The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-09-27, Page 1Agricu1ture' largest showcase
on at Wingham this week
BY DAVE DINEEN
The 1978 International Plowing Match
and Farm Machinery Show, located just
east of Wingham in Huron County, started
Tuesday and before the gates close
• Saturday at 6 p.m. an' estimated 250,000
people are expected to be part of the
largest farm machinery show and plowing
match in North America.
The newest tractors and farm imple-
ments from Canada, _ the United States,
Europe and Japans will be there, as well as
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entire homes, barns and silos. Programs
for ladies will run continuously front 9 each
morning to 6 p.m. in three 50 by 100 foot
buildings, featuring crafts, floral displays
and seminars, fashion shows, cooking
exhibits and more. There will even be -a
midway for youngsters.
The tented city at IPM '78 is the biggest
ever. A seventh street has been added to
the layout of world's largest tented city.
One hundred and twenty acre§ are covered
with the tents, permanent buildings
constructed just for the five-day show, and
with fully -serviced streets.
Growth of the plowing match has been
phenomenal, organizers say. When the site
was chosen in 1974, plans were for a tented
city with four streets. Now there are almost
800 exhibitors and caterers in the tented
city, with almost five miles of road
frontage.
A total of 176 Huron County people have
combined to form the local committee to
work with the Ontario Plowmen's Associa-
tion and present IPM '78. The work of
these people provides not just the huge
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tented city, but the planning behind
parking for 20,000 cars daily, wagon trains
to transport, the thousands of visitors to
IPM from parking to the tented city and
from tented city to the plowing competi-
tions and farm machinery demomstrations,
and dozens of other huge projects.
The demonstrations are -a new feature of
the International Plowing Match, as farm
machinery manufacturers, distributors and
dealers get a chance to show how their
tillage, harvest and other equipment
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Boy dies trapped in sand tunnel
A Kincardine area boy is dead and' two
others narrowly escaped death on .Saturday
when they were trapped in sand tunnels
they were digging near the shoreline of
Clam Lake. .'
Stephan Bellerose, 9, R. 4. Kincardine
died when the sand tunnel he was building
with two other boys, collapsed trapping
him in the sand.
Stephan and Vincent Matthieu, 8, R. 4
Kincardine and Wayne Jones, .11, R. 2,
Holyrood,, were building two parallel
tunnels in a sand bank, 27 metres north of,
the Clam Lake shoreline at ' Fisherman's
Cove.
When,the boys attempted to connect the
Lucknow band
at Plow Match
The Lucknow Concert Band under the direction of Gord
Cayley was the official band to play theaccompaniment for
the singing of the National Anthem at the opening ceremonies
. for the International Plowing Match in Wingham on Tuesday.
The band provided music prior to the opening speeches and
played for the singing of Co Canada..
Lightning strikes
Lightning came in on the clothes line at the home of Tony
and Donna Johnston, Gough Street, Lucknow during the
severe thunder storm a week ago Wednesday night. The wall
of .the house was damaged where the lightning struck and
hydro fuses and the telephone service were knocked out.
far hits hydro pole
Defective brakes caused a single car accident around 2.45
.a.m. on Saturday morning.
David MacKinnon, R. 3 Holyrood, attempted to slow down
to turn into his gateway on the sixth concession of Kinloss
when the brakes failed. He lost control of the car hitting a
hydro pole. .
Mr. MacKinnon was alone at the time of the accident and
was not injured.
Damage to the car is estimated at $500 •and there was
approximately $800 damage to the hydro pole.
Hydro off again
Hydro was off during the early morning hours on Saturday,
September 12, when ' a car hit a high tension pole at
Riversdale. Service was out in the village of Lucknow, and
areas of Ashfield and Kinloss Townships. Hydro was off in
the village for about 2' hours, from 3.30 to 5.00 a.m.
two tunnels• they collapsed trapping the
Bellerose 'and Mathieu boys. The Jones
boy was partially trapped but managed to
escape and go for help,
When Testuers arrived to free the boys,
the Matthieu boy was unconscious. He was
revived and. taken to Kincardine and
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District General Hospital but the Bellerose
boy was dead when recovered.
Stephan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Serge
.Bellerose, Magog, Quebec. The family has
spent .the summer at the trailer park at
Fisherman's Cove. He is survived by his
parents and a sister..
Flora Nabrotzky of Teeswater demonstrated sand sculpturing
at the Lucknow Kinette meeting on ,Tuesday, September 19.
Sand sculpturing creates a nature scene or geometric design
with coloured sand around the Bottom third of a terrarium.
Tropical plants are planted in earth placed fa a well in the
sand . The earth in the terrarium is hidden by the sand
sculpture which adds colour and design to the terrarium. The
terrariums in this pictureshow mountain scenery. A florist
who has her own shot;, Flora's Flowers, on Teeswater's maim
street, Flora apprenticed with a florist in Kitchener and has
three university courses in floral design: She opened her shop
three years -ago. She 'does flowers for weddings, funerals, all
occasion arrangements and interior design, as well as dried
and silk arrangements. In her shop she has terrariums,
tropical. plants, floor plants, hanging plants and sand
sculpturing. The customer can buy a completed sand
sculpture in a terrarium or purchase the materials to do their,
own sculpturing. [Sentinel staff photo]
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