The Rural Voice, 1993-02, Page 2People
Stafford heads
Gay Lea again
John Stafford, of R.R.1, Wroxeter
was re-elected chairman of the board
of directors of Gay Lea Foods Co-
operative Limited at the December 10
meeting of the board in Guelph.
First elected to the board in 1977,
Stafford operates a farm with his fam-
ily between Wroxeter and Belmore.
He has been active in the community,
from being a past president of the
Huron County Federation of Agricul-
ture to coaching local sports teams.
Re-elected as first vice-president of
the co-operative was John Hill of
R.R.4, Owen Sound. Don Ahrens,
R.R.2, Elmwood, is the second vice-
president.
Gay Lea, which increased sales in
the previous year by 11.5 per cent, will John Stafford: back again at Gay Lea.
return $620,000 in dividends to milk and cream producers who are member
shareholders. The company has been operating in the dairy business since 1958
and currently has 420 employees in facilities at Weston, Guelph, Teeswater,
Baden and Uniondale.
At regional meetings Ross Campbell, R.R.2, Tavistock was elected director
for Zone 1, succeeding Edwin Miller of Exeter who had served five terms as
director. Ray Robertson of Markdale was re-elected director from Zone 2. Tom
McGee was re-elected a director of the board at the annual meeting.0
The ministers change but Cardiff stays
Murray Cardiff: constant in federal
ag ministry.
Bill McKnight is out and Charles
Mayer is in but Murray Cardiff just keeps
rolling along.
The latest shuffling of the federal cabin-
et that saw McKnight shifted to the energy
portfolio while Mayer becomes the new
minister of agriculture has not affected the
role of the Huron -Bruce M.P.'s position as
parliamentary assistant to the minister of
agriculture.
Mayer will be the third minister of agri-
culture Cardiff has served under. He was
originally appointed as parliamentary
assistant to Don Mazenkowski . When
Mazenkowski became finance minister
and McKnight took over agriculture,
Cardiff stayed on.
The Ethel -area farmer has taken on
many trade missions on behalf of the
various ministers he has served, including
several trips to China. Travelling is old
hat for Cardiff. He was part of trade
missions for the Ontario Bean Producers
Marketing Board before entering politics.0
Moorefield man
heads Christian
Farmers
Federation
Arend Streutker, a 55 -year-old
dairy farmer from Moorefield in
Wellington County was acclaimed as
president of the Christian Farmers
Federation of Ontario (CFFO) at the
annual convention in Guelph in
December.
Streutker is past president of the
Wellington North Christian Farmers
Association. He succeeds Henry
Aukema of Strathroy, in Middlesex
County. Aukema, a pork producer
and cash cropper, did not seek re-
election. He had served two years as
president and had been on the Federa-
tion's executive for six years in all.
John Markus, of Beachville in
Oxford County, was elected as vice-
president. The 42 -year-old dairy and
cash crop farmer is past president of
the Oxford Christian Farmers
Association.
There are about 650 family farm
members of the federation in Ontario,
each paying an annual membership
fee of $425.0
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