{"id":194618,"date":"2026-02-26T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194618\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:36:14","slug":"community-spotlight-oakland-ffa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194618\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Spotlight: Oakland FFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OAKLAND, Ill. (WCIA) \u2014 Madison Warner and Rachel Warman joined WCIA 3\u2019s Taylor Mitchell in the studio to talk about the Oakland FFA\u2019s petting zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday and attendees can expect a range of animals \u2014 everything from dogs and ducks to pigs and ponies. The FFA members will also offer two classroom activities for the elementary school students \u2014 making a first aid kit and learning abut the lifecycle of a butterfly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/articles\/community-spotlight-gcms-ffa-231515025.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Community Spotlight: GCMS FFA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Community Spotlight: GCMS FFA <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event will be held at Oakland High School. While it is free to attend, the group will be accepting donations. Proceeds will go towards future FFA weeks and the group\u2019s banquet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To learn more about the event, visit the Oakland FFA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61550338215237\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCIA.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCIA.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Ill. (WCIA) \u2014 Madison Warner and Rachel Warman joined WCIA 3\u2019s Taylor Mitchell in the studio to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[90919,90916,143,145,42861,144,90918,90917,64954],"class_list":["post-194618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-ffa-members","tag-madison-warner","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-high-school","tag-oakland-news","tag-rachel-warman","tag-taylor-mitchell","tag-wcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}