The District Convention will take place on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at the Milton Community Hall, 7 New Glasgow Road.
The location is at the intersection of highways 7 and 224 in North Milton. (Storm date is March 30). The registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. with the meeting getting underway at 10:00 a.m. Registration fee is $20 per person and will include a meal at noon. Financial assistance is available to any members who require child care that day in order to attend the meeting. Please call Edith Ling at 902-368-1262 about this if needed.
Reports on the past year’s activities will be given by the directors and elections will be held for the positions of District Director, Women’s District Director and Youth District Director.
The Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Alan McIsaac will speak to the meeting immediately after the noon meal.
Following that, we will view the video, “Islanders and the Land”. This video, produced by Don Kossick, will feature P. E. I. farmers and will depict their concern for the preservation of farmland in this Province.
A representative from the Workers’ Compensation Board will bring members up to date on the mandatory inclusion of farm workers under that program.
Our keynote speaker, of course, is our National President, Jan Slomp. He will be speaking on the “State of Canadian Agriculture and What That Means for Rural Canada”. That is a very appropriate topic when we consider what is going on in this Province with regard to the grabbing of land, the possible closure of schools and the move to centralization in general.
Resolutions will be considered during the day. If you have a resolution which you wish to have dealt with, please contact any one of the Resolutions Committee members. The following is the list of Committees for our Convention this year:
Resolutions Committee: J.P. Hendricken, Gordon Carter, Ranald MacFarlane
Registration Committee – Mary Carter, Vernon MacLeod
Nominating Committee – Reg Phelan, Darren Toombs, Muncey Gallant and Elwin Wyand
Elections & Credentials Committee – The Convention chairpersons
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