Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Four directors appointed to veggie board

The Ontario Farm Products Marketing Council has appointed four directors to the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers Marketing Board.

The four are Eric Allaer of Port Lambton who was previously chairman of the District 1 committee, Michael Denys of Wallaceburg who served as chairman of the Ontario Seed Corn Growers Marketing Board, Tom Hebblethwaite of Blenhem, also a previous chairman of the Seed Corn Growers and chairman of the Ontario Black Tobacco Growers Association and Chris Stewart of Cedar Springs, also a previous member of the Seed Corn Growers and the Black Fired Tobacco board.

They were appointed to one-year terms.

There will be eight directors, elected in alternating years for two-year terms.


Four days earlier, the commission appointed Suzanne van Bommel board chair.