Jena Burns, Miller Grove FFA, and Colby Parker, Sulphur Springs FFA
were elected Paris District FFA Officers, Thursday Night.

 

Two Hopkins County Youth
Elected Paris District FFA Officers

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

It was hours of practice and speechmaking for two Hopkins County FFA members, this past week, but the efforts paid-off for both Sulphur Springs FFA member, Colby Parker, and Miller Grove FFA member, Jena Burns, who were elected to the Paris District FFA Officer Team. Burns and Parker are both active in their Hopkins County FFA chapters and had prepared a 5 minute speech, that they delivered before fellow district FFA members, in Mt. Vernon, on Thursday night, at the Paris District FFA Convention. They will be representing Hopkins County, for the next year, as they attend conventions, facilitate leadership camps, make speeches at chapter FFA banquets, and plan the program of work for the Northeast Texas area.

 

Jena Burns, Candidate #7, and Colby Parker, Candidate #5, both from Hopkins County
were elected as Paris District FFA Officers, in Mt. Vernon, Thursday night.

 

Meanwhile, it was Cayle Watson, another FFA member from Miller Grove, that fulfilled his last duties, after having served for the past year on the District Officers Team. Watson introduced his vocational agriculture teachers, Lindsey Potts and Richard Watson, and thanked them for their support during the past year, while he was an officer.

 

Paris District FFA Officer, Cayle Watson, introduced his Vo Ag Teachers.

Watson's advisors are Miller Grove Vo Ag Teachers, Richard Watson and Lindsey Potts.

 

Watson is congratulated on a "job well done" by District Advisor, Marty Spradlin.

 

 

 

 

A Sulphur Springs FFA member, Caleb Frazier, entered the Paris District Talent Contest, and managed to walk away with second place, among a very talented field of competitors, vying for the chance to advance to area competition. Frazier accompanied himself on the guitar and sang "Grundy County Auction," and "Sweet Home Alabama," during the talent contest. First place winner was a representative of the Pittsburg FFA and a band from Paris, Texas, took the third prize in the contest.

 

Sulphur Springs FFA member, Caleb Frazier won second place in the District Talent Contest.

 

This youth, representing the Pittsburg FFA, won Thursday night's FFA Talent Contest.

 

 

 

 Carly Bowen, a representative of the Mt. Pleasant FFA, was elected as the Paris District Area Officer Candidate, as was Kevin Yeatman, of the Prairieland FFA Chapter. The two will be competing at the Area VI Convention in February. Thomas Renshaw, a member of the Miller Grove FFA, is now serving as an Area VI FFA Officer and is in the process of planning February's Area Convention.

 

Miller Grove FFA member, Thomas Renshaw, is now serving as
an Area VI FFA Officer.

 

Members of the Sulphur Springs, North Hopkins, Miller Grove, Como-Pickton, Sulphur Bluff, Saltillo, and Cumby FFA Chapters were on-hand to represent their members and vote on the results of the district elections.

 

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