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STAR Projects advance to State
On Wednesday, February 6, Fairbury hosted the District STAR Project Competition for FCCLA. Fairbury had four groups compete. Senior RJ Suey placed first earning a gold award in job interview. Leah Moyer ’21, Taryn Arnold ’21, Karly McCord ’22, and Brooke Schmidt ’22 placed first with a silver award for …
Speech kicks off at Adams Central
On Saturday January 5, the Fairbury speech team travelled to Adams Central high school to compete in their first meet of the year. “We usually use Adams Central as a meet to introduce the new speech kids into what a meet is like,” Sophomore Hailie Nicholson said. “It went pretty …
South Pacific passes flame of tradition
Every year as the annual fall production begins, traditions are carried on. Seniors sign the boards at the end of the night, prayers are shared, and fan mail is delivered. However, out of all the traditions the theater production has to offer, probably the most well known is the passing …
Unique performances, speakers combine to honor veterans in convocation
A convocation celebrating Veterans Day brought together FHS students and staff along with veterans in the area to gather in the Burkley Fine Arts Center on Monday, November 12. With speakers representing National Honor Society and joint performances by the school’s band and vocal units leading the way, veterans past …
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FCCLA Travels to Kentucky to gain leadership skills
This past weekend a group of students from FCCLA travelled to Kentucky for a few FCCLA Leadership Conferences. Students competed in a variety of FCCLA sponsored events. They also stopped at Churchill Downs and the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. “I really liked the Louisville Slugger museum and Factory because …
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Students participate in Red Ribbon Week
Students dressed up for Red Ribbon Week on the week of October 29th through November 1st. Red Ribbon week is a week to educate students on the effects of drugs and alcohol. Many students participated in the dress up days, wearing their craziest or coolest outfits. The week started off …
Students and staff engage in Halloween festivities
On Wednesday, October 31 students and staff participated in a costume contest hosted by Spanish Club. Spanish Club hosts this contest annually for students and staff to compete in. This year around 40 students and staff dressed up in costumes. First, second, and third place got gift cards as prizes …
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FFA Chapter travels to Indy for Nationals
Eighteen chapter members loaded buses and headed down to Indianapolis, Indiana for the 91st National FFA Convention this last week. Thomas Dux, Fairbury’s FFA advisor, said they drove all night and arrived at their hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday night the group attended the opening session of the 91st National …
FFA members travel to Syracuse
On Wednesday October 3rd, 2018 Fairbury FFA members traveled to Syracuse to compete in the Southeast District Land Judging contest. There were over 164 other students that participated from over 16 other schools. To compete in land judging students need to know a lot about soil science and the characteristics …
NHS elects officers
On Thursday, September 20, National Honor Society met in adviser Julie Petersen’s room before school in order to elect officers for the new year. Jayson Klaumann ’19 was voted President-Elect last year and began the year already settled into his role as President. Josephine Blatny ’20 was voted President-Elect, RJ …
