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PAGE 5B — THE MADISON COUNTY (GA) JOURNAL. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 2009 Madison Go. enjoys success in 2008 swine season There are 27 students on the Madison County Swine Show team, which means there were approximately 64 pigs owned by students in Madison County dur ing the fall show season alone. During this 2008 fall swine show season, Madison County FFA/4-H members competed in seven total shows. These shows included the County Show in Comer during the Agriculture Fair in October, Area Jackpot Shows held in Banks County and Jackson County at the school’s agricultural center, the Augusta Fair in November, the Gwinnett County Fair in Gwinnett, the Georgia National Fair held in Perry and the National Junior Swine Association (NJSA) Show held in Louisville, Kentucky. Here are a few of Madison County's major highlights from this season: The local County Show Market Hog Grand Champion was awarded to Kevin Jones and Reserve Champion Market Hog was also Kevin Jones. The local County Show Commercial Breeding Gilt Grand Champion was awarded to Kevin Jones and Reserve Champion Commercial Breeding was awarded to Jeb Adams. Local showmanship win ners included: High School Class winner Alex McLaughlin from the Freshman Academy FFA Chapter, Middle School Class winner was Kevin Jones of the new Madison County Middle School FFA Chapter, and the Elementary School Class winner was Blake Taylor of Madison County 4-H. At the Jackson County Jackpot Show five class winners included: Brooke Adams, Eh Jones, Zack Tankersley and Kevin Jones. Three top five showmanship winners in their individual grade level classes which included Kevin Jones, Jeb Adams and Blake Taylor. Zack Tankersley won showmanship. He also walked away with Reserve Champion pig of the entire show. At the Banks County Jackpot Show, there were two class win ners and nine top five showman ship winners in their individual grade level classes. At the Gwinnett County Fair Swine Show, Madison County students had five class winners, Eli Jones competes in a swine show. including Austin Saye, Blake Taylor, Travis Tankersley, Zack Tankersley and Zack Taylor. Nine students in showmanship placed in the top five in their individual grade level classes, with three of those students, Lauren Bridges, Alex McLaughlin and Kevin Jones winning first place in their classes and Austin Saye, a sev enth grader at the Madison County Middle School, walked away from the show with placing Reserve Grand Champion of the Market Hog Show; at the August County Fair students were awarded with three in the top five in showman ship competing against other stu dents in their individual grade level classes; at the Georgia National Fair in Perry Madison County walked away with 21 top 10 win ners in weight class, with Zack Tankersley’s project winning his weight division. There were top 10 showman ship winners in their individual grade level classes and three of those won first place in their show manship classes. These students included Eh Jones, Austin Saye and Jeb Adams. In Macon at the State Fair, the Middle school group placed at the top of their classes and Kevin Jones was awarded with Reserve Champion of the whole show. At the NJSA Show, eight students, parents and family members attended one of the largest national swine shows in America. Madison County Swine Show Team Members from the high school include: Lauren Bridges, Colton Searcey, Zach Taylor, Jacob Collins, Dustin Alexander Freshman Academy: Alex McLaughlin, Morgan Williams, Adam Blalock, Daniel Allen, Taylor Bruce, Max Baugh, Chelsea Kellum; Middle School: Zack Tankersley, Kevin Jones, Austin Saye, Brooke Adams, Jeb Adams, Travis Tankersley Elementary School: Eli Jones, Zac Collins, Hunter Anderson, Christopher Collins, Erin Temple, Blake Taylor, Courtney Alexander, Alex Simms, Kale Anderson. For more information, contact Cindy Jones at 706-654-8252 or Jerry Taylor at 706-338-7703. Swine show team competes at national level Taylor Bruce is pictured with her ribbon. Alex McLaughlin shows her Duroc breed barrow. The Madison County Swine Show team recently competed at the National Junior Swine Association Southeast Region swine show in Perry, a four-day event. Students compete in show manship, breed classes and stu dents even test their knowledge in the skillathon. Showmanship is held on Thursday and every student competed for the title of top showmen. Placing in show manship was Zack Taylor, who took sixth. During the Gilt show on Saturday, judge Will Winter from Texas chose Travis Tankersley’s swine project as "first in class” and his brother, Zach Tankersley, won tenth in the American Yorkshire class. Both represented the Madison County Middle School FFA Chapter. Taylor Bruce of the Freshman Academy FEA xhapter received her first ribbon in her American Yorkshire class with her swine project, taking tenth in her class. Also competing in the gilt show were Brooke Adams and Hunter and Kale Anderson. During the barrow show on Sunday Blake Taylor placed third and fifth. Zack Taylor placed fifth and seventh. Austin Saye received eighth and tenth with his swine projects. Alex McLaughlin placed ninth and Kevin Jones received third and fifth with his two barrows. All students participated in the swine skillathon on Saturday afternoon. The skil lathon is to test the knowledge of the students participating in the show. The test covers all aspects of the swine industry not just showing. “This show is a good positive show for the kids and is not stressful,” said Renee Saye par ent of Austin Saye, swine show team member. “The kids really learn a lot from participating in the [NJSA].” For more information, con tact Cindy Jones at 706-654- 8252 or Jerry Taylor at 706- 338-7703. STUDENTS TAKE A TRIP TO THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS The third grade gifted students from all five Madison County elementary schools vis ited the Atlanta Civic Center’s exhibition — Tutankhamun: The Golden King and other Great Pharaohs — as part of their unit of study on ancient Egypt. The students’ tour engaged them in the history, religion, geography, and archaeology of ancient Egypt and its rulers. The exhibition was divided into rooms that contained artifacts from many pharaohs and concluded with rooms that contained the artifacts from each room (ante chamber, burial chamber, royal treasury) of King Tut’s tomb, which was unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922. ILA PHONE BOOK ESSAY WINNERS Fifth grade students at Ila Elementary School participated in a phone book recycling essay contest. Students persuaded other students and parents to recycle old phone books. Phonebook recycling is sponsored by The Madison County Clean and Beautiful Association. Winners of the essay contest received a certificate and the top essay win ner received a “Principal’s award dog tag” from Principal Lynne Jeffers. The top 10 essay winners were: Lauren Chitwood (sitting), Morgan Butler, Kacie James, Austin McDaniel, Ethan Strickland, Brandon Lytle, (center) — overall top winner, Dylan Gaddis, Viral Patel and Jacob Zimmer. COUNTY SPELLING BEE PARTICIPANTS The annual Madison County Spelling Bee was held Feb. 3 at Danielsville Elementary School. Twenty students participated in the county bee. These students were the win ners of their respective school bees. Participants included (back row) Andrew Tyson, Ryan Thomas, Tanner Jordan, Hunter Hatfield, Samantha Kincaid, Kennedy Lumpkin, (middle row) Carrie Dove, Rachel Parker, Evan Elgin, Madison Sosbee, Caleb Brown, Matthew Brantley, Rory Smith, (bottom row) Bailey Elrod, Kennedy Culbertson, Skylar Phillips, Julia Hix, Samantha Watson, Cortney Stevenson and Ally Ward. School board makes personnel moves The Madison County Board of Education made the follow ing personnel moves at its Feb. 10 meeting: •Comer Elementary — approved medical leave for paraprofessional Terri Wilkes and leave without pay for para professional Sandy Huff. •Danielsville Elementary — approved medical leave for school nutrition worker Julie Hill. •Hull-Sanford Elementary — hired Brenda Chandler as a long-term substitute for Sarah Drohan. •Ila Elementary — approved maternity leave for speech-lan guage teacher Jenny Givesn Tackett. •Madison County Middle School — approved maternity leave for teacher Margarita Gayle and hired Katherine Hart-Peterson as her long-term substitute; approved Rachel Boyette as a substitute nurse for Joan Busbin; and approved Blaine Seagraves as a volunteer baseball coach. •Madison County High School — approved mater nity leave for teacher Beth Loudermilk and hired Brenda Abdel-Hafez as her long-term substitute; and approved mater nity leave for teacher Allison Clarke. •System — hired Eddie McCarty as a call-in bus driver. 7 C’s Parm WINTER SALE Leyland Cypress Trees 1-gal. containers 3-4 ft. tall $5,00 7-gal. containers 6-7 ft. tall $21.00 7G f i F<xm *■ 2331 Old Khgi. 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