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McGavin wins rural volunteer award
from the University of Guelph
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Staff
Volunteerism runs in the
family for Walton -area
farmer and farm machinery
dealer Neil McGavin,
winner of the 2001 Agri -
Food and Rural
Communities Volunteer
Recognition Award from the
University of Guelph.
"It's kind of bred into us.
We inherited it," he says,
reminiscing about his dad
Gordon keeping the Huron
County plowing match alive
as president of the
plowman's association
during the years of the
Second World War.
"Some thought the
plowing match would die
but the 1946 Victory Match
(of thc International Plowing
Match) was a great success
at Port Alpert. I was just
nine but I remember the
threshing machines and
using the hangars at the Port
Alpert air base," he says.
McGavin's award
recognizes the 20 years he's
spent as director of the
Ontario Plowmen's
Association (which
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Neil McGavin
nominated him for the
award) and his year as
president for the 2000
International Plowing Match
in Wellington County.
"There he demonstrated
his leadership skills in
organizing over 1,000
volunteers
representatives
from 52
plowing
associations
into a group
that showcased
Ontario
agriculture to
rural and urban
people alike,"
says the plaque
he received.
It also
recognizes the
committees he
served on
during the
1999 IPM in
Huron County
and the many
f arm
organizations
from 4-H to
agricultural
societies he's
served on over
the years.
"I'm proud of Huron
County and all it offers.
That's part of the reason I
volunteer. I want to show
the county off," he says.
"If ever there is a county
and
to represent, Huron is the
best to do with rural life.
There are no cities to take
the thrust away and the
closer you get to the cities,
the more the volunteers want
to be paid," he says.
McGavin supports the
recent move to change the
name of the
International
Plowing
Match to
Rural Expo.
"The new
name will
attract more
city people
and then
they will
appreciate
how cheap
they're
getting their
food," he
says.
As a farmer
a n d
machinery
dealer.
McGavin
has served as
president of
the Ontario
Retail Farm
Equipment
Dealers Association and
hosted machine
demonstrations and farmer
information days with his
business McGavin Farm
Equipment.
Quoted
'I'm proud of
Huron County
and all it offers.
That's part of
the reason I
volunteer. i
want to show
the county off,' -
Noll McGavin, winner
.of a 2001 Agri -Food
and Rural
Communities
Volunteer Recognition
Award
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"I'm lucky that the boys
(his sons) run the business
these days so lean get away
to meetings and volunteer."
he says.
The award also recognizes
McGavin's participation in
his church. his lodge. the
Lion's Club and the curling
club, his fundraising in 1996
and 1997 for the University
of Guelph (where he
graduated in 1957 from the
two-year diploma in
agriculture program) and his
winning thc Citizen of the
Year award in Brussels in
1998.
It also lists his
involvement in the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture.
the Christian Farmers of
Ontario, the innovative
Farmers of Ontario. Ontario
Woodlot Association. Junior
Farmers and 4-H.
"Neil promotes agriculture
and rural living through hard
work and enthusiasm among
his business and personal
contacts. locally and
province -wide. His vibrant
spirit is contagious for
young and old alike." says
the plaque.
But, while McGavin loves
to volunteer. he says he's
concerned about the
decreasing number of people
who take the time to get
involved in their
communities.
"Volunteers do get burnt
out and it's getting to he a
problem that the same
people do the work in every
organization." he says.
McGavin says people are
living at a faster pace with
more emphasis on money
than in previous generations.
"Life is all so money -
driven now and people are
more selfish or busy than
they used to he. Older
people used to he happy if
they had enough to eat but
now people spend their lives
trying to keep up with the
Joneses. Then. they find out
they're the Joneses
everyone's trying to keep up
with," he says.
Watch next week for the
story of Florence Pullman.
another local re'c-ipient of
1he2001 Agri -Food and
Rural Coruurunitie.c
Volunteer Recognition
Award from the University
of Guelph.
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