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Friends of Kinder Farm Park Newsletter – Fall 2018 Page 1 Fall 2018 Newsletter Inside This Issue Page 1 – Congratulations Bill Offutt Page 7 – Chartwell Garden Club News Page 1 – The Acting Superintendent Shuffle Page 8 – Anne Arundel Bird Club Happenings Nov.- Page 1 – Membership Renewal Campaign Dec. Page 2 – Fall Harvest Festival, a Big Success Page 10 – A Great Holiday Gift Idea! Page 3 – Getting our Tractors in Shape Page 11 – Jingle Bell Hayride – Dec. 1, 2018 Page 4 – Reviving the Antique Tractor Club Page 12 – Kinder Farmhouse During Holidays Page 4 – Farm Education Livestock Group News Page 13 – Life in the Park Photo Competition Page 5 – Bunny Bungalow Page 14 – FoKFP 12 Month Calendar Page 6 – Fall at the Apprentice Garden Page 17 – Business and Organization Support Online viewing feature: You can select the title in the index and go directly to the article. Congratulations Bill Offutt! would temporarily fill Bill’s old position at Kinder Farm Park. However, due to Bill’s promotion and The Friends of Kinder another promotion out of Downs Park staff, Nolley Farm Park are pleased has returned to Downs Park. to extend special congratulations to Bill Thank you Nolley for returning to take the reins at Offutt on his recent Kinder Farm Park, especially during our Fall promotion to Anne Harvest Festival. Arundel County’s Chief Welcome to our new Acting Superintendent, Susan of Regional Park Operations. Bill became the first Payne. Susan brings a lot of experience from her 20 Superintendent of Kinder Farm Park in May 1998 years with the county Department of Parks and after working as a park ranger in the county for the Recreation. She has worked in every park in the previous nine years. county (including a short time at Kinder Farm Park With almost 30 years of experience in the county, in 2003), except Downs and Ft. Smallwood. In Bill brings a lot of expertise to his new position and 2012 Susan was selected Ranger of the Year; and in fortunately Kinder Farm Park will continue to 2016 she was named the Department’s Employee of benefit from that experience. the Year. The Acting Superintendent Shuffle Membership Renewal Campaign In the Summer edition of this newsletter, it was By Jim Rausch, FoKFP Membership Chair announced that Bill Offutt was “temporarily” filling It is almost that time of the year for renewal letters the Chief of Regional Parks Operations position to go out to members of the Friends of Kinder Farm until a replacement could be found, and that Park asking them to renew their memberships for Superintendent Nolley Fisher from Downs Park Friends of Kinder Farm Park Newsletter – Fall 2018 Page 2 (Continued on next page) Despite a rainy start to the day, our annual Fall Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 13th, was a Membership Renewal… (Cont.) big success. We estimate that around 7500 people 2019. The good news is membership costs will came and enjoyed the fun, food, and shopping that remain low - the same fee schedule as previous were featured at this event. years: $25 for families and $15 for individuals! This year we had a new layout that provided a Renewal letters will be mailed in early December smaller, more compact footprint for the event. We and all those who renew no later than December 31, moved the food vendors out of the Pavilion and 2018 will be entered into a drawing. The drawing Playground areas to the grassy area on the hill will take place at our January Friends’ meeting above the Comfort station, (where the pony rides (scheduled for January 9, 2019) and the winner will used to be located). The games for young children be reimbursed for their renewal fee plus receive a were set up on the lawn in front of the Kinder pass to all County Parks for 2019. All renewals Farmhouse. received by the last day of this year will be eligible for the drawing. To be eligible for the drawing, payments made by mail must be postmarked no later than December 31st. Visit us online where you can join and pay using Pay Pal or print a membership form and mail in your payment at our website: http://www.kinderfarmpark.org/join.html So be sure to renew early to be eligible for the drawing and, most importantly, to show your continued support of our great Park. Again this year, we will offer anyone who joins the Friends group between October 15, 2018 and December 15, 2018 a membership for both 2018 and 2019…for the cost of one membership only. Those new members will receive free hayride tickets for both 2018 and 2019 and those tickets can be redeemed for up to 2 years! Plus these new members will receive free discounts at local participating merchants, the quarterly FoKFP newsletter and personal invitations to Friends events and activities, and many other benefits as listed on our website above. So, if you are not currently a member, join now and receive double the benefits for this limited time! Fall Harvest Festival, a Big Success (Continued on next page) By Mike Lowman, FoKFP Board Member Friends of Kinder Farm Park Newsletter – Fall 2018 Page 3 Fall Harvest Festival… (Cont.) support for this event and this unique place, Kinder Farm Park AVA: America’s Walking Club Non-competitive exercise with family and friends Freestate Happy Wanderers http://mdvolks.org/freestate/ Maryland Volkssport Association http://mdvolks.org Freestate has 5K and 10K trails at Kinder Farm Park; for year round walk information contact [email protected] Join our Meet-Up Group at http://www.meet-up.com/Maryland-Walkers Getting Our Tractors in Shape By Mike Lowman, Friends of Kinder Farm Park Board Member In the summer edition of this newsletter one of our board members Kirk Platt told you about the purchase of the,” new to us,” 1995 Ford 545D tractor and the work involved to get it ready to safely pull wagons for our hayrides. Putting the festival together starts a week or two Kirk’s efforts to get at least four of our 12 antique after the previous festival, when the committee tractors in safe operating condition for hayrides at meets to discuss how what worked and what needed our major events did not end there. To understand to improve. Then in April, the committee starts the condition of the tractors that we could or could meeting monthly to iron out all the details for the not use, Kirk met with John Bolly, who until next festival. In addition, it takes a few hundred recently was maintaining the tractors. volunteers to work the festival itself, and a monumental amount of support from the park Realizing that the work required was beyond what rangers and staff to make the festival happen. could be done at the farm, and would be somewhat costly, Kirk started asking around and found Mr. On behalf of the Friends of Kinder Farm Park, a Grimes and Sons, who just works on older tractors. special note of appreciation goes out to all those on Not only were they capable of getting the tractors the committee, the park rangers and staff, all the volunteers, and to all of those that attended for their (Continued on next page) Friends of Kinder Farm Park Newsletter – Fall 2018 Page 4 Getting Our Tractors in Shape (Cont.) 1. 1944 Allis Chalmers (runs) 2. 1944 International Harvester Farmall working, but Mr. Grimes was willing to purchase (Clutch stuck, does not run) two of our non-repairable tractors to help offset the 3. 1949 Case VAC (runs) cost of the work that needed to be done. 4. 1949 – 1950 Oliver (runs) When all is said and done, thanks to Kirk and Mr. 5. 1951 Farmall Super C (runs) Grimes, the Friends will have four tractors capable 6. 1951 Farmall Cub (runs) of pulling wagons for our events, they include the 7. 1951 Ford 8N (does not run and has flat tire) Ford 545 D, and three Minneapolis Molines, the 8. 1959 John Deere 435D (runs) G1000, the G707 and the 5 Star. Are you one of those people that have always wanted to drive a tractor; or do you have an urge to get behind the wheel of a tractor again, and/or get greasy and dirty working on a tractor? Consider joining others with similar interests in forming a new Antique Tractor Club. If you have any questions or you are interested in forming a new 1960 MM G1000 1960 MM 707 club, please email [email protected] www.alexanderanimalhospital.com 1957-1960 MM 5 Star 1996 Ford 545D 410-777-8678 Reviving the Antique Tractor Club 160 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, MD 21146 A couple years ago the Antique Tractor Club just Monday – Friday: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM kind of faded away after its leader had to step aside Saturday: 9:00 AM-1:00 PM because of work demands. Though it was called a club, it was more a group of folks that shared an Farm Education Livestock News interest in tractors, maintaining them and driving them for park events and in community parades. By Roy Fielder, Farm Education Livestock Group Leader No formal meetings were held, business was With the summer winding down and cool weather conducted when members would work or get approaching, it’s time to think about feed for the together to drive the tractors. winter. Our cows will eat 30 to 40 round bales The Friends of Kinder Farm Park have 12 tractors during the winter months. These round bales will in their collection, of which the four mentioned in weigh between 600 and 800 lbs.
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