The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-09-28, Page 37Ladies'
pro
ed
The corner of Fifth
Street and ArifEtStrarkg
Avenue promises to be a
busy spot during the last
week of September.
You're not Film tofiad
that intersection en a
local map however - it
will be located in the
International' Plowing
MateleS &EMUS Tented
City.
The "address' is the
loos ion of this year's
Ladies° program and it's
bigger and better than
ever.
"Women have always
been encowraged to come
to tire Plowing Match and
therehas always been
sous especially for
therm."' says Carol
Arrestrong„ wife of the
host farmer and
rhairlady of the match's
LadiesProgram
Cerritmlittee. "But this
year we really wanted to
attract the whole family
an_ show them a great
time in Huron County.'"
The pusgrarre will be
held in tw huge tents and
a Wilding,, all tied
together by a landscaped
courtyard.
The main tent will he
set up theatre style to
seat up to) 00 people. The
continuous program
features daily fashion
shows„ cooking
demostratooshair—
stylffag owhibitions and art
audience participation
exercise program.
"Since white hearts are
Huron's high value crop,
the cooking demon-
strations willI centre on
that food sponsored by
the Ontario Bean
Producers' Marketing
Board, Pork will also be
featured thanks to the
Ontario Pork Producers'
Marketing Board„" says
Mrs. Armstrong_ "The
fashion show is a
collaboration between
marty of Huron County's
leading retailers and
shold _ be an accurate
preview -of fall and *Inter
styles. The exercise
program entitled "How
it are you?"' is a first and
we are, hoping it will be
fan for ail
A second tent will be
home to a much -
expand horticultural
display and program.
"The horticultural part of
past programs has been
enormously popular so
we decided to give ours a
roof of its own. A 200 seat
theatre will feature a
-continuous program on
all aspects of house
plants, gardening and so
forth. The other hair of
the tent will contain
displays arranged by the
resource people
presenting the programs,
the District Eight Hor-
ticultural Society and the
Ministry of Agriculture
and Food."
Both tentprograrns will
feature lots of valuable
door prizes_ The building
will house craft displays
from forty talented
exhibitors. All the crafts
will be o ered for sale. In
addition, the outlet for
official Huron '78
souvenirs will be in the
building as well as a
display of quilts from a
special quilting contest_
"'Each of these quilts is
an original design to
commemorate Huron,
/8," explains Mrs.
Armstrong. "Entries
come from Huron county
residents in competition
for prizes of $100, $75, $50 ,
and $10 for every entry.
Judging takes place at 10
a.m. on September 18 at
the OMAF office in
Clinton,"
Mrs. Armstriing's hard
working committee in-
cludes Joan Campbell
and Susan Wheatley, both
of the Seaforth area,
Dorothy Coultes of
Belgrave, Shirley
McAllister of Zurich and
Betty Cardiff froin
Brussels.
"We are sure the
program will be a
popular one - and not only
with the ladies," says the
cbairlady. "We expect to
have at, least 125,000
people pass through the
display between Sep-
tember 26 and 30."
Location of this year's
match is the Jim Arm-
strong farm, one mile
east •• of Wingham,
. Ontario.
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