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In accordance with the national organization, Randolph County Schools will recognize Feb. 20-27 as âNational FFA Week.â Pictured from left are Amber Sanders, Dalton Swecker â both students from Tygarts Valley High School â and Lee Wright, vocational agriculture teacher and FFA advisor for TVHS.
ELKINS Each year, a group of young leaders are recognized by Randolph County Schools for their interest in agriculture.
During this week’s Randolph County Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Debbie Schmidlen signed a proclamation declaring the week of Feb. 20-27 as “FFA Week.”
Schmidlen praised FFA students in the county, adding the program at Tygarts Valley High School is large, has an active enrollment and “represents the school well.”
Cases are going up at colleges and universities, despite more testing. Some colleges have put in place tight restrictions. Others have been more flexible.
SUMMARY
T. O. Sandy was Virginia’s earliest agricultural extension agent. A farmer, scientist, and teacher, he opened the state’s first extension office in Burkeville in 1907, serving the residents in surrounding counties with practical agricultural advice. In 1914, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg assumed the administration of the statewide program. Sandy, who had briefly attended Virginia Tech, coordinated Virginia’s extension efforts until his retirement in 1917. During Sandy’s tenure as extension agent, farming practices and attitudes toward scientific agriculture in Virginia significantly improved.
Thomas Oldham Sandy was born in Essex County, Virginia, on February 22, 1857. He matriculated at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1875, but did not complete a degree and left the next year. In 1879 he bought a cattle and horse farm in Westmoreland County. On June 25, 1891, Sandy married Sallie Thweatt Miller and the couple settled at her ance
. Can you talk a little bit about taking part in that collection?
Steve Rasnic Tem: I was beginning this process during the first few months of the pandemic, and the idea of “starvation” took on a particular significance. Many people are now starved for human contact, unable to engage in the social activities which in many cases kept them balanced. Some people have hoarded food and other supplies, afraid they might not have enough. Another effect of the times is a growing distrust of other people. Some folks have started viewing their neighbors as a threat.
All these threads went into the creation of my Wendigo tale. Its title is “An Gorta Mór,” a reference to the historic Irish famine.
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