HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2015-04-23, Page 27The April meeting of the Majestic
WI was held at Cinnamon Jim’s
restaurant on Wednesday, April 8 at
11:30 a.m. Following the Institute
grace, president Ruth Bauer read a
poem entitled, “The Bright Side”.
After a delicious lunch was enjoyed,
the secretary read the minutes of the
February and March meetings.
Correspondence was received from
the Howick Women’s Institute,
inviting members to their “Girls
Night Out” at the Howick
Community Centre on Thursday,
April 23. A letter from nominations
chair Winnie Trachsel asked for
names of members who would let
their names stand for the following
offices: second vice-president,
assistant secretary, treasurer, PRO
and ROSE co-ordinator. A letter had
been received inviting members to
the Agriculture & Water Festival in
Seaforth which was held on April 9.
Kathy Bridge distributed the
monthly newsletter stating many
events and dates coming up in the
future.
Marie McCutcheon gave the
treasurer’s report. Yvonne Knight
thanked Ruth Bauer for being
president for the past two years and
presented her with a potted plant.
The annual meeting of the
Majestic WI began with the motion
of Kathy Bridge and Elfriede
Klaassen nominating Leona
Armstrong to be the recording
secretary for the meeting. Huron-
Perth District Dianne Bender was
present to install the officers for the
coming year. The list of members
and offices put forth by the
nominating committee for the year
2015-2016 was accepted by the
membership. Dianne Bender
installed the following slate of
officers and congratulated them.
The 2015/2016 officers are: Past-
President, Ruth Bauer; President,
Yvonne Knight; Vice-President and
Secretary, Leona Armstrong;
Treasurer, Marie McCutcheon;
District Director, Ruth Bauer;
Alternate District Director, Yvonne
Knight; Public Relations Officer,
Tweedsmuir and Advocacy, Kathy
THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015. PAGE 27.
Walton’s Graeme Craig is no
stranger to competitive plowing,
having been involved at every level
of competition in the past 50 years
and he is going to continue that
streak as Ontario’s representative on
the Canadian Plowing Organization
(CPO).
During the Ontario Plowmen’s
Association’s (OPA) general
meeting on March 29, Craig was
named to the position.
Craig will represent Ontario for
the next three years on the board,
having taken over for previous
representative Thomas Murdock of
Richards Landing, Ontario.
The organization, according to
Craig, is responsible for the
Canadian Plowing Championship
every year which sees the best from
each province compete for a chance
to go to the world competition.
“We’re responsible for giving the
provincial winners the opportunity
to be named Canada’s best,
represent us on the world stage,” he
said.
Locally that means that people
like Paul Dodds, from the Winthrop
area, and Brian McGavin, from the
Walton area, owe some of their
opportunities to compete to the
organization.
Dodds represented Canada at the
world competition last year while
McGavin is vying for the Canadian
Plowing Championship on Wolfe
Island, Ontario, later this year.
Craig said that, despite the CPO
and the Canadian Plowing
Championship not receiving the
same fanfare as the International
Plowing Match, he is very excited to
continue his career with plowing
organizations as the Ontario
representative.
“I’m definitely looking forward to
it,” he said. “It will be another
avenue of plowing match activities...
We bring the best from across the
country to compete for a chance to
represent Canada and that’s
important.”
Craig has been involved with
plowing for 50 years and recently
was a director from 2003 to 2010
and past-president of the OPA. After
that, he retired from the
organization, but he says no one ever
really retires from a group like that.
“You just do it, whether you’re in
the association or not,” he said.
“People come together and make
these things happen and that’s the
kind of attitude I’m going to bring to
this position.”
Craig will oversee events the
Canadian Plowing Matches in
Ottawa-Carleton in 2016 and
Abbotsford, British Columbia in
2017 before he decides whether he
will run for his new position again.
Being named to the position is an
honour, according to Craig, and one
that he had to be chosen for.
“The Ontario Plowmen opened up
the opportunity for people to apply,”
he said. “I applied, and they
conducted interviews by phone and I
was selected by the OPA executive
for the position.”
The national organization
phycially meets once a year and
communicates regularly through e-
mail and telephone according to
Craig.
As for his aspirations on the
board, he wants to see the
organization and the national
plowing match be recognized more
nationally and see some new
opportunities for competition at the
national level.
“I want to see a Canadian Horse
Plowing Championship and a
Canadian Antique Plowing
Championship,” he said. “That’s just
kind of a floating, wild, idea but I
think we should have the same
competitions at the national level
that we do at the provincial level...
We have had demos at the provincial
level for that, but never
competition.”
This year, seven people will be
competing at Wolfe Island from
Ontario for the Canadian
championship, including McGavin,
and Craig said he is excited to see
how the event plays out.
Craig named Ontario rep in national organization
Majestic WI installs
2015/2016 officers
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Excited
Graeme Craig of Walton has a lot to be excited about when it comes to plowing. Not only is
his home village the site of the 2017 International Plowing Match (which is the 100th annual
match) as advertised by the back of his truck, but he also was recently named to be Ontario’s
representative to the Canadian Plowing Organization. (Denny Scott photo)
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
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