County looks for new seed cleaning plant facility in Holden – plans to lobby provincial government with resolution at convention

By Patricia Harcourt
Staff Reporter

Beaver County councillors will be lobbying the provincial government for a way to upgrade the old or build a new seed cleaning facility to replace the aging plant in Holden.

County representatives who sit on the plant’s board of directors told council Jan. 24 that the new colour sorter, which gas been in place for about a year at the Holden seed cleaning facility, could generate enough business to make a new building feasible.

Council agreed to pay the plant $24,000 as part of an earlier agreement to pay $12,000 per year for 2011 and 2012. The issue came up during a Jan. 5 meeting when the cooperative pointed out that the funding for 2011 had not been paid.

More see the Jan. 24/12 issue of the Tofield Mercury