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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-05-25, Page 3Wednesday, May 25, 2016 • Lucknow Sentinel 3 Buck Twenty of the Windsor area. Kristen Hawley of Stratford. Nicole Rayy of Oakville. Four competitors are facing off for the opportunity to perform at the 2016 Lucknow Music in the Fields Sepoy Saloon Stage during the Aug. 25-27, 2016 weekend. Riki Knox of Oshawa. Public is invited to vote on four 'Sepoy Saloon' candidates for 2016 Music in the Fields The 2016 Lucknow Music in the Fields Sepoy Saloon Showdown is on. Voting is now open until June 5 to decide on two of the four Ontario artists listed, to perform at the Sepoy Saloon Emerging Art- ist Sidestage during the Aug. 25-27, 2016 country music event in Lucknow. The public is invited to vote daily per device until midnight on June 5. Artists include Buck Twenty (Windsor area), Kris- ten Hawley (Stratford), Nicole Rayy (Oakville) and Riki Knox (Oshawa). Buck Twenty bio: Based out of the Windsor area, Buck Twenty is a new coun- try group with recent gigs at the Boothill Jamboree, The Sound Academy, and CBC Toronto. Kristen Hawley bio: Set to release her first Nashville - recorded EP in the fall, Strat- ford native Kristen Hawley has been performing since she was young and has recently had a great response from Canadian radio. Nicole Rayy bio: Hailing from Oakville, Nicole Rayy is anticipating the release of her first album in September with this song already at radio. Nicole has performed at Manitoulin Country Fest, the Calgary Stampede, and the XTD World Music Fest in China. Riki Knox bio: A 2015 CMAO Rising Star nomi- nee, Riki Knox from the Oshawa area has recently co -written with Jason McCoy and Sara Evans. She has opened for Dallas Smith and will be perform- ing this summer at Beach Blast in New Brunswick alongside Florida Georgia Line and more. To vote, see videos or for more information visit www. musicinthefields.ca/ sepoy-saloon Lucknow company making its impact on agricultural business CONTINUED FROM > PAGE 1 This was the impetus behind the formation of Pro- tekta Inc. 13 years ago, he said. Though he officially immi- grated to Canada with his wife Helene in 2003, who owns the local clothing store chain Nine Waves, his family has an over 50 -year relation- ship with Lucknow. "A lot of people ask 'why did you move to Lucknow? You come from Denmark, you move to Canada, why Lucknow now of all the places?"' he said. The story starts with his father, who was a pig farmer in Denmark and was inter- ested in genetics. "He found that there were some good genetic pig lines in Canada that he wanted to bring to Denmark, so he started buying some pigs and they actually flew them to Denmark," Jakobsen recalled. "It was quite a job, but they found it to be so successful that he ended up buying a farm here, just out- side of Lucknow." It was just a small farm, he said, of around 120 sows. And they hired a farm man- ager here to breed the most desirable genetic lines together and then ship the offspring back to Denmark. Jakobsen had spent much time here starting from the 1980s, so when his father decided to retire in the mid - '90s he took over his father's Canadian holdings. The name Protekta actually signifies this connection, as it was the name of his father's farm in Denmark, which now Jakobsen's brother runs. The first several years of starting the company here were hard going, he said, due to logistics and simply being a new company. "Logistically [Canada] is a nightmare ... Denmark can fit one and a half times into Lake Huron. In Denmark, we produce almost as many pigs they have in all of Canada. And everything is so close. You can drive from one end of the country to the other in three and a half hours and you cover all your clients. Here, the geography of the whole thing is just huge," he said. Currently, Jakobsen has between 30 and 35 dealers, including feed mills selling his products from Victoria Island all the way to Nova Scotia. And about six years ago, Protekta started making headways into the US. This trend he sees occur- ring in Canada is also hap- pening in the States as well, though at an even faster clip. He is currently in several of the more northern states such as Wisconsin, Illinois and North Dakota, to name a few. And he plans to move into more in the near future. "We're seeing a lot of our nwmo NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION success," he said. "... We're seeing our company grow roughly 30 per cent a year' So much so that he is hop- ing to start manufacturing here in the next 12 to 18 months, which will eliminate international shipping charges as he ships over SOCIETE DE GESTION DES DECHETS NUCLEAIRES 1,000 tons to Canada from Denmark a year. Currently this change that Canada livestock farming is undergoing is optional, he said, but before long he sees government mandating it similar to what was done in Europe. NWMO Learn More Centre The Township of Huron -Kinloss is one of nine communities involved in a process of learning about Adaptive Phased Management (APM), Canada's plan for the safe, long-term management of used nuclear fuel. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is working collaboratively with the community to advance preliminary assessment studies. Learn about APM, meet NWMO staff, ask questions and offer your thoughts. Drop in to the NWMO community office and Learn More Centre in Ripley. Everyone is welcome. "I always keep saying to our customers, it's coming," he said. "You might was well do it now because now you can have a say." This is the sixth article in a six -part business series on Lucknow companies with international reach. NWMO Learn More Centre (Huron -Kinloss) 80 Huron Street, Ripley ON 519.386.6711 Wednesday Thursday Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.