HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-07-19, Page 6Page 6 Lueknow Sentinel,, Wednesday, July 19, 1978
"His Own Boss" 'opened last week at the Blyth Summer ; estival. A comedy about a man
who inherits his uncle's cheese factory and returns to a sm town to run his own business,
the play was written by Keith,Roulston, Blyth, formerly of 'ucknow. This is the second play
Roulston has had produced at the Blyth Centre for the Arts.' Last year his "Shortest Distance
Between Two Points" had the audience rolling in the aisles.
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It takes a iot of land
to host a Ploughing Match
BY HENRY HESS
How much land does it take to stage an
International" Plowing Match? one hundred
acres? Two hundred? Five hundred?
If you guessed any of the above you weren't
even close. Land committee chairman Barry
Mulvey, the man charged with making sure
the match won't be cramped for space,
already has 1,100 acres lined up for use and
he's still looking foy a little more.
Now that figure might be a trifle deceiving
since few people but the land chairman and
his committee members will. ever see all the
land set aside, for the match, but it does give
some idea of the scale of the event.
In addition to the parking areas and tented
city, all many visitors will see, land is required
for equipment demonstrations, for a trailer
park, for reserve in case of bad weather and,
of course, for the plowing competition that
gives the match its name.
Of, the total about 200 acres will be devoted
to providing parking for exhibitors and
visitors. According to the guideline -used by
the Ontario Plowmen's Association about 100
cars can be parked on one acre, Mr. Mulvey
explained, so this will provide space for up to
20,000 vehicles.
It sounds like a lot but it might easily be
needed if the anticipated end -of -week rush
materializes. Saturday, the last day, has
traditionally had the largest attendance and
that will probably hold true this year too, he
said, so they are trying to be prepared.
However he noted attempts are being made to
'attract more visitors early in the week to
spread things out a bit.
Two hundred thousand visitors showed up
for the match at Walkerton two years ago, Mr.
Mulvey reported. "Maybe we're shooting a
little high, but we expect 250,000." He said
the fact that last year's match in Frontenac
County near Kingston was `,`a washout"
should help attendance this year. Many
people who stayed home last year becauseof
the wet weather will make an extra effort to
get to this match.
He reported that when he attended the pork
congress in Stratford recently, "everyone I
talked to said they were coming".
About 350 acres are set aside for the
ployving competition. Since the land right
around the tented city isn't suitable for the
plowing events the committee has had to go a
bit further afield, he said, though everything
is still in the general area of the Jim
Armstrong farm. Wagon tours will run out tp
the outlying areas.
The tented city itself will occupy in the
neighbourhood of 100 acres and a further 200
acres are being reserved for equipment
demonstrations by large machinery manufac-
turers. These demonstrations are a new thing
this year and so the committee doesn't know
exactly how much• land will be required, Mr.
Mulvey said, but it is trying to make sure
there will be plenty.
Other parcels of land will be devoted to a
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Kinloss
Council
Council met on July 4th
with the reeve and all council
present.
The ,resignationof David ...._ ..........
MacKinnon as grader was
accepted and advertisements
are to be placed in local
papers for a replacement
employee. Applications are
to be in the road superin-
tendent's office by 5 p.m.
July 24th.
Application is 'to be made
to the M.T.C. for supple-
mentary grant for the emer-
gency repair on the D600
'rader. A steel sleeve split in
he final drive.
First and second reading
were given to by-law 8-1978
to provide for drainage work
for the Guest drain at
Kinlough.
Medway Civil Engineering
was appointed to prepare a
survey plan and report on the
McLeod Municipal. Drain.
General accounts for
$4,399.83 and highway's for
$14,641.31 were ordered
paid. .
At a special meeting on
June 19th council agreed to
allow Kinloss Township ex-
tension of Havelock Street to
be temporarily closed on
Saturday, July 22nd from
10.00 a.m, to 8.00 p.m. and
on Sunday from 10.00 a.m. to
6 p.m. to facilitate the tractor
pull on those date. The
roadway must be kept clear
for emergency use.
By-law 7-1978 was passed
to set the various rates
pertaining to the collection of
taxes for local, county and
education expenditure.
The waste disposal site is
to be open on Tuesdays from
4.30 to 7.30 p.m. and on
Saturday from 9.00 a.m. to
,00 p.m. during the months
lof July, August and Sept-
ember.
The application of Claude
Dore was approved for a
zoning change from A-1
agricultural to 14-3 extrac-
tive, The South Bruce Plan-
ning Board, is to make the
necessary zoning by, -law
change.
The application by Weir
Eckenswiller for a tile drain-
age loan was .also aceepted.