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Flood, ruts made 'Mud Match' memorable: Scott
Looking back
Ken Scott has been involved in three International Plowing
Matches. His family farm was used for the 1966 "Mud
Match", he was a committee member for the 1999 "Dust
Match" and he is on the signage committee for the
upcoming 2017 IPM in Walton. Scott is shown here with a
souvenir helmet from the 1966 match in his garage which
currently holds hundreds of signs that he hopes to have
organized into crates for specific sites throughout the
grounds in time for the Walton IPM in September. (Denny Scott
photo)
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
When people are looking to get
where they are going at the 2017
International Plowing Match (IPM)
in Walton this September, signs will
be there to help lead the way thanks
to Ken Scott and his dedicated
signage committee.
Scott, who lives just outside of
Seaforth, has been involved in two
previous International Plowing
Matches, helping to bring the 1999
"Dust Match" outside of Dashwood
to life as part of the event
committees and helping to host the
1966 "Mud Match" on his family
farm where the parking and plowing
for the event was held.
His father, Sam Scott, had
attended plowing matches before,
but Scott said this was the first time
he remembered him being involved.
When thinking back on what he
remembers about the 1966 "Mud"
match, he said the rain, the mud and
the friendliness of those involved are
what stick out in his mind.
"We had 80 acres involved in the
match," he said. "The first thing I
remember is, the Saturday before the
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match, I was 16 years old and we
were painting tires to make them
look good. After that, what I
remember is watching the crowds
coming and going through the mud"
The comings and goings left some
pretty substantial ruts on the farm,
which has been in the family for five
generations, especially from
parking, Scott said.
"Cars were stuck and having to get
pulled out on our property and it was
leaving some really, deep, really
difficult ruts," he said.
While he doesn't have rubber
boots turning up on the family farm,
that he lives on with his wife Maria,
he said that the family did come out
with a nice logging chain after the
match as it was lost in the mud.
Scott had some jobs to do, both at
the grounds and away from them,
and he remembers the rain and the
mud permeating the entire event.
"I had to haul away manure from
the livestock building for the event,"
he said. "We had a John Deere B
Row Crop and, by the time I was
making the trips, the front tires
didn't turn anymore, they just slid
through the mud."
Scott worked at the CKNX
television station in Wingham in the
mornings and he remembers one
day, the water was running in one
side of the building and all the way
through to the other side.
"I also remember the OPP were
using snowmobiles to go up the
streets in the mud," he said. "They
didn't have 4x4s then, so they had to
use the snowmobile."
Scott also remembers working
with National Plowing Champion
Gordon McGavin who, when Scott
presented his time sheet for the
match, put a one in front of what he
was to be paid.
"As a 16 -year-old at the time, that
was a pretty big thing," he said. "It
was great and it was very
appreciated"
With the experience from the 1999
match and the fond memories of the
1966 match, Scott was happy to lend
a hand when 2017 IPM Chair
Jacquie Bishop asked him to be a
part of this plowing match.
"She asked if I would be willing to
do the signs for the match," he said.
"I was happy to join up"
The job of the signage committee
is to have, in place for the match, the
signs people need to get to where
they're going, whether that is for
traffic, for parking or for specific
displays or locations throughout the
ground.
Having those signs ready to go is
no mean task and not one that can be
started late in the planning process
either, says Scott. He and a team of
volunteers travelled to the site of the
last IPM to clean, sort and deliver
the signs to his workshop on his
family farm which has been taken
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