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FABULOUS RENO’D 2 br home! 2 The Stonewall Teulon Tribune Thursday, August 16, 2018 A growing success By Jo-Anne Procter the best they could and entered 305 The love of gardening, and a wee bit exhibits. of competitiveness, brings enthusias- “We had a great group of people en- tic gardeners together once a year. tering their beautiful produce, fl owers The South Interlake Garden Club’s and photography,” said club president (SIGC) 57th annual Flower, Fruit and Tanya Daher. Vegetable Show was held last Satur- “It was exciting to see some new fac- day at the Oddfellows Hall in Stone- es entering and winning prizes. We wall. had one person enter an outdoor con- As always, Mother Nature plays a tainer for the fi rst time and she won.” huge part in the popularity and suc- Other winners were as follows: most cess of the show. This year, she graced points in the garden fl owers category us with extreme heat, little or no rain - Kathy Simard; best begonia - Kathy and, of course, hail the week before Simard; best rose - Karl Daher; best TRIBUNE PHOTO BY LAURA SHYMKO the show. dahlia - Lorraine Dnistransky; best South Interlake Garden Club president Tanya Daher, right, presented However, gardeners are a hardy gladiolus - Joan Hunter; best outdoor Lorraine Dnistransky, middle, with the most points overall prize bunch and this year 22 of them, aged container - Asta Johannesson; best sponsored by Southside Service in Stonewall and Jo-Anne Procter (left) fi ve to 80-plus, collected and created house plant – Lorraine Dnistransky; with the second place prize donated by the Stonewall Teulon Tribune. Relay For Life walk FRIDAY SEPT 21st 6PM to midnight 2018 STONEWALL COLLEGIATE TRACK PARTICIPANTS TRIBUNE PHOTO BY JO-ANNE PROCTER & TEAMS Shirley Campbell (left) and Joyce Davis enjoy looking at all the show entries. WANTED FOR best specialty arrangement - Lorraine of the entries, enjoy the show tea, try Dnistransky; best unique arragement their luck at the variety auction table THIS YEAR’S EVENT - Lorraine Dnistransky; most points and to purchase items from the farm- in senior citizens category - Colin er’s market with vegetables donated Chapman; best four tomatoes - Lor- by Rock Lake Hutterite Colony. raine Dnistransky; best display of “I’m blessed to be a part of it all and vegetables - Lorraine Dnistransky; the SIGC is so happy to share this most points in vegetable class - Lor- show with the many people who came raine Dnistransky; best fruit – Lor- to enjoy it with us,” said Daher. raine Dnistransky; children’s category Daher stressed that people should 6 years and under – Robert Daher; not be intimidated to enter. “We are children’s 10–16 years – Ethan Shym- all home gardeners just like you. 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Versatile Portfolios Navigator™ provides guaranteed benefits which are payable on death or maturity. No guarantee is provided on surrender or partial withdrawal in respect of Units acquired in the Segregated Funds. The Stonewall Teulon Tribune Thursday, August 16, 2018 3 Argyle’s Amy family farm celebrating 100 years By Caitlyn Gowriluk Almost 100 years ago — shortly after she and her family moved from Winnipeg to a farm in the RM of Rockwood, and several years after she and her husband had gotten married in Perth, Ont., where she had moved from Jersey, an island off the northern coast of France, in 1908 — Elsie Amy decided she wanted to buy a car. Now, Charlie Amy sits at a picnic table on his front porch on that same farm in the RM of Rock- wood that his grandparents moved to so long ago, TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY CAITLYN GOWRILUK telling the story of how his grandmother fi nally Charlie Amy takes his grandmother’s 1924 Ford Model T car out for a spin around the farm’s front got her fi rst car. yard on Aug. 10 as he prepares for the farm’s 100-year anniversary celebration coming up on Aug. First, she told a neighbour across the road that 18. she was looking to buy one. “He said, ‘I’ll watch out for a car for you, Mrs. — to bring his family’s history to life with an Amy,’” said Amy. “In the fall, he phoned her up event that covers the farm’s history from be- and said, ‘I have a car for you.’” fore his own family even arrived there. It was a beautiful car, Amy said: a black 1924 Ford In addition to friends and family, Amy in- Just Sold Model T. It was lightly used, but the car’s previous vited everyone from the grandson of the man owners only ever took it out to polish it up and put who helped his grandmother get that fi rst Ford it back. The car was perfect and in great condition. Model T car, to the great-grandchildren of the There was just one problem: Elsie didn’t have fi rst person to ever live on the farm.