HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-08-30, Page 11THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2012. PAGE 11.
The 2012-2013 Queen of The
Furrow Kayla Bishop, from RR2
Bluevale, is looking forward to
the opportunities and responsibilities
that her new position will bring.
“It’s going to be a good year, but
it’s going to be a very busy year as
well,” she said. “I plan on going to a
lot of the other plowing matches that
have yet to be held and going to the
local fall fairs and Christmas
parades.
“I’ll be attending monthly
meetings with the Huron County
Plowmen’s Association and other
events,” she said. “Basically, I just
want to represent Huron County and
the plowmen and help make them
well known.”
When her name was called,
Bishop said she simultaneously felt
a lot of different emotions.
“It was overwhelming really,” she
said. “I was obviously very
honoured and excited at the same
time. I ran in the past and I wasn’t
successful, but when my name was
called I was just excited to get the
chance to represent Huron County
and hopefully do well at the
[International Plowing Match] next
year.”
Bishop was crowned at the Huron
County Plowing Match held last
week just outside of Walton by the
previous reigning Queen Samantha
Klaver.
“I really hope I can fill her shoes
and represent Huron County well,”
Bishop said.
Huron County is a great place to
represent, she said, because of all the
opportunities that are afforded to
youth in the area.
“It’s like I said in my speech, it
takes a community to raise a child”
she said. “There are so
many opportunities out there, people
just need to jump in with both
feet.”
She said that the opportunity to be
Queen of the Furrow is an excellent
example of one of those
opportunities and that being a part of
the plowmen, just like any
community, is something both her
and her family strive to do.
“My family has been behind me in
everything I’ve done and they were
behind me in running for Queen,”she said. “The are very involved inthe community, be it 4-H or JuniorFarmers and this is another avenue
through which we can participate in
the community.”
That community participation and
her volunteer experience really
helped Bishop along the way to
becoming Queen, she said.
“The community members I’ve
known through working and
volunteering definitely helped me
and pushed me along,” she said.
“There will always be a lot of
support behind me through that.”
While the approach to the Huron
County Plowing Match was one full
of preparation for Bishop, a lot of
the experiences she will remember
were on the day of the competition.
“Basically, it was a great day,” she
said. “The competitors started off
the day with our individual
interviews and after lunch we did
our speeches and improv speeches
and our plowing. Then we finished
off the day with a barbecue and the
awards.”
Bishop ran against six other
competitors who she felt would all
be equally suited to represent the
plowmen and the county.
“The other girls really gave me a
run for my money,” she said. “Any
one of us could represent the
county.”
Bishop’s speech focused on the
opportunities for youth in the county
and the difference that coming from
a caring community can make. Her
improv speech focused on baler
twine and she felt confident about
that.
“When I had my hand in the bag
and I felt the twine I knew I could
probably come up with some stories
about it,” she said. “It wasn’t too
difficult because I came from a farm
and it’s a thing we use daily. I could
really relate to it and I told storiesabout my sisters and I and how weuse it and work together.”Aside from her family and
community, Bishop said thanks
definitely need to be given to John
Urquhart, her plowing coach, the
judges, Marie McGavin and Joan
Vincent for putting on the
competition and the Huron CountyPlowmen’s Association.While only her second timeplowing, Bishop said she had fun.
“The plowing was good,” she said.
“Despite it being the second time in
my entire life, I had good coaches
and I just had to sit on the tractor and
drive.”
Bishop of RR2 Bluevale named match queen
A pair of Queens
Kayla Bishop, left, was one of seven competitors to vie for
the Queen of the Furrow title during the Huron County
Plowing Match held just outside of Walton last Friday.
Bishop won out over her competition to be crowned by the
2011-2012 Queen Samantha Klaver, right. (Denny Scott photo)
Putting her skills to work
Kayla Bishop put her plowing skills to work on Friday as
part of the Huron County Plowing Match’s annual Queen of
the Furrow competition. Bishop would eventually come out
on top and claim the crown Friday night. (Denny Scott photo)
An Evening with Douglas Gibson
… and Many Famous Canadian
Authors will launch the Alice Munro
Writers and Readers Festival on
stage with Stories about Storytelling
by Douglas Gibson at Blyth
Memorial Community Hall on Sept.
28 at 8 p.m. Spotlighting an
extraordinary career, this lively
performance, based on Gibson’s
autobiography, reviews the author’s
accomplishments working—and
playing—alongside some of
Canada’s greatest writers.
These humorous chronicles relate
the projects he brainstormed for
writer Barry Broadfoot, how he
convinced eventual Nobel Prize
contender Alice Munro to keep
writing short stories, his early
morning phone call from a former
Prime Minister, and his recollection
of yanking a manuscript right out of
Alistair MacLeod’s own reluctant
hands—which ultimately garnered
MacLeod one of the world’s most
prestigious prizes for fiction.
Insightful and entertaining, this
collection of tales provides an inside
Gibson to kick off
Munro festival
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
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