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APRIL 8, 2020
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Succession Plan Underway for Chomiak Charolais Michelle Pinon herd of Full French stock. Rudiger’s top News Advertiser Full French bull was purchased at this Christine Chomiak delivered welcoming sale. And, along with Mongo, our half remarks at the 16th annual Chomiak Charolais Full French already on site, the Full sale in Viking on March 28. French influence went to work. At that time, she also laid out the succession We have since added a couple more plan that would keep the breeding business in Full French bulls into the mix. We have the family. “I am proud and delighted to menobserved that the newborn calves tion that my sister Karen and I are in the proappear stronger and that the muscular cess of transitioning into leadership roles at the disposition trait is there because of the farm and continuing with the Chomiak Full French influence.” Charolais breeding stock operation. Karen Christine said they want to continue and I have been heavily involved for many raising bulls and heifers that cow-calf years, really decades; with sorting, vaccinating, operators and other Charolais breeders tagging, tattooing, Ivermectin treatment and want to add to their herds. The total on a few occasions, delivery. herd with cows calved out will reach In addition to the two of us, our sister approximately 150. Our female herd is Karen Chomiak, left, and Christine Chomiak stand in front of the bulls that sold Darlene Gillis, who is a school teacher by day, 90 (70 cows & 20 heifers) and the rest during the Chomiak Charolais sale on March 28. They offered to look after the bulls will be helping out with the paper work. Our are bulls. until April 30 at no cost to buyers. (Sharon Quinn/Photo) cousin Sharon Quinn is a great help as well. John Chomiak said he and his wife The three Chomiak sisters are very excited to have been breeding and providing cattle folk with Cathie are happy their daughters are take on this opportunity to ensure the continuation of excellent bulls and bred heifers. She explained that taking over the reigns. “We’re confident we’re doing Chomiak Charolais on our family farm that has been her dad had introduced top line genetics by purchas- the right thing by giving them the opportunity. They operating since 1901! And, our parents John and ing females and sires into the herd, including Full are very smart, capable women,” stated John. They Cathie Chomiak are delighted that their three daugh- French lineage. are looking forward to the new ideas and plans they ters have accepted this opportunity.” The Chomiaks were volume buyers of full French have in mind for Chomiak Charolais and how they Chomiak said 2020 marks the 27th year her parents stock at the Rudiger dispersal sale. The late John will take their farming operation to the next level and Rudiger was our dad’s mentor, and at the sale, continue the legacy for generations to come. he promised John Rudiger that Chomiak The farm is located 16 kilometres southeast of Charolais - in time would have a significant Mundare.
WEAK LEADERS - CONTINUED from PAGE 4 Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS) when he stated “They don’t have a big warehouse full of items” and stated that Ontario was down to only one week of masks and other PPE for frontline workers. As evidence of our PMs admiration for China, our federal government has supplied Ontario with less material than they donated to China at the beginning of February. The most frustrating thing for me is hearing from those offering as a defense of weak measures and lack of decisions that “hindsight is 20/20”. We don’t need hindsight. We have science and facts from Italy, South Korea and Taiwan as well as the states of California and Washington. We have playbooks and we know what works. Everywhere
there was success, strong measures were put in place clearly and concisely. Dr. Carlos Del Rio (infectious diseases) from Emory University in the U.S. has gone on records stating “We should have started these measures months ago.” Yet... here we are. Weak measures from Ottawa. There is no doubt that this is horrible. We may be slightly insulated by rural boundaries, but people are still coming and going for various reasons. Perhaps we need to shutdown all travel and borders as suggested by a BC group concerned about Albertans crossing their borders. Military & Sheriffs running check stops and turning people back if they are not on the road to an approved destination sounds draconian, but it is one of the things that worked in France and Italy to stem the outbreak. Last week when I wrote my article, we were at around 724,000 infections worldwide. A week later as of this article we are at 1,421,730. On closed cases... the death rate is up to 21% from 18% last week. Tell me what you think. Email me at abletters@newsadvertiser.com
