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WALTER 11NISULA 20 Nelson St., Exeter 03y, water tower) 235-1088 i
4.,'otto is to bu
future rural 1e•d..ers
*from page 14 •
this day: "To build future rural
leaders through self help and
community, betterment." •
Johnston, a member of The
Listowel club for the past seven
years, notes that the organiza-
tion has been gearing up for
• their 75th anniversary celebra-
tion
elebration for quite some time, and
now two days have been set.
aside (Aug. 2. and 3) for a
reunion banquet, dance and
open house at the Stratford.
Coliseum.
Ironically, the
Stratford . Junior
Farmers' is the only
club which has
operated the entire
75 years in Perth,
something not.
often seen for club.
based in an urban
centre, At that time,
1922, there were two clubs—
a junior farmers for boys, and a
junior institute for. the young
ladies,
At one tinie. in Perth's hist°-
. ry, : there were nine different
clubs—St. Marys. (1948-65),
Shakespeare (1930-1939),
North Easthope (1953-1984),
Staffa (1929-1945),Mitchell
(1948-1991) and Milverton
(1961-1964 and 1980-1993)—
to coincide' with .the existing.
three. •
ListoWel's ::club has :been
around the: second -longest, from.
.19.49 to tho•preserit, while South
Perth is, the relativenew kid ,on,
the block; beginning in .1984.
Stratford Club President
Dave McKay, of RR 1 'Mitchell,.
has :beeninvolved with junior
farmers for the past• six years•,
and enjoys it thorAghly, He
said he was pulled out to, a
church service. by a member,
but he admits .his decision was
partly to meet a girl he knew
would be attending.
"After 1 got there,. I said `hey,.
this is kind of fun,'" he said..
"You get to meet a lot of differ-
ent people and:learn a lot, too."
Although the Huron County
Junior Farmers'have folde.d,.
Members from Perth and other'
clubs in the area, including
. Bruce. and Grey,, attend the
,many social functions
each group stages
throughout the year.
Perth belongs to
zone 7 of the
Ontario: Junior
Farmers
Association with.
Bruce and. Grey coun-
• ties, but junior farmers
routinely travel- to
Wellington, Middlesex and
:Oxford for events.
Johnston jokes that the- junior
farmers have picked up the
nickname of .a• "marriage
bureau" within the ranks, .and
she knows of "whatshe ,speaks
because`. seven junior farnner
weddings are planned. for this
year in Perth County alone. .
Aninteresting-fact, though, is
that . approximately half of the
• members of the ':organization
across the province don't. • come
from the farm, Johnston says.
"It's becoming less. and less"
as . a farm base," she : said,
although she admits'Ithat that is
not the case in Perth as of yet
:Anyone is welcome to come
out to any junior ; farmer func-
tion, as well ,as ,,loin one of the,
clubs in the county,... '
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