Several individuals from Caldwell County FFA went to Murray Wednes-day March 14, in hopes of winning big.

Caldwell had many dif-ferent teams competing at Murray this year against the other chapters in the Pennyrile FFA Region.

Those teams included Impromptu Speaking, Prepared Public Speaking, FFA Creed, AIC, FFA Quiz, Talent Contest, Record Keeping, Senior Parlia-mentary Procedure Team and Junior Parliamentary Procedure Team. All these teams placed in the top of the region.

Caldwell had 10 Im-promptu Speakers who competed. The following individuals placed Excel-lent in the following cat-egories: Emma Peek, Goat Impromptu; Ty Young, Horse Impromptu, and Teddy Taylor, Small Ani-mal Impromptu.

These individuals placed Superior in their fi elds: Cody Baker, Crop Impromptu; Carly Stew-art, Floral Impromptu; Brittany Noel, Fruit and Vegetable Impromptu; Becca Markham, Green-house Impromptu, and Jerilynn Cravens, Nursery and Landscape Impromp-tu.

Caldwell also had two individuals that placed Su-perior First in their speak-ing and will advance to state competitions in June. Those members were Renee Laurent, Swine Impromptu, and Shelbie Rogers, Dairy Impromptu.

This year we had one individual who compet-ed in the Prepared Pub-lic Speaking category of speaking. Jacey Gill com-peted in this area and she walked away with a Supe-rior rating.

Representing Caldwell in the FFA Quiz Contest was Whitley Horning. In this particular contest, Whitley, along with sev-eral other FFA members, competed by answering questions about the Na-tional FFA Association. Questions ranged from “When was FFA started?” to “When were girls al-lowed to join?” Whitley scored a Superior rating.

Showing off her talent skills this year was Olivia Bloodworth. She and three other FFA members from the region competed in this annual contest. Olivia scored a Superior rating in the contest this year.

Caldwell County also had an Agriculture Record Keeping Team compete at Regionals. Members of the team included Aaron Vinson, Whitley Horning, Hannah McIntosh and Zoe Rustin. In the record keeping contest, mem-bers compete individually but their scores are com-bined together to form the team’s overall score. They keep records of expenses

and incomes that would be benefi cial on a farm or in an accounting area. Overall results are to be announced in the coming weeks.

One of the crucial parts to the FFA is to be able to recite the FFA Creed. This year Erica Gaither won at the Chapter level in this contest and advanced on to Regionals. At Region-als, Erica and 11 other competitors recited the Creed to a panel of judges. Individuals were scored and Erica came away with a Superior Second rating. She will advance on to State competition in early June.

Lexie Wigginton com-peted in the AIC contest at Murray. This is the Ameri-can Institute of Coopera-tives. To compete, Lexie took a test on Business Principles and Applica-tions. This year in the con-test Lexie scored a Supe-rior rating.

Caldwell’s Senior Par-liamentary Procedure Team competed at Region-als as well. This year the contest was a little differ-ent because the rules of parliamentary law were changed to enable Ken-tucky to have an equal op-portunity on the national playing fi eld. The contest this year consisted of two parts: a 25 question quiz and the actual display of how a meeting would run. Team members consisted of: Shelbie Rogers, Renee Laurent, Jerilynn Cravens, Jacey Gill, Olivia Blood-worth, Cody Baker, Layne Bannister, Carly Stewart, Jacob Ray, Teddy Taylor and Brice Whittington. The team came home with a Superior Second rating.

In addition, Caldwell’s Junior Parliamentary Pro-cedure Team competed in Murray as well. Their contest was the same as in previous years. Team members included: Zoe Rustin, Carrie Monaghan, Erica Gaither, Dakota Knight, Becca Markham, Crystal Kelley, Emma Peek, Brittany Noel and Ben McGregor. The Junior Parliamentary Team came home with a Superior First rating and will continue

their journey on to state competition in June.

All in all Caldwell had a successful day at Re-gional competition. They will have many individuals

representing the Chapter and the Region at State Competition in early June in Lexington.

(See additional photos on page A-4.)

March 28, 2012—THE TIMES LEADER—Princeton, Ky. Section A, Page 5

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Caldwell FFA competes at RegionalsBy JERRILYNN CRAVENS

Caldwell FFA Reporter

FFA regional speakersFURNISHED PHOTOS

FFA impromptu and prepared public speakers who competed at regionals were (from left) Brittany Noel, Teddy Taylor, Emma Peek, Jacey Gill, Carly

Stewart, Cody Baker, Ty Young, Jerilynn Cravens, Renee Laurent, Erica Gaither, Shelbie Rogers and Becca Markham.

FFA regional competitorsFURNISHED PHOTOS

Caldwell FFA students who compet-ed at the regional contest in Murray included (from left) Olivia Bloodworth,

Lexie Wigginton, Zoe Rustin, Hannah McIntosh, Whitley Horning and Aaron Vinson.

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to 9:30 p.m. each evening. Admission is $5 per per-

son.In addition to Thursday

evening, dances are planned April 12 and 26.

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Senior Center hosting country dance this Thursday evening

Staff Report • The Times Leader