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Polk County Itemizer-Observer • September 20, 2017 3a
Just another day
at a Falls City park
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By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
Photo courtesy of PAUL PFNISTER
This 1907 Haulsman will be on display at the Heritage auto and ag Show in Mon-
mouth on Saturday.
PRESERVING HISTORY
Heritage auto, ag show celebrates industry
By emily Mentzer
The Itemizer-Observer
MONMOUTH — The an-
nual Heritage Auto and Ag
Show returns to downtown
Monmouth on Saturday, fol-
lowed by an old-fashioned
tractor pull on Sunday.
“The whole show is dedi-
cated to preserving our
auto and ag heritage and
those who made it,” said
Paul Pfnister, one of the or-
ganizers of the event. “One
of the highlight vehicles is a
1907 Haulsman, extremely
rare, there’s just a few of
them left.”
The Haulsman doesn’t
have a steering wheel,
Pfnister said.
“You have to steer it with
a tiller, and it rides on
buggy wheels,” he said. “It’s
incredible to look at. The
people who have the car
are the third owners. It was
in the same family for 70
years.”
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What: The Heritage
Auto and Ag Show.
When: 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Saturday. Registra-
tion opens at 9 a.m.
Where: Monmouth
Main Street Park.
admission: For
those wanting to show,
$10 and a can of food.
For those wanting to
admire the cars, free.
Of note: This year,
the show will feature a
1907 Haulsman, and
celebrate the 50th an-
niversary of Mercury.
The Heritage Tractor
and Truck pulls begins
at 9 a.m. on Sunday.
for more informa-
tion: heritageau-
toandagshows.com.
In addition to the old
Haulsman, the show will
celebrate the Mercur y
Cougar, which turns 50 this
year.
“We’ve got very unique
Cougars coming,” Pfnister
said.
For exhibitors, the show
is $10 and a can of food.
Part of the proceeds ben-
efit the Jerry Bigler Auto-
motive Scholarship Fund,
which helps pay for a
young person who will
graduate or who has gradu-
ated in the last year form a
Central or Salem-Keizer
school who wants to pur-
sue an education in auto-
motive technology.
Pfnister said he would
also consider Dallas appli-
cants.
T h e s h ow i s f a m i l y
friendly, Pfnister said.
“Some of the cars we
have coming, you won’t see
in other places, especially
the younger generation can
see things they may never
see again,” he said.
For more information:
heritageautoandagshows.c
om.
FALLS CITY — Lilly Leturno and her grandmother
Melanie Bellemore aren’t strangers to picking up litter.
Every time they hike or visit a park, they take a bag with
them to pick up and properly throw away what others have
discarded.
On Sept. 9, they joined their fellow citizens for Falls City’s
Solve Little Luckiamute Cleanup, part of the city’s Arbor Day
Celebration. Volunteers with white plastic Solve bags and
gloves spread out along the river picking up trash.
“Lilly didn’t know there was such a thing because we al-
ways do it,” Bellemore said, adding she’s always taught her
kids and grandkids to leave nature as they found it. “Every
little bit helps.”
Mayor Terry Ungricht said more than 35 volunteers turned
out for the cleanup, a lot more than in past years.
“They just kept showing up,” he said. “I almost didn’t
know where to send them.”
He estimated that 1,500 pounds of trash was picked up
during the four-hour event.
“It was a real success,” he said.
Except for discovering a few scary-looking spiders, Lilly
enjoyed her time cleaning up the city.
“It’s fun and it helps the community,” she said.
Bellemore smiled and added: “Yep, it makes everything
prettier, huh?”
JOLENE GUZMAN/Itemizer-Observer
Melanie Bellemore searches through brush near the falls
on the little luckiamute river on Sept. 9.
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