The spring semester is busy for Gary FFA & 4-H as students participate in a variety of events. We are now in “CDE Season” or Career Development Event Season!
Career Development Events teach students about areas of agriculture in a competitive manner. Gary FFA & 4-H have a record number of students participating and competing in 9 areas of CDE contests this year.
Today, Gary FFA competed in the “Forage CDE” and the “Forestry CDE” while Gary 4-H had several teams in the “Forestry CDE.”
Forages:
Students apply their knowledge of various forage species to evaluate hay based on physical properties, identify species common to pastures and complete quiz that tests team members’ knowledge of different aspects of forages. Teams consist of 3 or 4 members.
Forestry:
Skills learned from this event range from forestry equipment identification to calculating a forest business management problem and prepare students for a variety of careers in forestry and natural resources.
These teams will compete in several “practice” contests to prepare for their District, Area, and State Contests in April!
Just a reminder that we have both Bunny Grams and Easter Bunny pictures coming soon! Order forms are available at the Elementary office, but the Bunny-grams and pictures are available for all students at Gary ISD!
Congratulations to two of our seniors, Abbie Cummings and Alyssa Thompson, for being scholarship recipients from the Panola Archery Club! Abbie received the Frank Miller scholarship and Alyssa received the Johnathan Holland scholarship!
Raising livestock isn’t a “simple” or “easy” task. Students commit to the time and effort that raising a quality animal requires and they do what they can to be “successful”. That word means so many things in the livestock world!
Connally and Colston Cranford just finished up their year of showing, attending three of the four major livestock shows (Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston) this spring and being competitive! To get to the level these boys compete, it takes practice and perseverance! They attend jackpot shows, help other exhibitors with their projects (they even taught Ms. Shadix how to show a lamb!!) and they never let a chance pass by to improve and grow!
Connally and Colston are special livestock exhibitors because they BREED AND RAISE their own show lambs, with their parents! They assist in the business of researching quality breeding lambs and bringing those genetics to Gary, Texas! This is something very few students have the opportunity to do and we are excited to watch them grow!
Congrats to Connally and Colston Cranford on an amazing year!!
Today’s baseball game at Mount Enterprise has been rescheduled for Monday at Mount Enterprise starting at 6pm!
23-2A All-District Selections
Freshman of the Year: Hudson Ogg
1st Team All-District: Mason Powell
2nd Team All-District: Kohl Woodfin
Honorable Mention All-District: Evan Chamness, Sam Colley, Ben Stephens, David Stephens
Academic All-District: Koby Bell, Evan Chamness, Sam Colley, Cooper Johnson, Hudson Ogg, Mason Powell, Ben Stephens, David Stephens, Dakota Strawn, Kohl Woodfin
Congratulations to these young men for their hard work on the court and in the classroom!
CONGRATULATIONS to Braylon Seals for exhibiting his Dark Cross Barrow at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo!
Braylon wasn’t able to secure a sale place, but he did an OUTSTANDING job against hundreds of other exhibitors from across the state!
Major livestock shows are no easy task! The amount of work leading up to and preparing for these shows rivals nothing else! Texas has more opportunities for our students than any other state through major livestock shows and students qualify for scholarships based on participation, not placings!
Gary FFA has grown tremendously over the last few years and our students are benefiting from all of the new experiences in so many ways!
8th grade parents; Tomorrow’s the day! The Freshman Orientation meeting will be at 5pm in the Cafeteria. Mr. Davis will go over the courses students can take, as well as dual credit. See everyone then!
If you registered your email for the pictures from A.S.aPhotographer already, then you can access the photos at https://asaphotographer.pixieset.com/garyisddaddy-daughterdance/
In order to download them, you must provide your email and the access code is 5272.
If you have trouble accessing them, please contact A.S.aPhotographer and she will help you out!
It's Taco Tuesday at the Gary ball field tonight! Enjoy a delicious dinner while watching the baseball game! Game starts at 6:30pm.
To continue with our 'Hoppy' Easter celebrations, we will also offer pictures with the Easter Bunny on March 26th, starting at 8AM! Photos are $5 each and forms should be going home soon!
Elementary parents; if you took pictures with our photographer, A.S.aPhotographer, during the Daddy/Daughter dance and would like access to the photos, please go to the following link; https://form.jotform.com/asaphotographer/daddydaughter-dance
Tomorrow's district Varsity Baseball game against Mount Enterprise will start at 6:30PM! Come out and cheer our boys as they go for their next win!
The Library Crew is ready to work the book fair! Come see us, we will be open late tomorrow (until 6PM) for families to visit!
The Elementary will be selling Bunny Grams! Forms will be coming home today if you would like to purchase them!
Congrats Gary OAP for advancing to the next level! McKenzie Coleman received an honorable mention all-star cast award, Kobi Roehl and June LaGrone received all-star cast awards, and Molly Powell was named top performer! Gary will perform for bi-district on March 21 at Panola at 11:45, admission is free!
Today's Baseball games at Yantis have been canceled due to the weather. The Varsity will instead play a double header tomorrow at Winnsboro High School starting at 4PM!
To celebrate the book fair next week, our cafeteria will be hosting something special all week long! Also, parents can now use a digital wallet for their kids to make purchases at the book fair. Check out the flyer for more details!
🐓Houston Livestock Show Broiler Show Results🐓
Brodey Seals & Brannan Stevens traveled to Houston to compete against 233 other “pullet” exhibitors from across the state of Texas!
Broiler exhibitors begin with 75 (SEVENTY-FIVE) chicks, all hatched on the same day and all picked up from College Station on that hatch-day! They have these birds for 6-weeks and in that time frame their number one goal is to make them eat and drink AS MUCH as they possibly can! We are talking, 24 hour care and management of these birds! It is a family affair because these students are also extremely involved in other things! They are “stirred” and made to get up and eat constantly (every hour, even at night!!).
These students left at 9pm on Wednesday 3/6, sat in line all night feeding and watering the birds, got checked in at roughly 7am and pre-judged this morning. From there they were “ranked” and started the “sift” process. They finished showing at 3:30pm!!
Brodey ended up not making the final cur for the 100 pens that made the sale, but did a great job!
Brannan placed 35th out of the 233 pens of pullets and MADE THE SALE!!! He will sell in the LIVE AUCTION on Saturday at 11am!
YOU CAN WATCH this sale and our other exhibitors showing in Houston at this link!
https://www.rodeohouston.com/livestream/
Look for “Auctions & Sales” to watch Brannan!
Check out the link on Saturday (3/9) to watch Caitlynn Ayers exhibit her Limousin Heifer and next Thursday (3/14) to watch Braylon Seals with his Dark Cross Market Barrow!
The Library Crew is ready for the book fair! They worked so hard today to get it set up!!
