Shawnee FFA Has High Hopes, Despite Loss Of Barn To April Tornado

  • Shawnee High School FFA students, along with their teachers and Superintendent Dr. Aaron Espolt, receive a check in August for $10,000 from Oklahoma AgCredit to go toward the FFA program. Photo provided.
    Shawnee High School FFA students, along with their teachers and Superintendent Dr. Aaron Espolt, receive a check in August for $10,000 from Oklahoma AgCredit to go toward the FFA program. Photo provided.
Like many buildings on the campus, the agriculture barn and greenhouse at Shawnee High School was a total loss after the tornado of April 19 came through. Luckily, since it happened at night and toward the end of the school year, there was just one resident in the barn, which was located just north of the high school on Kickapoo Spur. “There was only one animal, a pig, in the barn during the…

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