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4 BRUCE COUNTY I.P.M. EDITION
A executive team has been working hard with committee members to make the
Bruce County International Plowing Match a success. Members of the executive
are: (front row, left w right) Walter Hamel, vice-chairman; June E. Barclay,
recording secretary; Jack Cumming, chairman; Bill Davis, vice-chairman;
Roger Thorne, director/secretary; (back) Jim McKay, Bruce County Plowmen's
Association President; Don Scott, publicity; Jim Armstrong, executive advisor;
Tony Lang, treasurer; Pat Kuntz, OMAF representative; Alfred Brunton,
executive advisor.
Organizing IPM huge task
Few people attending the the
International Plowing Match ever
stop to think about the amount of
volunteer time it takes to put on such
a show.
Jim Reed, master of ceremonies at
the Media Day for the 1993
International Plowing Match at
Walkerton gave an insight into the
amount of work that goes on. Reed
noted that 30 committees involving
more than 2,000 volunteers have put
in 500,000 volunteer hours in
preparing for the match.
As the stones in this issue show,
the planning of the event goes on for
years. The effort begins when the
hosting county's Plowmen's
Association tries to prove it should
be allowed to host the Match.
Sometimes it can take several years
of presentations at the annual
meeting of the Ontario Plowmen's
Association before a county finally
wins a Match.
Then the work has just begun.
Innovative, hard working people are
recruited to head up the committees
that will organize all areas of the
Match. After the heads of the
committees have been chosen, other
members of the committees are
selected. Plans for the events are laid
out months, even years, before the
committees ever get on the site. Plans
for the Family Lifestyles Program,
for instance, were unveiled to the
media Last December.
How big is the event? Well listen
to Jim Reed outline the dimensions
of the job to be done in one area of
the Match: the tented city.
The 100 acre core area, Reed
said, will have "seven miles of broad
pedestrian streets lined with store
fronts, displays, and entertainment
stages." It will have its own childcare
centre, banking centre, food and
beverage outlets, communications
system, security and transportation
centre, electricity and water, even a
transportation system to move people
from the parking areas to the "city"
and the plowing sites.0