Happy national FFA week

This week over half a million (507,764 to be exact) FFA members are celebrating national FFA week, February 21 to 28. In between stops today, we had the chance to speak with Regina Holliday, Southern Region vice president for the national FFA organization. “National FFA week is a chance for us to celebrate the success, history, and student success of our organization,” Holliday says. FFA’s theme for this week and this year is to step up and stand out. “We are encouraging members to step up and get out of their comfort zone and do the best you can,” she adds.
Although she calls Georgia home, Holliday is spending her national FFA week in New York, while other national officers are spending time in other states including, Colorado and Illinois. Today kicked off Regina’s tour of New York when she met FFA members from the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill (VVS) Chapter. The VVS Chapter treated the national officer to a tour of their very own maple tree farm where members harvest, bottle, and sell their own maple syrup as a fundraiser. “Members learn and do everything, including marketing,” Holliday says, describing her unique tour. Looking at her schedule the rest of the week, there are stops planned at many schools and even plans to meet the New York Commissioner of Agriculture.
Maybe you have already noticed your local chapter gearing up for the week, we noticed our local chapter served a pancake breakfast last week to the community. “Take the initiative to be a helping hand,” Holliday says when describing ways any community member can help out their local FFA chapter year-round.