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APG Welcomes New Chair and Directors

Alberta Pulse Growers (APG) is pleased to announce that Don Shepert of St. Brides was selected as Chair of the organization. He will serve a one-year term leading the Executive, which also consists of Robert Semeniuk of Smoky Lake as Vice-Chair and Jerome Isaac of Crooked Creek as the Third Executive Member.

New Directors on the Board include Semeniuk for Zone 5 and Kelisha Archer of Drumheller for Zone 2, who were each elected for a three-year term. Will Muller of Bow Island was acclaimed as Director-at-Large (Bean), and Peter Konstapel of Spirit River was acclaimed as Director-at-Large (Non-Bean), each for a one-year term.

At its AGM this week, AGM thanked outgoing Directors D’Arcy Hilgartner (Zone 5), Doug Sell (Zone 2), John Kowalchuk (Director-at-Large, Non-Bean), and Tim van der Hoek (Director-at-Large, Bean) for their many contributions to APG and Alberta’s pulse industry.

Source : Alberta Pulse Growers

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