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NEWS Willem de Klerk in action! Nothing is too much trouble when it comes to ploughing back into the community. Hero honoured at Free State Agriculture Congress Many times ordinary people who do extraordinary things go unnotices. Fortunately the good deeds of Willem de Klerk of Ficksburg did not go unnoticed.  By Aubrey Kruger Senwes Scenario Editor I Willem being honoured! Francois Wilken, President of Free State Agriculture, Gerhard Kriel, Chief Executive Officer of Free State Agriculture, Willem de Klerk, Tommie Esterhuyse, Vice-president of Free State Agriculture and Dirk Viljoen, Chairman of the Rural Safety Committee. Photo: Conrad Bornman/Media Farmer. 58 SENWES SCENARIO | SUMMER 2018 t reminded one of the Senwes adver- tisement about heroes in the making launched earlier this year, with Evert du Preez and Mokoni Chaka, the young heroes during the train accident between Hennenman and Kroonstad in January this year. During the 2018 Free State Agriculture Congress it was the turn of Willem de Klerk, a supervisor at the Setsoto Municipality in Ficksburg. Willem was honoured in Bloemfontein by Free State Agriculture in the presence of Francois Wilken (President), Gerhard Kriel (Chief Executive Officer) as well as Tommie Esterhuyse, (Vice-president) and Dirk Viljoen (Chairman of the Rural Safety Committee). “The award was amazing - I really did not expect it,” Willem said after he received an award for selfless service to