The Citizen, 1988-09-21, Page 22PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1988.
Jeff McGavin wins Reserve Champion title in B.C.
Walton’s Jeff McGavin has won Plowmen’s Association scholar-Prince Edward Island all sent their
the title of Canadian National
Junior Reserve Champion Plow
man in competition against the
nation’sbestjunior plowmen at
Agassiz, B.C.
But Ontario’s reigning Junior
Champion Plowman won’t be
defending his 1987-88 title at the
International Plowing Match at
Stratford this week: his $2,700
competition two-furrow plow is in a
crate somewhere on its way back to
Walton from B.C.
Besides, his mother, Marie
McGavin, said that the 20-year-old
champion didn’t feel that he could
afford to miss a second week from
the University of Guelph, where he
has just started his second year of a
science degree on the Ontario
ship he won as Junior Champion at
Ontario’s 1987 IPM.
Jeff’s win at Agassiz, in B.C.’s
lush Fraser Valley, netted him only
$90 in cash, but as his father, Neil,
pointed out, the title “sure packs a
lot of prestige!’’ The youth has
been coached in plowing skills
throughout his eight-year rise to
the top by Graeme Craig at RR 1,
Walton, who accompanied him to
the National Championships last
week.
The JuniorChampionships at
the National match went to Martin
Frenette of Neauville, Quebec,
who defeated the top juniors from
five other provinces to win the title.
Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British
Columbia, New Brunswick and
top competitors to the match.
Jeffwonthe Visitor’sClass at
the national match last Wednesday
(September 14) over competitors
from all but the host province, then
went on to plow on stubble on
Thursday, and on sod on Friday at
the federal Agassiz Agricultural
Research Station, which hosted the
plowing match in conjunction with
a gala celebration to mark its own
1 OOth anniversary. Each land at the
match measured a huge 300 feet by
250feet, with the top aggregate
score on Thursday and Friday
winning the title.
Jeff was accompanied to B.C. by
hisparents, and by Graeme and
Helen Craig and their twochildren,
Michael and Shannon, as well as by
Shannon Rice of Brussels. The
During their trip, the senior
McGavins travelled as far west as
Vancouver Island, visiting rela
tives and friends, in B.C., includ
ing Neil’s cousins Dr. Neil McDon
ald of Vancouver and Dorothy
Robinson of Richmond; Neil’s
aunt, Mrs. Roy Stewart of Victoria;
Marie’s cousin, Bruce Harris and
his family of West Vancouver; and
family friends Mr. and Mrs. Larry
Burns of Langley, formerly of
Seaforth.
“It was a marvellous experi
ence, but we’re all glad to be back
home,’’ Marie McGavin said.
entire party spent one night at the
famed Harrison Hat Springs Hotel
on nearby Harrison Lake, then
Mrs. Craig and her children
travelled to Burnaby, B.C., where
they visited with Mrs. Craig’s
sister, Marg Elliott.
Boldly displaying his “Ontario” banner, Jeff McGavin of RR 4,
Walton, plows one of the final furrows on sod that helped win him the
title of Junior Reserve Champion at the Canadian National Plowing
Championships in Agassiz, B.C. last week. Photo courtesy Marie
McGavin.
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