June 2010

JUNE, 2010Newsletter

Salt River Antique PowerAssociation , Inc.

****Next Meeting

: June17th. 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.============================================================================

Our sympathy

goes out, once again, to the Maddox family for the loss of our long time member ElsieMaddox. Elsie has been a member of our Club since 1997 with her husband Kiefer Maddox who passedaway last year. Elsie and Kiefer collected, and shared, a wealth of farm equipment and information.We also want to extend our deepest sympathy to the LeCompte family for the loss of our member and goodfriend Duncan LeCompte. Duncan, along with his wife Jane, has been a real asset to the growth and stabilityof our Club. He will be missed.============================================================================Here are some pictures from our 4th annual Antique tractor, truck and engine show. The weather wasgood, the food was good, and the fun and fellowship was outstanding. We hope that

you

were there toenjoy it.

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Upcoming events:

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

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.The next tractor pull for the 2010 season will be held at the Shelby County Fair Grounds on June 21st. Socome out to pull, help out or just watch. If you have any questions on the pulls, please call Jimmy Hance at502-220-6016 and he will have all of the details.

The Campbellsville, KY

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

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.

The Henry County Show Case

will be held on July 31st at the Henry county Fairgrounds. The gatesopen at 9:00am and there will be lots of homegrown products to shop for.

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.

Cropper days

will be held Saturday, September 18th. The parade will start at 10:30 am with staging at9:00am. Set up for the tractor display will be late afternoon Friday and 7:00 to 8:00am by the Bagdad #2 firestation in Cropper. Our contact person is Bryan Franklin (502-639-7833) or Glen Long (502-487-0171).

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=================================================================The 2010 Salt River Antique Power Association’s annual Tractor, Truck and Engineshow

is now in the history books and it was another fine success.The show was held on June 4th and 5th, 2010 at the Shelby County Fairgrounds and wasattended by an estimated 1500+ people. This years show featured the Ford and Fergusonbrand of tractors including the Ford, Ford Ferguson, Massy Ferguson and Massy Harrismachines. Our total count on show tractors was over 120 machines with 31 featuredtractors and more than 30 lawn and garden models.New for this year was the addition of the local chapter of the American Truck HistoricalSociety, the Antique Truck Club of America and the Society for the Preservation andAppreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in America. These groups brought in animpressive collection of medium to heavy equipment that added a new dimension of interestand excitement to our show and to our Parade of Power. We want to thank them for theirparticipation.Returning for the second year was the Kentucky Pioneer Power Association with theiroutstanding display of stationary flywheel engines and a number of mechanical displays thatdemonstrated some of the original uses for their engines. We were very glad to have themback for our show this year.Our Friday night fish fry was a big hit with plenty of good food, no lines to wait in and anumber of smiling faces dishing out the feast. This years fish fry was extremely well organizedand received many very positive comments. Our thanks to all of the members that pitched into help make this part of our event go so smoothly.Our tractor games event and the corn hole tournament were also big draws. We are sorrythat we do not have results to post on the winners of these events, but we are sure that youwill hear about the winners at the next meeting.And last, but

certainly not least

was the Antique Tractor Pull event put on by Jimmy Hanceand his team of VERY dedicated people. The effort that went in to preparing, maintaining andmanaging the track while conducting more that 200 hooks, pull backs, weight-in’s, scoring andpayouts was a monumental task that lasted well into the not so wee hours of Sunday morning.