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Family members work together on committee
THE CAMPING BOSSES
Since getting the new computer program, the role of camping chairperson has
become considerably easier for Chris Courtney. Her crew also gets a helping hand
this year from her husband Gary, the Association’s past president.
Gary, who began coming to the Reunion some
20 years ago, served three years as director,
two as second vice, two as first vice and just
completed two as president. “Those years
were an experience, challenging, fun, but a lot
of work. I also got to meet some really nice *
people," he says.
His wife Chris’s association with the
Reunion began in 1967. “It started with my
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
in Blyth
sense of
familial,
Talking to the executive members and com
mittee people who plan and prepare the annu
al Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion
each September, one quickly gets a
family.
That there is a camaraderie more
than familiar may not be so surprising, howev
er. Throughout the history of the event, organ
izers and directors often share the same name.
Brothers, uncles, husbands, wives, siblings
and children have been attracted not just to the
show, but to the team that puts the huge event
together year after year.
One such family is the Courtneys of Blyth.
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eating candy floss," she says of her childhood
visits to the show. “And 1 haven't missed one
since.”
Gary remembers in 1970 he, along with
three other apprentice carpenters at
Manning's, a business he now owns, were
given the opportunity of working on the
Saturday of the Reunion or attending it with
full pay. “We all voted to work. Now many
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