MAFMCA s Annual Banquet February 4, 2017

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1 Montour Antique Farm Machinery Collectors Association s O F F I C I A L N E W S L E T T E R January 2017 Winter Greetings from MAFMCA Dear MAFMCA Members & Friends -- Here s hoping you had a fabulous holiday season! Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year, Blessed Winter Solstice Happy All Holidays! We d like to send joyous and prosperous wishes to you and your families -- it is our hope to see more of you at our monthly meetings, at the annual banquet coming up in February, and at other MAFMCA events such (fundraisers, tractor pulls and more) in 2017! God Bless! MAFMCA s Annual Banquet February 4, 2017 The MAFMCA Annual Banquet will be held on Saturday, February 4, :00 pm at the Montour-DeLong Fairgrounds MENU Ham & Turkey Mashed Potatoes & Gravy Stuffing, Rolls & Applesauce Corn & Green Beans Dessert Iced Tea, Water & Coffee $12 - Adults $6 - Children ages 6-12 Kids 5 & under Free RSVP by January 30 Please contact Angie or Jason Angie Bickhart (ajbickhart@gmail.com) Jason Bird (jasonja90@aol.com) We will be holding our annual auction during the banquet please bring a wrapped gift (new & labeled for a family, man, woman, boy, girl, etc.). Tractor Pull awards will be presented! Wood sculptures which were carved at our 2016 show will be auctioned off at the Banquet! See photos here: 1-Eagle Head 2-Eagle 3-Bear Head 4-Owl 5-Bear

2 Tractor Tribune MAFMCA Newsletter January 2017 Page 2 of 12 MAFMCA s 25 th Anniversary Show 2016! MAFMCA s 25th show anniversary happened Labor Day Weekend 2016 Friday, September 2, through Sunday, September 4. The featured tractor for 2016 was John Deere we had a fabulous showing of the green and yellow with a total of 99 featured tractors! A special thank you to Paul Wertz and family for helping to organize the featured John Deere displays! All of our 25 th Annual Show Statistics are listed below, as compiled by our Show Registration staff (organized by Maudell Bostian) and by our Gate staff (organized by Pat & Mike Matsko) great job by our Registration & Gate volunteers! REGISTRATION STATS 263 Tractors 309 Tractors Features: Feature: Oliver - 91 John Deere - 99 Cockshutt - 6 White 5 / Cletrac Trucks/Cars 44 Trucks/Trucks 23 Hit & Miss Engines 26 Hit & Miss Engines GATE STATS Friday Friday - 81 Saturday Saturday Sunday - 63 Sunday - 71 Total Total A 1920 Waterloo Boy owned by Larry and Linda Kirkner (Milton, PA) was the oldest featured tractor this year. Robert Oberdorf (from Arnold, Marlyand) was the feature tractor owner traveling the longest distance to show his 1937 John Deere B. The weather was very nice for our 2016 show. We enjoyed a fireworks display for the first time during our annual show Thank you to Brian Whitenight (and son Kolby) for putting on a fabulous show! Tractor pulls were busy with double-tree, powder puff and our regular points pulls all happening throughout the course of the show. We had equipment parades every day, lots of yummy food concessions and almost all of our ice cream leftover stock from the Montour-DeLong fair! We had church services on Sunday morning coordinated by Penny Mausteller. A collection was gathered during the service which was donated to Camp Victory. GREAT JOB & THANK YOU to all the many MAFMCA members, volunteers, patrons, vendors, exhibitors and the fair staff/volunteers and their families! Our flea market was full of great vendors. We would like to take this time to thank each and every one of them. Many will be returning for our 2017 show along with some new vendors. We had a great variety like: Arbors Gifts (embroidery and so much more!), Christy with Pink Papaya & Jewelry in Candles, the Carr family (Dan and Tim) with their great variety of tools and parts, yard sale items, tools, smoked cheeses, & jerky (Rob & Joan Styer), food & candy, toys, apparel (AJ Hans), Too Hot or Not Too Hot (chili, hot dogs, etc.), decals (Rena Fisher), jewelry (Leslie), T-shirts, toys (Dennis), homemade outhouses (George), Tupperware & Scentsy (Deb Smith), crafts, wood cut outs, holiday/seasonal items (Melanie Rockey), County Gourmet Home (Kayla Shoemaker), crafts, tools, flea market items & dime pitch (Brian & Linda Llewellyn) Mums, JD memorabilia, crafts (Josh Snyder), sticky buns, coffee, lemonade (Diane & Ron Laidacker), Toys (Herb Reeder), DVDs, toys, & variety (Peter), JD manuals (Pam & Chris Karnes), Thirty One (Kim). With the addition of our firework show and our demonstrations like the shingle mill, wood carving, stone crushing, etc., we have more and more events bringing people into our show. We are working on adding a few things for the 2017 show like a Chinese Auction in our Registration area, and maybe an eating competition! We will continue to hold great events like our pedal pulls, tractor games and tractor pulls too! Thank you to all our vendors for helping to make our show a success last year we are looking forward to next year s show with you!

3 Tractor Tribune MAFMCA Newsletter January 2017 Page 3 of MAFMCA Organizers Committee Advertising Breakfast Chicken BBQ Church Services Feature Displays Flea Market Flyers Food Trailer Trash Gate Hit & Miss Display Ice Cream Stand Kid Attractions Newsletter Parade Pedal Pulls Photography Gun Raffle Restrooms Security Show Registration Toy Display Tractor Display Tractor Games Pull Registration Tractor Pulls Truck Display T-Shirt Sales Website/Facebook Fair Association Chairperson/Organizers Penny Mausteller, Jason Bird Tom Bostian Jr. Frank Cotner Penny Mausteller Paul Wertz April & Clark Shuman Angie Bickhart, Jason Bird Lorie Derrick Trenton Bird Mike & Pat Matsko Tom Bostian Jr., Mike Mausteller Ken Cotner Jr., Jason Bird Angie Bickhart Angie Bickhart, Jason Bird Tom Bostian Jr. Dean & Deb Woodruff Donna Whalen Travis Carr Mike & Penny Mausteller Bob Young Maudell Bostian Mike & Penny Mausteller Tom Bostian Jr. Tom Bostian Jr. Jason Bird Tim Carr Pam Karnes Jason Bird Jason Bird, Angie Bickhart Bill Miller a few SPECIAL THANK YOUs Aurand Family donated the eggs for breakfast! Penn80 Restaurant/Tony Bostian donated breakfast meats & potatoes! Dr. Kitchen & Family for use of the play area photo boards! Wertz Family donated corn for the play area!

4 Tractor Tribune MAFMCA Newsletter January 2017 Page 4 of 12 The next Gun Raffle is currently being organized by our Raffle Chairperson Travis Carr! Tickets will be available at the Banquet in February we are planning to sell tickets until January 2018 when winning numbers will be drawn via lottery numbers Schedule of events January 3 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds February 4 MAFMCA Banquet 6 pm - Fairgrounds 7 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds March 7 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds April 2 BINGO Fundraiser 12 pm Elysburg 4 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds May 2 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds June 6 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds July 11 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds Montour-DeLong FAIR Starts 31 *MAFMCA Ice Cream Stand* 31 FAIR PULLS 4x4 Vehicles August 1 FAIR PULLS Super Stock Tractors 2 FAIR PULLS Garden Tractors & ATVs 3 FAIR PULLS Top Cut Tractors 5 FAIR PULLS Stock Farm Tractors 8 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds September 1-3 MAFMCA LABOR DAY SHOW 12 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds October 3 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds 14 BINGO Fundraiser 12 pm - Elysburg 26 Danville Halloween Parade November 7 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds December 5 MAFMCA Meeting 7 pm - Fairgrounds JANUARY 2018 G U N R A F F L E

5 Tractor Tribune MAFMCA Newsletter January 2017 Page 5 of 12 Happy New Year! MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS Tuesdays at 7:00 pm Montour-DeLong Fairgrounds Highlights of September 2016 Meeting September s membership meeting was held on Tuesday, September 13, 2016, at the Montour-DeLong Fairgrounds (pavilion) with 16 members present. August meeting minutes were read and approved. Committee Reports Tractor Pulls Tim Carr reported Nathan Stine was home recovering. He also reported sled is in needs of repairs and mentioned he will be scaling back his involvement. Flea Market No report. Food Concessions Leftover stock was sold; Frank Cotner reported on a successful chicken BBQ at the show. Ice Cream Stand Ken Cotner thanked all for their help at the ice cream stand during the fair and show season. Leftover stock was sold. FFA No report Gun Raffle Travis Carr reported on tickets sales and invited members to sell tickets at local flea markets. Newsletter Angie Bickhart reported that an upcoming issue is in the works. Bingo Reminded the group that donated items are needed for the fundraiser (auction items, food) and to contact April Shuman. Old Business Fireworks Members discussed the fireworks display at the show fabulous job to Brian and Kolby Whitenight. Discussion regarding fireworks for next ensued and April reported there was an anonymous donor to make the show even more great (thank you!). New Business Thank You Ken shared a big thank you to all for a great 2016 show. Show Results Show results were reported (see newsletter section for details). Demonstration Displays Members discussed the demo displays at the show and how patrons really enjoyed them. Further discussion occurred about continuing the displays and to encourage more for upcoming shows. The five remaining wood carvings will be auctioned at the February 2017 banquet. Fair 2017 It was reported that the Montour-DeLong fair dates will be earlier next year due to a scheduling conflict with the amusement ride vendor. The dates for 2017 are July 31 to August 5. Annual Banquet The banquet is scheduled for Saturday, February 4, 2017, at 6:30 pm, at the fair building with the same catered meal and prices from last year. Show Directories Show directory ad was coordinated. Danville Halloween Parade Members discussed plans to put a float and tractors through the annual Halloween parade on October 27. Memberships Membership cards were discussed updated cards will be coordinated for non-annual members. Jason Bird presented the monthly treasurer s report (for financial information, please attend a membership meeting). The September meeting adjourned at 8:58 pm. The next MAFMCA meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, at 7:00 pm at the Montour-DeLong Fairgrounds. Respectfully submitted, Angie Bickhart, MAFMCA Secretary

6 Tractor Tribune MAFMCA Newsletter January 2017 Page 6 of 12 Highlights of October 2016 Meeting October s membership meeting was held on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, at the Montour-DeLong Fairgrounds (pavilion) with 12 members present. September meeting minutes were read, corrected and approved. Committee Reports Tractor Pulls Tim Carr reported nothing new with the sled, Nathan is doing well, and reiterated help is needed with tractor pulls he reminded the members he is stepping down as tractor pull chairman. Fair We do not have a MAFMCA member on the Montour-DeLong Fair Board anymore if anyone is interested, please inquire. Flea Market April Shuman discussed ways to continue to improve and grow the flea market. Food Concessions/Ice Cream Stand No reports. FFA Jason Bird reported Danville FFA is still selling fruit. Tailgate event also scheduled for October 14. Gun Raffle Travis Carr provided an update on ticket sales and reminded members to get tickets and sold by the end of December. Newsletter Nothing new. Bingo April Shuman announced bingo event is almost here, flyers have been posted, donations still needed. Old Business Wood Carvings Carved statues stored in the ice cream stand and to be auctioned at the banquet. Halloween Parade Discussed parade plans. New Business T-Shirts T-shirt stock is low; members discussed plans to have new shirts made for 2017 season. Scholarship Discussion occurred about the MAFMCA scholarship see Tim Carr or Mike Shultz for information. Jason Bird presented the monthly treasurer s report (for financial information, please attend a membership meeting). The October meeting adjourned at 7:57 pm. The next MAFMCA meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 1, 2016, at 7:00 pm at the Montour-DeLong Fairgrounds. Respectfully submitted, Angie Bickhart, MAFMCA Secretary Highlights of December 2016 Meeting December s membership meeting was held on Tuesday, December 15, 2015, at the Montour-DeLong Fairgrounds (fair building) with 15 members present. (November meeting was cancelled; December s meeting was rescheduled from December 6 to December 12 due to weather. October meeting minutes were read and approved. Committee Reports Tractor Pulls Tim Carr reminded the group that a new tractor pull chairman is needed to replace him. Fair Fair Board member Ruth Marr inquired about a MAFMCA member who may be interested in serving on the fair board. Interested member, please inquire. Flea Market Nothing new. Food Concessions/Ice Cream Stand No reports. FFA Nothing new. Gun Raffle Travis Carr reported that to date, 564 tickets have been sold and turned in one more month to sell. Newsletter Angie Bickhart reported that she is behind schedule, but hopes to have a newsletter out soon. Bingo April Shuman reported the bingo fundraiser was a success and made a profit thanks to all for help with the bingo, auction and food concessions. She informed the group that member involvement was lacking. The group discussed organizing another bingo for the spring and fall of 2017 with prizes not just for women (jewelry) but will add tool prizes, family-themed items, children items, etc. April will coordinate and report back. Old Business Halloween Parade Members canceled involvement in the Danville parade due to inclement weather. T-Shirts Plans continued to be made for more shirts to be printed and sold for New Business Tractor Awards Ken Cotner Jr and Jason Bird will coordinate tractor pull awards for presentation at the banquet in February. Danville Christmas Community Fund An annual donation was made to this organization. Fundraisers April Shuman proposed some new ideas for fundraising events group discussed possible events such as turkey/ham shoot, Chinese auction and eating contests during the annual show. More information is being gathered and will be shared at an upcoming meeting. Taxes Tax preparation will be completed by H&R Block as was done last year. Jason Bird presented the monthly treasurer s report (for financial information, please attend a membership meeting). The meeting adjourned at 8:17 pm. The next MAFMCA meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 3, 2017, at 7:00 pm at the Montour-DeLong Fairgrounds. Respectfully submitted, Angie Bickhart, MAFMCA Secretary

7 Tractor Tribune MAFMCA Newsletter January 2017 Page 7 of 12 PAPERLESS NEWSLETTERS! Would you consider receiving your MAFMCA newsletter the Tractor Tribune in your mailbox? Newsletters will be posted on our website & Facebook page we d also like to utilize electronic mail not only would this save the club money and be more environmentally friendly, but you will also receive your newsletters faster and will always receive full color issues (color copies are extremely costly to print). Please contact us at info@mafmca.org to go paperless! FFA News National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program The Danville FFA chapter, with the cooperation of the Montour Antique Farm Machinery Collector s Association, will be sponsoring a National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program. The program is available to students who will turn during the 2017 tractor pull and show season. Participant parent/guardians MUST be a member of MAFMCA, or the participants must be Danville Middle/High School students to participate in the program. Many of the tractor show and pull organizations in the state require an operator s certificate for youth under the age of 16 to participate in tractor pulls and parades. The National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operator s Certificate is also required by federal labor laws for a child under the age of 16 to be legally hired to do most types of farm work on a farm not owned by a parent - specifically if they will be using a tractor over 20 horsepower or operate any other type of equipment. This course will be offered as an Independent Study Cyber Course only this year. A secure internet website will be developed and maintained for this course. Students will need to register with Mike Shultz by February 1, 2017, to enroll in the course. Readings and assignments will be posted to the internet site, and students will need to read the task sheets and do the assigned work INDEPENDENTLY to keep up on the information required to pass the written exam at the end of the course. The Skills and Driving Exams will be held at a time and location to be determined. Driving instruction and practice will not be offered. Students must have previous skill and training from a trusted adult before taking the skills and driving test. This course is not designed to instruct students how to drive. It is designed to enrich student knowledge about Tractor/Farm/Machinery safety issues, and to assess student ability to drive safely and accurately. Please Danville High School Ag-Science Instructor Mike Shultz at mshultz@danville.k12.pa.us to register. Danville FFA Spring Plant Sale tentatively begins May 3, 2017 Danville High School Greenhouse Plant information sale times will be provided later (and available on the FFA website).

8 Tractor Tribune MAFMCA Newsletter January 2017 Page 8 of Show Pedal Pull & Games Results Pedal Pulls Age 3 Age 5 Age 6 1 st Teagan Karnes 2 nd Elliott Erney 1 st Aunalee McAnnaney 2 nd Elyse Karnes 3 rd Trigg Snyder 4 th Cotter Erney 1 st Conner Roberts 2 nd Jack Stoner Age 8 Age 9 Age 10 1 st Trent Stoner 2 nd Brynn Karnes 3 rd Axton Koser 1 st Addison Strausser 2 nd Skyler Nevel 1 st Austin Heddings 2 nd Taelyn Hollenbach Age 11 & 12 Age 13 & 14 1 st Harlee Hollenbach 2 nd Hunter Woodruff 3 rd Wyatt Koser Age 17+ Men 1 st Jared Poorman 2 nd Ben Hartley 3 rd Hughston Bogart 4 th Ryan Styer 5 th Keith Erney 1 st Kate Woodruff Age 17+ Women 1 st Lindsey McAnnaney 2 nd - Tawanda Snyder 3 rd Tara Erney Barrel Roll Slow Race Blind Tractor Race Garden Tractor 1 st Wyatt Koser 2 nd Conner Roberts 3 rd Skyler Nevel Farm Tractor 1 st Gary Cleese 2 nd Allen Bostian 3 rd John Esenwein 4 th Zach Bostian 5 th Jacob Bickhart Leaf Blower Race 1 st Michael Muffly 2 nd Jordan Roadarmel 3 rd Austin Heddings Garden Tractor 1 st Wyatt Koser 2 nd Conner Roberts 3 rd Skyler Nevel 4 th Leonna Roberts 5 th Austin Heddings Farm Tractor 1 st Leroy Robbins 2 nd Daniel Van Kirk 3 rd Nate Koser 4 th Dan Carr 5 th Gary Cleese 1 st place team Janae Bickhart & Josh Pettit 2 nd place team Kolby Whitenight & Mark Hilkert 3 rd place team Michael Muffly & Brittany Zapach 4 th place team Makaela Bickhart & Jared Poorman 5 th place team Allen Bostian & Jordyn Roadarmel Crank-Up Race 1 st Mike Woodruff 2 nd John Esenwein 3 rd Kolby Whitenight 4 th - Mark Hilkert

9 Tractor Tribune MAFMCA Newsletter January 2017 Page 9 of 12 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION/RENEWAL and 2016 SHOW SURVEY For your convenience, a Membership Application/Renewal form is included as well as a 2015 Show Survey. We d love to get feedback from our members, patrons and vendors as to how we can improve our organization and show. The form and survey on printed on both sides a survey is also available online! THANK YOU!

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