– June 2025 Show –

Our 2025 show is behind us, the new venue at the Thunderbird Arena on the Kitsap Co Fair Grounds was excellent. There was plenty of room for our Stationary engines, Swap meet area, truck and trailer parking, camping, show vendors, and club sponsors, and pulling tracks. We had great Club attendance with lots of tractors, audio (with a roaming DJ), Tractor parade, Tractor Pull, Truck pull, Truck Dyno, Kiddy Train, Kid activities, Crane with an American Flag, and Club Information.

The weather was great for setting up and taking down, being in the 80’s and dry. We learned a few things about this venue and what can be done to make it better as lessons learned were being recorded.

The biggest thing was the lack of tractor pull participants, but we will address that area in the upcoming year.

I want to express a big thank you to the current and new Club Members that came and helped during the entire 5 days surrounding the Show. A special shout out goes to the Organizations that supported us in the area of Crowd Safety & Control Kitsap Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Kitsap County Sheriff Cadets, and the Air Force Cadets. The planning of the event by the Show Committee was well done and they did a wonderful job in preparation & execution.

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– FARM Days 2025 –

The 2025 F.A.R.M. Days event went very well. We gave 1713 passengers fun rides through the woods at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds and it took 113 trips. We had John Olson’s Allis-Chalmers RC as a touch-me-play-on display, Jim Cook’s Farmall M pulling the club wagon, Tom Lundgren’s International 400 pulling a John Deere wagon, Craig Thielen’s John Deere 520 pulling his John Deere wagon, and Dale Hardesty’s Fordson Major Diesel E1A tractor pulling another John Deere wagon. Last but not least was Frank Stricklin’s Bubble machine that is always a huge success.

A special thanks to the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) for volunteering to help with the event.

The club members who were in attendance were: Frank Stricklin, Craig Thielen, John Olson, Tom Lundgren, Jim Cook, John Graham, Dave Tonnessen, Randy King, Bob Campy, James Zurbrugg, Ken Griffin and Cheryl Griffin. The whole group worked like a well-oiled machine, loading, unloading, and manhandling the wheel chair ramp, and keeping a headcount and trip count of the rides. They also served as footmen on each wagon for each trip, handing out Club Stickers to all the kids and of course that Wisconsin cheese curd dude brought donuts both days (thanks John Olson). Thank you to Justin Lundgren for providing hauling services.

Everyone did a great job for safety of the riders so we had no injuries nor an emergency, which was a blessing. We only had two small mechanical tractor glitches, one on a John Deere and one on a Fordson Major and both were remedied quickly.

For lots of photos of the two-day event, go to our Facebook page or the Website.

If you have questions visit their website at www.farmdays.org