Thursday, October 23, 2014
The
Volume 145 Issue 42 50 Cents
Putnam Standard
Poca residents support Bailey By Lauren Bethel Poca High School Poca High School student Bailey Jack is in recovery after suffering a ruptured brain tumor in June. On Sunday, June 29 Jack was airlifted from Muddy Creek Motocross in Tennessee to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio after the tumor ruptured, causing a brain bleed and stroke. He was in Tennessee attending a professional motocross race with family and friends at the time of the Bailey Jack’s family and friends rupture. held multiple fundraising events. Jack spent several
Bob Walden, a reenactor from Poca, shows one of the Buffalo Octoberfest visitors his display of hunting tools.
Buffalo celebrates Octoberfest By Amanda Smythers amanda@theputnamstandard.com
The town of Buffalo joined together as a family last weekend as the 28th Annual Buffalo Octoberfest brought hundreds of visitors into the West Virginia town. From morning until dinner time, the parking lot of Buffalo Elementary was filled with cars of visitors. Many Buffalo residents chose to walk to the festivities rather than face the challenge of parking. The Buffalo Octoberfest petting zoo featured many friendly farm animals.
See Octoberfest, Page 15
See Bailey Jack, Page 10
FFA Parkins top 15 finalist By Michael Circle michael@theputnamstandard.com
A student from Buffalo has been awarded a chance to attend the National Future Farmers of America Convention after completing a study on the perceptions of Putnam County residents about Future Farmers of America and agriculture education. Hannah Parkins’ survey asked 80 residents of Putnam County general information questions about the FFA, and
her results were shocking, she said. “I went into the community and they actually knew nothing about what we did in the classroom,” Parkins said. “They think we learn about farm animals and stuff like that, but there’s so much more than that. There is a lot of science and leadership in the teaching. Biology is a very important part of agriculture courses.” See FFA, Page 4
Hurricane High is ready for The Challenge Program By Michael Circle about the employment interviewmichael@theputnamstandad.com ing process. “In our very first school with Hurricane High School is one The Challenge Program, I underof six schools in West Virginia that stood the meaning and the impact have incorporated The Challenge and the relevance of The Challenge Program into their curriculum, a Program,” Pfister said. “Every kid program offering competitive in- won’t have the meaningfulness centives and activities to increase and importance of the program attendance and encourages the resonate within them but it really students to better themselves and does reach some kids and truly their grades. transforms their lives.” Philip Pfister, spokesperson for To better promote attendance The Challenge Program and 2006 and hard work, Challenge rewards World’s Strongest Man, spoke to 20 students with $200 awards the students about the rewards of for best attendance, STEM (Scithe program and narrated a skit ence, Technology, Engineering
and Math), community service, academic excellence and most improved. “We honor a student each year that is transformed by the program,” Pfister said. “Kids that start coming to school to earn the attendance reward can realize ‘Oh my gosh, I’m getting good grades,’ and the teachers look at them as someone who’s positive. It really See Challenge, Page 7 After participating in an interview scenario, Matt Cooper and Jake Fletcher were awarded pretend jobs.
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