The Huron Expositor, 1978-09-14, Page 64r-q
`THE PLOWING MATCH SUPPLEMENT -- 13
ore For women this year at IPM'
If anyone thinks the
International Plowing Match
is just for farm men who like
to look over new machinery,
see demonstrations and
spend a day away from the
farm, there is a lot mere, to it
'than that.
A lot of activities, displays
and competitions have been
organized to keep women
busy, ladies' program com-
mittee cliairpersen Carol
Armstiong, of Wing-
ham, said recently. In fact,
ther'cornmittee will probably
have the largest covered area
in the entire 87-,Acre tented
city: •
The ladies' program,
which will include numerous.
activities and displays of
interest to men, will be held
in two. 50 by 100 foot tents
and a building of the same
size.
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The building will house 40
to 50 crafts people who will
display their wares, and will
feature quilts made by Hu'ron
County residents competing
in the plowing match quilting
contest.
gne of the big tents will be
set aside for fashion shows,
with a seating capacity of 500
to 600, Mrs...Armstrong said.
' Men's, women's and
children's fashions from
clothing stores throughout
Hurqn County and eyen
outside the county will be
featured.
The tent will house cook-
ing demonstrations by mar-
keting . boards, and hair-
styling workshops and an
afternoon exercise class.
The other tent'-contains
horticultural exhibits and
seminars 'on care of' cacti.
tropical plants, shqwing
dried flowers and ' live
flowers - and many other
topics of interest to all
gardeners.
It will be the-first time the
1PM c ladies' program
committee has had a horti-
cultural tent, Mrs. Arm-
strong says. Horticultural
displays were incorporated
with other displays in years
gone by, she said.'
District 8 of the Ontario
floricultural Society will have
about a quarter of the large
tent for its displays, while
the remaining space will be
for 'shows by groups which
participate itr the seminars.
Programs will be running
continuously in the horti-
cultural area, and the pro-
posals are already getting so
well accepted that committee
menibers are getting "quite
Pveited aboutittig''.
The committee started ,
planning the ladies' program.
Just ,after IPM, '76 in Bruce
County at Walkerton , Mrs.
Armstrong_ said.: She was
approached t to chair the
committee before the 1976
match and watched that area
of the Bruce match with
great interest.
In October 1976, the
committee, made up of Joan
Campbell, Seaforth; Dorothy
Coultes, Belgrave; Shirley
McAllister, Zurich; Betty
Cardiff, Brussels; and 'Susan
Wheatly, Seaforth, met..
Thirty thousand programs
foriadies' program Activities
will be printed,' Mrs. Arm-
strong said, but this may not
take care of-all the visitors to-
the exhibits.
The committee expects
"half of the people who come
to the plowing match to come
through our area", Mrs.
Armstrong said. About
250,000 are expected at the
Sept. 26 'to 30 match.
Anyone who' has gone
through the ladies' exhibits
in pot plowing matches and
thinks this one will be;' the
same, is in for a surprise,
Mrs. Armstrong said,
because "each year the
whOle thing is different".
-One-of the things-thatfall -
under the committee's j ris-
diction is the ordering and
sales of IPM '78 souvenirs.
The 'committee has ,plowing
match charms, pens, mugs,
trays; frisbees and T-shirts.
It won't just be committee
members -staffing' the -three
main' ' areas of ladies'
program activity, Mrs. Arm-
strong said. Women's Insti-
tute groups, provide
aboUt 12 helpers each day
and there will he scores of
volunteers helping to provide
information and enjoyment
-fcir -the -125;000' eXpetted at
the ladies' exhibits..
WELCOMING HANDSHAKE — Ontario •
Minister of Agriculture Bill Newman celebrates
plowing the first furrow at the International
Plowing Match site on Jim Armstrongs farm
south of Wingham, by shaldhg hands with IPM
chairmanc'Howard Datars.
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at Iriternational
Plowing Match
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