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LFHS FFA Accepts Donations of Prom Dresses Over 100 Dresses have been donated by Students and Parents
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About a year ago, Los Fresnos High School FFA President Madeline Parker noticed that not every girl who wanted attend the school Prom could afford to buy a new dress. Together with FFA sponsor D.J. Wernecke, she developed a Business Plan and presented it to principal Ronnie Rodriguez, who approved it. The Fashionable Farmer Dress Donation program was born. Since then, about 100 dresses have been donated by students and parents, who had Prom dresses that had been worn only once. Had they not donated to the FFDD, the dresses could have sat in the closet for years. “There were a few friends who needed dresses for Prom last year,” Parker said. “We wanted
Students model dresses at Fashionable Farmer Dress Donation Show to help girls have the opportunity to go to Prom even though they couldn’t afford it. I got the idea and wanted to start it up to help these girls.” The annual LFHS Junior-Senior Prom will be held Saturday, May 10. Dresses of all sizes, colors, and lengths have
been donated. Some were modeled Wednesday during the two lunch periods at the school cafeteria. Junior Jordan Sales is taking over the program since Parker, a senior, is graduating in June. “We’re hoping that this will inspire everyone to donate. We’re always
looking for more dresses.” All that Wernecke and the FFA group asks is that dresses borrowed be returned dry cleaned, so that students in future years may have the opportunity to use them. Dress racks, plastic covers, and hangers were donated.
“The Fashionable Farmer Dress Donation aims to empower girls to achieve their dreams and help them feel glamorous and confident,” Parker wrote in her proposal. “We want to make sure that every young lady is a princess at Prom,” Wernecke said.
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Dalton House Enjoys Competition
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LFHS Top 10 Student Dalton House has numerous interests, talents.
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You don’t find too many high school seniors who are active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes, raise pigs as part of FFA, active in UIL academics, start on the football team, and rank in the Top 1 percent of their class. Meet Dalton House As the son of Dale House, the minister at Los Fresnos Church of
Christ, House was raised with Christian values. “We were always taught to respect everyone we came across with, and to be kind and generous, and to work hard,” House said. “I really tried to set an example for my brother and sister. I was a stubborn little kid, so it took a little bit for me to learn that.” When he got to Los
pletely responsible for its care. Since then, House has showed a pig in at least three livestock shows each year since the seventh grade. Because his family lived in a neighborhood with no barn, he kept his pig at the Agriculture Barn at Los Fresnos High School. It was important for House and other students to pre-
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Fresnos High School, he got involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and became an officer. He attended several camps and other FCA activities. But House also had an interest in the FFA program. In the seventh grade, he asked his father if he could raise a pig, with the understanding that he would be com-
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pare their animals for the livestock shows. “I’ve always raised market animals,” said House, whose goal was to win Grand Champion honors and sell his pig to the highest bidder. “Whenever they were sold, they were sold to slaughter. We used that money to get another pig for the next year. House knew that pigs were a big responsibility. His pig stayed at the farm of veterinarian Dr. Gary Crouch, who lived in the rural areas of Los Fresnos. During show season in the spring, that meant visits to his pig before school and after school. Like other students, House would have to feed his pig, clean the pen, walk them, and bathe them, and repeat the routine every day. On weekends, he would spend at about two hours working with ► CONTINUED ON PAGE 5