BY ELI HUDSPETH
FOR THE OBSERVER
BEULAH —
The Future Farmers of America organization has always been community oriented. Clint Cobb of Beulah High School is making sure he prolongs that. A grant of $6,500 was awarded to the high school this past September.
“The name of the project is learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live, living to serve,” Cobb said. “With this equipment grant, my kids are going to be learning. They’re going to be learning to saw and how to use this equipment. They’re also going to be doing it to learn. They’re learning how to do it, how to do it better, and they’re earning to live and living to serve. Like I said, the equipment will also be used as a community wood bank. It’s 100% about the community.”
With the new equipment from the grant, the community will have the chance to benefit from this as well.
“The equipment that we’re getting is a sawmill for our forestry and agriculture program. This will be used to mill wood for anyone in the community who needs it. Along with the mill, we got a log splitter and a trailer to haul the equipment on. With the log splitter, we’ll have that open for the community to bring down wood and get split. If they want to donate wood, we can split it and have wood on hand at the school; If someone needs wood for heating, they can drop by and pick it up. The kids are getting experience and learning to run the mill and splitter, while also giving the community service as well.”
Cobb has been teaching at Beulah for 19 years now. Prior to that, he was at Beauregard. This is Cobb’s second year with the FFA program at Beulah. Additionally, he served in the military and was deployed to Iraq three times before retiring.
More updates are available on the “Learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live, living to serve” community service project here: www.facebook.com/people/Beulah-Ffa/pfbid0yV6fzXTYqCY2us6cGUNWxU9ngxQdWvfXqYEdHf2945eZbbXvDxKrfe5AKHj8CNKNl/.