While students prepare to head back to the classrooms, various school organizations are planning their fundraising efforts. Those range from candy to t-shirt sales and more.
Henryetta school board members were presented with a plan that would help with finances for the FFA program as well as provide a service to landowners throughout the area.
FFA Advisor Brooke Smith told the board about a wild hog tournament.
“The feral hogs are destroying fields throughout the area,” she said.
If a plan would be adopted, prizes could be given for the biggest hog, biggest tusk, smallest hog and other classifications.
“Participants would have to find landowners on their own. Right now deer hunters are getting ready to put their feeders out and the number of feral hogs that show up at those feeders is insane. This would be a two-fold benefit. It would help the landowners and the hunters and help fund what the wildlife department does not.”
Participants in the hunt would have to provide a release of liability to the school.
Board members took the matter under consideration.
During the meeting, Superintendent Dwayne Noble said the school is receiving $33,000 from the Oklahoma Department of secondary Career Technology. That money is used to help finance the FFA program. When the school first started FFA, Henryetta was ineligible to receive the funds. Now that the program is established, the money is available.