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by Darryl Wragge | Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Putnam County FFA Alumni President Gary Bruch and his wife Cindy represented the 70 members Putnam county FFA Alumni at the annual Illinois FFA Alumni Convention held in Springfield last weekend. Alumni member from the entire state converged on Springfield Friday evening for a kick off banquet held at the Northfield Inn in . . . read more
Daryle Wragge, Agricultural Science instructor at Putnam County High School, was recently presented with the Section 5 “Excellence In Teaching” Award at the annual Illinois Association of Vocational Agriculture Teachers (IAVAT) . . . read more
The Putnam County High School Agricultural Education Department, led by instructor Daryl Wragge, recently captured a grant from the Facilitating Coordination in Agricultural Education group. FCAE received 41 grant applications and . . . read more
On Sunday the Seneca FFA Chapter held its Annual Club Calf Sale with PC FFA attending. Top quality show calves were shown and sold to the area’s young cattlemen who will be showing this summer. The calves weighed in from the . . . read more
For the second consecutive year, the PCHS Soil Judging Team captured the State Championship in Soil Judging that was held at Blackhawk College. In addition, Alan Nielsen, PCHS senior, won the individual state championship in soil . . . read more
Section 5 FFA held its Annual Green Hand Initiation at Midland last Wed. evening. The Green Hand Degree is the first level of membership a beginning FFA member achieves in the organization. Putnam County has 34 new Green Hands this year. . . . read more
This summer 15 members from the Putnam County FFA participated in the Section 5 Livestock Fair, held at Henry at the Marshall/Putnam Fair Grounds. The results came back and out of 12 schools PC came away with 4 . . . read more
In July Megan Glenn of Putnam County High School boarded a bus and headed for Washington D.C. to the American Heritage Award Program. This activity was sponsored but the Illinois Farm Bureau and Affiliated companies Growmark, . . . read more
The PCHS FFA recently held elections to choose officers for the 2006-2007 school year. The winners of that election were: PRESIDENT- ALAN NIELSON CO-VICE PRESIDENTS- MATT DEVINE AND MATT HOLMBECK . . . read more
Last Monday evening 45 Putnam County FFA Alumni Members attended the annual Night out at the Ball Park. The group watched the Peoria Chiefs win over the Timber Rattlers at O'Brien Field by a . . . read more
On Tuesday PC FFA sent 3 of its Senior Livestock Team to the University of Illinois for the Annual State FFA Livestock Evaluation contest. Over 90 of the states top teams judged rings of high quality beef, swine, and sheep. . . . read more
What do you think is a Youth Convention? A Youth Convention is when all FFA members 2 from each chapter. They get together and talk about how they could make out chapters improve and what we could do to make them better, and how to help . . . read more
On Saturday, December 10, members of the PC FFA Chapter did their annual manning of a Salvation Army kettle at the Wal-Mart in Peru. Four two man shifts from 1:00pm to 9:00pm rang the bell and collected money for a very worthwhile . . . read more
Crops Team Captures Third Place Last Thursday evening the Putnam County Crops Team headed to Kewanee to compete in the Section 5 FFA crops contest held at Blackhawk East College. Rings of . . . read more
For the first time in over 25 years, one FFA chapter has won all six awards at the Annual Section 5 Grain Fair, and that was the PCHS FFA chapter! The Grain Fair had over 70 entries from the twelve schools in section 5. The . . . read more
PCHS Takes First in State Soils On October 11, 2005 the Putnam County Soil Judging Team took first place at the state level competition. It is the second time in the past three years that the PCHS team has won state. . . . read more
