Publication winner
Growing Alberta, a multi-media campaign promoting Alberta agricultural products, has won top honors in competition within the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association.
Participation through print tabloids, television announcements, radio spots, displays, envelope stuffers, milk carton ads, billboards and trade shows were part of the competition.
Food science head
John Vanderstoep has been appointed head of the food science department at the University of British Columbia until June 30, 1999.
Vanderstoep specializes in nutrition and food chemistry and is a UBC alumnus who received degrees in 1966 and 1968. He has been with the university faculty since 1972.
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Vanderstoep has served on a number of food science institutes and committees and has represented the faculty on the university senate for several years.
New general manager
Mark Regier is the new general manager of the Prairieland Exhibition in Saskatoon. His appointment was effective Dec. 30.
Regier has served as controller for the Prairieland Corporation for the past five years and is a certified management accountant. He has lived in Saskatoon since 1975.
SPCA award
The farmer of the year award from the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been given to Cors de Lint of Ducan Farms Ltd. near Abbotsford, B.C.
This is the first time such an award has been presented by the organization and was made to recognize de Lint’s operation that uses advanced animal husbandry methods in a hog operation.
de Lint, who was a veterinarian in his native Holland before moving to Canada, designed the barn to incorporate fresh air and natural sunlight, sawdust flooring and a waste removal system that relies on the pigs’ natural behavior to keep pens clean, says an SPCA news release.
4-H brand
The 4-H brand in Alberta is now permanently owned by the 4-H Foundation. While the brand was first registered several years ago, recent changes to the Alberta Brand Act prompted the 4-H Foundation to register it permanently.
The brand’s history goes back to 1981, when the Alberta 4-H council decided to establish a brand identification for 4-H, said Vicki Berger, 4-H Foundation representative.
Floyd Snortland, a Manyberries area rancher, and Ted Youck of Alberta Agriculture were involved in the original acquisition of the 4-H brand 15 years ago. Snortland designed and built the brand and the Manyberries Beef Club donated it to the 4-H Foundation.
Alberta agriculture minister Walter Paszkowski waived the permanent brand registration fee in recognition of the impact 4-H has on development of rural youth, Berger said.
