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THE PLOWING MATCH SUPPLEMENT — 13
More for wOmen. this year at .IPM
If anyone thinks the
International Plowing Match
is just for farm men who like
to look over new machinery,
see demonstrations and
spend a day away from the
farm, there is a lot more to it
than that.
A lot of activities, displays
and competitions have been
organized to keep women
busy, ladies' program com-
mittee chairperson Carol
Armstrong, of R.R.4, Wing-
ham, said recently. In fact,
the committee will probably
have the largest covered area
in the entire 87-acre tented
city.
The ladies' program,
which will include numerous
activities And displays of
interest to men, will be held
in two 50 by 100 foot tents
and a building of the same
size.
The building will house 40
to 50 crafts people who will
display their wares, and will
feature quilts made by Huron
County residents competing
in the plowing match quilting
contest. '
One of the big tents will be
set aside for fashion shows,
with a seating capacity of 500
to 600, Mrs. Armstrong said.
Men's, women's and
children's fashions from.
clothing stores throughout
Huron County and even
outside the county will be
featured. •
The tent will house cook-
ing demonstrations by mar-
keting boards, and hair-
styling workshops and an
afternoon exercise class.
The other tent contains
horticultural exhibits and
seminars on care of cacti,
tropical plants, showing
dried flowers and live
flowers and many other
topics of interest to all
gardeners.
It will be the first time the
'ply' ladies' program
committee has had a horti-
cultural tent, Mrs. Arm-
strong says. Horticultural
displays were incorporated
with other displays in years
gone by, cshe said.
District 8 of the Ontario
Horicultural Society will have
about a quarter of the large
tent for its displays, while
the remaining space will be
for shows by groups which
participate in the seminars.
Programs will be running
continuously in the horti-
cultural area, and the pro-
posals are already getting so
well accepted that committee
members are getting "quite
pycifeci abotitthis''.
The committee started
planning the ladies' program
just after IPM '76 in Bruce
County at Walkerton ,
Armstrong said. She was
approached to chair the
committee before the 1976
match and watched that area
of the Bruce match with
great interest.
In October 1976, the
committee, made up of Joan
Campbell, Seaforth; Dorothy
Coultes, Belgrave; Shirley
McAllister. Zurich; Betty
Cardiff, Brussels; .and Susan
Wheatly, Seaforth, met.
Thirty thousand prdgrams
for ladies' program Activities
will be printed, Mrs. Arm-
strong said, but this may not
take care of all the visitors to
the exhibits.
The committee expects
"half of the people who come
to the plowing match to come
through our area", Mrs.
Armstrong said. About
250,000 are expected at the
Sept, 26 to 30 match,
Anyone who has gone
through the ladies' exhibits
in past plowing matches and
thinks this one will be the
same, is in for a surprise,
Mrs. Armstrong said,
because "each year the
whole thing is different".
One of the things that fall
under the Committee's juris-
diction is the ordering and
sales Of IPM '78 souvenirs.
The committee has plowing
match charms, pens, mugs,
trays, frisbees and T-shirts.
It won't just be committee
members staffing the three
main areas of 'ladies'
program activity, Mrs. Arm-
strong said. Women's Insti-
tute groups will provide
about .12 helpers each day
and there will be • scores of
volunteers helping to provide
information and enjoyment
for the 125,000 expected at
the ladies' exhibits.,
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Minister of Agriculture Bill Newman celebrates
plowing the 'first furrows at the International
Plowing Match site on Jim Armstrongs farm
south of Wingham, by shaking hands with IPM
chairman Howard Datars.
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