Huron Expositor, 2016-12-14, Page 13IPM 2017 partners with local high schools
Ensuring guests
have a special
place to sit at
the match
Huron County will be wel-
coming nearly one hundred
thousand guests to Walton,
Ontario for the 100th Interna-
tional Plowing Match and Rural
Expo (IPM) in September 2017.
Helping them achieve this
goal are students in the con-
struction classes at all five high
schools in Huron County and
one high school from Perth
County. Through hands-on
leaming building two hundred
and fifty benches, students will
leam necessary, real life skills.
Benches are a traditional
part of the IPM as commu-
nity members, businesses,
and organizations can pur-
chase a bench, engraved
with their name, and the
benches will be used as seat-
ing at the Match. After the
Match is completed the
benches will be returned to
the owner for personal use.
The bench represents a last-
ing memory of IPM 2017.
"I am proud to be leading
the co-ordination of the
benches as the IPM 2017
bench represents all that the
Match is supposed to be,
from empowering youth in
our community, organiza-
tional leadership, and com-
munity spirit," said Jane
Zwep, Chair of Exhibitors
and Bench Co -Ordinator.
Blyth 2017 season details
arrive unannounced on the Tippler Union, the National
sleepy, fictional Otter Lake Birmingham Roller Club, and
reserve. They have with them even the charter President of
international investors, $164 the Saugeen Valley Fur and
million dollars, and blueprints Feathers Fanciers Association.
for a "Native Theme Park, Whenheannouncedhe'deven
complete with bumper canoes, bred his own distinct prize win -
an intemational longhouse of ning line of racers, Strathclyde
pancakes, and a giant laser Genetics, few of his friends
dream catcher. What ensues is d o u b t e d his downy
a hilarious, laugh -a -minute coronation.
riot, as some members of the But around 2001, Galbraith
community try to shut down began approaching local
the development, while others farmers and neighbours ask -
leap in with both feet. Full of ing them to invest in a piece
absurd gags and indelible, of the royal action. Claiming
larger -than -life characters, The to have access to lucrative
Berlin Blues is a slap down pigeon racing markets in
drag'em out cultural appropri- Saudi Arabia and throughout
ation comedy of the highest the Middle East, the Pigeon
(and lowest) order. King began to sign ten year
August 9 to September contracts with guaranteed
23 WORLD PREMIERE profits for buyers of his breed -
THE PIGEON KING ing pairs, promising to per -
BY THE COMPANY sonally buy back all of the
When Arlan Galbraith cre- chicks.Over the next seven
ated his company, Pigeon King years, Pigeon King Interna-
Intemational, he boasted some tional became a massive
fifty -years as atop breeder; he empire, worth tens of millions
was a prominent member of of dollars, with farmers
the Canadian Racing Pigeon investing from both sides of
Union, the Canadian National the border, mortgaging
CONTINUED FROM > PAGE 12
A description of each of
the plays, their dates and
writers are as follows:
June 28 to August 19
WORLD PREMIERE
MR. NEW YEAR'S EVE: A
Night with Guy Lombardo
BY DAVID SCOTT
For forty-eight consecu-
tive years Guy Lombardo
was North America's "Mr.
New Year's Eve; bandleader
of the biggest holiday broad-
cast on the continent.
Together with his band
"The Royal Canadians," Lom-
bardo sold more than 300
million records internation-
ally. To this day, they still
play his recording of Auld
Lang Syne as the official ball
drops on the annual festivities
in New York's Times Square.
A son of Italian immigrants,
Guy was born and raised in
London, Ontario, but it was his
summers playing the biggest
beach bandstand in Huron
County's Grand Bend, where
this local musical titan cut his
teeth and leamed to play both
his many instruments and the
teeming crowds.
Though his own father ada-
mantly opposed Guy's love of
Jazz, and Canadian radio sta-
tions showed active disinterest,
Guy's dedication to his craft
was all consuming, and no
obstacle could block his path to
his dreams. Friend and influ-
ential colleague of some of the
biggest names in show biz,
including Louis Armstrong,
Sophie Tucker, the Andrew Sis-
ters, Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, and
others, Guy Lombardo and His
Royal Canadians blazed a path
from Huron County to the Big
Apple the likes of which has
never been seen, before or
since.
July 5 to August 19
THE BERLIN BLUES
BY DREW HAYDEN
TAYLOR
Two German developers
The IPM thanks Pinder,
Taylor, McNeilly, Godkin
LLP of Exeter for supporting
this initiative and Watson's
Home Hardware of Gorrie
for the wood to support the
bench program.
Benches sell for $350 +tax.
To purchase a bench or
receive more information
please contact Jane Zwep,
Chair of Exhibitors and
Bench Co -Ordinator, at
jzwepipm2017@gmail.com
or by phone, 519 887 6605.
century farms, and hatching
hundreds of thousands of
birds, only to collapse in a
bankruptcy filing of epic pro-
portions. Finally convicted of
fraud in a Waterloo Court,
Arlan Galbraith was sen-
tenced to seven years, for his
preposterous Pigeon Ponzi
scheme.
The Pigeon King is a
country parable for our
times, reminding us that
what takes flight, always
comes home to roost.
August 16 to September
16 WORLD PREMIERE
IPPERWASH
BY FALEN JOHNSON &
JESSICA CARMICHAEL
The Blyth Centre for the
Arts sits today on land
_MiT:A;3_X1 LIJL
A. •
To Place a •
CHRISTMAS GREETING
S''
in the December
of the Seaforth Hu
Pleasecontactty
Nancy @ 519
Ndegans@pos
21st edition
ron Expositor.
December 14th
.52'7.0240
tmedia.com
THS )rOO U!
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 • Huron Expositor 13
lNriivi • L• x:
Contributed photo
Pictured here is Jack Ryan in the back, and left to right is Neil
McGavin, Don Dodds, and George Townsend sitting on a bench.
surrendered through Treaty
29, the Huron Tract, part of
the traditional territories of
the People of Kettle and Stony
Point.
In 1942, the Government of
Canada used the War Meas-
ures Act to expropriate a 2400
acre tract of land from the
Stony Point First Nation; dis-
possessed families who lost
their homes were moved into
neighbouring Kettle Point,
while they waited anxiously
for armistice. The Feds prom-
ised to return the land when
the war was over.
In 1995, after 50 years of
waiting, of protests, of
unproductive legal appeals
and demands, one infamous
demonstration turned
bloody, and 48 year old
Dudley George was shot and
killed by OPP officer Ken
Deane.
This was known as the
Ipperwash Crisis, and it con-
tinues to reverberate coast
to coast to coast.
Now, more than 20 years
since Dudley's death, the
land he died protesting for is
being returned; On April 14,
2016, a settlement was rati-
fied finally returning what
remains of the land that
formed Camp Ipperwash.
Ipperwash is a play about
the ever difficult path to
change, the need for whole-
ness in healing, and a com-
plex country's hunger for
hope.
1!i
Santa Says:
"Give Seaforth Huron Expositor as a gift this year".
Drop in
CaII Or
Mail in
Your
Subscription �!
Seaforth Huron Expositor
8 Main Street, P.O. Box 69
Seaforth, ON NOK 1 WO
519-527-0240
www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com
.€-Not
'411