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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-09-09, Page 19THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEP! EMBER 9, 1987. PAGE 19. West Wawanosh girt crowned Furrow Queen Audrey Bos of RR 3, Auburn, was crowned Queen of the Furrow at the Huron County Plowing Match on Friday, while Jane Anderson of RR 1, Londesboro was named runner-up. The match was held at Ontario Minister of Agriculture Jack Riddell’s farm near Exeter, where large crowds saw several important trophies taken home to north Huron. Miss Bos will take up the duties of Queen of the Furrow immediately following the International Plowing Match September 15 -19, and will represent Huron at the IPM in 1988. Walton's McGavin brothers capture senior, junior championships It has been said that the sun always shines on Ontario’s Mini­ ster of Agriculture, and last Friday’s beautiful late-summer weather was no exception, as Huron MPP Jack Riddell hosted the annual Huron County Plowing Match at his farm near Exeter. The full day of activities saw all the major prizes coming to the northern part of the county, as once again competitors from the area put on an excellent showing in terms of both participation and skill. Sixty-nine lands were plowed in the course of the competition, with 40-45 plowmen trying their skills in up to two classes each, many of them from The Citizen’s readership area, according to Graeme Craig of RR 1, Walton, secretary-treasurer of the Huron County Plowmens’ Association. The McGavin brothers of RR 4, Walton, sons of Neil and Marie McGavin, sweptthe plowmen’s awards, with Brian McGavin tak­ ing the Senior Championship in the face of stiff competition, and Jeff McGavin capturing the Junior Championship trophy. Both young men will go on to compete at the International Plowing Match in Grey County on September 15-19, where both are familiar figures. In 1986, Jeff McGavin won the Reserve Junior Championship at the IPM, and will compete this year for one of two $2,500 scholarships awarded to the two top junior contestants who have not previous­ ly won the award, Brian McGavin won the scholarship award with a junior win in 1984. PaulDoddsofRR 1, Seaforth, the winner of the Junior Champion Tractor Plowman trophy at the 1986 IPM, won the Reserve Championship at the Huron match on Friday, while Leanne Whitmore of RR 1, Walton, was the Junior Reserve champion. Neil Williamson of RR 1, Walton, placed first in the Round- the-field plowing class; with Paul MurrayofRR 1, Dublin, placing second in the same class. Other local competitors included Dennis A West Wawanosh 18-year-old with a sparkling personality and a newly-acquired skill in two-furrow plowing, who also just happens to be a beautiful blue-eyed blonde, has been named as the 1987-88 Huron County Queen of the Furrow. Audrey Bos ofRR3, Auburn, daughter of dairy farmers John and Gcrrie Bos, was crowned Friday at the annual Huron County Plowing Match, held thisyearat Ontario Minister of Agriculture Jack Rid­ dell’s farm near Exeter. She will act as goodwill ambassador for the Huron County Plowmen’s Associa­ tion over the next year, and will represent her county at the International Plowing Match in Perth County next September. Jane Anderson, daughter of Eric and Marjorie Anderson of RR 1, Londesboro, was named runner- up in the closely-fought contest, and will take on the duties of Queen of the Furrow if Miss Bos should be unable to continue for any reason. Other competitors were Donna Johnston of RR 2, Bluevale; Lana Jones of RR 4, Clinton; Laurie Pentland of RR 6, Goderich; and Diane Hamilton of RR 3, Exeter. Miss Bos was a latecomer to the contest, recruited by Marie Mc- Gavinof RR4, Walton, chairman of the Queen of the Furrow competi­ tion, only nine days before the event took place. She said that she had considered running in the Huron County Dairy Princess competition next month, but had never even considered the plowing match contest because she had never had anything much to do with machinery. “I’ve always been more inter­ ested in animals than in machinery - my brothers were always there to help Dad with the plowing,” she said. “But Marie can be pretty persuasive, and I thought it might be kind of fun.” Miss Bos had an excellent plowing coach in Pete Hallahan of RR 1, Belgrave, first vice-presi­ dent of the Huron County Plow­ man’s Association which sponsors the county match. She met with Mr. Hallahan last Wednesday to practice her plowing for the first time, and was in contact with him throughout the actual competition on Friday, which requires thateach contestant be judged on her plowing ability as a percentage of her overall mark. “It was easy once I got going,” she said, “But I could never have done it without Pete’s help.” Miss Anderson had never plow­ Hallahan of RR 1, Belgrave; Paul and Brian Fear of RR 5, Brussels; and Paul, Mike, Jim and Joanne Pentland, all of the Auburn area. In addition, Audrey Bos of RR 3, Auburn, was chosen as the 1987-88 Huron County Queen of the Furrow, while Jane Anderson of RR 1, Londesboro was named as runner-up. Miss Bos will take over the duties of Huron’s present Queen of the Furrow, Sandra Hunt of RR 4, Walton, following the competition of next week’s Inter­ national Plowing Match, and will represent the county at the 1988 IPM. Correction In a story on Huron county Dairy Princess last week The Citizen erroneously said she was the first Huron county representative to go to the semi-finals at the CNE in all the years the competition had been held. One princess, Mrs. Doreen Taylor made it to the finals and two others made it to the semi-finals. ed before, either, but enjoyed it so much after being coached by Jeff McGavin of RR 4, Walton, who later that day won the Junior Plowman Championship, that she said ‘Ifigure I’ll be helping my Dad out from now on-it’snotas hard to do as I thought!” Neither girl had ever entered a competition of this kind before, although both have had a lot of experience in being before the public. Miss Bos has been a competitor in the Hallrice 4-H Dairy Calf club since she was 12, was the president of her club last year and is the vice-president this year. She also competed at the Hays Classic at the Royal Winter Fair last fall, but doesn’t feel that her show calf this year, which she describes as “a terror on legs, ’ ’ will get much beyond its first show at the Brussels Fall Fair. Miss Bos is also the incoming president of the Young People’s Society of the Blyth Christian Reformed Church, and takes a very active part in church affairs. She has worked for the past two MOE lays charges in Hullett manure spill The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has charged two men after liquid pig manure was spilled into a ditch which leads to a municipal drain, following a mini­ stry investigation in to events of November 16 and 20, 1986, when liquid manure was improperly spread on farm property in Hullett Township. Wayne J. Colclough of RR 1, Londesboro and his employee, Raymond J. 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Miss Anderson has also been in 4-H over the past few years, but has given it up in the face of other commitments. She too is entering Grade 13, at Seaforth District High School, from which she hopes to enter St. Clair College in Windsor as a teacher of deaf children. She plays ball for Winthrop-Midgets, and is the incoming president of the Seaforth Girls Marching Band, with which she has played for the past seven years, travelling with them to such places as Florida, South Carolina, and to the Grey Cup parade in Toronto. Miss Anderson worked for the past summer as a live-in nanny for afamilyatGrandBend.andwill work part-time this winter as a gas pump attendant at Rowe Fuels in Seaforth. Drainage Act. The maximum fine for each charge is $5,000. A first court date has been set for October 5, at Goderich Provincial Offences Court. The investigation continues into a similar manure spill in Hullett in late July which killed thousands of small fish and polluted a series of several interlocking ponds on the property of Dave and Marie Middleton of RR 1, Londesboro. Following a recent motion by Hullett reeve Tom Cunningham, Huron County Council has passed a motion calling for the tightening up of manure storage legislation.