SmashBurger, America's fastest growing,
fast casual "better burger" restaurant, has opened in Calgary! Please see: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/smashburger-makes-its-canadian-debut-in-calgary-2012-05-02.
If you are interested in seeing where
all the 2012 Gold Shows will be held, please check out this link to our
website: http://www.cdnangus.ca/members/goldshow.htm.
Congratulations, Betty Lou Scott! Betty Lou was recently named one of the five
national Farm Credit Canada Rosemary Davis Award winners! This leadership award for ‘Women in
Agriculture’ is richly deserved! As her
prize, Betty Lou is currently in Boston, Massachusetts at the 2012 Simmons
School of Management’s premier leadership conference for women. Here is the information about Betty Lou:
… and here is the list of previous honourees,
among them some stellar and significant Canadian Angus personalities: http://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/AboutUs/Responsibility/rosemarydavis/previous_winners_e.asp.
Finally, Director Jim Colodey provided this
link to a local article about our impressive agricultural leader:
Jim Ginn of Clinton is the RBC Royal Bank
Ontario Environmental Stewardship Award winner!
Ginn Family Farm (Ginn) is CAA Membership #5262562,
tattoo letters GFF and is a Red Angus – based operation.
Page 16 of the February, 2012 Ontario
Beef magazine features an article on Gord & Pat McArthur of
Heatherlea Farms in Caledon with their ‘farm fresh’ beef. Heatherlea Angus (Heatherlea) is CAA
Membership #5051052, tattoo letters GEM and is a Black
Angus – based operation. On Page 18 and
19 of the same publication, a profile is written of 5th generation
beef farmer Dale Pallister. Dale is a
feedlot operator as well who runs 425 Angus / Simmental cross cows and “…
prefers the Angus breed because of its strong maternal traits and good feed
conversion.” Dale is involved with the
Ontario Corn Fed Beef Program. Finally,
pages 30 and 31, provided by Canada Beef Inc.’s Communications Manager
Annemarie Pederson, spotlight the High River Angus brand that permeates the
south-eastern United States with exclusively Canadian Angus beef.
Bob Switzer graced the cover The Western Producer one week this
month judging a bull show, so it’s kind of like he was everywhere since the
March 2012 Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Connection features, as their cover
shot and story, Bob & Gail Switzer of Aneroid. Sandy Bar Ranch, Ltd.
(Sandy Bar) is CAA Membership #5051260 with tattoo
letters IJP. As a Past CAA President, I
appreciate seeing folks like Bob receive attention. Pages 12-15 are the feature story on the
multigenerational Switzer family. The
magazine also includes profiles of new Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association
representatives to the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association such as quoted Angus
booster and breeder Reg Schellenberg of Beechy who runs 400 commercial Angus
cows.
The March 29th, 2012 edition of The
Western Producer features a story on page 114 about the success of
‘Alberta’ rancher (he’s a former lifelong Saskatchewan breeder) B.J.
Scheirlinck, wife Jody and family at the Medicine Hat Bull Sale. B.J. Cattle Co. (BJ’s) is CAA Membership #5232575 with tattoo letters BJCC.
This news article appeared in the Calgary
Herald and numerous local papers regarding the Calgary Bull Sale:
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