The Righetti
Chapter Officers
By: Lelia Cavazos
Meet our 1990-91 Chapter Officers:
James Ontiveros is the President of the Righetti FFA Chapter. James is a Junior who enjoys steer wrestling, rodeo and country music. He enjoys his ag classes most of all his classes. His favorite pet
is his horse Re-ride.
Tara Thompson is the Vice President of our Chapter. She along with Jennifer Rose and Tiffany Thompson won the state Competition in Poultry Judging. Her favorite vacation was when she went to the FFA National Convention for poultry judging.
Tiffany Thompson is Secretary of the Chapter. Her favorite vacation was going to the National Convention for poultry judging. Her favorite class is Agriculture Science.
Jennifer Rose is Sentinel of the FFA Chapter. She is on the Poultry Judging Team, coached by Mr. Rose. Her favorite pets are her steers. She is a Junior and was born in Santa Maria.
Our Treasurer in Tanya Triplett. She’s the only Sophomore officer. She
Loves rodeo. Her favorite subject in school is agriculture. Tanya feels most relaxed when she’s riding her horse. Tanya is a member of the FFA Floriculture Team.
The Reporter of our Chapter is Stan Otremba. He’s a Junior and was born in Santa Maria. Stan is a member of the Varsity Football Team at RHS and likes 4x4’ing.
Topaz Kosorek is our Chapter Sweetheart. She’s a 16 year old Junior who enjoys horseback riding. One of her favorite dinners is steak and she is a member of the Meats Judging Team, which is taught by Mr. English.
Contest
Success for
RHS
By: Stan Otremba
The annual Opening and Closing Ceremonies and Best Informed Greenhand sectional contests were held on Saturday, October 27 at Cal Poly State University. FFA members and chapters from the San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara sections competed in Advanced and Novice Opening and Closing and Best Informed Greenhand.
Righetti’s advanced Opening and Closing won first place, with individual awards going to the president, vice president, treasurer, reporter, and sentinel.
Team members include Jennifer Rose (Sentinel), Stan Otremba (Reporter),
James Ontiveros (President), Tanya Triplett (Treasurer), Tara Thompson (Vice President) and Tiffany Thompson (Secretary) and coach Miss Peterson.
Righetti had two Novice Opening and Closing Teams. One team consisted of Chastisy Barnes (Pres.), Erika Pritchett (VP), Lorene White (Sec.), Jordanna Lynch (Tres.), Michelle Nogues (Rep.), and Mike Sprouse (Sent.). The other novice team was John Alvara (Pres.), Erika Pritchett (VP), Tamara Harris (Sec.), Amy Fletcher (Tres.), Brian Whitefield (Rep.), and Marcus Lynch (Sent.). This team, from Mr. Nunez’s first period class, captured third place and John Alvara was awarded best President in the novice contest.
The Best Informed Greenhand contest was won by Righetti. Members of the BIG team included John Alvara, Charlean Howell, Chastisy Barnes, Marcus Lynch and Brian Whitefield. Both novice opening and closing teams and BIG were coached by Mr. Nunez.
In addition to the contsets, a program was presented by the Cal Poly students. Chapter Farmers were introduced. Chapter Farmers from Righetti included Elias Murguia, Julie Rose, Ken Teague, Cambriaa Pyle and Nicole Enright.
Secret Santa
By: Kelly Thropp
The Secret Santa Community Service Project, sponsored by Santa Maria community businesses and organizations, was helped
Out by the Righetti and Santa Maria FFA Chapters. It was a great experience for all of us. What we did was help out the needy children in our community. At the Santa Maria Town Center Christmas Trees filled with angels waited to be adopted. Each angel was a child, and listed wishes for Christmas. Righetti FFA’ers manned the booth at the Mall, helped sort gifts and worked during distribution of the gifts.
Thanks to all those that helped!
School Farm
By: Michelle Wade & Stan Otremba
The Righetti School Farm is located on Stillwell Road in Orcutt. This two acre parcel is owned by Mr. Hawkins and used by Righetti FFA. There are eight swine pens, one lamb per and two steer pens, which are equipped with running water. The farm is managed by the students. School farm manager is Stan Otremba. If you need a place to keep your project, contact Mr. Rose.