The Rural Voice, 2000-12, Page 20Best wishes for a safe and happy holiday season.
Mutual. Insurance Company
AGENTS:
Lloyd Walkom
Keith Patterson
Steve Riehl
Lynda Vincent
Robert Ready
R. Allan Fuller
O. Box 10. Sebringville, Ont. NOK 1X0
(519) 393-6402 1-800-263-1961 Serving the community for over 100 years.
348-8050
348-8391
393-6708
527-2204
1-888-269-0377
393-6965
271-6176
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Merry
Christmas
and a
Joyous New
Year
from the
Directors,
Management
and Staff.
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donated, he recalls, from the pigs
themselves to the trucking to the
processing by Quality Meat Packers
Ltd. to the thank -you ad in Ontario
Farmer.
Mistele also first began working
with Sue Cox of the Daily Food
Bank in Toronto and Oliver Carrol
with the Ontario Association of Food
Banks.
Still, the work was enormous,
Mistele recalls. "At the mid -point
you say 'I can't back up so I've got
to go forward'," he says. By last year
it was decided there had to be a way
that didn't require such difficult
logistics as the live hog donations.
So the idea was born for a form
that producers can fill in with
the amount they'll donate and
have money deducted from their
payment cheques. "It's not as sexy as
delivering live hogs," Mistele says,
"but it got a good news story out
showing that pork producers are
good-hearted people not just people
who put up big barns."
It also allows others in the
industry, other than shippers of
finished hogs, to help the cause.
Producers of weaner pigs, for
instance, can make donations and
many feed and equipment suppliers
have also helped out.
The cash donations also get
around the problem of quality of pork
donated. You couldn't have sick and
dying hogs being donated to feed
people, Mistele says. As well, it
means they're able to get the best
value for their donations, something
that wasn't necessarily the case in
1998 when prices bottomed out.
And the program got a lot of pork
out in time for Christmas last year.
Some 6.2 tonnes of pork, the
equivalent of 61 hogs, were donated
during a three-week campaign last
Christmas. Quality Packers, a major
partner in the program, then donated
an additional tonne of product.
"As a third generation famity
business, we place great importance
on family, particularly during the
holiday season. We are pleased to
contribute to this project to help
those in need of assistance both here
in Toronto and across the province,"
said David Schwartz, president of
Quality.
The donations are co-ordinated
through the Daily Bread Food Bank,
which Mistele says, operates like a