Manitoba Charolais Association AGM – Update
Monday, January 11th, 2010 From the GM by ngilliesHelge By and Neil Gillies travelled to Brandon, MB on Saturday, January 9th 2010 to attend the MCA AGM. The Charolais, Simmental, Limousin, Angus and Hereford provincial associations all hold their AGM’s on the same day at the Royal Oak Inn in break-out meeting rooms and then gather together for the evening banquet and speakers/entertainment. The pooling of associations members, guests and enthusiasts at the evening program allows for good will and laughter to be shared by all participants. The evening program features a silent auction,an actual auction of donated products (an example would be special pages in the regional breed newsletters for the year ahead), association awards – commercial and purebred breeder of the year et cetera and introduction of new boards. This would be followed up with a speaker or entertainment of some description. Naturally, this would have been preceeded by a roast hip of beef with all of the trimmings.
This is an excellent event that utilizes all of the energies of breed associations with a critical mass of numbers to make these events more worthwhile. I remember that something akin to this was done before in Alberta in the late seventies, however more provinces should try this as it receives high marks from all of the participants in Brandon, MB each year.
