Since our June show and just one day after our last club meeting, the tractor clubs and the Karns Community has lost a great icon. On the morning of July 8th Duane Larson passed away leaving behind family and friends who will miss him greatly. Continue to keep Nancy and the family in your prayers. Also, remember Jack Abbott in your prayers.

I went to Alco's family wheat threshing a couple of weeks ago and behold what a sight, some 430 John Deeres tugging away at the threshing machine, and doing a good job too.

Attached to the News Letter this month and next month you will find applications for the Tennessee Valley Fair. Please fill them out and send them back in as soon as you can so that passes can be obtained. I also still have applications for the fall Homecoming at the Museum if you would like to bring an exhibit.

Our attendance has been good at the previous meetings and I would hope it will stay like that. I don't know if we will have parking passes or not for our next meeting, but if someone is standing out there, stop and get one. See you at the meeting.

It is with great sadness that we have lost a founding member and a great person Duane Larson. He was so good at helping others with tractors and engines. I was at the Fenders show in Sweetwater and everyone had a story to tell about how Duane had helped them with their tractor or engine. How he worked on their magneto and other problems. He was known by our club members and members of other clubs as the one to go to with problems with their tractors or engines. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. He will be missed. He was a wealth of knowledge and a great person to have as a friend.

I am sorry I did not do my part in the last news letter. I put it off until the last minute and then got called back to work so I did not get back in time.

We had a great show at the Museum Of Appalachia June show. We owe a great thanks to all who had a part in making it happen. To all the ones who sold the ads and U.J. Hale for staying watch at night when we were all at home in are beds. Thanks to the ones who worked the gate. Thanks to Carolyn Chesney for the great food. Thanks to the sponsors who bought the ads in our show book and thanks to all who came out in the heat for the show. Special thanks go out to all the ones at the Museum Of Appalachia for letting us have the show in their field.

The Museum's tractor and engine were worked on by some of the club members. David Walker, Ron Hatcher, Bruce Moneymaker, Cecil Moneymaker, Joe Morris, Wayne Kerr, Alco Cox and others worked on the tractor and engine, but the one that worked the most was Ethan Moneymaker. He worked hard to get the engine going changing magneto parts and doing a lot of cranking. The engine on the concrete mixer is running with some small things to do. The tractor and engine will be ongoing and worked on between now and October. Thanks to Alco Cox and all the ones that had a part in the threshing of wheat it was the highlight of the show. Hope we can have a great show next year.

I met with Mr. Larry Suchomski with the Tennessee Valley Fair and we are looking forward to this year's show. We talked about the great shows in the past and how great this year’s show can be. We will include a copy of the form for the fair in this news letter. Please fill it out and get it back to me so I can let Mr. Suchomski how many tickets we need. We hope to see a great turnout for the fair and put on a supper show for the people. The Tennessee Valley Fair is September 11-20.

UT –AG DAY is September 26 we need to show our support for the AG Department.

The Museum Fall Homecoming is October 7-1. If you are planning to attend you will need to send in an application to the museum. If you need an application I have some.

Hope to see everyone at the next meeting. David Walker is lining up a guest speaker for meeting.