Trips on tap for HHS groups
Out-of-state trips have been approved for three student activity groups at Hillsboro High School.
USD 410 board of education agreed Aug. 14 to allow the Hillsboro FFA chapter to attend the 79th national FFA convention, Oct. 25-28, at Indianapolis, Ind.
Eight FFA students, adviser Sonya Roberts, and a male sponsor, will make the trip.
The board agreed to pay $1,000 to support the trip and to provide vehicles and fuel.
The use of school vehicles is a departure from previous trips to the convention, when Hillsboro FFA members traveled by bus with other groups from around the state.
But Roberts told the board using school vehicles would allow her group to stop in St. Louis to tour the St. Louis Arch, and give it more flexibility at the convention.
Currently, members attending include Caleb Barkman, Kelli Janzen, Ty Goossen, Alex Jost, and David Winter. Three additional members will be determined by reviewing a points system from last year, and by their desire to attend, Roberts said.
In her proposal to the board, Roberts wrote, "The national convention is by far the most rewarding trip for an FFA member."
Scheduled speakers at the convention include Terry Bradshaw of FOX NFL Sunday, Clark Kellogg of CBS Sports, Scott McKain, vice chairman of a multimillion dollar company, and Mike Rayburn, "world's funniest guitar virtuoso."
Fourteen members and two sponsors of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) will make an historic detour Sept. 23, on its trip to enjoy Frontier City in Oklahoma City.
The fun trip is designed to recruit new members to the group, sponsor Monica Leihy said. The board asked Leihy to make the trip more educational by spending part of the one-day trip at the Oklahoma National Memorial Center, a museum and memorial dedicated to the victims of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Forty-four students and four chaperones from the Hillsboro High School band will travel in early May to Branson, Mo., to attend a music festival and enjoy amusement attractions in the Ozarks.
Thanks to the Trojan Band Booster Club, the HHS band has raised so much money that director Gregg Walker told the board it really didn't need any additional funds to make the trip.
The board commended Walker and the booster club, and gave the group $2,000 to use for the trip, if needed, or to fund future activities.
