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' I Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4 - Qrono Weekly Times Local Ontario Volunteer Award Recipients TOSCA BANQUET HALL 800 Champlain Avenue, Oshawa, Ontario October 26, 2005, 7:30 RM. Volunteer Town Yrs. Organization Paula Clark Randy Cruickshank Terrie White Newcastle Newcastle Newcastle 10 15 10 Durham Region Parents of Multiple Births Kin Canada Girl Guides of Canada - Oshawa Division An old Massey Plough (pre1890) on display at the Clarke Museum in Kirby. "Godspeed the Plough" , n -v 7f„ ■ "willa" Shane.) This design per- better ploughing lea GENERAL SIKORSKI POLISH VETERANS HALL 1551 Stevenson Road North, Oshawa, Ontario October 27, 2005 Pam Daley - Newcastle 5 Horticultural Society - Newcastle Audrey Gogerty Newcastle 20 Horticultural Society - Newcastle Isabel Hart Newcastle 5 Horticultural Society - Newcastle Tony Hunt Francis Jose |Newcastle | 5 jscouts Canada - 1st Newcastle Group I Historical Society - Newcastle Village & I Newcastle I 20 by Peter Zorzella "Godspeed the Plough", an old-fashioned wish for success success or prosperity reflects both the importance of a successful farming season to the community, community, and the importance of ploughing to the farm. Heavy ploughs have been around for more than a thousand thousand years. From ploughs made of wood and pulled by oxen, they have evolved into arrays of ploughs that make six or more furrows at once, pulled by tractors with up to 500 hp. Ploughs have long had a coulter that slices into the earth, a ploughshare that cuts and separates separates the soil, and a moldboard that lifts and turns the earth. (The moldboard is what gives the plough its characteristic "wing" shape.) This design persists persists today, though a significant advance was made in 183.6, when the moldboard and share were combined into a single metal piece by a Vermont blacksmith. This innovation was so popular that it launched the company that still bears his name: John Deere. While some crops are now being planted as "no-till" to reduce erosion, most conventional conventional tilled fields are mold- board ploughed. Moldboard ploughing breaks, lifts, and turns the soil, burying manure, crop residue, fertilizer and weeds. Turned earth from one furrow furrow (the furrow slice) goes into the furrow from the previous pass. As one row feeds another, Year of the Veteran better ploughing leads to a more uniform field, which has led to a tradition of competitive ploughing dating back to 1.6th Century Scotland. Competing to make the straightest furrows and most uniform field continues today, and Ontario hosts the International Ploughing Match and Farm Machinery Show with categories for horse, tractor, tractor, antique tractor, and junior categories. It is billed as Canada's largest farm machin- eiy and ploughing show a popularity that attests to the continued importance of the plough. This feature was produced with the assistance of the Agricultural Adaptation Council and Kemptville College, University of Guelph. Francis Jose [Newcastle 50+ Agricultural Society - Durham Central Ayre Lloyd [Newcastle 50+ Agricultural Society - Durham Central Ron Locke I Newcastle (Historical Society - Newcastle Village & District [janet Paeden . [Newcastle 10 [Horticultural Society - Newcastle Jessie Tink Newcastle 50+ Women's Institute - Solina Joyce Topley Newcastle Myno Van Dyke Newcastle [Community Care Durham r [ciarington Home Support Historical Society - Newcastle Village & Josie Welter [Newcastle [ 5 [Horticultural Society - Newcastle Anne Anderson 5 Orono Horticultural Society Ann Dilks Mabel Goode 5 Orono Horticultural Society [Historical Society - Newcastle Village & 15 [District Shirley Henry (Community Care Durham - [ciarington Home Support Allan Hewitt Ciarington Public Library Ron Hooper Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Ciarington Marjorie Lowery Orono Helen Schmid Orono Horticultural Society Historical Society - Newcastle ViHage it JACK LLOYD ROACH - Sun. Aug. 23/42: Flight Sergeant (P) R71702 RCAF. MIA. 108 Sqn. . Age 25. From Bowmanville, Ontario. Enlisted Aug. 21, 1940. Son of Lewis and Ida May Roach, of Bowmanville, Ontario. Wellington IC, MF 1 ' aircraft failed to return from operations over Tobruk (about 425 mi. NWW of base). F/S (AG) A. S, Graeme-Cook RAF and four other crewmembers, not Canadian, missing, believed killed Flight Sergeant Pilot Jack Lloyd Roach and the cre ^ ha ^ e known graves and are commemorated on Columni 264I of the Alamein War Memorial, Egypt. Also is listed on page 110 The Book of Remembrance' at the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa. 1U0 s dron re f 0rm ed at Kabrit to supplement the Middle East bomber F/S (P) Jack Roach RCAF f orC e August 1,1941 with major challenges. Of 18 aircraft on charge - six were serviceable, however they flew their first sorties within 6 November 13,1942). Researched by William Calver (Kenneth H. 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