May / June 2022 FARM Club Newsletter

Here it is already June! We hope everyone is getting their tractors out and dusted off! Our show “Old Machinery Days” will be here before you know it.

We are planning our show and would love to hear new ideas you might have. Our next club meeting will be July 10th at Oeders Lake. Bring your lawn chair. Hope to see everyone there!

It’s with great sadness that I say, one of our club member Jim Patterson, passed away June 12th at his home with his family by his side. Visitation at Mueller Funeral home, 6791 Tylersville Road, from 10am-11am. Service is at 11am, followed by the burial at Spring Grove Cemetery at 1pm. Please keep Jim’s family in your thoughts and prayers.

Our Tractor Trek tractor ride is Saturday June 18! Please meet at the old elementary school, at the corner of West Pike Street and Miranda in downtown Morrow. Registeration begins at 8 am, line up before 9am. The ride will leave the school no later than 9:15. Registration is as follows: single tractor and driver $25.00, Adult rider $15.00, Children $8.00 and children 5 and under are free. The weather looks great! For more information, please contact Ernest McCandless at 937-725-4247.

The FARM Club offers a scholarship, the Jump start Program, to club members’ children ages 14-18 years old. If they have a project and might need a little financial support, the FARM Club will provide 25% of the cost up to $500, if your child is chosen. It can be a tractor, plow, lawn mower, ect. Please visit our website, thefarmclub.org for rules and requirements. Call Jim Hurst at 513-877-2765 or 513-623-4183 if you have any questions.

UPCOMING EVENTS

June 18th – Tractor Trek Tractor Ride

July 1st - Otterbein Independence Day Parade 9am at Terrace Apt.

July 2nd – Independence Day Parade in Morrow Line up at 10am at the Little Miami Elementary School 605 Welch Road. Parade begins at 11am. You may throw candy.

July 3rd – Lebanon Independence Day Parade Staging time is 3:15 Parade at 4pm. NO CANDY THROWING

July 30th – Fun Pull at Oeders Lake around 9am Weather Permitting

For more information, please contact one of our directors:

Garrett Guard – 513-313-5545 or filterferrytwo@gmail.com

Chris Rolke – 513-236-8053 or cjrolke@fuse.net

Dave Siebert – 937-603-4233 or davesiebert77@gmail.com

Stephanie Rolke, treasurer – 513-236-0854 or steph217@fuse.net

Regina Flynn, secretary – 513-266-7414 or flynn_regina@yahoo.com