14 - The Canadian Champion, Tueaday, August 29,2000 ~Action will be even faster at this year's Steam-Era By IRENE GENTLE The Champion History is neyer duli at Milton's annual action- packed, eardrumn-busting ode to the old days, Steam-Era. Thse event blasts off Labour Day weekend at thse Milton Fair Grounds. Gates open ai 8 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Monday, and Il a.m. Sunday. And daily demonstrations of vintage racing cars from the Canadian Motor Racing Historical Society means the action will be even faater this year. The cars will add a pulse-pounding element to the event, which wilI also feature Classic Canadiana farm equipmens. "Every year, Steam-Era features a 'theme' tractor but we felt this waa a special year in many ways and it waa time to give par- ticular recognition to historical Canadian farm equipment manu- facturera," said Steam-Era president Brad Clements. "We have a rich hissory of Canadian-cnginccred, designed and butit farmi equipment over the past century - the Maasey's, thse Cockshutt's and the Waterloo's." Examples of each will be present, revved up and ready to roar. 'Thcy'll ail be here, dozens and dozens of tlsem, ail shined to a gleara and running good as new," said Mr. Clements. T'Me event will also feature the usual array of soya and miniature collectibles, as well as shopping at the Trading Post and fies mar- ket and the aria and crafts buildings. New to the entertainment roster will be Canada's Largest Traveling Barn Dance Show, performed by the Barn Dance Historical Society Friday, Sept. 1. But residents be wamied - it's a show, not a real dance. "It's a historical repeat of iraditional country music done in the way the CKNX travelling barn show used to do it in the 1940s," said Mr. Clements. "We want to get as many local people as we can for that. We want to fi11 tise grandstand." If successful, tise barn dance could become a staple at thse annu- Visit our webstte at www.stopfactory com Sinoe 1978 ý'Canada's Mattress,.Supetstore' bWdq * *em-gwâaf lqR Maw 0spoeid o Ufl ni" 0 SE DW OL ai event. Old-style country music will star in tise 8 p.m. show, which will also feature Grant Heywood and Mandy Kraddock, among ots- era. On Saturday evening tise annual Country and Western talent contest will make its triumphant return, having firat appeared at the show in 1976. And Sunday night will feature a swinging jam with old coun- try, new country, gospel and more in the annual Variety Show. Daily tractor parades, tractor pulls, and demonstrations of steam engines and model gas engines will also inject full-throttle excitement into the weekend's events. There will also be kids' activities, such as a mini-tractor pull, pony exhibits and the "usual compesitions if tie kida want to do them," said Mr. Clements. T3sey will include sawing wood and banging nails. Steam-Era is the largest of its kind in Eastern Canada and is mun as a non-profit endeavor by the volunteer membera of tise Ontario Steam and Antique Preservera Association. Tise ides is to provide both fun and education about how things used to be. "I hope part of it is educational in that people leamn about Use good old days," said Mr. Clements. That, and an eternal fascination with how big farmi machinery muns draws in tise crowds - about 10,000 on s sypical Labour Day weekend. Tise event will operate in ail types of weaslser. "We've mun in Use rain We've mun in tise hot (weather). We've mnt in Use cold," recounted Mr. Clements. 'Tse show goes on no master What." Admission to Steara-Era, including shows, cos $5 for adu5s ($4 on Friday), $1 for children under 12 yeas of age, and $2 for parking. It's a very good family value and a good money value as well," said Mr. Clements. "PZ No extra trustee IIIII afl given to Milton Thse paperwork and number-crunching is complese and the resuls is one more public school tnistee for Burlington. The Halton District School Board's response to a Provincial request haas ensuoed it wili increase by one trustee to 1l overaîl. Representation is determined by population and for the next three-year terni, five board members will be from Burlington. lm M SuR and BulntntuteMichael Ellis. wW apn ohv few more people, but that's flot the tnie reality af-h ubr, aid Mr. Ellis. 'There wilIl be growts in Milton and Georgetown, but their numbera didn't warrant an extra trustee." Currently, two trustees repreaent Burlingson Wards 1, 2 and 3 (Mr. Ellia and Sheila Flook), while two others (David Absott and David Bird) repreaent Wards 4, 5 and 6. Under thse new set-up, there will be one trastee each for Warda 'Mu 1, 2, 3 and 6. 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