Friday, April 27, 2012

Three appointees announced



The Ontario government has announced that Bette Jean Crews has been appointed to a two-year term on the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Council and Jeff Davis and Henry Ankum have been appointed to three-year terms on the Grain Financial Protection Board.

The government has been almost silent on appointments since the election last fall.

Crews is president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, an executive committee member of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, chair of the Ontario Region Delegates of CoOperators Insurance Group, a board member of OnTrace Agri-Food Traceability and co-chair of the CFA Food Safety Committee.

Davis is from St. Thomas. Van Ankum of Alma, north of Kitchener-Waterloo, is past chairman of the Ontario Wheat Producers Marketing Board and a director of Grain Farmers of Ontario.

The other members of the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Council are chairman Gerald Kamenza, Deborah Whale, Elmer Buchanan, Robert Aumell, Thomas Richardson, Anna Andres and Jim Clark.

The other members of the Grain Financial Protection Board are chairman Jim Campbell, Fred Wagner, Jeff Kobe, David Buttenham, Bary Senft and Darcy Oliphant.