Re: Another 1000 pounder comes in.... Hats off Jack LaRue

     Do any of you know if Jack LaRue has an e-mail address, and if so
would you please send me it?  Feel free to e-mail me privately.  Thank
you for your time.

Grow'em Big,
Josh J.
joshj16@juno.com

(personal best 451.5lbs-  2000)


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On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:41:37 -0800 (PST) Duncan McAlpine
<mcalpin1@yahoo.com> writes:
> If you want to read more of this article, join the
> PNWGPG group....
> 
> Saturday night, the 28th of October 2000. The event
> was the "who cares weigh off". Location was at the
> Hoffman Dairy Gardens in Canby, OR. This event was
> intended to clean out the patches of the PNWGPG, to
> weigh all of the leftovers that never had the
> opportunity to make it to a major contest. Growers
> were allowed to bring as many pumpkins as they wanted
> with no limit imposed. The large orange fruits started
> to arrive at 4:00 PM and to the surprise of every one
> in attendance the leftovers looked pretty good. At
> this point in time none of us were expecting any of
> the surprises that the night would bring. Who would
> end up on top? The two favorites were both bright
> orange pumpkins grown by Jack La Rue and Kirk Mombert.
> To make it even more interesting they were the same
> age and from the same parent seed the 801.5 Stelts.
> The crowd was the largest yet to watch one of our
> events, however the grower turn out was low with only
> 5 growers showing pumpkins. Even with the low grower
> turn out our members did not disappoint the crowd.
> . ......
> 
> 
> It was official the 801.5 Stelts had just produced its
> first 1000 pounder. The following is a list of the
> results.
> Place        Grower                Weight
> 1st        Jack La Rue              1010
> 2nd        Jack La Rue               887
> 3rd        Jack La Rue               882
> 4th        Kirk Mombert              867
> 5th        Lincoln Mettler            749
> 6th        Jack La Rue               747
> 7th        Jack La Rue               746
> 8th        Lincoln Mettler            705
> 9th        Lincoln Mettler            687
> 10th       Brett Hester              617
> 11th       Sherry La Rue             605
> 12th       Brett Hester              468
> 13th       Brett Hester              390
> 14th       Brett Hester              389
> 15th       Brett Hester              371
> 16th       Brett Hester              301
> 17th       Brett Hester              286
> 
> The top ten pumpkins averaged 789.7 pounds. 
> 
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