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FFA celebrates FFA Week with Ag Olympics

North Huron students enjoy FFA Week activities, including the annual Ag Olympics that feature representatives from all secondary grades competing in a variety of contests. (North Huron High School)

BY SIERRA SCHUMACHER winner being named in the end.

North Huron High School Chapter officers plan KINDE — During and execute the entire National FFA Week, the week, including dress up chapter hosted an annual days, lunchtime activievent called “Ag Olymties, and the final assempics.” bly with Ag Olympics.

The purpose of nationThis year was especialal FFA Week is to share ly challenging because what FFA is and the the chapter president impact it has on members (Elizabeth Trudeau) and every day. advisor (Mr. Ankley) Activities include chal- were both in a different lenging and fun events country! However, the like a straw bale toss, tie remainder of the team tying contest, and straw pulled together and creatscavenger hunt. ed a fun, educational, and Classes are awarded of course, competitive first, second and third week for the whole school place, with an overall to enjoy.

Band students to visit the Big Apple

BY SIERRA SCHUMACHER North Huron High School KINDE — Juniors and seniors who are part of the North Huron Band are eager to visit New York City during spring break.

“Juniors and seniors are going on a five-day trip to New York City that will take them to the statue of liberty, the 9-11 memorial, Wall Street, China Town, Times Square, the Museum of Natural History, Central Park, a dinner cruise, and a broadway musical,” said Band Director Darin McNabb. “We will not be performing on this trip, as it will just be a rewarding experience for the hard work and dedication these kids have put in over the years.”

The memories made on this trip, even though only a few days in length, will last a lifetime. The sights and experiences will be new for many of the students who will travel there.

Over the years the North Huron Band has succeeded in competitions such as band festival, solo-ensemble, and honors band. This year, the high school band received an overall 1 rating for its performance.

The band also had two students participate in high school solo-ensemble for the 2018-19 school year where they received a 1 ranking.

The band sent 13 kids to the Huron County Junior High Honors Band, where students put on a concert for community members.

Overall, the North Huron Band is the largest high school band in Huron County, with 66 members.

Students recently grew and helped process over 200 broilers that were donated to the Kinde Food Pantry and/or being used in school lunch this spring. (North Huron High School)

Student-raised broilers will feed hundreds dents how to care for animals, how chickens are processed, how to keep track of data and KINDE — Broiler contest is analyze data, and marketing an event in which agriscience skills. students raise baby chicks The students are able to until they are broiler sized for experiment with feed rations processing. to see who will have the best Students are in charge of rate of gain and grow the bigthe daily care of their birds, gest chickens. including feeding them and We had 15 members raise making sure they are healthy. broilers at home and 60 This event teaches stustudents raised them at the

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Art students embrace M’ART’CH Madness and travel to the Windy City around the entire school have been talking about many different artists and their artwork. The KINDE — The North Huron Art community can also play along on Department puts a little twist on the North Huron Art Department the typical March Madness and Facebook page, where a poll is instead of brackets with the names made everyday and with a simple of basketball teams, art teacher click, the public can vote too!

Mrs. Souva changes the teams into As the actual basketball March the names of famous artists.

Madness goes on, Mrs. Souva will The artists are then matched be rooting for her alma mater, against other artists of the same Michigan State “SpARTans” to style of artwork. The fun artmake it to the final four. ist-themed M’ART’CH bracket has The great part about M’ART’CH been a very effective way to teach matchups is that some of the art history for the whole school. students visited Chicago, recentThis year, many famous pieces ly. Students traveled by bus to from the Chicago Institute of Arts Lapeer, where they waited for the were featured in the learning pro- train a little longer than planned, cess because the art classes recent- as the train was running late. ly attended Chicago in February.

AMTRAK then provided safe The M’ART’CH Madness activtravel from Lapeer to Chicago and ity takes place the first 10 minutes students were finally able to walk of class each day and just like the city streets of the ‘Windy City.’ the normal basketball brackets, While there, students visited students fill out their bracket and popular places such as the “Cloud guess who the winner will be.

Gate,” the Chicago Art Institute, Mrs. Souva teaches students Tommy Guns Garage (a “speakfacts daily about each artist, which easy”), The Shedd Aquarium, and helps students decide which artist Gino’s East Pizzeria. is more creative. The first round is Students also completed an act where they learn about all the art- of service during their visit as they ists and the Sweet 16 is review. gave 25 care packages to homeless By the end of March, students people within the city of Chicago.

BY ASHLEY KOGLIN North Huron High School

Art students are pictured in Chicago during their recent trip. (North Huron High School)

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Students selected their best broilers to take to Fowlerville to have the birds judged and processed.

When processing was complete, North Huron donated 120 broiler chickens to the Kinde Food Pantry and 85 to the school lunch program.

These broilers will be used in a “Farm to Fork” schoolwide luncheon. Students will

have raised the meat in the meals and will have grown the potatoes and sweet corn to the used in the meal too.

Students then educate their peers on how the food was grown and local food production.

Last year, 85 percent of North Huron’s students and 100 percent of its staff ate school lunch the day of its “Farm to Fork” event.

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(Top left) From left, Casey Baranski, Liz Trudeau and Ashley Koglin are pictured after presenting at the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute in Iowa. (Bottom left) Although students didn’t get to sail this year, they had a great time learning about the Great Lakes, including a station about sailing. ((Right) North Huron FFA had a large delegation of members attend the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. (North Huron High School)

North Huron FFA and Agriscience Program stays busy Food Prize presentation, including the Borlaug Dialogue.

BY ASHLEY KOGLIN AND HANNAH MILLS North Huron High School KINDE — North Huron FFA and Agriscience Program members have not been idle.

Sailing the lakes (almost) Sophomore zoology and the environment students at North Huron stepped aboard the 65-foot schooner, the Appledore IV in Port Austin, this past fall.

The Appledore was anchored in the marina and was poised to sail a few miles from shore to allow students to begin collecting samples of water and examine various organisms within Lake Huron.

However, because of extreme winds from the southwest pushing water out of the marina, the ship was not able to leave fully loaded for fears that it would bottom out leaving or coming back in the marina.

However, students were still able to have an amazing learning experience and they sampled water in the marina to examine aquatic life and water quality.

Students used a variety of different devices to collect and view samples, as well as discuss current invasive species that are in the lake.

The opportunity to learn more about Lake Huron and its diverse ecosystem was something that is important for the students to learn.

Overall, the Appledore is a fun day to use skills and content learned in the classroom and apply it in the real world.

10 Gallon Challenge North Huron FFA officers accepted the 10 Gallon Challenge from Michigan FFA Association, Ithaca FFA and Breckenridge FFA. The officers purchased 10 gallons of milk to be donated to the Kinde Food Pantry while promoting and helping the dairy industry.

The chapter then challenged Ubly FFA, Bad Axe FFA, Harbor Beach FFA, North Huron Nation-

North Huron officers hold the milk from the 10 Gallon Challenge that was later donated. (North Huron High School)

(Left) North Huron FFA National Nursery/Landscape team represented the state of Michigan at the national contest and was awarded a national silver award. Members were, from left, Nick Craig, Benjamin Zaleski, Olyvia Majeski and Elizabeth Trudeau. (Right) FFA Members at the Port Austin Visitors Center are pictured with the non-perishable food items that were donated from Caroling for Cans. (North Huron High School) al Honor Society, and North Huron Student Council to do the same.

The 10 gallon challenge is a social media challenge meant to help the dairy industry while also benefiting families in local communities.

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students Ashley Koglin, Casey Baranski and Elizabeth Trudeau were selected as finalists for the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute in Des Moines, Iowa.

The students each researched a major issue related to food insecurity in an underdeveloped country and then proposed solutions, in a five-page research paper, to solve some of these issues.

They presented their papers to other student researchers and food and nutrition experts from around the world.

They even met and conversed with the 2018 World Food Prize Laureates Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro.

They were also able to hear a special address from Peru’s vice president and watch the World

National FFA Convention North Huron FFA had 16 members travel to Indianapolis to participate in the National FFA Convention.

While there, four students competed in the Nursery and Landscape Career Development Event.

This team was a state winning team in Michigan and received a silver award after competing in Indianapolis.

Students who were not competing toured factories such as Jiffy Mix in Chelsea, Sechler’s Pickle Factory in St. Joe, Cummins Technical Center in Columbus, and “Not Just Popcorn” in Edinburg.

Students also watched a wonderful performance by Garth Brooks and watched the play, “Dracula,” in Louisville, Kentucky.

The chapter was also recognized as a three star chapter (the highest rating) on stage during the event.

Caroling for Canned Goods Benefits Kinde Food Pantry The weekend before Christmas, you may have heard some carolers in Port Austin.

No record deals were signed on that December night, but they helped a worthwhile cause while belting out some holiday tunes.

Members went door to door to “Carol For Cans,” specifically asking for non-perishable food items or cash donations to benefit the Kinde Food Pantry. In exchange, they would sing a Christmas Carol.

Members collected over 100 pounds of food and over $200 in donations. Although singing isn’t a forte for many of them, they were pushed out of their comfort zone in a fun way to benefit their community.

Thanks to generous donations, many families in our community had a little bit extra for the holiday season.

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North Huron students traveling to Costa Rica in May

BY OLYVIA MAJESKI North Huron High School KINDE — For the first time in over 10 years, a large group of North Huron students will get the opportunity to travel internationally.

On May 5, 10 students will fly to Costa Rica to learn about agricultural sustainability. The trip is a total of eight days long and will include a variety of different

activities.

Students will get the opportunity to sightsee Arenal Volcano, visit Costa Rican beaches, and zipline, hike and raft through the rainforest. They will also learn about Costa Rica’s agriculture when they visit Don Juan’s Organic Farm and EARTH University.

All the students are very excited to attend, including Tyler Kno-

block.

“I am excited to visit a new place and see a new culture, foods, experiences and people,” he said.

To help fund the trip, students have worked hard to fundraise and seek out donors. Many local businesses and community members have graciously donated, and donations are going to be accepted until students leave the first

week of May. As the trip draws closer, the excitement only grows stronger. Be sure to follow the North Huron FFA Facebook page to stay updated on social media posts for daily pictures and videos of the trip.

North Huron students would like to thank the many local business and individual donors for all of their generous support.

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Student Council keeps members and students busy

BY NICK CRAIG North Huron High School KINDE — The North Huron Student Council has been keeping busy.

Student Council Regionals During March, the North Huron Student Council sent seven students to Frankenmuth for their regional competition.

While there, a team of four members (Liz Trudeau, Ty Knoblock, Olyvia Majeski, and Grace Wiley) presented on our annual Spring Fling Week in hopes of presenting the event at States.

The students gained much knowledge from this experience and plan to compete next year for a chance to present in Grand Rapids.

Last year’s team got the chance to compete at state competition, taking advantage of the chance to make our school known around the state!

Slime Time An upcoming event that the North Huron Student Council will conduct this spring is the annual Slime Time Fundraiser during Spring Fling week.

In years past, this fundraiser has raised up to $600. This activity encourages the whole high school to “slime” two seniors.

Seniors volunteer and then are drawn randomly. After the contestants are decided, an auction for food items is conducted.

Food items such as ketchup, eggs, mayo, expired milk, sugar, and syrup make this day a slimy mess. Students in grades 6-12 bid on different food items with some going as high as $35!

After all food is sold, the highest bidders will pour, throw, or dump the items onto the chosen seniors. Even some of the staff get involved with the slimming!

This is a great activity that the Student Council does to bring together the student body while having some messy fun.

Washington Leadership Conference attendees included, from left, Nick Craig, Robby Iseler, Ashley Koglin, Casey Baranski and Emma Trudeau. (North Huron High School)

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(Top) Staff members participate in “Slime Time.”

The event will again take place this spring.

(Left) Our senior student council members Liz Trudeau, Ty Knoblock, Olyvia Majeski, and Grace Wiley present at Student Council Regionals.

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Washington DC trip gives North Huron FFA members unique leadership opportunities

BY ASHLEY KOGLIN North Huron High School KINDE — FFA Members Nick Craig, Robby Iseler, Emma Trudeau, Casey Baranski, and Ashley Koglin attended Washington Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. over the summer.

While in D.C., members were involved in leadership activities related to learning about others, the world, hunger, and community relations.

Students were also able to visit many historical sites along the way, such as Gettysburg, Arlington National Cemetery; and a night tour of the monuments, including the MLK statue where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, and even the U.S. Capitol.

Sadly, members were not able to visit the White House, as there were too many demonstrations going on

outside the gates. However, the Holocaust Museum made up for that missed opportunity.

Each day members spend in D.C. has a different focus: ME, WE, DO and SERVE. These four words each focus on the mindset of the student, opening their eyes, and seeing the bigger picture of the world.

Students then ended their week by serving the local community by packing over 25,000 meals for local food pantries and homeless people in the D.C. area.

They also formed a Living To Serve plan that can be implemented back in their home community to create change within their community or a place in need of help.

The Washington Leadership Conference teaches students to be an engaged citizen who can make measurable and positive difference in their local community.

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North Huron’s parent group is going strong

BY KAYLYNN STANTON North Huron High School KINDE — A teacher at our school, Mrs. Mindy Collier, had a goal to get the parents more engaged in the activities going on at our school.

To help encourage parent involvement, the North Huron Parent Group was created. This group of parents has organized many fundraisers this school year, including an apple pie sale where parents prepared and sold over 160 pies.

They also put on a bake sale before the Christmas choir program to help raise money for activities they wanted to implement in 2019.

These activities included “October Out of the box” where students learned how to make

healthy snacks in addition to a movie night.

At the movie night, they showed 101 dalmatians and got a turnout of over 101 people. Other activities included “Kris Kringle Night,” where they made snacks and cards for the elderly at Courtney Manor and activities focused on reading.

One such event was called “Bingo for Books” to kick off March is Reading Month. The bingo winners got to pick a book to take home and read.

The most recent event they helped implement was STEAM night, which focused on fun activities relating to science, technology, engineering, art and math.

If you are interested in participating in the North Huron Parent Group, please contact Mrs. Collier in the elementary.

The North Huron parent group has been instrumental in implementing several activities this year, including making pies to help raise funds for student projects. (North Huron High School)

Warriors send four athletes to state competition Football program sustains success

record and qualified for the playoffs. Going into week seven, the team was 3-3 and knew that to make the

BY TYLER KNOBLOCK playoffs they would need a North Huron High School huge win against Peck, and through a very gritty perforKINDE — Throughout mance, the Warriors came the year, the North Huron out on top 20-8.

Warriors athletes accom“This game was the plished great things. turning point in the season North Huron’s Cross and kept us in the hunt for Country team saw many playoffs,” said Coach Chad different athletes achieve Knoblock. new personal records, and The Warriors saw many many top 10 finishes indiplayers get awards individvidually. ually. Ty Knoblock received De’Andre Morris had a first team All-League great season, and qualified Defense and also received for the state meet. He also All-Thumb Defensive Playbroke the school record this er of the Year. Delvin Galyear with a time of 17:50, leck had a phenomenal seawhich was a personal record son as linebacker and was for him. awarded Second Team AllOn the girls side, Ellie League Defense while John Bender had a very good Hoody received All-League season, and qualified for the Second Team Defense for state meet. Both of them his work on the line. will be coming back next Our bowling team was year and will be ready to also able to build on its suchave a great season. cess from the previous year, Coming off back to back and sent two players from district titles, our volleyball the girls team to States. team was ready to take on It is challenging to qualify the season. Despite the for states, as you have to team being very young due be in the top 10 from your to the many seniors who Region. The two players had graduated, they were making it to States were able to improve and had a Ashley Koglin and Patricia successful season.

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Grace Wiley led the team Koglin also received 1st as the captain, and the Team All Conference HonMVP. She also was voted ors and Pineau received All-League second team this 2nd Team All Conference year. Three other players Honors. receive honorable menKoglin locked in her place tions. on 1st Team by placing in After losing many key the top four at the annual players from a very success- Singles Tournament in Sanful 11-2 season where our dusky and then placing 8th warriors football team won at the Regional competition. its second-ever regional Her high game this year was title, many thought that this a 235 with an average game season would not turn out of 165 during the season. very well because of the loss The girls basketball team of our older players, but the had a tough season, but Warriors prevailed. the effort and intensity was Our team finished the not the reason. The girls regular season with a 5-4 played very well, and kept

improving as the year went on. They will be back next year ready to take on the new season with hopes of improving.

For the boys basketball team, the season saw some ups and downs. They started out hot before winter break, but facing a tough schedule sizzled out and went on a losing streak.

They were able to get back going later in the season and into districts. After winning their first game in Districts, they were faced with the tough task of facing Kingston. They kept it close, but Kingston was able stop the run, ending the Warriors season.

For the boys, Ty Knoblock and De’Andre Morris were both named AllLeague Second Team.

Our 2019 Varsity Boys Basketball Team. (North Huron High School)

(Left) Ashley Koglin and Patricia Pineau represented the Warriors at the Bowling State Finals Competition. (Right) Our 2018 Varsity Football Team. (North Huron High School)

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Elizabeth Trudeau is recognized on stage at the 91st Michigan FFA State Convention.

She is pictured with, from left, North Huron Principal Tanya Kramer, father Brian Trudeau, sister Emma Trudeau, FFA Advisor Joe Ankley, North Huron Superintendent Martin Prout, and mother Aimee Trudeau. (North Huron High School)

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Visitors at STEAM night were able to see many projects students have been working on, including aquaponics systems that students built to grow fish, turtles, and leafy greens. (North Huron High School)

Elizabeth Trudeau named Star Finalist in Agriscience Research

BY NICK CRAIG North Huron High School KINDE — Elizabeth Trudeau is currently the president of the North Huron FFA Chapter.

If you’ve ever had the privilege of meeting her, you know that she is passionate about agriculture, self motivated, and is a natural leader.

Trudeau not only helps her fellow FFA officers plan events, she also is passionate about teaching agriculture to elementary students, and she’s always thinking of ways in which she can help her community.

This year, Trudeau was a finalist for the Star in Agriscience Research Contest. Her Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) focused on plant systems and social systems research.

Trudeau helps manage the alternative food production greenhouse at the school and has also traveled to Disney World to study alternative food production practices.

Her thirst for more experiences didn’t stop there as she then traveled to Uganda, Africa, twice.

While in Uganda, she got to experience different cultures while also teaching a group of young farmers and students about agriculture.

When Trudeau returned to Uganda for the second time in February, she had many goals to help people, especially women and children.

She hosted a fundraiser to raise money for an orphanage to purchase their own laying hens.

The laying hens were a sustainable project they could continue to grow after Trudeau’s visit. It would provide the children with an additional protein source each day.

Extra eggs could also be sold within that community to provide them with additional income.

Trudeau will be continuing her education at Saginaw Valley State University and hopes to continue to learn about the world around her while also helping others.

The Elementary did a fantastic job of decorating all the hallways with projects for STEAM night. (North Huron High School)

Benjamin Zaleski accepts the award on behalf of the North Huron FFA Chapter after it was named the second place chapter in the state. (North Huron High School)

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Claims Second Place in National Chapter Contest

BY HANNAH MILLS North Huron High School KINDE — The North Huron FFA chapter has had a busy and exciting year! Our theme this year is “Stand Out from the Herd.”

North Huron members have a passion for learning and develop leadership skills that make them an asset to our community while inspiring others.

One of the goals for our officer team was to write an application for the National Chapter award and be unique enough to make it in the top 5.

We more than exceeded our goal by making it to the top three in the state.

On March 7, two of our

officers were able to present a 10 minute presentation with questions to follow from judges as to why our chapter is one of the best in the state.

During the presentation, we highlighted nine activities that our chapter does throughout the year. These activities include Caroling for Cans, Aquaponics, CDE’s (Career Development Events) which fit into our “Growing Leaders” category, Farm to Fork, Community Gardens, Pheasant Release Project which fit into our “Building Communities” category, and STEAM Night, World Food Prize, and Farm Fun Day, which fit into our “Strengthening Ag” category.

After North Huron, Lapeer and Springport chapters presented, North Huron was awarded second place in the state for the National Chapter Award.

There were over 30 hands-on stations for students to visit during STEAM night with a focus on science, technology, engineering, art and math topics. (North Huron High School)

STEAM Night challenges students to think big year!

“STEAM is coming out of her chimney now that she experienced KINDE — North Huron’s STEAM STEAM night,” stated Maya LeadNight was a huge success, with more ingham. “Maybe next year, a bouncy than 300 community members castle could be included in the activattending. ities!”

The school was full of fun activiLily Guitar said she lliked the ties all evening that focused on Sci- slime bar and the root beer floats ence, Technology, Engineering, Art for states of matter activity. and Math (STEAM).

“But I didn’t like the snakes in the During the evening, parents and reptile display,” she added. students of all ages were engaged in Either way, Guitar can’t wait to fun activities such as planting sucdo it again next year. culents, making bud vases, watchThis event was a great way to ing turtle races, building marshmal- involve the community for a night of low catapults, making spin art, and fun at the school. Students in grades visiting reptile displays.

5-10 were even able to show off all Visitors also had as a chance to their hard work on their research ride a Segway, try out computer projects they have been doing in coding, interact with a slime bar, their science class. and even learn the states of matter STEAM Night also showcases our while making root beer floats. school and facilities to parents and After asking a couple students visitors as well as all the amazing what went well and what didn’t, we hands-on opportunities our stuknow what can be improved next dents have.

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Students embrace March Madness; Compete in cornhole tournament

BY BRAYDEN SCHIPINSKI North Huron High School KINDE — When most people think of March, they think of spring, warmer weather, and the NCAA College Basketball Tournament.

At North Huron School, students and staff think Cornhole Tournament.

For the past three years, Chad Knoblock, a teacher at North Huron, has organized a cornhole tournament that takes place in March, during high school lunch for students in grades 6-12 so students and staff can play without interrupting class time.

This year’s tournament included 64 teams, with two people on each team.

Previous winners were teachers Chad Knoblock and Darin McNabb in 2017, and last year, students Austin Majeski and Brandon Berry were cornhole champions.

This year’s tournament came down to the final four teams of Tyler Knoblock and John Hoody, Cheyenne Hoody and Emma Case, Isaac Upthegrove and Christian Brown, and teachers Don Pitts and Lance Tibbits.

The final four teams played during a school-wide assembly with the team of Knoblock and Hoody being crowned champions.

“Every year, the cornhole tournament starts and I struggle to find sometime to play with, but this year I was able to find my forever partner in fellow teacher Mrs. Romzek,” said Mrs. Maurer, a teacher at North Huron. “We were able to win a couple games together.”

The cornhole tournament has become a popular event at North Huron and it looks like it will continue to be an annual contest involving healthy competition between both students and staff.

Secondary students participate in the annual North Huron Conrhole Tournament. (North Huron High School)

Life changing opportunity in Uganda and organize a ‘Bucks for Clucks’ dinner as a part of a personal living to serve In 2017 and again in plan I created during the 2019, I was fortunate to Washington Leadership receive the opportunity to Conference I attended two travel to Uganda, Africa, years ago. for two weeks as a part of Our amazing North my involvement with our Huron community memFFA program. bers came together for In 2017, I was accomthis chicken dinner, which panied by two other FFA helped raise $2,000 for me members from my school to help provide donations and two other members to several organizations. from Lapeer. This past The main beneficiary February, I was able to was the St. Kizito’s Babies travel back to Uganda for Home, an orphanage another two weeks with my where donations will be FFA advisor Joe Ankley. used to purchase and raise My adventures to this laying hens. country were full of anticDonations also helped ipation, excitement and two secondary schools love. We traveled to Ugan- and a women’s club with da with the goal to educate a focus on helping women as many people as we and women with children. could during our short stay My trips to Uganda have there about agricultural led me to my passion of topics. helping others and has We taught over 200 stu- given me the opportunidents and young farmers ty of a lifetime to travel agricultural lessons such as beyond my small town. calf care, animal husbandMy connections with ry basics, and even artifimy newly-made friends in cial insemination.

Uganda will not wear and During my stay, I disneither will my love for the tributed an agricultural country and its people. concepts survey in hopes I plan on returning to to determine what lessons Uganda whether it be in and topics Ugandans seek the next two years or 20 to learn more about. This years. In the future, I plan will help future trips by to continue my research providing lessons and on the country, communicurriculum that will make cate with my old and new the largest impact in rural friends there, and use my Ugandan communities. future career as a nurse to Before my trip in Febru- volunteer in Uganda someary, I was able to conduct time in the future.

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Hard work doesn’t stop at end of school day for many Warriors

BY AUTUMN TAIT North Huron High School KINDE — For some students, their hard work stops when school lets out. But for many of the students in North Huron’s hallways, their day has just begun.

Many students at North Huron have a Supervised Agriculture Experience (SAE), as part of their FFA membership, which consists of hands-on learning in certain agriculture, food, and natural resources areas.

Students usually have previous knowledge or are interested in or employed in their SAE areas.

Having an active SAE allows students to apply and receive a variety of awards in addition to teaching students a variety of skills for future employment. For some, these awards paid cash.

This year at the Michigan FFA Convention, six students from North Huron were state winners in proficiency categories and received cash prizes.

Autumn Tait was selected as the winner in Poultry Production; Alyson Walsh in Goat Production; Daniel Toner in Turf Grass Management; Benjamin Zaleski in Agricultural Education; Evan Rice in Diversified Crop Production; and Brayden Schipinski in Landscape Management.

I personally enjoy the challenges of having an active SAE project. Mine is Diversified Agriculture Production, or in simple terms, I raise poultry, cattle and grow cash crops, most recently soybeans.

Kaylynn Stanton spends a lot of her evenings and most of her weekends tending to her registered Haflinger horses. Her hard work and dedication is shown by her success in numerous draft shows and competitions. (North Huron High School) The products I raise at home include non-GMO eggs, broilers, beef, and soybeans. These are then marketed locally and statewide.

You could say that I’ve already started a small business for myself with the help of my parents.

Besides completing school studies, I have the responsibilities to feed and care for the animals and monitor my crops.

The experiences I have gained through my SAE have helped me grow a passion for agriculture and this has become the area I want to pur-

sue a career in.

I asked Kaylynn Stanton, a fellow student who’s SAE consists of Equine Science, how her SAE project has benefited her.

“I have met many experienced people throughout my SAE and they have all given me advice for my future plans

and career,” she said. “I have been able to grow and now have a path to be involved in the equine industry.”

Overall, SAE’s require hard work and determination, but can provide great opportunities for our students in agricultural courses.

North Huron students make their way through Kinde to the Friends of Kinde Palace for the annual Warrior Dance Party. (North Huron High School)

Second annual Warrior Dance Party a hit with students

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From that challenge, the Warrior Dance Party was created. High school students were paired with elementary stu-

dents that they hung out with and helped supervise during the dance.

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the interaction of older students with younger students.

The older kids helped guide their young partners to the Friends of Kinde Palace, where they danced to popular music and some oldies.

While at the Polka Palace, all the students were treated to donuts and cider.

The cider was made by students enrolled in an agricience course.

Apples were collected from a tree in the front of our school or donated

by students.

The were then used in an old fashioned press that had to be cranked by hand. The cider was pasteurized before being served at the dance party.

The North Huron band teacher, Mr. Mcnabb, also brought over his DJ equipment, which allowed for dancing and lots of fun!

With a theme of the 1950s, students of all ages were dancing together and having a great time.