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While students are busy buying pencil
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refilling their closets for the upcoming
school year, teachers in Seaforth have some
duties of their own to prepare for the 1988.89
infusion of students.
At Seaforth District High School teachers
have almost started school already. All
that's missing is the noise. To get ready for
the school year teachers have been doing
curriculum planning, and putting together a
long range lesson plan for the entire year.
They go over the records of their new
students which contain test results, grades,
standardized test results, and personal in-
formation Tor each of them. And they set up
their classrooms to make them an in-
teresting place for children to spend several
hours each day for the next 10 months.
There are also a lot of new teachers in
Seaforth, who will be getting acquainted
with their schools and the town. There were
nine personnel changes at SPS and Walton
Public School, and six at Seaforth District
High School. With 25 teaching personnel at
SPS, and 24 at SDHS this is a high turnover
rate. Both schools have both experienced
teachers and some who come to them
straight from teacher's college.
Gary Jewitt, principal at SPS, says his
school welcomes the new teachers. He says
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BACK TO SCHOOL - Georgina Reynolds, Grade 8 and Physical Education teacher at
Seaforth Public School, puts the finishing touches on a sign at the school's main en-
trance welcoming students back from the holidays. Corbett photo.
IPM organizers expect record attendance
BY ANDY BADER
Organizers of this year's International
Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show
are betting that a record number of visitors
will walk through their gates this year, the
75th anniversary of the match, which will be
held September 20 to 24 in Perth County.
The crowds won't be disappointed, either,
organizers say, thanks to the unprecedented
number and diversity of exhibits.
All of this excitement came to a head once
again last Thursday as the IPM organizers
held a Media Day attended by more than 500
people of the media and of the various local
committees intent on making this year's
IPM the best ever.
A Shakespearean theme surrounds the
biggest outdoor farm show in Canada
located on the edge of Downie Township and
the city of Stratford. More than 500 ex-
hibitors will showcase the latest in
agricultural technology and, as the name
suggests, the Plowing Match will host a
world class plowing competition.
"There truly is something for everyone at
the Match," Ontario Plowmen's Association
(OPA). President Fred Lewis said. "The
Tented City alone offers everything from
farm equipment demonstrations to crafts
and entertainment. We've got parades, anti-
que tractor exhibits and the Queen of the
Furrow competition."
It takes years of planning to execute an
event of this magnitude. In fact, the Match
is a co-operative effort between a local com-
mittee of volunteers from the host county
and the Ontario Plowmen's Association.
Once a county is informed that it will host a
Match four years hence, a 10 -member ex-
ecutive and 26 committees are formed to
handle everything from parking to publici-
ty. Over 200 people from Perth County have
been working hard since 1984 to ensure a
successful 1988 Match.
"Fantastic enthusiasm is catching on for
everybody," Perth MP Dr. Harry
Brightwell said during the ,day.
Ontario's minister of agriculture and food
Jack Riddell rolled over the first furrows on
the site of the match after the minister, the
guest speaker for the day, addressed the
crowd.
Riddell, in his address, said he considers
the IPM "an important linchpin in the
agricultural community." •
Besides Brightwell and Riddell, other
politicians present included Ontario New
Democratic Party leader Bob Rae, who ad-
mitted "my luck in plowing match competi-
tions has not been much better than that in
provincial. elections."
Also on stage were Perth MPP Hugh
Edighoffer, Perth Warden Amos Gerber,
Downie Reeve Calvin Innes; Stratford
Mayor Ted Blowes and St. Marys Mayor
Gerry Teahen.
It seems fitting that Perth should be
chosen to celebrate the 75th anniversary of
the Match. A fine example of agricultural
excellence, Perth County leads all other
counties with respect to dairy cattle (54,500
head) and hog numbers (383,3.00 head). •
Perth and its five neighboring counties
boast more than 2.5 million acres of farm
land in total. And that means plenty of
visitors to the Plowing Match, which usually
draw 80 per cent of its visitors from within a
100 -mile radius of the event site.
What's more, Perth County has an IPM
history of its own. The county first hosted
the Match in 1930 and again in 1972.
The 1988 Perth County IPM will be open
Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 6
p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Admission is $6 per adult, $2 for children 13
years and under. Preschoolers are admitted
free.
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RIDDELL SPEAKS AT EDIA DAY - Jack Riddell, the Ontario Minister of Agriculture
and Food, was the guest speaker of the Media Day at the site of the 75th annual Inter-
national Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Show last Thursday. Mr. Riddell, right,
was joined on the platform by colleagues Bob Rae, far left, of the NDP, host farmer
Augustin Welch and Perth MPP Hugh Edighoffer, Bader photo.
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