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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1993-09-08, Page 37Best Wishes Threshers & Friends Don & Cathy Dunbar & Family and Paul & Karen Cook & Family Home, Farm & Commercial Wiring "No Job Too Small" DUNBAR & COOK ELECTRIC LTD• Don Paul 526-7505 357-1537 THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1993. PAGE A-17. Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion 1993 Just like Grandpa These youths are learning a little about the way their grandparents lived and travelled at the Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association Reunion. Area school children visit the displays on the first day of the event and participate in many special activities. Welcome to the 32nd Annual Thresher Reunion At Manning's you'll find: •LUMBER •CEMENT •PAINT •PLYWOOD •TOOLS Everything you need at prices you can afford Check out our sports corner too! A Deere family The Courtneys get revved up when talking about their collection of John Deere tractors. Brett, Michael, Nicholas, Dad Gary and Elisha proudly display the machines in front of the family business, Manning's Building Supplies. MANNING'S BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD. 120 Hamilton, St., Blyth 523-9305 Proprietor - Gary Courtney Full of beans For over a decade Ray Scotchmer from the Huron County Museum, with help from the Friends of the Museum has cooked up a kettle full of beans for visitors to the Reunion to enjoy. Baked beans aroma attracts large crowd continued from A-16 tomato juice, three bottles of ketchup, three kilograms of sugar, three pounds of butter and salt and pepper and garlic to taste. The work begins at 6 a.m. in order for the beans to be ready by noon. Mr. Scotchmer says that he has cooked the pork hocks the evening before so they will be ready for the early morning call. Everything is cooked in a 50 gallon cast iron kettle over an open fire. A small pot was used previously, Mr. Scotchmer says, until one year when it took just three- quarters of an hour for the hungry visitors to empty it. By noon the aroma has attracted a crowd, ready to sample the fare. "We serve the beans in a cup and when the first one is served it doesn't take long for the word to get around and then there's a line-up," says Mr. Scotchmer.