County FFA entrants win state contests

­­­The annual Washington state FFA convention took place on campus at WSU last weekend with a list of first-place winners from Whitman County.

Colfax junior Cotton Booker took state for top individual and State Star for agricultural business. Cole Baerlocher, another junior, won for state prepared public speaking.

In team events, Colfax's Cassidi Shindler, a senior, Gunnar Aune, junior, and Perry Imler, sophomore, took first place in ag sales – a competition in which teams across the state are assigned a product earlier in the year for which they sell to the judges.

LaCrosse High School also h...