The Rural Voice, 1999-07, Page 53People
Auburn man wins Youth Dairy Award
Family support makes the
difference, the recent winner of the
Ontario Youth Dairy Award says.
"Believe me, I'm not the best in
Huron or Western Ontario," Larry
Baer, 34, of Auburn told the Goderich
Signal -Star. "I would never tell people
I'm the best. I'm just fortunate to have
enough support from my family to
apply for this award and to be able to
take the time off for the five or six-
day trip which was the prize."
As winner of the award, given by
Ontario Holstein Branch to farmers
aged 25-35, Baer will get an all -
expense -paid trip to the World Dairy
Expo in Madison, Wisconsin this fall.
He farms with his wife Julie in
partnership with his parents Ron and
Marlene Baer on a combined dairy
and poultry operation in Colborne
Twp. He says his partnership with his
parents allowed him to even
contemplate the trip to the World
Dairy Expo. Julie's off -farm job as a
registered nurse, he said, provided the
daily living expenses so they could
plow the farm's earnings back into
the operation.
The award recognizes community
involvement as well as farm work.
Baer was a 4-H leader for four years
and has been involved with the Huron
Holstein Club, including a term as its
youngest president.
During his trip to the World Dairy
Expo he wants to tell American
farmers the importance of supply
management to a successful dairy
industry in Canada.0
`Bud' Fritz honoured for 50 years
contribution to harness racing
Walkerton horseman William A.
"Bud" Fritz was honoured at Hanover
Raceway in May for his 50 years
contribution to the harness racing
industry.
Grey -Bruce MPP Bill Murdoch
was on hand to present Fritz with a
special scroll and a gift from the
Ontario Harness Horsemen's
Association.
A special part of the ceremony was
the return of the 12 -year-old stallion
Apaches Fame to be driven one more
time around the track by Fritz. The
horse, driven and trained by Fritz, was
voted the best horse in the Ontario
Sires Stakes program in the past 25
years. Now standing at stud and
producing top-ranked colts including
world champion filly Oldies Fame,
Apaches Fame had $1.8 million in
earnings during his racing career.
Winning the North America Cup
with Apaches Fame was the highlight
of Fritz's career which began when he
entered his first race at 14 years of age.
Between 1964 and May 17, 1999 he
had 1,890 wins and $9 million in
purses. He won the 1986 Canadian
Trotting Association Horseman of the
Year award, the 1990 Ontario Jockey
Club Horseman of the Year award and
three O'Brien awards — 1989 and
1990 Horseman of the Year awards
and 1990 Trainer of the Year award.
Fritz and his wife Ethel have nine
children, seven of whom are actively
involved in harness racing.0
Sue Selves
Ontario's
Outstanding
Junior Farmer
Perth County's Sue Selves didn't
even know she was nominated for the
Outstanding Junior Farmer award
when she attended the Junior Farmer
Association of Ontario provincial
awards banquet in Collingwood earlier
this spring, so she was surprised when
she won the award.
Selves, 26, had been involved in
Junior Farmers for close to nine years
and has been provincial director for
Perth County for the past two years.
Selves says she learned leadership
skills and self-confidence in her eight
years of membership as well as
making some life-long friendships.
Selves was also winner of the
Outstanding Member Award for Perth
County.0
New family run
former Vines turkey
products plant
Eldon and Ruth Vines, featured
in The Rural Voice last fall, sold their
turkey processing and retail business
near Listowel this spring.
Lena and Mark Finnimore and
Brad, Allan and Dianne Royce now
operate the business under the name
Countryside Poultry Products Ltd.
"We're using Mrs. Vines' recipes,
family recipes, and our own
favourites," said Brad Royce "and
we're lucky to have the help of the
same people who made the pies and
rolls for Mr. and Mrs. Vines.
Loyal Vines' customers travel
from as far as Port Elgin, London
and Toronto to stock up on products
such as turkey sausage and kolbassa,
smoked turkey, marinated turkey,
turkey pies and the Vines' famous
turkey roll.
The new owners have also added
a new line of chicken products
including whole fresh and frozen
chicken, marinated wings and
breasts and fresh thighs and breasts.
All the chicken comes from Farm
Fresh Poultry in Harriston (a prod-
ucer -owned packing plant featured in
a Rural Voice article in January
1998). The chicken is air -chilled for
best weight and flavour retention.0
Clinton 4 -Her wins
showperson award
Thomas Deuschle of Clinton won
both the senior showmanship and the
champion showperson awards in the
open 4-H competition at the Clinton
Spring Fair in June. Twenty-eight
entrants came from as far as London,
Forest and Paris to take part.
Jim Doan of Aylmer won the
junior showmanship division. The
competition drew three dairy breeds:
12 Jerseys, 10 Holsteins and six
Brown Swiss.
In the open Jersey show, Paul and
Lorraine Franken had both the
grand champion cow and junior
champion. Norval McConnell of
Kincardine had the champion junior
and senior females in the Brown
Swiss show.0