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Traveling tractor show coming to Mendota · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Traveling Tractor Show coming to Mendota. Written by Mathias Warner.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. Heritage Tractor, a John Deere dealership
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  Speaker 1: with forty locations in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, plans
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  Speaker 1: to donate to twenty different charitable organizations during their summer
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  Speaker 1: Traveling Tractor Tour. The team will gather on Tuesday, July
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  Speaker 1: twenty first to present a one thousand dollars check to
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  Speaker 1: the Mendota Future Farmers of America Chapter. According to a
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  Speaker 1: news release from Heritage Tractor's Mendota location, our devotion to
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  Speaker 1: people stretches far outside the walls of our stores. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we place a high value on providing high quality equipment
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  Speaker 1: and expert service, but it's more than that, Heritage Tractor
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  Speaker 1: owner and CEO Derek Dummermouth said, we also want to
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  Speaker 1: see our people succeed. Our employees are customers, and the
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  Speaker 1: communities they all call home. This initiative is just a
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  Speaker 1: small nod to that. The tour began in Roanoke Hill
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  Speaker 1: earlier this summer and will travel more than six hundred
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  Speaker 1: miles across Illinois, stopping to donate to the charities along
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  Speaker 1: the way. Employees from each location voted for a charitable
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  Speaker 1: organization in their community earlier this year. According to the release,
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  Speaker 1: the Mendota Future Farmers of America Chapter is an intracurricular
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  Speaker 1: program at Mendota High School that focuses on providing students
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  Speaker 1: with pathways toward premier leadership, personal growth, and career success
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  Speaker 1: through agricultural education. According to the release, Utilizing a three
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  Speaker 1: circle educational model, the chapter combines classroom laboratory instruction with
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  Speaker 1: hands on, supervised agricultural experiences and leadership development events to
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  Speaker 1: help actively prepare the next generation of agriculturists and leaders
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  Speaker 1: by supporting student run businesses, farm placements, and community service initiatives.
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  Speaker 1: According to the release,