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DASHWOOD —. The pride of Huron
County showed itself to Ontario and beyond
last week at the International Plowing
Match and Farm Machinery Show near
Dashwood.
For five days, thousands of people
descended on the farms of Earl, Linda and
Michael Becker and their neighbours to see
a first-class exhibition of plowing skills,
farm equipment, exhibits, displays and
entertainment.
Perfect weather, an ideal site and a well-
run event attracted a multitude of visitors.
Preliminary estimates of 170,000 visitors
are based on traffic counts and final atten-
dance figures from ticket sales are expected
in the next few weeks.
During Saturday's closing ceremonies,
Chairperson Graeme Craig of Walton called
last week's IPM "the sunny match." The
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event enjoyed five days of sunshine and
moderate temperatures with an early
Friday rain settling the dust.
Craig said the ease of visitors getting to
the match, the great exhibitor show, high
quality entertainment, the trailer park and
the plowing made the event a success.
It was easy to forget the 100 -acre Tented
City, complete with electricity, street lights,
cement pads and running water, was built
on farm fields. Exhibits ranging from tents
to sheds and modular homes sprang out of
the alfalfa fields in the past few weeks.
Volunteers and businesses began disman-
tling the displays at 5 p.m. Saturday with
the tents and buildings being removed early
this week.
The fields will he rehabilitated based on
an agreement with the host farmers and
the Ontario Plowman's Association (OPA)
and will be ready for next year's crop.
The event capped off more than three
years of planning for the local committee
and the OPA. s:t',.
Craig credited the effort of a thousand
volunteers on 36 committees with making;.'
the event a resounding success. ` "
"Our committees- really did their job and.
the volunteers they chose did well too," he
told the T -A near the 'end of the match,
Craig said committee members had a
diversity of skills, bringing together am
array of ideas and creativity to put on the y
mega -event. h. t - ,..
While Craig wouldn't say the event went
off perfectly, OPA president Norm Perriman
of Ayr was quick to dub the 1999 IPM "the
perfect match."
"It's been perfect," he told the T -A.
"Huron has done a yeoman's job."
For more information on IPM
'99, turn to the souvenir pull-
out section in today's T -A.
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