Marquette Academy students get sheep shearing lesson

Students learn how to shear sheep and discuss uses for the wool

September 15, 2022 at 2:30 pm CDT

Students at Marquette Academy got an up-close look at sheep shearing. Brought in by vocational agriculture teacher Teresa Dittmer, Sid Dezries demonstrated how he shears sheep and talked about the many uses for the wool. (Shaw Media photo/Tom Sistak)

OTTAWA, Ill. — Students at Marquette Academy in Ottawa got an up-close look at a sheep shearing demonstration Aug. 25.

Brought in by vocational agriculture teacher Teresa Dittmer, Sid Dezries, of Freeport, demonstrated how he shears sheep and talked about the many uses for the wool.

Some of these Icelandic sheep await their turn for a “haircut” by Sid Dezries, of Freeport, at Marquette Academy in Ottawa, Illinois. (Shaw Media photo/Tom Sistak)

Marquette Academy students view the amount of wool sheared off one sheep during a sheep shearing demonstration at the high school in Ottawa, Illinois. (Shaw Media photo/Tom Sistak)