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Bert Groenestege (left) presents the Producer of the Year
Award from the Perth County Pork Producers' Assoc.
iation to Trudy and Harry Bardoel of Sebringville.
Groenestege also presents the Retailer of the Year award
to Dave Staffen of Staffen's Food Markets in Mitchell and
St. Marys.
Harry, Trudy Bardoel named Producers of the Year
Harry and Trudy Bardoel, R.R.1,
Sebringville, were named Producers
of the Year by Perth County Pork
Producers' Association at the group's
annual meeting January 28. Harry is a
PCPPA past president who served on
the executive for five years and has
been a director since 1986.
Trudy is a past president of the
Ontario Pork Congress and has
volunteered with the Congress for
many years.
The Pork Promotion Award went to
Staffen's Food Markets for their
consistent promotion of pork products
in their meat departments and for their
concern shown to the pork industry
during the price collapse.°
Cardiffs Huron's top producers
Cathy and Jeff Cardiff (centre) receive the Producers of the
Year award from Huron Pork Producers' President Gary
Love and promotion committee chair Dave Linton.
Jeff and Cathy Cardiff, who met while attending
Ridgetown College and now operate a 150 -sow herd, were
named Producers of the Year at the annual meeting of the
Huron County Pork Producers' Association in Varna,
January 21. The couple also operate a catering service.
John, Arlene and Kevin Green of Green's Meat Market
in Wingham won the Retailer of the Year Award. During the
downturn in pork prices they increased processing from 20
hogs to 90 hogs a week with a staff of 10 full-time and six
part-time employees.°
Richards named field representative
Doug Richards, who had been acting Ag Rep for Huron,
has become Senior Field Representative with Ontario Pork.
As a field rep., a new role with Ontario Pork, Richards
will work directly with farmers at the farm level in helping
with such programs as the new Canadian Quality
Assurance Program, Nutrient Management Plans and new
marketing options offered through Ontario Pork, according
to Will Napp, Ontario Pork president.0
Theatre director plans to
tell threshing tales
Legendary theatre direct-
or Paul Thompson, a native
of the Listowel -area is
planning a new chronicle of
rural life with his play Death
of the Hired Man at the
Blyth Festival this summer.
Thompson, who gained
international prominence
with The Farm Show in
1972 and later led in the
creation of the original
version of He Won't Cone
in from the Barn, is
currently researching for the
new show which will
recreate the era of the
threshing gang and how its
demise changed rural life.
Currently Thompson is
seeking photographs of barn
threshing gangs for research
and display purposes. The
image will be used in the
stage production to re-create
the threshing gang, mach-
inery and structures for the
play which will turn the
theatre into the inside of a
barn. Anyone with photo-
graphs can contact the Blyth
Festival, 519-523-4345.0