Ontario Pork marketing board honoured former long-term director Marion Myers and long-term director Ron Douglas and his wife, Sharon, for their years of service educating the urban public.
Myers was the first woman elected to the board in 1975 and has always been a feisty blunt-speaking representative for Frontenac, Glengarry-Prescott, Ottawa-Carleton-Lanark, Renfrew and Nation Valley.
She was a director from 1975 to 1992 and then from 2000 to 2010. During her years of service she has chaired the audit committee, been involved with the In Transit Loss Account, and the Toronto Stockyards Land Development Board.
Ron Douglas served as Huron County delegate for many years, Sharon was with him at the Pig Mobile at the Royal Agriculture Winter Fair for 40 years, and “even the late Queen Elizabeth was amused during a meat-and-greet with the oinkers at a Golden Jubilee event in Toronto in 2002,” the board said.
The Douglas team was on the road with the Pig Mobile nearly 100 days a year for decades.
