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February 19 2021 - Re-2 News Re-2 is You
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- Education
Mary McPhee:
It's Mary McPhee, I just wanted to come on and remind you about the free and reduced application. It's that time again, to get it off of the website, print it, bring it into your child's school. Or of course you can mail it to me anytime.
Mary McPhee:
If you have any kind of questions that are regarding that application, you can call the nutrition office and talk to Sherry Edwards, and her number is (970)-665-7604. My number here in my office is (970)-665-7697. So call us any time, and make sure that you print out the application and we can go over it together.
Mary McPhee:
This week's shout out goes to Monica Peyton at Cactus Valley Elementary. She and her staff helped out when Elk Creek needed help. The Elk Creek kitchen staff had to go into quarantine and they came to help us. Monica helped me, Jennifer helped me, and Stephanie of course held down the fort there, and we got through, and Ryan was very happy.
Mary McPhee:
So I just want to give a shout out to the Cactus Valley kitchen crew for helping us make it through. I hope you all have a great weekend, and a good week next week. See you next time.
Theresa Hamilton:
Ryan Hudson, you are the head of the agriculture department at Rifle High School, yes?
Ryan Hudson:
Yes, ma'am.
Theresa Hamilton:
What else do you do?
Ryan Hudson:
So I'm the FFA Advisor. So we have the FFA program, we do all of here with welding, construction, leadership. We work in the greenhouse. We have a lot of different things going on.
Theresa Hamilton:
So we're talking today because next week is national FFA week.
Ryan Hudson:
Yep. It is. It's going to be a great week. We've got a lot of stuff to celebrate. And even with the times that we're dealing with, we're still going to have a good time and have great opportunities to have some fun.
Theresa Hamilton:
Talk to me a little bit about the importance of FFA and, for anybody that doesn't know, FFA is future farmers of America. Why is that an important program to have in our schools?
Ryan Hudson:
Well, I don't know that we have enough time, but I'll give you the highlights. So the technical way to look at it is, is we're inter-curricular, so there's three circles. School, and then we have the SAE component, which is their supervised agricultural experience, and that can range from animals, to working, to all those other things. And then we have the personal side of it that ties in as well with FFA, with our contests and stuff. And so it makes these three circles in it. It makes school relevant. It makes it fun.
Theresa Hamilton:
I know that one week out of a year is not nearly enough to celebrate our nation's farmers. But what are the kinds of things that you have scheduled for next week, at least at rifle high school, to celebrate our future farmers of America?
Ryan Hudson:
Yeah, it's an interesting thing about the [inaudible 00:03:17] we've talked about the [inaudible 00:03:18] and challenges, but we farmed so you don't have to, and it gives everybody the opportunity to do other things. That's kind of a cool quote because about 200,000 people raise all of our food in the United States plus everywhere else in the world.
Ryan Hudson:
It's really an opportunity to highlight some of those things, but we're going to do a lot of things like a spirit day. We have a tacky tourist day. So you, you can imagine where that's going to go. It'll be much have a blue and gold day and official dress day. We're going to have a giant Jenga contest during lunches. We have some chapter meetings to talk about some things that are coming up with our events in our CDE contests and stuff, our career development contest. And we're also going to do Ag. Olympics one day at lunch,...
Mary McPhee:
It's Mary McPhee, I just wanted to come on and remind you about the free and reduced application. It's that time again, to get it off of the website, print it, bring it into your child's school. Or of course you can mail it to me anytime.
Mary McPhee:
If you have any kind of questions that are regarding that application, you can call the nutrition office and talk to Sherry Edwards, and her number is (970)-665-7604. My number here in my office is (970)-665-7697. So call us any time, and make sure that you print out the application and we can go over it together.
Mary McPhee:
This week's shout out goes to Monica Peyton at Cactus Valley Elementary. She and her staff helped out when Elk Creek needed help. The Elk Creek kitchen staff had to go into quarantine and they came to help us. Monica helped me, Jennifer helped me, and Stephanie of course held down the fort there, and we got through, and Ryan was very happy.
Mary McPhee:
So I just want to give a shout out to the Cactus Valley kitchen crew for helping us make it through. I hope you all have a great weekend, and a good week next week. See you next time.
Theresa Hamilton:
Ryan Hudson, you are the head of the agriculture department at Rifle High School, yes?
Ryan Hudson:
Yes, ma'am.
Theresa Hamilton:
What else do you do?
Ryan Hudson:
So I'm the FFA Advisor. So we have the FFA program, we do all of here with welding, construction, leadership. We work in the greenhouse. We have a lot of different things going on.
Theresa Hamilton:
So we're talking today because next week is national FFA week.
Ryan Hudson:
Yep. It is. It's going to be a great week. We've got a lot of stuff to celebrate. And even with the times that we're dealing with, we're still going to have a good time and have great opportunities to have some fun.
Theresa Hamilton:
Talk to me a little bit about the importance of FFA and, for anybody that doesn't know, FFA is future farmers of America. Why is that an important program to have in our schools?
Ryan Hudson:
Well, I don't know that we have enough time, but I'll give you the highlights. So the technical way to look at it is, is we're inter-curricular, so there's three circles. School, and then we have the SAE component, which is their supervised agricultural experience, and that can range from animals, to working, to all those other things. And then we have the personal side of it that ties in as well with FFA, with our contests and stuff. And so it makes these three circles in it. It makes school relevant. It makes it fun.
Theresa Hamilton:
I know that one week out of a year is not nearly enough to celebrate our nation's farmers. But what are the kinds of things that you have scheduled for next week, at least at rifle high school, to celebrate our future farmers of America?
Ryan Hudson:
Yeah, it's an interesting thing about the [inaudible 00:03:17] we've talked about the [inaudible 00:03:18] and challenges, but we farmed so you don't have to, and it gives everybody the opportunity to do other things. That's kind of a cool quote because about 200,000 people raise all of our food in the United States plus everywhere else in the world.
Ryan Hudson:
It's really an opportunity to highlight some of those things, but we're going to do a lot of things like a spirit day. We have a tacky tourist day. So you, you can imagine where that's going to go. It'll be much have a blue and gold day and official dress day. We're going to have a giant Jenga contest during lunches. We have some chapter meetings to talk about some things that are coming up with our events in our CDE contests and stuff, our career development contest. And we're also going to do Ag. Olympics one day at lunch,...
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