The Bloomfield FFA Chapter
Whitney Goeden, Chapter Secretary
The Bloomfield FFA Chapter has been busy bees this year. Our officer team consists of Morgan Kauth, President; Hannah Seagren, Vice President; Ali Gieselman, Treasurer; Lynndsy Hauger, Secretary; Whitney Goeden, Reporter; Tanner Schumacher, Sentinel; and Wayne Bruegman, Parliamentarian.
We have been very busy this year and time is very valuable to us. Trying to fit FFA meetings every month, finding time to practice, practice, practice on our many events that we compete in, and also just finding time so hang out as a chapter to better bond us all together.
We have been very involved in community projects and fundraisers to help our FFA program. We are always looking to improve in what we do and we benefit from it. We started off the year with our annual dairy judging competition that was held in Hartington this year. We worked very hard and were very successful in that event. Some of the accomplishments were Ali Gieselman that placed fourth and also overall the Bloomfield team of Lynndsy Hauger, Samantha Goeden, Ali Gieselman, and Whitney Goeden placed fourth.
Our chapter every year holds a BBQ at one of the home football games. We have some great food that we put together to serve out to our supporters. FFA members have a blast getting together to show everyone that it is an honor to belong to our FFA Chapter. Every member of our chapter brings in a salad they are assigned to and also a dessert of their choice and then of course the main dish of a BBQ Pork sandwich. Also we get involved with food preparation and cutting up the meat that is used for the BBQ, which is a good way to get everyone involved. Over 500 meals were served. Also every member gets to work their assigned shift at the BBQ, and it’s always fun to have a good time with all the people who come to enjoy the food and to get to know our chapter a little better. The Niobrara members also hosted a BBQ during the Niobrara and Bloomfield basketball game.
This is the time of year that we get started with our Holiday Fruit Sales. This year being a little different from last year by having a shorter selling time and also instead of delivering the fruit, we had a fruit pick-up day. Even though we had a shorter selling date, that didn’t stop any of us from going out and selling our fruit, it just made us that more determined to get our sales done. This year we tried a fruit pick-up day. Having everything new to us members we handled ourselves pretty well and got in an assembly line and loaded up fruit for everyone who ordered some. It was a very good idea that was mentioned and we tried it and it went very well, with the help of our parents too.
This year we also took on the duty of getting the junior high more involved with our FFA chapter. They are free to participate in any events that they would like to participate in. They are welcomed to any of our meetings to put their input in too. We have a lot of junior high members and we are getting them ready for when their time comes in high school to shine as a FFA member. The officer team holds an activity night for the junior members to attend and have fun. We have some good leadership games and also the occasional bowling night too.
We hold a parent’s night usually right before LSE’s to show all the parents what we have been working on and also another last minute practice that we get in before our LSE competition. We also award the Greenhand degrees and Discovery degrees, and Chapter degrees. The Senior parli-pro team which consists of Morgan Kauth, Ali Gieselman, Tanner Schumacher, Hannah Seagren, Jonathon Carhart, and Lynndsy Hauger; showed the parents how hard they have been working on parli-pro. Also have two other junior parli- pro teams that also presented. They consist of David Bertschinger, Becca Broders, Austin Hamm, Emmalea Johnson, Katelyn Fielder, and Dylan Wilson. The other team is Ashley Fielder, Emily Kersten, Nick Nagengast, Dominique Swanson, Autumn Luger, and Callen Coester. Ashley Fielder and Emily Kersten are also competing in the FFA Creed Speaking.
We have many side activities that we have done. The freshman class has raised over 200 poinsettias. Their plan is to sell them this holiday season because they would make a good present. Beginning of the year we start off with having cow tongue football with having everyone including the Wausa and Niobrara members, come out and play some football with a cow tongue. It is a great opening activity for all of us to get together and enjoy our bonding time. For the holidays, FCCLA, FFA, and the Boy Scouts co-host a Christmas Fair on November 8, 2009. Every year we have a really good turn out and this year we had over 20 exhibitors with many different ideas this Christmas Season. We took care of a 40 acre corn plot this year also and Mr. Eisenhauer and three other students were invited to go tour the Monsanto head quarters. These activities were featured in the Nebraska Farmers December issue.
In the summer, around twenty students went to WLC. Students learned great leadership skills that they have brought back and have used to be successful this year in our chapter. Also 21 students went and attended National Convention in October. Alisha Dather was a national proficiency finalist. Her proficiency was on Food Science and Technology. At national convention many of our members had the opportunity to learn new leadership skills and also to get to meet many new faces and stay in touch with them all through the year.
As you can tell now that we have been very busy this year and still have more to come that we are excited for and looking forward to it. We would like to thank all of our FFA supporters and our parents and our advisors Mr. Eisenhauer and Mrs. Endres for keeping us in line and staying on task to accomplish things and be the best that we can be. Thank you to all and looking forward to what the rest of the year brings for us.
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