Students drive tractors to school to kick off FFA week

Monday, Feb. 22, marked the start of FFA week, and Holyoke High School students participated in Dress Like a Farmer and Drive Your Tractor to School Day. One combine, two sprayers and 10 tractors lined the south side of the high school parking lot after students drove them to school. Central Plains Equipment allowed students to borrow four lot models for the event. Pictured in front of the equipment from left, front row, are Ty Sandquist Dirks, Baylor Struckmeyer, Jessie Owens, Tuff Sigler, Theron Roll, Tyson Mosenteen and Wyatt Sprague; and back row, Kayden Porter, Liz Sheppard-Hein, Miles Sprague, Ethan Andersen, Jadon Frost and Aidyn Shafer. Other activities planned for the week include a teacher appreciation breakfast Wednesday, Feb. 24, and ag olympics in vo-ag teacher Shauna Strecker’s classes Thursday, Feb. 25.  — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications