FFA Mum Sales and More

by Bella Wooldridge, 9

Photo By Bella Wooldridge, 9

The back-to-school bash was the first meeting the FFA had this school year. The bash was an opportunity for freshmen members to meet the officers and for freshmen parents to meet the advisors. During the meeting, there was free ice cream, water games, cow tongue volleyball, and corn hole. Later, Mid-Missouri Bank invited FFA members to pass out food and drinks for their appreciation day. Where they had live music, face painting, and balloon art.

On Sept. 8, FFA members gathered at the FFA building for their annual AG Olympic. The students competed in several challenges such as musical haybales, balloon pop, tug of war, and cow tongue volleyball to see who were the top dogs, upperclassmen vs. underclassmen. The winners overall were the upperclassmen.

Grady Crews, 9, Gavin Heuser, 10, Tag Gurley,11

El Dorados FFA chapter kicked off their annual mum sale on September 2nd, with students asking teachers, parents, and other people to buy mums. Adding up all the mums there were 3,727 mums sold in total, which is a new record for the FFA! The top three students that sold the most mums were: Grady Crews in first place with 131 mums sold, Gavin Heuser in second place, and Tag Gurley in third place. On Friday the 16th students and parents came in their vehicles and picked up the mums to be delivered.” I expected to be the top salesman, I know a lot of people so selling mums was easy.” – Grady Crews.