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Blake crowned Brussels Fall Fair Ambassador
New faces
Patti Blake was crowned the new Brussels Ambassador
Saturday night as part of a special ceremony at the
Brussels Legion. Doing the honours, in one of her final
duties as 2015/2016 Brussels Ambassador, was Tiffany
Deitner. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
Twenty-one-year-old Patti Blake
is the 2016/2017 Brussels Fall Fair
Ambassador, coming out on top of
the competition at the Brussels
Legion Saturday night.
Blake, the daughter of
Molesworth's Greg and Marie
Blake, impressed the judges with her
speech and agricultural background
to take home the crown.
In an interview with The Citizen,
Blake said she was surprised and
shocked when she heard her name
called as this year's winner.
Blake triumphed over Erin
McMahon, who was chosen as the
competition's first runner-up, Regan
Ryter, winner of the competition's
Friendship Award, Raven Kenney
and Laura Souch.
Blake, who was sponsored by the
Huronlea Auxiliary, has completed
her diploma in agriculture at the
University of Guelph, Ridgetown
Campus and is working full time at
Wikkemaat Farms Inc. as a herd
manager.
She enjoys participating in the
North Perth 4-H Beef Club and the
Listowel 4-H Dairy Club. She also
belongs to the Perth County Junior
Farmers organization.
Blake has a passion for showing
cattle with her family at both the
local and national levels and loves to
play broomball in the winter with
the Arctic Blaze team.
While Blake says she feels she
could have prepared more for the
marathon of interviewing with
judges and speaking in front of a
packed house at the Legion, it was
her public speech that came easy to
her, she said.
Blake said she was happy to spend
the day with the other four
contestants, whom she said were
very friendly and that they all got
along very well.
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Fall Fair, Blake looks forward to
reconnecting with the Brussels
community. Now living in
Molesworth and after attending
school outside of the community for
several years, she said it was good to
see people from Brussels again and
she's looking forward to seeing
much more of village residents.
Outgoing Ambassador Tiffany
Deitner also took the opportunity
that night to address everyone for
her farewell speech, which she wrote
in the fashion of a poem.
She thanked those involved in the
program like Nicole Noble and
Kabrina Bishop, saying that she had
an excellent year representing the
community.
For the first time in the fair's
history, Little Ambassador and
Junior Ambassador awards were
handed out.
Contestants were asked to write a
short essay on "Finding fun at the
Brussels Fall Fair" and they were
judged ahead of Saturday night by a
panel that included Deitner, Mary
Douma and Yvonne Knight.
James Speer won the Little
Ambassador competition and was
joined by his brother Benjamin on
the stage, as Benjamin won the
Junior Ambassador competition.
Both young men wrote their
essays about showing lambs at the
fair and filling the hours before
they're called to show their animals
with viewing farm equipment and
playing in the corn box.
The Brussels Fall Fair is scheduled
for Sept. 20-21.
For more information on the fair
or on the Brussels Agricultural
Society, visit brusselsfallfair.ca.
A
new era
On Saturday night, the Brussels Agricultural Society
ushered in a new era by naming a Little Ambassador and
Junior Ambassador ahead of the Brussels Fall Fair. James
Speer, left, and Benjamin Speer, right, were named Little
and Junior Ambassador respectively. They are joined here
by the 2016/2017 Ambassador Patti Blake, centre. (Shawn
Loughlin photo)
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