Olds, AB, Canada / Rock 104
Feb 26, 2021 10:44 AM
The month of March usually sees the Alberta Farm Animal Care Livestock Care Conference take place in the town of Olds but, like so many events in the last 12 months, it will be taking place instead in a virtual format. AFAC Executive Director Annemarie Pedersen says they’ve also changed the scheduling of the conference. Instead of one day, it will now be spread out over the entire month.
The Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA says budget 2021 sets up key fundamentals for growth in Agriculture and Forestry.
Devin Dreeshen – the province’s Minister of Agriculture and Forestry – says one of those keys is $800 million dollars of a new lending capacity limit for the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC).
He says this spring they will finally be ready to actually have dirt fly on the irrigation projects in Southern Alberta. Dreeshen says it will capitalize on the $815 million dollar investment in irrigation – the largest historical investment in irrigation in the province’s history.
Dreeshen notes the provincial government set a $1.4 billion dollar investment attraction goal and a two-thousand net new jobs goal last year. Already within a year, he says they have $527 million dollars in agriculture investment into the province and almost a thousand new jobs.
WHAT HAPPENED!!??!!… On This Day In History – February 5
1919 – Actors D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks form United Artists. The studio was meant to allow actors to control their own interests, rather than being dependent upon commercial studios.
1944 – “Captain America” serial film premieres starring Dick Purcell, first appearance of a Marvel superhero outside a comic
1962 – The Beatles played two shows, one at the Cavern Club at lunchtime and in the evening at the Kingsway Club in Southport. This was the first time Ringo Starr appeared live with the group after drummer Pete Best became ill.
1964 – Michael Andrew McKegan, better known as Guns n Roses’ bassist Duff McKegan was born in Seattle, Washington
WHAT HAPPENED!!??!!… On This Day In History – January 19
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU for short, is founded
1943 – Rock legend Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas. Joplin gain prominence as the lead singer of Big Bother and the Holding Company. She was setting out on her own when she died of an overdose in 1970 at the age of 27. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
1946 – International Treasure and music legend Dolly Parton is born in Locust Ridge, Tenn. She becomes one of the biggest stars in country music, winning her first Grammy Award for her self-titled 1978 album. Two of her songs top Chart Toppers’s pop singles chart: the title song to the film “9 to 5” and “Islands in the Stream,” a duet with Kenny Rogers.