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  • Whitley County High School FFA club raised over $750 for an Angel Tree to buy Christmas presents for needy children. Pictured from left are Malachi Hersey, Devin Jackson, Megan Lawson, Beth Rains, Jordan Chute and Gerald Salyer. Photo by Sharae Myers

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December 15, 2011

Whitley County FFA members set up Angel Tree

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CORBIN — By Sharae Myers / Staff Writer

Whitley County High Schools Future Farmers of America (FFA) program has a few angels in its club this year, according to Glen Croley, FFA advisor and teacher of  the Vocational-Agricultural Sciences Program.

Croley said each year club officers attend a summer camp program, and in their sharing in ideas for future community service project student officer Devin Jackson came up with the idea to do an Angel Tree for Christmas presents for needy children.

The teachers say they had nothing to do with the project. They only encouraged the students, and all the credit goes to the kids who made it happen.

Jackson said, “It is the first year the FFA has led this project.”

The FFA club has 150 members and another student officer, Gerald Salyer, personally solicited over $600 himself from fellow students by going classroom to classroom with a bucket.

Salyer said one student, Jordan Chute, personally put all the money he had in his wallet into the bucket. Chute put in $120, and Salyer added that when Chute did that it brought tears to some of the students’ eyes.

Chute said, “I have a good Christmas every year, and I figured these kids should have a good Christmas and get what they want. This is money I earned from working.”

The presents will be distributed Friday to 35 children identified by Whitley County elementary schools family resource centers.

By Wednesday, the group of Malachi Hersey, Devin Jackson, Megan Lawson, Beth Rains and Gerald Salyer raised over $750.

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