The Rural Voice, 2004-02, Page 62People in Agriculture
Huron's Maaskant named to
provincial water committee
Clinton -area chicken farmer John
Maaskant has been named by
Ontario Environment Minister
Leona Dombrowsky to the 21 -
member committee to implement
recommend-ations from the
O'Connor Commission to protect
drinking water sources.
Maaskant is a director, and former
chair, of the Chicken Farmers of
Ontario and is currently chair of the
Ontario Farm Animal Council.
The Ontario Federation of
Agriculture has two representatives
on the committee. Allan Gardiner, a
member of the OFA executive
committee and regional director for
Lennox and Addington and David
Armitage, an OFA senior researcher
who has been involved in the Ontario
Farm Environmental Coalition, the
OFA's Environment Committee and
who helped develop the Nutrient
Management legislation and
regulations.
Others with a farm background
appointed to the committee include
Earl Moorwood, a past president of
the Lambton County Federation of
Agriculture who is also executive
director of the Ontario Ground Water
Association and Dr. Cord
Surgeoner, president of the
Department of Plant Agriculture at
the University of Guelph.
Dr. John FitzGibbon, chair of the
Ontario Farm Environmental
Coalition and a director of the School
of Rural Planning and Development
at the University of Guelph is one of
16 members of the new Technical
Experts Committee.0
Rural writer publishes novel
Wroxeter freelance journalist and
Howick Township Councillor
Andrea Yungblut has joined the
ranks of novelists after years of
Farrell wins $1,000
CKNX bursary
Jamie Farrell of R.R.3, Ripley is
the winner of the CKNX Farm
Advisory Board bursary for 2003.
Farrell, who receives $1,000, is in
his second year at the University of
Guelph, working towards his
Associate Diploma in Agriculture.
He was selected as winner based on
his involvement in agriculture and
his community, his leadership skills
and his overall interest in agriculture.
He was a member of the
university's judging team at the
World Dairy Expo 2002 and a
member of Ontario's 4-H judging
team at the International Judging
Seminar at Agribition 2001. He has
won a number of awards and
competitions including Top Junior
Competitor at the Gencor Challenge
2000 and the 2002 Bruce County
Holstein Youth Award.
His long-term goal is to run his
own dairy farm.0
working on her new book, The Wake.
A graduate of the University of
Western Ontario in Honours English,
Yungblut started writing as a reporter
for the Lakeshore Advance in Zurich.
Later she worked for the Stratford
Beacon Herald before she and her
husband Mark, a pork specialist
with Molesworth Farm Supply,
moved to Wroxeter nine years ago.
Yungblut's novel is set in a small
town, using her knowledge and
experience to add colour and
substance to the plot.
The story revolves
middle-aged woman
responded to a devastating personal
tragedy by plotting revenge against
the person she feels is responsible.
"I was always interested in
writing," Yungblut told the Wingham
Advance -Times. "That's why I chose
journalism. Working under pressure,
with deadlines, is good."
Yungblut had to fit bursts of
writing into an already -full schedule
until she completed the book a year
ago. It is published in Vancouver by
Imprint Books, (now Global
Publishers, a publishing house based
in South Carolina).0
around a
who has
Warren Moore named
Huron County's
Forestry Officer
Blyth forestry consultant
Warren Moore has been named
forestry officer for the County of
Huron.
Moore, was officially named to
the position at the January meeting
of Huron County council but has
been advising the county on
"intent to cut" permits since
December.
The position of forestry officer
has been vacant for several months
and at the November 26 meeting
of council Huron County engineer
Don Pletch was asked to hire a
consultant to help police forestry
issues until a new officer was
named.
Moore will continue to operate
his woodlot consulting business.
Goderich councillor Deb
Shewfelt asked Pletch if Moore
would be doing forest management
on the county's forest tracts.
Pletch said Moore would be
bringing a proposal to the January
meeting of the Agriculture, Public
Works and Seniors Committee for
selective harvesting of two county
forests with the revenue from the
sale of timber to be used to help
finance better management of the
county forests.0
College of
Veterinarians gives
farmer award
The College of Veterinarians of
Ontario has given its 2003 public
award to a New Dundee -area hog
and beef feedlot operator.
Stewart Cressman received the
award given to a non -veterinarian
who has made significant
contributions to the veterinary
profession, animal husbandry
and/or animal care.
Cressman is a member of the
research committee of Ontario
Pork and is on the advisory
council for the Ontario
Cattlemen's Association and the
advisory council for the Ontario
Veterinary College.0