Cattlemen donate $7,500

Dr. Peter Beckett presents Sarah Lowe with her rehabilitation achievement award ing pits and quarries and am glad if I have made a positive contribution", said Lowe. During the 30 years that Lowe has been involved in the aggregates industry she has made many contributions to the environmental progress of the industry. She has worked to promote good environmental stewardship and resources management best practices. In 1985 she received the Noranda Land Reclamation Award from the CLRA in recognition of her outstanding record in reclamation. It is the most prestigious rehabilitation award in Canada. To be considered for this award an individual has made an outstanding contribution to advances in land reclamation through professional practice, teaching, research, or regulating authority and has been widely recognized for contributions to the field of land reclamation spanning a significant portion of their career. In addition to more than 100 industry advancement awards, Dufferin Aggregates and Sarah have been recognized with the Conservation Halton Ralph Sherwood Conservation Award in 1998, the Ontario Heritage Foundation Award in 1999, and most recently the 2006 Conservation Halton Stewardship Conservation Award. Dufferin Aggregates, a business unit of St. Lawrence Cement, a Company of the Holcim Group, is a major supplier of construction aggregates across the Greater Toronto area. Based in Concord, the company operates six quarries, 13 sand and gravel pits and three distribution yards, located within the Greater Toronto area or adjacent municipalities. The Halton-Peel Cattlemen's Association and the Peel Junior Farmers club recently joined forces to organize a fundraiser for the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. Collectively, the organizations raised $7,500, which they presented to Michelle Baldwin, of the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, in honour of David Thompson, a Georgetown area farmer and former Peel Junior Farmer member, who was diagnosed with a brain Tumour in December 2005. At the request of Thompson, the monies will be used by the foundation to further brain tumour research. Shown (from left): Tom McDonald, president, Halton-Peel Cattlemen's Association; Baldwin; Laura Boughen, president, Peel Junior Farmers; Jackie and David Thompson. Photo by Anne Howden Thompson