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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-10-11, Page 27Times -Advocate, October 11. 1989 Page 27. Politicians plow - Biddulph township reeve Earl French gets some unsolicited help from Middlesex Plowing help - Clare Paton of Lucan gives some assistance to Scott -Douglas at Saturday's Middlesex MPP Doug Reycraft and provincial director Fred Lewis during Saturday's Middlesex county plowing county plowing match. match. Reycraft was the winner in the V.I.P. class. Area pitchers - Leland Desjardine of Grand Bend and Bob Dale of Ilderton participated in the horseshoe pitching competition at Sat- urday's Middlesex county plowing match. Plow Queen contestants - Lori Sanders and Jennifer Kilbourne were the two contestants for the Queen of the Furrow title at Sat- urday's Middlesex county plowing match. The winner will be de- clared at the annual awards banquet to be held October 20 in Delaware. CO.OP Middlesex KERWOOD - Despite cool and wet weather, the annual Middlesex county plowing match held Satur- day on the Kerwood area farm of Robert Dodge was successful. The V.I.P. class drew nine enthu- siastic contestants. The winner was Middlesex MPP Doug• Reycraft. Taking part from the northerly re- gion of the county were Biddulph township reeve Earl Frenc nd Fred Lewis of London townghip who is a provincial plowing asso- ciationdirector. Two contestants in the running for the Queen of the Furrow title completed their plowing require- ments. They will be. interviewed and present their speeches and a winner will be decided at the annual AIDS Awareness Week October 16-22 CLINTON - October 16-22, 1989 is AIDS Awareness Week in Ontario. Residents of Huron County will have an opportunity to learn the latest status of this disease at a community information night Thursday, October 19, 1989, 8 p.m. at Huronview Auditorium, Clinton. Entitled AIDS: A Community Concern, the information night will feature videos, speakers, a book display and poster contest. Youth in Huron County are en- couraged to enter the poster contest by designing a poster to increase AIDS awareness. Entries may be submitted to any Huron County Health Unit office or Woman To- day. Winning posters will be for- warded to Toronto for use on World AIDS Day, December 1, 1989. It is estimated that if AIDS con- tinues to spread at the current rate, everyone will eventually know of someone who is affected by this disease. Our only defense against AIDS remains education as there is still no vaccine or cure. The community information night is co-sponsored by the Huron County Health Unit and Women Today. CUSTOM APPLICATION Sound ECONOMICS AND AGRONOMICS Say For Fall PLOWDOWN OF PHOSPHATE AND POTASH r SW' y IE /w A r .14 Application Equipment For BOTH DRY AND FLUID FERTILIZERS AVAILABLE For a custom application job you can count on... Call us today Hensall District Co-operative Inc. "Farmers working together for over 50 years" Hensall 2623002 1-800-265-5190 Seaforth 517-0770 (Store) 517-0200 (fertilizer) Zurich 2364393 • hosts successful plowing match awards banquet to be held Friday, October 20 in Delaware. The Queen contestants are Lori Sanders of Kerwood and Jennifer Kilbourne of Mt. Brydges. Last year's Middlesex Queen of the Furrow Kelly Giesen was sec- ond in the recent International plowing match held in Essex coun- ty. ounty - In the horseshoe pitching compe- tition the winners were Roger Christie from Ilderton and George Coughlin of London. Winnng prizes in plowi,ng at the International were Doug Duffin and Ron Abbott of Thorndale and Clare Paton of Lucan. In Saturday's local plowing, James Richmond of Newberry won in the plowing with horses and the garden tractor winner was Kevin Gervais of Dresden. Jim Paton of Lucan won in the two and three furrows class over 25 years of age. 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