Celebrating National FFA Week

This week is National FFA Week, and as it does every year at this time, The Odessa Record, with the support of the Odessa and Harrington communities, salutes the high-school and eighth-grade students who dedicate themselves to this extra-curricular activity at their respective schools. Their advisor Erica Whitmore holds half-time positions at both schools, a situation that keeps her very busy and very often driving on the well-traveled road between the two schools.

Through FFA, young people learn practical approaches to the science, business and technology aspects of agriculture that they lear...