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SaskCanola Board Nominees Released

SaskCanola has announced the nominees who will be looking to fill the four director positions on their board. There are eight nominations for the four vacant positions. 
 
The nominees are David Altrogge of St. Benedict, Greg Brkich from Bladworth, Herschel’s Jonathan Fehr, Keith Fournier from Maidstone, Evan Michel from St. Gregor, Ogema’s Cody Nagy, Luke Perkins from Star City and Dean Roberts from Coleville. 
 
In the coming days, more information, including biographies on each of the nominees, will be released. 
 
Starting the week of November 1st, registered producers will receive a letter detailing how they can make their choices using the online voting platform. Those who do wish to vote by paper ballot will also have the opportunity to do so, but those ballots will need to be requested. The voting process will close on November 30th, with the results of the election announced in December. 
 
For this year’s board of directors' election, the returning officer will be the Manager of Levy Central, Ann Smith. 
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