November E-Update

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November Fun Night


This months fun night was held on Saturday, November 23rd and we took 12 excited members to the Roadrunners hockey game in Topeka. We were invited by the Seaman FFA Chapter to tailgate with them and other Topeka FFA chapters and to attend the game and we gladly accepted. We started of the night by tailgating in the parking lot and eating grilled hotdogs. Then we headed in to cheer the Roadrunners Hockey team on. After the game we went to Freddy's to enjoy some ice cream to end a perfect night. Even though the Roadrunners lost 3-2 the Holton FFA Chapter had a great time by meeting new friends and a surprise of being invited to going onto the ice. 



Conservation Speech

This year’s conservation speech topic was "Soil to Spoon. There were  members from Holton and Jackson Heights. Tristan Parks was 1st and Dean Klahr 2nd. The judges said the placings were especially close. Parks headed to state and narrowly got beat out for first.

Fruit Sale


November 15 was the deadline for turning in fruit order forms. Our top seller was Walker Degenhardt selling 102 items so congrats to him. The fruit will be getting in around the 3-5th of December. Remember to read the boxes and get the people the right things.

Leadership School

Holton FFA members participated in Leadership school on November 14th. Members took tests and participated in rituals and parliamentary procedure demo's. The freshman took first in both rituals and Parliamentary Procedure. The Chapter officer team took 1st in information and 2nd in opening rituals. The parlaw team walked away with 2nd place and a trip to state convention this May. Marysville took home the the trophy this year by 2 points.

District Horse Judging

Eleven members attended the District Horse judging held on November 7th. The A team finished 1st over all, with three top ten finishes: Victoria Kimbrough 2nd, Dean Klahr 3rd, and Tristan Parks 7th. B Team placed 4th overall.

National Convention

With the Forestry Team leading the way, 14 Holton FFA Members had an outstanding National FFA Convention in Louisville, Kentucky on October 30th through November 2nd.  The Forestry Team finished 12th in the Nation in the Forestry Career Development Event, which is believed to be the highest placing ever for a Kansas Team.  Additionally, the chapter was recognized as a 3 star gold emblem chapter in the national chapter award program, 4 members were elevated to the American FFA Degree, and Elizabeth Allen served as an official voting convention delegate for the week.

Creed and Speech Showcase

On December 8th at 2:30, three Greenhands will be presenting the Creed. This will determine which two Greenhands will be competing at district. Speech Show Case will start at 3:30 that Sunday afternoon.  Both showcases prepare members for district CDE's on December 12th.

Upcoming Events

Exciting month coming up for the Holton FFA Chapter including these events! We have our Local creed speaking and FFA speech showcases as well as our FFA Winter CDE Day. At the Winter CDE Day we have Poultry, Speech, and Creed competing with other schools in our district.

December 8th- FFA Local Creed Speaking CDE and FFA speech Showcase
December 12th- FFA Winter CDE Day
December Fun-To be announced

"Food From the Farm For Thought" from Karl

This Month I would like to try something new such as some fun facts about the foods that we eat. Especially the foods that we all have just got done eating such as our Thanksgiving foods. Hopefully all of you can move more then I can from all of that delicious stuffing. So I hope you enjoy some of these interesting facts about your Thanksgiving meals.
  •  It is a presidential tradition to pardon one turkey each year.
  • Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States.
  • The best way to check if a Cranberry is ripe is to bounce it.
  • Americans eat the weight of Singapore in turkeys every Thanksgiving.
  • Turkeys have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys would drop dead.
  • The greatest dressed turkey weighed 86 pounds! 
  • There are nine townships around the country named "Turkey". With three of them being in Kansas.



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