Prairie towns woo Maple Leaf Foods amid hog boom
The piece notes a rush of giant hog facility bids with Maple Leaf Foods as the target, including a $70 million investor pool and 50 000 hogs weekly capacity creating 2 500 jobs. Cities like Melville Barrhead Virden vie with tax breaks and water plants while Stonewall rejects offers citing boom bust cycles. Alberta counts 83 new production units housing 56 000 sows.
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Carest
Maple Leaf Foods
Melville
Mike Fisher
Saskatchewan
Barrhead
Economic Development Board
Empire Advance of
Virden
Maple Leaf
Stonewall
Alberta
Alberta Agriculture
Auld Days Highlights from Glenboro Gazette Clippings
Compiled notes span 1897 to 1987, recounting accidents at a depot and a school lab, a petrified stone find near West's farm, weddings and deaths, local athletics, exams, and community projects across Cypress River, Glenboro, and area. Notable items include a brakeman’s injury, a lab explosion, a 1917 wedding, obituaries, track and field results, tree-planting ceremonies, centennial medallions, and local renovations.
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Cameron
Lougheed
John West
Sand Hills
Queens
West
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Glenboro Gazette
F.]. Bergman
Winnipeg
Kjartan Stevenson
J.S. Johnson
Cypress River
J. Job
Calgary
Julia Barr
Edmonton Hospital
Job
Edmonton
R.D. McLachlan
Stockton
Strathcona
Granite
Glenboro
Joyce Hamilton
Patrick Ferg
Norman Donagh
Perry Horton
Jack Pinder
Bruce McKay
Keith Malcolm
Les Dieh
Jeff Young
Raymond Bryan
Brandon
Raymond
Les
L.W. Christie
Robertson
Seed Growers’ Association
Garth McIntyre
Canada
J. T. Dale
Cypress River Electric
Bob Martin
Treherne
Glenboro Legion Ladies
Sylvia Witherspoon
Tara May
Keith McIntyre
Clayton Barr
Glen Ford
Frank Malyon
Guy Hutler
Wallis Agencies Ltd
i Canesten Indepencert DEPOSIT / BROKERS
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Sun
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill
Carrie Fisher
P.G
Val Kilmer
Elisabeth Shue - P.G
Len Rust
Holland
Holland Medical Centre
Glenboro District Hospital
Rudy Kovar
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