SEPTEMBER 2009

SEPT. 2009Newsletter

Salt River Antique PowerAssociation , Inc.

****Next Meeting

: September 24th. at

7:30 pm****

Meeting Location

We meet at the Spencer County Extension Office located at 66 Spears Drive. To get there,turn right off Hwy 155 between the Country Mart and the Citizens Union Bank on IndustrialBlvd in Taylorsville, go one block and turn left onto Spears Drive.

**SPECIAL NOTE: This meeting is on the 4th Thursday for September.*

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2009 Officers President: Scott LeCompte 502-633-5030 Secretary: Teresa Scherffius 502-244-5279Vice Pres: Jim Hance 502-220-6016 Treasurer: Steve Scherffius 502-244-5279

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Additional thoughts about our meetings for new and prospective members:

Our normal meeting night is the 3rd Thursday of the months January through November.We have a Christmas party on a Friday or Saturday night in December in place of that month’s meeting.Our meetings start at 7:30 pm and usually run about one hour.In January, April, July and October, we gather at 7:00 pm for our quarterly dinner before the 7:30 Meeting.============================================================================

Our sympathy:

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of our members that are in poor health. JimMcCall was in Baptist East Hospital with some fluid buildup around his heart, but is now improving at home.We regret to have to report that Bill Stout passed away August 31st. Bill was a long time member of ourclub. Bill was very helpful with our displays at the Kentucky State Fair. The Funeral was held at the SaintPius Catholic Church and Bill was buried at the Calvary Cemetery on Bardstown Road.============================================================================This month’s feature is on our Club’s Vice President, JimmyHance. Pictured is Jimmy enjoying one of his passions, that of tractor pulls. Jimmy joined the Club in 2003 and has worked hard to puttogether a team of people that put on some of the finest an-tique tractor pulls in the state. The profits from these pullsare the basis for the strong financial position that our Clubenjoys today. Jimmy and his team are a real asset to our Cluband we wanted to take this time to thank Jimmy for his work.By the way, the pull team is always in need of help at theseevents, so you should make a point to attend some pulls andhelp where you can.

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Upcoming Events:

The Jeffersontown, KY Parade

will be held on Thursday, September 17th. We will meet at 5:00 pm atthe J-Town High School. The Parade starts at 6:00pm. An alternative staging location is the Maeser Plumbingparking lot located at 11101 Electron Drive in between Watterson Trail and Blankenbaker Parkway. TheClub is providing a box dinner for all members that attend, but you will have to let Roger Cox know that youare coming so that he can get the right amount of food. Roger’s number is 502-210-3159.

Special note

: The Jeffersontown parade falls on the third Thursday in September which is our normal Clubmeeting night, so the regular Club meeting has been moved to the next Thursday, September 24th, 2009 atour regular meeting location.

The Cropper Days Festival,

presented by the Cropper Ruritan Club,

will be held on Saturday, September19th. Cropper is located on Highway 43 about 4 miles south of Pleasureville. There will be a parade at10:30am so you should plan to arrive about 9:00am to get ready. There will be food, yard sales, antique trac-tor displays, classic cars, and a host of other festival activities.

The fall DQ tractor show

will be held at the Dairy Queen in Lagrange on Saturday, September 19th. Thisis a parking lot show that will include some free treats from DQ. Our understanding is that this is a after-noon show gathering at 4:00pm. There is plenty of parking across the street, and our member Gene Cradyis the contact at 502-592-0341.

Our Regular Club meeting

will be held on September 24th at 7:30. This is one week later than usual,due to the J-town Parade. Hope to see you there.

Note the date change.

The Finchville Festival, parade and show

will be held Saturday, September 26th at the Finchville RuritanClub. They start cooking breakfast at 7:00am and it is a feast that will really get your festival day started inthe right direction. The parade will start at 10:00am, so if you miss breakfast, you should still try to get thereabout 9:00am to get unloaded and set up for the fun. As always, there will be plenty of parking for yourtrailer rigs and tractors. After the parade, there will be more good food, tractor games, lots of children’sactivities and an auction with many unique items. The auction proceeds help support the Festival, so stay lateand bid high.(This year should be a great festival because Steve and Teresa spent so much at the auction last year.)Our member contact for this event is Stewart Stratton at 502-772-5262.

A Plow Day

is scheduled for Saturday, October 10th at the Scott Travis Farm with a rain date of Saturday,October 17th. Scott’s farm is located on Max Rouse Road off of Hwy 31 south of Mount Washington. Onthis plow day we will be “Plowing for a Cure” and raising money for Breast Cancer research. We havemissed several Plow Days due to adverse weather in the past year. Lets hope that this one comes off asplanned. We would like to have a large turnout for this event to support this cause, so come out even if youdo not have a plow, and we will hook you up. Spectators are very welcome too.

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Membership news:

Our Club continues to grow and is now boasting a

record 145 members

that have already signed up for 2009. As you know, wewill accept membership applications anytime throughout the year. We willcontinue to keep you posted on our progress.

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Just as a reminder, dues are $15.00 for the first member in a household, and $5.00 for otherfamily members living at the same mailing address. If you want a membership application formthat you can give to prospective members, please contact Steve Scherffius at 502-244-5279 ore-mail SHS13000@aol.com. Spread the word.

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In the last month,

our members have participated in several events including:

* A plow day hosted by our sister Club the Antique Iron Club of Lagrange Kentucky finally happened. Theweather caused this event to be shifted to other dates. This shift in schedule did hurt the tractor and headcount, but those that did attend had a fine day of plowing.* Our Club held our annual Club Picnic on the Finchville Ruritan Club grounds. Attendance was light, butthe food was great and the fellowship was enjoyable.* A tractor drive hosted by our member Roger Brown with a lot of assistance from the Burkhead family.The weather was excellent and the drive, which covered several scenic back roads in Jefferson and BullettCounty, included more than 50 tractors. All went very well. The food was tasty and the games were fun forthe participants and entertaining for the spectators. Roger plans to do this event again next year, so be sureto put this event on your calendar.* An antique equipment show put together by our member Robert Yount. This was a great show with 69tractors on display plus the pull tractors that came in for the evening pull. There were 4 working steam en-gines sawing, thrashing, bailing, crushing and pulling. There was a1941 Taylorcraft airplane and lots of horsesand mules demonstrating the way things used to be done before the tractors came along. It was a fine show.Robert plans to put this show on again next year and it will be well worth your time to come out and see allof this equipment in action.============================================================================

Several members have asked

about listing antique power equipment and related items for sale in thisnews letter. We feel that listings of this nature would be of interest to our readers, therefore, we are happyto publish items as space permits. You may submit your listings to:Teresa Scherffius Or you may call 502-244-527913000 S. Pope Lick Road Or you may e-mail SHS13000@aol.comLouisville, KY 40299-4600