May 2010

MAY, 2010Newsletter

Salt River Antique PowerAssociation , Inc.

****Next Meeting

: May 20th. 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, Kentucky, go one block and turn left onto Spears Drive.

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2010 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.============================================================================Plow Day April10th, 2010 atL.A. Yount’s farm.Top left is our host L. A. Yount taking a break for lunch with hisBrother Robert Yount pictured top center. On the J.D. 720 aremembers Mike and Linda Mengyan with their daughter Sandy. As youcan see, the weather was perfect topped off with good food and goodfriends. Our thanks to the Yount family for their hospitality.

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Upcoming events:

Our Tractor Pull Team,

headed up by Jimmy Hance, has planned a full schedule of events for this 2010pulling season. Our pulling team has joined together with the Central Kentucky Pullers to put on 13 eventsfor the year. All pulls will be listed on our Club web sight at www.saltriverantiquepower.com. By the way,there is a lot of very useful information on this sight, so check it out. It will keep you in the know. Also, saythanks to Misty Jewel when you see her for all the work that she does to keep this site up and running.The next two tractor pulls for the 2010 season will be held at the Shelby County Fair Grounds on: June 5, and June 21. So come out to pull, help out or just watch. If you have any questions on the pulls,please call Jimmy Hance at 502-220-6016 and he will have all of the details.

Mount Washington

is having their spring fair on May 8th with a parade and street festival.. Last year ourClub had our wagon and about 15 tractors. The display parking was fine and we received a lot of exposurefor the Club. David Hardin is our contact at 502-477-5621.

Henry County

is having their annual

“Relay for Life”

event on May 22nd at the Henry County fairgrounds. William Potts is our contact for the details and his number is 502-220-0431.

OUR FOURTH ANNUAL ANTIQUE POWER EQUIPMENT SHOW

is scheduled for the firstFriday and Saturday in June. Dave Fiehtner, one of our new Board members and the Chairman of the JuneShow Event, has already put a lot of work into planning. Dave will have a list of

opportunities

for thosemembers interested in pitching in and helping where they can. We also have a list of opportunities postedon the internet at our Club web page at www.saltriverantiquepower.com. Please understand that this showis very important to the strength and growth of our Club, so we are asking every member to make a specialeffort to attend the show and to volunteer to help where you can. Even an hour of your time will make areal difference in the outcome of the event.By the way, we want any member that can to bring a tractor, truck, farm implement or other related item todisplay at the show. We have a good list of displays including popper engines, antique trucks, farm relatedtoys, a corn hole tournament, a fish fry, live music and, yes, there will be tractors. We will also be hosting atractor pull on Saturday afternoon. If you have not been to one of our tractor pulls lately, you really shouldtry to make this one. Not only are the pulls a lot of fun, but the tractor pulls are the primary source of in-come for our Club.So remember, the

Fish Fry

on Friday night and the

Tractor Pull

on Saturday afternoon. Be there.

Lewis Garrison

will host his annual show with food, games and a parade on

June 19th

from 9:00am andgo on through the afternoon. This event will be held at Lewis’ property located at:6960 /Greensburg Road,Greensburg, KY 42743 You may contact Lewis at 270-378-0967.

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More Upcoming events:

The Campbellsville, KY

Parade will be held at 10:00 on July 4th, 2010. Contact David Hardin with anyquestions at 502-836-5621.

The Salt River Antique Power Association’s Tractor Show

will be held on June 4th and 5th at theShelby County Fair Grounds. Dave Fiehtner is the Chairman of the show and his number is 502-647-6065.The Featured tractors for this year are Ford, and Ferguson, so dig out those antique work horses and bringthem to the front and center of our June Show.

The Oldham County days

and parade will be held on July 17th. There is a new requirement for this yearthat each participant must fill our a registration form to be in the parade. You can get the form by callingDoreen Goodwin at 502-222-9898 or 502-262-3420. For those that do not want to participate in theparade, but would like to show their tractor, you may go directly to the History Center grounds.

Robert Yount

is planning his annual

“Antique Farm Equipment Show”

August 26th through the 29th.This is a show you will not want to miss. There will be working saw mills, Steam tractors running all kinds of farm equipment, work animals demonstrating how things were done before the tractor was commonplaceand of course, there will be a tractor pull on that Saturday night. Robbie has fine food, live entertainment,and a collection of tractors and friends that make this an event for the whole family.

Roger Brown

is planning his annual Tractor drive and games for Saturday the 4th of September. The eventwill start at 10:00 at Roger Brown’ farm. Lunch will be served before the tractor drive which is planned tostart at 1:30pm. The drive will cover about 15 miles through some very scenic back roads and end up back at Roger’s place about 3:00pm. This will be Roger’s third annual drive, and it should be lots of fun. This isplanned as a club event, so bring the family and join in.

Waddy, Kentucky

is planning a Labor Day parade. Details are sketchy at this point, but we will have moreas the time gets closer. Pat Hargadon will be our contact.============================================================================Here are some pictures from our 2009 June Show just to get you in themood to come out and join the fun. Along with displays and tractor games,there will be some good food presented by the Prather family and friends aswell as ice cream and the Fish Dinner Friday night.