The Rural Voice, 1993-09, Page 3R.V.
Editor: Keith Roulston
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Behind the Scenes
Bruce ready to show its stuff again
I should confess my bias, I guess,
being an old Bruce County farm boy
from Kinloss Township but the
success of the 1993 International
Plowing Match in Bruce County is
almost a foregone conclusion.
Bruce County people have a long
history of working together to pull off
huge tasks like this. Co-operation has
been a strength of most rural Ontario
communities but nowhere has it been
practiced with more zest and
determination than in Bruce. Maybe
it's the Scottish heritage, that
determination (a nice word for
stubbornness?) shown by the pioneers
who persevered in the difficult new
land but Bruce County residents
continue to pull together whenever
the challenge is large.
Bruce's geography, for both the
pioneers and modern farmers, has
been a mixed blessing. There are
areas of great fertility, and areas
where it was a mistake for the
pioneers to have cleared the land.
Yet even the rugged parts of the
county add to the specialness of
Bruce. The beauty of the county has
made tourism one of the pillars of the
local economy, along with agriculture
and industry. Those coming from a
distance to attend the match will be
rewarded by spending a few extra
days in Bruce and enjoying the
natural beauty the county offers.
Bruce County has already proved
its ability to put on a great show with
the 1976 Match on the same site as
this year's Match. From the
preparations that were obvious at the
Media Day on the Match site near
Walkerton in August, it's obvious
that everything is in place to make
this a memorable event.
Congratulations in advance to all
those who have given so much of
themselves to make the 1993
International Plowing Match such a
huge success. It has been estimated
that a total of 500,000 volunteer
hours have already been donated to
the event by more than 2000 people.
So much dedication warrants the
reward of huge success. Nobody
deserves it more.— KRO
Putting it all together
Getting the lowdown ort the Match
Putting together a special issue such as
this isn't nearly as large an effort as
preparing for the Match itself, but to do the
job well required more time than our
regular staff could devote to it. Faced with
this problem, we tumed to a familiar face
around our office, Lisa Boonstoppel-Pot.
Lisa has worked at our sister publica-
tion, the North Huron Citizen since she
was a high school co-op student. About
that time she was also the Huron County
Dairy Princess. Later she went off to
college to study journalism and worked as
a summer student and on another co-op
term at The North Iluron Citizen.
She left the area to work for a while at a
Halton Hills newspaper but returned to
Huron County early in 1992 where she and
her husband Freddy started a dairy farm (and a family) just a few miles from the
farm where she grew up.
Lisa brings that rare blend of skills, both writing ability and an intimate
knowledge of farming, that makes her ideal for this job. Putting together this
issue without her efforts (she wrote all the feature stories) would have been
impossible. Thanks Lisa.O
Lisa Boonstoppel-Pot