What Will the Fair Committee Do Next??
How many among you have a gently aged Working Farm Truck, licence and registration still intact but displaying some clever use of mechanical ingenuity and energetic application of bale twine, fencing wire or duct tape to hold it all together?
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Quite a few of you, the organizers of the 104th Annual Priddis & Millarville Fair are hoping. If you fall into the above description you’re invited to bring your finest example of mechanical ingenuity, still puttering in a truck-like shape, to the First Annual Priddis & Millarville Fair Working Farm Truck Competition, an affair where newer, pristine vehicles will be appropriately punished and where the truly tough and inventively-equipped will be the recipients of prizes and ribbons on Fair day. “The Working Farm Truck” competition is one that will bring the Fair into line with agriculture in today’s world,” says Committee Chairman Gene Blakley. “I feel we can bring the same level of competition to this contest that was evident at earlier Fairs with the livestock. We are in a mechanized agricultural world now and we use trucks to feed, fence, transport, and chase livestock where we would have used horses before. For that matter, ranchers now have more expertise with trucks than they have with the fat horses that decorated our pastures.”
How does the contest work? “We will award a starting point number, i.e. 200 pts, to each truck that will produce a current licence, registration and insurance,” said Mr. Blakley. “From that starting number we will add or subtract points from a secret list of parts and accessories that we have determined are an asset or liability to the general operation of a ranch or farm. As an example bale twine used in an inventive way will garner extra points whereas leather seats or CD players may be construed as negative in this contest. The top three trucks will receive prizes and will be featured in the parade that happens at noon.” The inference from the rules would be that if you take it too seriously and show up with a new vehicle, you’re going to lose big time but you also have to show up with something that’s had some hard work under it but remains inventively functional. There was some thought to naming this the Redneck Working Farm Truck Competition but we’ll just see how it all flavours out before giving it that label.
Entry forms are available at the MRAS office or check online soon. The Fair is August 20, 2011 and promises to be another, energetic, fun affair.
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