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10-05-2025
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Not your typical classroom: Students further careers at 100th FAA Convention
GEDDES, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — For thousands of students, the end of the school week was at the New York State Fairgrounds, learning at the 100 annual Future Farmers of America (FAA) convention. From across the country, students gathered and connected over their shared passion for agriculture. One of the students is 16-year-old Daphne Cronk, who has been raising poultry since she was three years old. 'I am obsessed with them, and I've been collecting poultry. I am hatching geese, I am hatching ducks, I am getting a pond, I have over 30 chickens, so it's something I enjoy doing,' said Cronk. Not your typical classroom: Students further careers at 100th FAA Convention Local priest shares personal connection with Pope Leo XIV Regional Market funding not included in the state budget Seneca Falls man arrested for threatening police and assault See 'Beetlejuice' on Thursday at the Landmark and support the United Way of CNY Her day is unlike most of her classmates'; she wakes up around 5 a.m. and heads to her coop, where the 16-year-old, 'enough feed, enough water, make sure everything is clean because chickens have a tendency to get their feet infected…they're a little touch.' In addition to her coop, Cronk is leading other students in her local FFA chapter while planning her future, which includes teaching and writing. 'I also want to do some journalism, and I will use that to do some agriculture advocacy so I can spread the word about how important agriculture education is and other topics I see in the ag industry,' said Cronk. The topics she wants to cover aren't as soft as her chickens. One is how hard it is for farmers to make a living, stating that 40% of farmers have other jobs. 'If we want to have a sustainable ag system, we need to pay our producers enough to put food on our tables, without producers, we don't eat.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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10-05-2025
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Local priest shares personal connection with Pope Leo XIV
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A Mass of Thanksgiving was held Friday at the Cathedral in downtown Syracuse for the election of the new pope. 'I never really thought I would see a day that there would be an American pope,' said Bishop Lucia. A man, Father John Oduor first met in 2005 in Kenya. But back then, he knew him as Father Prevost. 'I wanted to join the Augustinian community, so I joined them as a postulant studying philosophy way back in Nairobi in a little town called Langata, so that's when I met him,' said Fr. Oduor. Not your typical classroom: Students further careers at 100th FAA Convention Local priest shares personal connection with Pope Leo XIV Regional Market funding not included in the state budget Seneca Falls man arrested for threatening police and assault See 'Beetlejuice' on Thursday at the Landmark and support the United Way of CNY He says Pope Leo XIV stayed with them at the mission house for a few weeks. 'We just knew him like a priest, Father Bob. He was just like any other priest in the house and I can say that he's a very kind man. He was very kind,' said Fr. Oduor. Father Oduor also says he was quiet, but humble, with a great sense of humor. 'I can say he loved us. As students, you could feel that he loved us just like Augustinians. He would always tell us to leave together, stay as one. Love one another,' said Fr. Oduor. When Father Oduor heard who was chosen as the new pope, he says he was overcome with joy. 'I stood from my seat and I shouted Father Bob is the pope and I sat down, made a sign of the cross and I felt it,' said Fr. Oduor. 'To see Father Prevost rise from priesthood from a priest, to a prior general, to a bishop, to a cardinal, and now to a pope, what do you think, the holy spirit is telling you that he is chosen,' said Fr. Oduor. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
