The board of directors of Canadian Western Agribition has amended its constitution to reduce the board from a maximum of 40 members to 25.
President Audrey Horkoff said the number of elected board members won’t change. Nine people are elected each year for a two-year term, for a total of 18 members.
Executive vice-president Wayne Gamble said the change in the number of appointed directors was made to reflect the new role of government in organizations like Agribition.
Governments invested
“In the past we’ve had a number of appointed directors from various government agencies and I think that reflects a time in the past when government departments played a more direct role in organizations and also when they invested money in organizations,” Gamble said.
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He said the governments of Alberta and British Columbia no longer contribute grant money to the Regina-based agricultural exhibition.
“They’ve both suggested it’s probably appropriate now that if we’re going to recruit directors from those geographic areas that we do it from the industry side rather than the government side,” Gamble said.
The Agribition board includes representatives based on geography, sector and network contacts, he said.
Horkoff, a purebred Charolais rancher and grain producer from Kamsack, Sask., was re-elected president at the annual meeting last week. Other members of the 1997 executive are: Mel Watson, of Weyburn, Sask., first vice-president; Bill Aulie, Rouleau, Sask., second vice-president; Mel Sisson, Ridgedale, Sask. and John LaClare, Regina, members at large; and Brian Rossnagel, Saskatoon, past-president.
On the board
Elected for a two-year term were: Aulie; Sisson; LaClare; Larry Brack, Brantford, Ont.; Jim Hallberg, Weyburn; Adele Buettner, Saskatoon; Rose Olsen, Saskatoon; Shannon McArton, Dilke, Sask.; and Jack Hay, Bradwell, Sask.
Milos Menhart, of Regina, was awarded the Jim Lewthwaite Memorial Award for his international promotion of Agribition and Canadian purebred livestock, particularly in the Czech Republic.
The 1996 Barn Boss award went to Clayton Hobman, of Nokomis, Sask. The draft horse barn boss won for promoting co-operation among exhibitors.
