA Chapter of Rockford, OH, competed in the National FFA Agriscience Fair program. The event was held during the 80th National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, In., October 24-27. Participants from 40 associations defend their projects against other entries for judging in 20 divisions. Travis and Michelle’s project, Does Seed Shape Matter, was on display at convention in the National FFA Agriscience Fair area of the FFA National Agricultural Career Show. Categories for competition were biochemistry/microbiology/food science, botany, engineering, environmental science, and zoology. The four divisions divide students in grades 7-12. Each winning participant received either a cash award or scholarship. The agriscience fair program is sponsored by Ford Motor Company Fund as a special project of the national FFA Foundation. It is one of many ways FFA combines classroom teaching and hands-on learning to prepare youth for future success. FFA is a national youth organization of 495,046 student members preparing for leadership and career in the science, business and technology of agriculture with 7,242 local chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. FFA strives to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through education in agricultural science. Visit www.ffa.org for more information. |
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Parkway FFA Holds Fall Fresh Fest |
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The
Parkway FFA Chapter held their annual Fall Fresh Fest on November 3rd
as a way for the freshmen to interact with other members of their
chapter. The Fresh Fest also gave the freshmen and other members an
opportunity to become more involved with the organization. |
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Parkway FFA Students Receive Awards |
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This year the Parkway FFA Chapter had two students receive awards at the 63rd Mercer Soil & Water Conservation District Banquet. The banquet was held on November 8 and was started off with a welcome from Bob Pohlman. After the welcome everyone was catered dinner from Romers. Once everyone finished their meal Bob Pohlman gave an introduction and then gave out the scholarship award with Scott Piper. The Mercer Soil & Water Conservation Scholarship was rewarded to Danny Knapke from the Parkway FFA Chapter. Later on during the banquet, Travis Guggenbiller, also from the Parkway FFA Chapter, was rewarded the Urban Soil Award from Nikke Hawk. Travis received this award for placing first at Mercer County soils contest. After the soils award, the banquet was entertained by the Sisters of the Disorder. The sisters sang songs and told jokes. At the end of the banquet, door prizes were handed out to people and a closing was given by Brother Don Fisher. The Parkway FFA Chapter would like to congratulate Danny and Travis on their awards they received. |
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Parkway
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This year the
Parkway FFA Chapter was fortunate to have two students place second in
the National Agriscience Fair. These two students were Michelle Thomas
and Travis Guggenbiller. Students across the United States, Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands all competed in this competition. In order for
students to reach the national level they have to receive a gold rating
placing first at state level. Travis and Michelle’s project was over “Does Seed Shape Matter”. They wondered if the shape of seed had an effect on percent of and days to emergence. To figure out a conclusion they worked on their experiment using four types of seed. After doing some research and collecting data they concluded that the shape of the seed did have an effect on percent of and days to emergence. When
competing, they had to explain their information to the judges and
describe how they came up with their results. They also had to write a
report giving an introduction to their project, describing the methods,
giving a hypothesis, and stating the results. Travis and Michelle also
had to give a visual display showing the process of the experiment. |
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This year at the 80th FFA National Convention the Parkway FFA Chapter had four former members receive their American FFA Degree. The four students were Felicia Quaintance, Katie King, Ashley Gamble, and Jessica Suman. They were just four of the 271 Ohio FFA members and of the 3,169 members from the United States, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands who received their American Degree. The American FFA Degree is the highest level degree that a FFA member can achieve. Before any of these members can receive the degree, they must have received the Greenhand Degree, Chapter Degree, and State Degree. To receive these degrees it takes a lot of dedication and hard work and only a small percent of the students receive the degree. Receiving the American Degree allows the members to remain active in the FFA beyond their high school graduation. The Parkway FFA Chapter would like to congratulate Katie, Ashley, Felicia, and Jessica for receiving their American Degree. |
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Parkway FFA Fruit and Nut Sales Begin
Address: 400 Buckeye St.,
Rockford OH 45822; or Phone: 419-363-3045 ext.636
The Parkway FFA is selling
Citrus which includes Naval Oranges, Tangelos, and Pink Grape Fruit.
Holiday Mix which includes
Naval Oranges, Tangelo, Pink Grapefruit, and Fuji apples.
The Apples that are being
sold are Red Delicious apples, Fuji apples, and Gold Delicious apples.
They are also selling nuts and cleaning products. The Nuts are sold as followed:
Whole Cashews (1-16 oz.
can) $8.00
The Parkway FFA Chapter is
also selling Dirt Squad, which is a powerful cleaning product.
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Parkway FFA Does Well At
Districts The rural soil team of Michelle Thomas, Michael Ford, Sam Jackson, and Paul Brown, placed 12th out of 28 teams. Paul Brown was the highest scoring for Parkway who placed 27th out of 113 students, along with Michelle Thomas who placed 29th, Michael Ford 73rd and Sam Jackson 74th. The urban soil team who placed 1st out of 27 teams consisted of Sara King, Travis Guggenbiller, Melinda Miller and Corbin Hellworth. Corbin Hellworth was the highest scoring student for Parkway and of all other judgers in the urban soils contest who placed 1st out of 89 students, along with Sara King who placed 3rd, Travis Guggenbiller 27th and Melinda Miller 40th. The Parkway FFA Chapter would like to congratulate the urban team for placing first and wish them good luck at state on October 13, 2007. Submitted by Travis Guggenbiller, reporter.
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This year for 2007-2008, the Parkway FFA Chapter has started a recycling program for the new facility. The chapter received a Building Our American Community Grant for $2000 to purchase our blue recycling tubs for all classrooms and containers to collect cans and plastic bottles. The chapter started the recycling program last year but decided to make a bigger step this year by collecting more than just paper and start collecting, plastic bottles, cans and cardboard at the school. We have students that go throughout the schools on a regular basis that collect the recyclables. Last year, during FFA Week, the chapter had a contest on what class could collect the most cans throughout the school as a fundraiser for the Children’s Medical Center. The chapter raised nearly $1,000 for the organization. This year the chapter hopes to raise more money for the medical center.
The Parkway FFA Chapter
in cooperation of the Mercer County Solid Waste received a
grant from the Department of Natural Recourses for a trailer to be
placed in the back of the school for all of our recyclables. The FFA
Chapter would like to expand their program by having the community be
involved. The chapter is asking the community to start collecting tin
cans, plastic bottles, cardboard, glass bottles, aluminum cans and paper
for our recycling program. All of the proceeds will be donated to the
Children’s Medical Center. For a list on how all recyclables should be sorted - Click Here |
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Nice job and good luck at Districts!!!
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Students to Participate in Agriscience Competition
Guggenbiller’s and Thomas’ project “Does Seed Shape Matter?” will be on display at convention in the National FFA Agriscience Fair area of the RCA Dome. Categories for competition are biochemistry/microbiology/food science; botany; engineering; environmental science and zoology. The four divisions divide students in grades 7-12. Each winning participant receives either a cash award or scholarship. The agriscience fair program is sponsored by Ford Motor Company Fund as a special project of the National FFA Foundation, which includes cash awards. The National FFA Organization, formerly known as the Future Farmers of America, is a national youth organization of 495,046 student members – all preparing for leadership and careers in the science, business and technology of agriculture – as part of 7,242 local FFA chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The National FFA Organization changed to its present name in 1988, in recognition of the growth and diversity of agriculture and agricultural education. The FFA mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. Visit www.ffa.org for more information.
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Sheets Receives the 2007 DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment Award
Brett D’Wight Sheets of Willshire, Ohio,
who attends Parkway High School, was recently presented the school’s
highest agricultural honor, the DEKALB Agricultural Accomplishment
Award, sponsored by Monsanto Company.
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Parkway FFA Participates at the Mercer County Fair
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Parkway FFA Summer Officer and Chairmen Retreat
The retreat was a great success in helping plan this year’s events. The Parkway FFA Officers would like to thank Bearcreek Farms for the great opportunity of allowing us to plan out our new school year.
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Parkway FFA Chapter Attends Camp
Muskingum
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