The HS golf meet scheduled for Monday, April 28th at Mobridge has been postponed and will now take place on Wednesday, April 30th beginning at 10:00 AM. Additionally, the start time for the YTC track meet in Onida, scheduled for this Thursday, May 1st, has been moved up to 12:30 PM.
Congratulations to the EC varsity golf team on their 4th place finish at the Faulkton invitational yesterday.
Congratulations to Trent on finishing in 5th place and Seth for 7th place!
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Please join the Edmunds Central FFA Chapter in celebrating the successes of this year at our Banquet & Awards Ceremony on May 9th!
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Congratulations to Seth Hettick for placing 15th at the Class B Invitational in Mitchell today. The team scored 245 overall with a 78 from Seth Hettick, 84 from Trent Beyers, and an 83 from Harrison Beyers. The fourth team member competing was Clark Beyers. Great job, Raider Golf team!
The Edmunds Central FFA Chapter has had a short busy season of Career Development Event Contests.
The first event was held in Groton on February 28th. Theodore Haerter placed 3rd individually in Ag Business Management! Others competing in Groton were Sophie Kroll in Ag Business Management and Kelsey and Rylee Sowards in Floriculture.
On March 18th the chapter travelled to Northwestern. Teams competing were Ag Mechanics - 4th Place (Clark Beyers- 15th, Cash Anderson - 17th, Antonio Person, Zane Harr and Kaleb Scherr), Floriculture (Tara Fischer), Ag Business Management (Theo Haerter - 9th, Kelsey Lehr, and Sophie Kroll), and Vet Science (Alexis Fischer).
The last state Qualifier was held in Miller on March 26th. Teams competing were Ag Mechanics - 8th Place (Cash Anderson - 8th, Antonio Person, Zane Haar and Chase Bukaske), Ag Business (Sophie Kroll), Floriculture - 9th Place (Kelsey Sowards - 14th, Rylee Sowards and Tara Fischer), and Natural Resources (Alexis Fischer).
Kelsey Sowards and Cash Anderson qualified as individuals to represent District 6 at the State FFA Convention. Congratulations to all our CDE participants for a great competition season!
E.C. Senior Trip - NYC - post 2/2: THE END...putting on an estimated 120,000 steps and almost 60 walking miles...from the sites of D.C. to the lights of N.Y.C., we have done it all. We spent the end of our last day just taking in NYC like tourists should. We enjoyed stores and gourmet treats, capping our trip off with a spectacular (and cold 🥶) view from the Empire State Building.
Thank you to all who supported the fundraising efforts for this class. They truly had a trip of a lifetime. 🇺🇸🍎🗽
E.C. Senior Trip Day 6 - NYC post 1/2: The final day of our trip was a busy one...we put it over 13 miles! Some of the group got up early to see The Today show being filmed and they made it on TV! Then we all boarded a ferry and visited The Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island - what a site! Some of the kids enjoyed climbing 195 stairs up to the pedestal level, some of us enjoyed the convenience of elevators. 😂
We then moved on for a tearful stop at the 9/11 memorial, making sure to find the Survivor Tree. Since we were in that area, a few walked down Wall Street and found the charging bull.
This wasn't where our day ended; by the time we were done at 11 p.m., some of us had around 30,000 steps in!!!!!
E.C. Senior Class Day 5 - New York post 2/2:
What a night! We dined in an authentic Italian restaurant in the theatre district, then attended The Broadway Play The Lion King. Every single one of us absolutely loved this experience! This was such an incredible show. We are so thankful to be able to enjoy this with our E.C. students! It's not something any of them will ever forget.
E.C. Senior Trip Day 5 - New York - post 1/2: We hit New York City hard! Arriving Tuesday morning, went right into a walking tour of historic Rockefeller Center, hearing the history of the artwork & the Rockefeller family, Radio City Music Hall, and then headed to a The Top of the Rock for the views of NYC.
E.C. Senior Trip - Day 4 - post 3/3: WE ESCAPED! We capped our stop in D.C. with a little bit of challenging fun with an escape room. We had one hour to work our way through a series of rooms with puzzles and riddles to break out of prison. We may have used a lot of clues, but the important part is, we successfully escaped with :42 seconds left on the clock!!! 😅😂
E.C. Senior Trip - Day 4 - post 2/3: A final day highlight for most was an incredible staff-led tour of the U.S. Capitol from Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office and a meet up with the Leader Thune himself following the tour. He was so unhurried that his staff had to remind him the floor was ready for him to speak and he still stayed to visit a few more minutes with our kids.
**£Check out his social media to see his post about Edmunds Central!***
E.C. Senior Trip - Day 4 - post 1/3: Our final D.C. day brought us so many great things!
We took in two Smithsonian museums, seeing both the Museum of Natural History and The Museum of Air & Space. We found The Hope Diamond and saw tons of fossils and casts from our own state.
Let's not forget to mention scooter riding, souvenir shopping, and a quick stop along the way for some new shoes for a complete day 4 D.C. experience!
E.C. Senior Trip - Day 3 - The final leg of our itinerary took us back down to the mall area to check out a few more memorials. We took an evening walk seeing The Einstein Memorial, The Vietnam Memorial, The Korean War Memorial, The MLK Memorial, and finally the FDR Memorial. In addition to enjoying these gorgeous tributes, the night views of D.C. were incredible!
E.C. Senior Trip - Day 3 afternoon took us past the FBI building to the Holocaust Museum, something that we found so powerful that we had a hard time leaving. We had to tear ourselves from the survivor stories to continue on in our day.
Again, we know these kids enjoyed their day when they're not sure which part was their favorite.
E.C. Senior Trip - Day 3 started off at Ford's Theatre and The Petersen House with a history of the life of Abraham Lincoln. We thoroughly enjoyed listening to our park ranger and touring the museum after.
When we were done we ate the best pizza at a place just around the corner before heading into our afternoon itinerary. You know it's a good day when they can't decide which thing was their favorite!
E.C. Senior Trip - Day 2 - post 3/3: Arlington National Cemetery. The Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier & The Eternal Flame at the gravesite of JFK were our final stops for the day. We enjoyed this beautiful area and were absolutely mesmerized by The Changing of the Guard.
We are so impressed with all we've seen in the last two days and are looking forward to our day three sites!
E.C. Senior Trip - Day 2 - post 2/3: An amazing find and incredible addition to our trip, this memorial deserves a post to itself. The Pentagon Memorial was truly impactful. We stopped only because it was on our way to Arlington, but we met an Army Veteran who was very passionate about this place and was more than happy to spend some time sharing the details of this special place.
The 184 benches were designed to honor those who perished in the 9/11 Pentagon attack. Each bench has a name engraved in honor of those who died, some have additional names of family members that perished with them on the flight, and each bench faces a direction that tells if they were in the Pentagon or on the plane; sky behind the bench mean they were on the flight and Pentagon behind the bench means they were inside the building. What an incredible design detail! We learned this and so much more! This was such a well thought out memorial and we love that we were able to see it!
Day 2 - E.C. Senior Trip 1/3 - We explored more of D.C. today, starting off with bikes and scooters down to The Thomas Jefferson Memorial. The kids definitely enjoyed the speedy ride! Then we found our way over to The DEA museum, a highlight for all of them! We spent the rest of our morning learning about the history of drug enforcement. We had a fantastic morning in D.C.!
