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Paynesville Area School District

 

1. Name:  Amy Grotsun
2. Office: President
3. Year in School: Senior
4. CDE:  Parli Pro & Livestock Judging
5. SAE: Beef Production Entrepreneurship
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): State Convention, Region Lock-In 
7. Non-FFA Activities: Hockey, 4-H, Exploring
8. Favorite Food: Mac & Cheese Pizza from Jummy's Pizza
9. Favorite Movie: Mean Girls and Never Say Never
10. Favorite Music: Justin Bieber, 3OH!3, AND LMFAO 
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: Justion Bieber (CSI and a movie)
12. Role Model: Justin Bieber, watch Never Say Never  and you will learn how great his story is!
13. Would you believe it, but once I... tweeted Justin Bieber and he broke up Selena Gomez. Clearly means that he will marry me!
14. Interesting fact about me: I don't play Mario!
15. Future Plans: Go to college, become an ag teacher, and be AWESOME!
16. Favorite Quote: "Play with chalk, jump in puddles, and laugh out loud." -Unknown

 

 

1. Name: Brittany Utsch
2. Office: Vice President
3. Year in School: Junior
4. CDE: Small Animals, Parli Pro 
5. SAE: Ag Sales Placement (Amaze'n Farmyard)
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): Looking forward to National Convention with Maria, Sabrina, and Tammy
7. Non-FFA Activities: Student Council, Mission Trips
8. Favorite Food: Pizza
9. Favorite Movie: Any Romantic Movie 
10. Favorite Music: Country or anything on KCLD or 80's or 90's music
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: Taylor Launter
12. Role Model: My Parents
13. Would you belive it, but once I... was dragged by a cow when I was 7 or 8 while I was tying it up. It was scary!! 
14. Interesting fact about me: I love to dance!! And i love movies!!
15. Future Plans: Go to college at Ridgewater for something in Ag then maybe transfer to another college to continue in Ag. Get married and have kids.
16. Favorite Quote: "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in." - Morrie Schwartz

 

1. Name: Sabrina Ley
2. Office: Secretary
3. Year in School: Junior
4. CDE: Dairy Judging
5. SAE: Dairy Production Placement
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): Officer Retreat, Fruit Sales, Meetings, and everything else!
7. Non-FFA Activities: hanging with my fellow buddies, babysitting, jamming to music
8. Favorite Food: Corn Dogs
9. Favorite Movie: Despicable Me! 
10. Favorite Music: Country/Rock
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: Josh Turner or Matthew McConahay 
12. Role Model: Lisa Lenzmeier
13. Would you believe it, but once I... tied myself to my dog's leash and was dragged on cement and ended up with scars.
14. Interesting fact about me: I HATE TARANTULAS!!!!!
15. Future Plans: Go to college and become a kindergarten teacher and find a guy that owns a nice truck to marry. 
16. Favorite Quote: "Aww my caterpillar didn't turn into a butterfly....umm that's a Cheeto!" - Despicable Me!

 

 

1. Name: Ashley Barker
2. Office: Treasurer
3. Year in School: Junior
4. CDE: Prepared Public Speaking, Parli Pro, Horse Judging
5. SAE: Small Animal (Rabbit) Entrepreneurship
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): All of them
7. Non-FFA Activities: 4-H, Speech
8. Favorite Food: Mexican Food
9. Favorite Movie: The Last Song
10. Favorite Music: Country
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: Molly Ringwald
12. Role Model: My Mom
13. Would you believe it, but once I... showed my ankles!
14. Interesting fact about me: I can't use chopsticks. 
15. Future Plans: Get my Gen Eds done
16. Favorite Quote: "Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind." - Unknown
    

 

1. Name: Tammy Schackmann
2. Office: Reporter
3. Year in School: Senior
4. CDE: Small Animals
5. SAE: None
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): National Convention 
7. Non-FFA Activities: Farming
8. Favorite Food: Green Bean Casserole
9. Favorite Movie: Fast Five
10. Favorite Music: Country
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: Ryan Reynolds 
12. Role Model: Luke Bryan
13. Would you believe it, but once I... got chased by a rooster when I was little and I just ran around the house! 
14. Interesting fact about me: I scrapebook cards.
15. Future Plans: Go to Ridgewater College to be a Vet Tech. 
16. Favorite Quote: "We live, we love, we laugh a lot, it's all the FFA fun we got!" - Unknown 

 

 

1. Name: Paul Walz
2. Office: Sentinel
3. Year in School: Senior
4. CDE: Livestock Judging 
5. SAE: Alternative Animal Entrepreneurship
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): Baby Animal Days, Officer Retreat
7. Non-FFA Activities: Raising sheep, goats, and rabbits
8. Favorite Food: Watermelon & Pizza 
9. Favorite Movie: All movies
10. Favorite Music: Country/Pop
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: Megan Fox/Sabrina Ley (who is much cooler) 
12. Role Model: Maria Molitor
13. Would you believe it, but once I... got lost 3 times: 2 at Walmart and 1 at a random church in Little Falls.
14. Interesting fact about me: I want a Tarantula!
15. Future Plans: Become a goat/beef farmer.
16. Favorite Quote: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." - Forrest Gump 

 

 

1. Name: Abby Molitor
2. Office: Historian
3. Year in School: Sophomore
4. CDE: Dairy Judging 
5. SAE: Beef Production Entrepreneurship
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): All of them 
7. Non-FFA Activities: 4-H, Marching Band, Band, Choir
8. Favorite Food: Tacos
9. Favorite Movie: Major Payne 
10. Favorite Music: All Music
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: No comment 
12. Role Model: My Mom
13. Would you believe it, but once I... got stuck in a chair. They had to take the chair apart to get me out. 
14. Interesting fact about me: I am secretly afraid of Amy touching my neck.
15. Future Plans: Expand my beef operation by buying and selling more bull calves.
16. Favorite Quote: "These peanuts are NUTS." - Abby Molitor

     

 

1. Name: Maria Molitor
2. Office: Officer at Large
3. Year in School: Senior
4. CDE: Dairy Judging
5. SAE: Dairy Prodution Placement
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): Officer Retreat
7. Non-FFA Activities: 4-H, Marching Band, Band, Varsity Choir, Reach, NHS, Jazz Singers, Youth Froup, Spring Musical
8. Favorite Food: Party Potatoes and Bacon
9. Favorite Movie: Any man hater movie!
10. Favorite Music: Lady Gaga
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: Hugh Grant
12. Role Model: My Dad - He's always there for me and knows what he wants to achieve in life.
13. Would you believe it, but once I...held a fish!!! - so nasty. Also, I got body slammed by a cow because Paul chased it wrong!
14. Interesting fact about me: I HATE knees!
15. Future Plans: Not a clue...dental hygienist, hairstylist, school counselor
16. Favorite Quote: "So many treats...so little time." - DQ      "Is your name Cambell's...because you're looking mmm good!!" - Unknown

1. Name: Mrs. Natalie Utsch
2. Office: Advisor
3. Graduated: St. James High School in 2000, U of MN - Twin Cities in 2004
4. CDE: I use to do General Livestock Judging
5. SAE: Was Swine Production Entrepreneurship
6. Favorite FFA Event(s): Officer Retreat, Conventions, but everything else that the members enjoy
7. Non-FFA Activities: Ag Teacher, Softball, Travel, Read, Cross-Stitch, 4-Wheeling and hanging out with my husband Corey, Work out; in high school I was in tennis, wrestling stats, softball, choir, band, drama, national honor society, FFA, 4-H, pork ambassador, and worked at Hardees (I was never home).
8. Favorite Food: Homemade Pizza
9. Favorite Movie: A League of Their Own & Lord of the Rings: Trilogy
10. Favorite Music: Classic Rock and Country
11. Favorite Actor/Actress: Adam Sandler and Orlando Bloom/Sandra Bullock
12. Role Model: My Dad
13. Would you believe it, but once I...had to re-learn how to walk.
14. Interesting fact about me: I was a pork ambassador for Watonwan County and got the "Congeniality Award" at the State Ambassador Competition.
15. Future Plans: Enjoy being married (June 13, 2009) and living on an 80-acre farm outside of Paynesville. We have chickens, pot belly pigs, goats (pigmy and fainting), and kittens to start with. And my husband and I are expecting our first child in November.
16. Favorite Quote: "I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." - Laura Ingalls Wilder
    

 

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