The Citizen, 1988-11-02, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1988.
HPA hosts plowing champions at annual event
Plowmen of all ages and from all
parts of the county came together for
the final official function of the
Huron Plowmen’s Association
(HPA) of this year at the Brussels,
Morris and Grey Community Centre
on Friday evening.
More than 100 people attended
the Association’s annual Banquet
and Awards Night, to hear a re-cap of
the past season’s events and to
applaud as the county’s top plow
men were called to the head table to
accept the awards earned by their
efforts at the 61st annual Huron
The Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre was graced by the
presence of three Queens during the Huron Plowmen's Association Annual
Banquet and Awards Night on Friday, when outgoing Huron County Queen
of the Furrow, Audrey Bos, left, and incoming Queen, Cheryl Regele,
welcomed Ontario Queen of the Furrow Jill Patterson, to the festivities.
MPP Jack Riddell, minister of agriculture, had the honour of presenting the
trophies to the Huron Plowmen's Association’s Junior Reserve Champion,
Leanne Whitmore, and the HPA Junior Champion, William Fotheringham,
at the Association's annual Banquet and Awards Night in Brussels on Friday.
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County Plowing Match held at MP
Murray Cardiff’s farm just north of
Brussels on September 2.
In his opening remarks, HPA
secretary Graeme Craig, who served
as the evening’s master of ceremon
ies, introduced the members of the
Huron County 4-H Sodbusters Club
as “the stars of the future,” and
went on to say that Huron is the envy
of mostotherfarming counties in the
province because of the consistent
excellence of its competition plow
men at the International Plowing
Match,aswellasattheCanadian
National Plowing Match, which
nearly every year has seen a local
competitor place high in the stand
ings.
Guest of Honour Jill Patterson,
Ontario’s 1988-89 Queen of the
Furrow, echoed Mr. Craig’s com
ments by telling the young plowmen
present that they always do an
excellent job of representing their
county at the international match
level, by “setting a standard that
other counties must strive for.”
Huron County’s twotop plowmen,
Murray Townsend and Jeff McGa-
vin, attended the banquet on Friday
but were unable to stay for the
awards presentation following as
both had to leave for a Brussels Bulls
hockey game in Seaforth; both
you ng men play goal for the Brussels
Junior “D” squad.
Mr. McGavin, of RR4, Walton,
the 1987 Junior Champion Plowman
at both the Huron County and
International Plowing Matches, re
presented the Province of Ontario at
the Canadian National Plowing
Championships last September;
while Mr. Townsend, of RR 3,
Seaforth, was named the Champion
Junior Tractor Plowman at the 1988
1PM, as well as taking the match’s
Reserve Grand Champion Plowman.
The junior championship qualifies
Mr. Townsend to represent his
province at the Canadian National
Championships in Prince Edward
Island next August. Both youths will
receive their HPA awards, recogniz-
ingtheirachievements, atalater
date.
Other top winners at Friday’s
event included Paul Dodds of RR 1,
Seaforthand Bev Shapton of Exeter,
the 1988-89 HPA Senior Champion
and Senior Reserve Champion Plow-
men respectively; and William
Fotheringham of RR 3, Seaforth
Reserve Junior Champion respec
tively. MP Murray Cardiff present
ed the trophies to the Senior
Champions, while MPP J ack Rid
dell, Minister of Agriculture, made
the Junior Champion presentations.
HPA Director and Sodbusters
leader Ross Gordon presented the
trophy donated by himself to Ken
Bettles of RR 3, Kippen, as the top
Huron County “Green” Plowman at
the 1988 HPA match; Huron County
Warden Bob Bell presented the
Class 9 trophy to Roy Bennett of
Wingham for his HPA win in the
Warden’s Mayor’s and Reeve’s
class; HPA president Ernie Talbot
presented Ken Bettles with the
trophy as Top Antique Tractor
Plowman at the local match; and
Ross Gordon presented the trophy
for the Top Huron County Tractor
Plowman to Paul Dodds.
1987-88 Huron County Queen of
the Furrow Audrey Bos of RR 3,
Auburn, presented 1988-89 HPA
Queen Cheryl Regele of RR 1, Dublin
with a handsome silver trophy from
TOWNSHIP OF GREY
CANDIDATES MEETING
AmeetingwillbeheldonMonday, November7th, 1988 at
8:30 p.m. in the Cranbrook Community Centre to provide
the ratepayers of the Township of Grey an opportunity to
meetthecandidatesfortheupcoming municipal election.
Everyone welcome.
Brad Knight,
Clerk-Treasurer.
NOTICE OF POLL
MUNICIPAL ELECTORS FOR THE
TOWNSHIPOFGREY
Offices for which poll to be held:
Deputy-Reeve [1 of whom is to be elected]
Councillor [3 of whom are to be elected]
ADVANCE POLLS
Advance Polls will be held on Saturday, November 5th and
Thursday, November 10th, 1988 at the Grey Township
Municipal Building, Lot 21, Concession 9. The Advance Polls
will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
REGULAR POLLS
Regular polling day will be Monday, November 14th, 1988 from
10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The locations of the regular polls are as follows:
Poll No. 1 - Residence of Larry Keffer [Lot 16, Concession 3],
Concessions 1 to 4, all lots.
Poll No. 2 - Grey Township Firehall [Ethel]. Concessions 5 to 8,
all lots.
Poll No. 3-Walton Public School, Concessions 9 to 18, Lots 1 to
10 [except the Village of Brussels].
Poll No. 4-Cranbrook Community Centre, Concessions 9 to 18,
Lots 11 to 22.
Poll No. 5- Moncrieff Community Hall, Concession 9 to 18, Lots
23 to 35.
PROXY APPLICATIONS
A person who has been appointed a voting proxy may apply to
the Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m. on Polling Day to receive a
certificate to vote by proxy for the polling subdivision in which
the person appointing the voting proxy is entitled to vote.
Brad Knight
Returning Officer
Township of Grey
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the Association, and'also presented
her with a beautiful leather jacket,
donated by The Old Mill.
In addition, cheques were presen
ted to all junior plowmen who won
“day money” at the HPA match in
September; as well as to the winners
of the match’s Nail Driving, Log
Sawing and Horsehoe Pitching
Contests.
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