STANTON CSD, Friday Update with upcoming events and ways to help

 

(Agriculture teacher is Annie Brooke. Elizabeth Kutzli is a sophomore. Grant Spencer is a senior headed to Iowa State for agricultural education)

 

Events:

• Dance team competition Saturday, Nov. 14, all day at Waukee. State dance is Dec. 3.

• Food drive continues at school. This week (Nov. 10–13) focuses on canned items. Next week (Nov. 17–20) is toiletries. Nov. 23–25 is boxed items. Drop items at the office or the table at school.

• Student council Nothing Bundt Cakes fundraiser runs Nov. 18 through Dec. 11. Cakes delivered before winter break. Contact student council members by class.

• Live Well Montgomery County mobile food pantry, Thursday, Nov. 19. Foods class and FCCLA are preparing a beef ragù meal in addition to the regular package. Anyone in need is welcome.

• Eileen’s Cookie Dough pickup for the junior class, Nov. 19, 4–6 p.m. in the Stanton lunchroom. Juniors will arrange delivery if needed.

• Junior class free-will hot chocolate at the Christmas tree drive-through at the Ole, starting with holiday hoopla on Nov. 28.

 

FFA

• Fruit sales ended Wednesday. Fruit arrives the week of Dec. 11. Thanks to everyone who ordered.

• FFA members attend the Ignite, Amplify, Transform (IAT) conference this weekend.

• 16th annual FFA toy show is Saturday, Jan. 30, at the White 4-H Exhibit Building in Red Oak. Vendors can contact Annie Brooke. The chapter is fully affiliated — any student in an ag class is an FFA member.

• National FFA Convention trip at the end of October included a tour of Brenneman Pork (about 1.7 million pigs a year), the Welcome Home Soldier monument, an apple orchard, the Indiana State Capitol, and go-karting. Six students attended.