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Times -Advocate, -August 31, 1988
Competiti�n keen in Middlesex -plow match
LOBO - Ideal Weather. condition.,
and more than 250 spc iators
watched keen competition to -the an-
. nual Middlesex County plowing
match, Saturday.
le w 's held an the Donald
'McLean faun on Concession 8 of
Litho toWnship with president :Wil -
Gam McLean of Glencoe in charge. fain the crown 'she won during the
Kelly-Giesen of Denfield was the 1987 match. ,
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only candidate in the -Queen of the In the plowing class. for V.I.P's ,
Furrow competition and she, will re- the winner was Fred Lewis of Lon-
don township who is a director on
• -4116 the Ontario Plowmen's Associa-
tion.
Doug Skinner of Strathroy won
DISCUSS PLOWING SKILLS - Prior lo Saturday's VIP class at the -Middlesex plowing .match, Middlesex war
_den Richard Bolton,.Jack Dorman of McGillivray township, McGillivray reeve Charlie Corbett and provincial direc-
tor Fred Lewis talk -about theirchances. Lewis was the winner. -
Middlesex
plowmen
practice for
International
HENSALL
the garden tractor section with Mike
Brown of Ilderton as runnerup.
Veteran competitor Clare Paton
of Lucan won the tractor open split
• with two or more furrows and his
son Jim was best in the antique
equipment divisi Equipment
used in this class N be•40 or
-more years old.
- In competition .for Middlesex
county residents only, with two or
farce furrows Darcy Duffin was best
for those aged between 18 and 25
years and Ron Abbott of Thorndale
won in the over 25,years section.
Doug Duffin was second and Floyd
Wills was third..
Duane Maier of Lucan won the
tractor utility class for Middlesex
residents not over 25 years and the
high school student category was
won by David Wonnacott of Arva.
The ladies open title went to
Bobbi -Jo Stafford of Port Stanley
while David Johnson of Thorndale
was tops. in the novice class for
first time contestapts who•reside in
Middlesex county.
The conservation tillage class
sponsored by the Middlesex Soil
and Crop Improvement Association
was won by Louie Borszcz of'
Strathroy.
The annaul awards banquet of the
Middlesex Plowmen's Association
will be held Friday evening, Octo-
ber 21 at the Delaware .Community
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'_, -READY FOR A WIN Clare Paton of tucan gets some plowing tips trorl
director Hubert Dietrich prior to -Saturday's Middlesex county plowing
match. Paton went on to win the open tractor class. •
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winning the antique equipment class in S'aturday's Middlesex county plow-
ing match.
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