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Grizzle and Wasserman Selected to River Battle Bowl

Fairbury Journal News Fairbury, Nebraska (11/7/2017) . Senior Lineman Trent Grizzle #65 and Senior QB/DB Adam Wasserman have been selected to the Nebraska roster at the 2017 River Battle Bowl.
As a Sr., Grizzle led the offense line with 27 pancake blocks. On defense Trent tallied 57 (51 solo stops) tackles, with 10.5 tackles for loss. Grizzle also added three sacks, and scored two touchdowns running the ball on offense for Fairbury.
This season Adam tore up the Fairbury record book. His 1,543 passing yards and 23 TDs rank second, and his 64.9% completion broke the previous record of 55%. Wasserman also ran for 936yds and scored 16 TDs on the ground. His career total of 3,841 passing yards ranks second, and his 56 career passing TDs is tops in the books.
On the defensive side, Wasserman pulled down 7 INTs, 4 of them going for TDs. This year’s game will be held Nov. 25th @ 2pm at Treynor High School in Iowa.

Notice of Fairbury Public Schools – School Board Vacancy

A vacancy on the Fairbury Public Schools Board of Education will be created on November 13, 2017. The office vacated will be that of a school board member who is resigning due to becoming employed by the District. The term of this position will expire on the first Thursday after the first Tuesday in January 2019.

The Fairbury Public Schools Board of Education will discuss the replacement and/or process to find the replacement at the November 13, 2017 regular meeting. If you are interested in this appointment, please submit a letter of application no later than 12:00 pm on November 22, 2017. Please send a letter of application to:

Fairbury Board of Education

c/o Mr. Stephen Grizzle, Supt.

703 K Street

Fairbury, NE 68352

Fairbury FFA Attends 90th National FFA Convention

On October 24th at midnight, the Fairbury FFA Chapter set out from Lincoln on their way to the 90th National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. In attendance from the Fairbury Chapter were Sarah McCown, Brock Barton, Olivia Koop, Kane Hasselbring, Delaney Miller, Kaylee Sipek, Michaela Buchli, Bryn Livingston, and Trevin Arnold. While they were there, the group of nine, plus advisor Thomas Dux, attended various workshops and fairs.

There is a large career fair held in the convention center each year, where various businesses and colleges have booths to give the FFA kids a chance to learn more about agricultural opportunities. They also had the chance to take a tour of the Dallara Indycar factory where students were able ride in an Indycar. Unique to the state of Nebraska, the Nebraska chapters sponsor a dance on two nights of convention that are only for Nebraska FFA students. The Fairbury FFA chapter attended both of these dances, and enjoyed meeting and visiting with students from other chapters closer to home.

Fairbury graduate Cody Huss also received the American FFA Degree. The American FFA Degree is a sign of great accomplishment and only a small percent of FFA members ever earn this degree. There are numerous requirements for FFA members as one of them is members have to have earned at least $10,000 or productively invested $7,500 into their Supervised Agricultural Experience Program. Congratulations to Cody on this huge accomplishment.

It was a full week, but they all enjoyed venturing outside the comfort of home and into the sea of blue.

FPS Celebrates Digital Citizenship Week

In support of Digital Citizenship week, the following activities took place during the weeks of October 9-18. The students and staff of Fairbury Jr. Sr. High School and Jefferson Elementary were encouraged to participate. The goal was that together we can model and promote positive digital citizenship in our school and community!

Monday October 9 – Wednesday October 18th – Decorate Your Door Contest. Faculty and students were invited to decorate their doors with the theme “Be Internet Awesome!”. Judging took place on the 18th. Winners were announced at the end of the day. There was a popcorn party for the winning door from Fairbury Jr. Sr. High and Jefferson.

Mrs. Scott’s Classroom ~ Jefferson Winner

Mrs. Winter’s Classroom ~ Jr. Sr. High Winner

On Monday, October 16th, the Fairbury Jr. Sr. High School also had a convocation with Hunter Rodenslaben.

Hunter’s Story

Heading into his freshman year of high school, Hunter faced tragedy with the loss of his mother to cancer. While coping with the situation, Hunter developed a vision of making a positive impact on people’s lives.

As a 12-year-old, Hunter created the Twitter account @AthleteNation where he shared inspirational and uplifting messages. Today, Athlete Nation is a sports media company with a platform of over 70,000 followers.

As a recognized professional speaker before graduating high school in 2017, Hunter shares his story of overcoming adversity to help empower others to make a difference. Hunter works in guiding today’s generations to leverage the power of social media to change the world for the better.

Teachers Take on Community Service Challenge

During their weekly professional development, teachers of Fairbury Public Schools were challenged to take part in community service. Many ideas were shared. Several teachers helped with carpeting the FYI Center in Fairbury and others took on additional projects. Julie Petersen, a high school math instructor, challenged the high school teachers to donate to the Blue Valley Community Action Food Pantry. The teachers gladly took on the challenge and donated 121 items.

Students Attend Endicott Clay’s Manufacturing Day

Twenty-six students attended Endicott Clay’s Manufacturing Day. The purpose of Endicott Clay manufacturing day is to expose students to manufacturing in our community and to promote the different jobs available at the plant. Students from many local schools got the opportunity to see first hand how the manufacturing of bricks takes place. Endicott Clay manufactures over 100,000,000 bricks per year. If you do the math and each brick is worth 40 cents, that equates to 40 million in sales. Endicott bricks are shipped all over the United States and Canada. Endicott bricks are used in many huge structures such as Yankee Stadium. The plant never shuts down with three shifts running all the time.

Endicott Clay employs around 350 workers. The students got to see many different jobs at the plant. Starting wages for first shift are $11.00 per hour, second shift $12.00 per hour, and third shift $13.00 per hour with overtime at time and a half after 40 hours. Endicott Clay has workers in office positions, sales, engineering, plant management, heavy equipment operators, machinists, welders, artists, carpenters, and maintenance to name a few.

Students got to explore the manufacturing lines where they saw many different processes. Robotics is used extensively at the plant. Robots lift heavy bricks and place them on carriages where they will go into a kiln for firing. It takes over two days for the bricks to be fully fired. They also have an art mural department where artists carve green bricks. It is there that the bricks are numbered and the mural is disassembled and shipped to the customer. Fairbury students also got to see one of the original “bee hive” kilns that were used in the making of the bricks back when the company was first in business.

It was a great day and a positive experience for our students. At the end of the tour, there was a question and answer session with the President and CEO of the company, Ryan Parker. He answered many questions. He also told students that a 2 year degree is very helpful in getting a job at the factory. A group photo was even taken in front of two huge Caterpillar scrapers that they use in the mine. Thank you to all that went. Fairbury was well represented!

7th Graders learning Coding Basics

Mrs. Carly Winter’s block 7-8 class worked on the basics of JavaScript coding today using the Hour of Code from BitsBox.

Students received a basic introduction into the world of online coding. With BitsBox, students are learning to build their own apps from scratch. They are given a few basic lines of code to get started, along with a virtual tablet that allows them to see how the apps would play out in real life.

Husker Harvest Days

On Wednesday, September 13, the Fairbury FFA chapter attended Husker Harvest Days near Grand Island. A total of 38 members attended to learn more about the different careers in agriculture. Along with great experiences and talking to experienced workers in the ag field, there were many different opportunities to meet new people from other chapters, see some old friends, and gather great souvenirs from every agribusiness company. It was an educational day for all of the Fairbury FFA members to learn more about the future of agriculture.

Fairbury FFA Chapter Sends Six Teams to Land Judging Contest

On Wednesday, October 4th the Fairbury FFA Chapter took four teams to the Southeast District Land Judging Contest by Tecumseh, Nebraska. The contest was a great learning experience for all of the FFA members who went. This contest teaches students the value of soil and the use of each land capability class. It also teaches students what land treatments should be applied to the land in each class. The day consisted of walking through fields and getting their hands dirty as they try to find the soil texture and the permeability of the soil in each of the soil pits.

Ashley Griffee and Taylor Runge Received a Red Ribbon while Jason Hughes, Sara Huss, and Konnor Hasselbring received a white ribbon. The goal for next year is for Fairbury FFA to send a team to the State Land Judging Contest. This experience will be very valuable to these members.

Teams included:

TEAM 1
A. Riley Wood
B. Harlie Blas
C. Taylor Gustafson
D. Sarah Engelman

TEAM 2
A. Austin Massa
B. Konnor Hasselbring
C. Brooklen Bear
D. Kaycee Riggle

TEAM 4
A. Isaiah Weers
B. Cashe Kroll
C. Trevin Arnold
D. Tori Likens

TEAM 5
A. Kaylee Sipek
B. Delaney Miller
C. Sarah McCown
D. Ashley Griffee

TEAM 6
A. Olivia Koop
B. John Kerwood
C. Joe Melcher
D. Dalton Peterson

TEAM 7
A. Jason Hughes
B. Kennedy DeBoer
C. Taylor Runge
D. Sara Huss