Spring 2024 Newsletter

ALBERTA HOLSTEIN ASSOCIATION

SPRING 2024

CRESTOMERE HOLSTEINS-

2023 ALBERTA BREEDER OF THE YEAR

2024 MARJ ATKINS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

2023 PRESIDENT’S CLUB COW

2023 ALBERTA BREEDER OF THE YEAR JUDGES LIST UPDATE UPCOMING EVENTS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

NATIONAL D IRECTOR- WILLEM VANDERLINDE

Phone: 403-782-1516

Email: luckyhill97@gmail.com

PRESIDENT- TIM HUMMEL

Cell: 403-331-8599

Email: tnbhummel@gmail.com

VICE PRESIDENT- FRED HOFSTRA

Phone: 780-220-3733

Email: cowman@xplornet.com

PAST PRESIDENT-ANDREW WILDEBOER

Phone: 403-782-9615

Email: chubanna@hotmail.com

SECRETARY/TREASURER- BENITA HUMMEL

Phone: 403-382-7915

Email: albertaholstein@gmail.com

SOCIAL MEDIA REP- AMANDA HEHLI

Cell: 403-704-5455

Email: amandahehli@hotmail.ca

OFFICE MAILING ADDRESS: BOX 988, PICTURE BUTTE, AB T0K 1V0

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

DIRECTORS

CHAD CREST (CRHC)

Phone: 780-689-9576

Email: crest.chad@gmail.com

LEE SIMANTON (CAHC)

Phone: 403-704-6692

Email: lisalee.s@hotmail.com

JAN VAN DE BRAKE

Phone: 587-377-3677

Email: vandebrakejan@gmail.com

ROLF VAN BENTHEM (SAHC)

Phone: 403-896-1313

Email: rolfbenthem@hotmail.com

DIRECTORS

CLARENCE SLINGERLAND

Phone: 403-394-8351

Email: slingclar@gmail.com

RANDY SLOMP (GAHC)

Phone: 403-308-5238

Email: randyslomp@msn.com

ARJAN DELANGE

Phone: 780-941-4208

Email: delange@xplornet.com

Western Dairy Expo- Saskatoon, SK Apr. 11-13

National Holstein Convention- Hamilton, ON Apr. 24-27

National Holstein Convention- Hamilton, ON Apr. 24-27

Green Acres Holstein Show- Taber May 23-24

Alberta Dairy Congress- Rimbey, AB Jun. 5-7

Rollyview Achievement Day/NAHC Show Jul. 2-3

Mountain View 4-H Club Achievement Day- Olds Jul. 2-3

Alberta Youth Dairy Show- Rimbey Jul. 16-18

WCC- Armstrong, BC Aug. 13-18

Back : Chad Crest, Andrew Wildeboer, Jan van de Brake, Fred Hofstra, Randy Slomp, Lee Simanton, Rolf Van Benthem, Clarence Slingerland, Arjan DeLange

Front: Willem Vanderlinde, Benita Hummel, Amanda Hehli, Tim Hummel

EXECUTIVE UPDATES

PRESIDENT REPORT

Tim Hummel

At the beginning of every new year we are thankful for the blessings of the past year and look forward to the progress and achievements of the year to come.

Firstly, I would like to thank the Southern Alberta Holstein Club for hosting a successful and informative AGM in February. It is always great to get together with other breeders to discuss our industry. The weather was great so it was well attended and it was great to see some of the farms in the area and have some fun with our fellow breeders!

The Alberta Holstein Board would like to thank Andrew Wildeboer for his many years of service as president on the board. The Board is grateful that he will still attend meetings as past president. Clarence Slingerland will also remain on the Board, Arjan DeLange will begin his first term both as directors at large and Lee Simanton returns and will represent the Central Alberta Holstein Club.

The Board is always pleased to support the youth in our province, we were able to award two $1,000 scholarships to Darrick Nicol and Tyson Rietveld. Congratulations and all the best in your studies.

At the AGM, Crestomere Holsteins was awarded the Alberta Breeder of the Year for 2023. Congratulations to all the other nominees as well. GAHC - Nifera Holsteins, SAHC - September Dairy, NAHC - Rietveld Dairies and CRHC - Entreprises Lavoie.

Also congratulations go out to Gert and Sonja Schriver on winning Presidents cow with Marsfield Denzel Kimmy.

This year at the AGM the Marj Atkins achievement award was given to John Iversen. Thank you John for all your contributions to the Holstein breed.

Congratulations to Fred, Melissa and Chance Hofstra on being awarded a Master Breeders shield as well. The formal presentation will take place at the National Holstein Convention in Hamilton in April. Come out and support the Hofstra family!

With the cancellation of the BC Spring Show a group of show enthusiasts from Saskatchewan have organized the Western Dairy Expo which will be taking place in April in Saskatoon. Thank you to the organizers for planning this new opportunity. We look forward to seeing and hearing all about it.

Look for the next newsletter coming out this fall for all the highlights of the 2024 show year, 4-H club achievements and much more.

Tim Hummel

Bertens Holsteins

Bieseker Colony

Davis Rairdon

EXECUTIVE UPDATES

PRESIDENT REPORT

Tim Hummel

2024- COMMITTEES

Executive Committe

President: Tim Hummel

Past President: Andrew Wildeboer

Vice President: Fred Hofstra

Secretary/Treasurer: Benita Hummel

Finance Committee

President: Tim Hummel

Past President: Andrew Wildeboer

Vice President: Fred Hofstra

Secretary/Treasurer: Benita Hummel

Advertising & Marketing

Randy Slomp

Jan van de Brake

Rolf Van Benthem

Arjan DeLange

Field Services

Clarence Slingerland

Rolf Van Benthem

Chad Crest

Fred Hofstra

Jan van de Brake

Judging & Show

Fred Hofstra

Chad Crest

Jan van de Brake

Clarence Slingerland

Lee Simanton

Youth Initiatives

Chad Crest

Randy Slomp

Rolf Van Benthem

Arjan DeLange

Awards

Rolf Van Benthem

Chad Crest

Fred Hofstra

Clarence Slingerland

Lee Simanton

Alberta AGM Liaison 2025 – Green Acres-

Randy Slomp

Media Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: February 16, 2024

Contact: Judy Morfitt

Phone: 204-293-7450

Email: jmorfitt@holstein.ca

Blair Weeks and Markus Hehli to judge 2024 National Holstein Shows!

Brantford, ON – February 16, 2024 - Holstein Canada is pleased to announce the two judges selected by exhibitor vote to officiate at the National Black and White Holstein Show and the National Red and White Holstein Show during the 2024 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

2024 National Black and White Holstein Show Judge: Blair Weeks, Pleasant Valley, P.E.I.

Blair Weeks owns and manages Weeksdale Holsteins with his wife Jaime and their children. The 65 -milking cow Holstein herd is comprised of 28 Excellent, 51 Very Good and 9 Good Plus cows, many of which have received All-American and All -Canadian Awards. Weeks and his family earned the Canadian Master Breeder Shield in 2011. In 2016, Blair was recognized with the Andrea Crowe Achievement Award at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. Blair has evaluated cattle around the globe at The Royal Winter Fair, Internat ional Dairy Week, UK Dairy Expo, World Dairy Expo, the All -American Dairy Show and throughout Canada.

2024 National Red and White Holstein Show Judge: Markus Hehli, Rimbey, Alberta

Markus and his wife Amanda farm alongside Markus’s parents at Mosnang Holsteins near Rimbey, AB. They milk about 100-110 cows- mostly Holstein and a few specialty Jerseys. Hehli values high -producing, long-living cows that look good doing it. He has been a Holstein Canada official judge since 2013 and has judged shows all across Canada, the US and into Mexico and Brazil. Markus has traveled the world as a fitter in his younger days and now farms full time at home. Some of his favourite cows that he prepared for shows include Seisme, Missy and Camomile.

About Holstein Canada

With more than 9,200 members, Holstein Canada is responsible for maintaining the Holstein Herdbook under the Federal Animal Pedigree Act of Agriculture and AgriFood Canada (AAFC). The Association provides many services to its members to help them evaluate, select and improve their herds through genetic improvement programs. For more information, visit our Website or follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

2024 MARJ ATKINS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:

The Alberta Holstein Association is excited to announce that John Iversen of Innislake Dairy Farm was awarded the Marj Atkins Achievement Award at the Alberta Holstein AGM in Olds this February. Truly deserved with John’s lifelong involvement and commitment to the Holstein breed.

The Marj Atkins Achievement Award is handed out to someone who has been a pioneer in the industry, paving a road for others, that possesses characteristics to strive for. It’s an Alberta Holstein special achievement award that includes breed involvement.

John Iversen has been a true leader in the Holstein Industry for Holstein Canada, Alberta Holstein Association, and for the local Southern Alberta Holstein Club. Innislake Dairy Farm received the prestigious Master Breeder award in 2006. John’s passion for cows, and his early commitment to artificial insemination, classification, and milk recording has been a big part of this.

John’s parents Aage and Kristine Iversen started farming at the current location in Olds in 1968. In 1977 a new milking parlour and freestall barn were built. In 1978 the farm became member of Holstein Canada under the Serevi prefix. John and his brother Eric became part of the family farm in 1983. At this time Innislake Dairy Farm was formed under the Innislake prefix. Both John and his brother Eric worked for the Western Breeders at an early age.

Innislake Dairy farm has been recognized for the following achievements over the years:

-Winner of the Calgary Stampede Farm Family Award in 1999

-2001 Alberta Holstein Association Breeder of the Year

-Winner of the prestigious Master Breeder shield in 2006

-2007 distinguished Farm Family Award from the Olds Agriculture Society

John’s involvement as a leader in the Holstein industry and local community:

-National Director and Holstein Canada President in 2007

-Past President of the Southern Alberta Holstein Club

-Past President of the local 4-H dairy club

-Director of the Calgary Stampede Dairy Committee

-Past President of Olds Sportsmans Association

-Past President of Olds Snowmobile Club

-Past President of Olds Car Club

-Currently director of the Olds Golf Club

Congratulations John Iversen and thank you for your commitment and leadership to the Holstein Industry and local community!

AWARDS REPORT

Rolf Van Benthem

For the 2nd year in a row, Marsfield Denzel Kimmy EX93-7E 5* wins the Alberta President’s Club Cow Award!

What an incredible Holstein cow she is!

-1 Super 9

-9 Superior Lactations

-Over 166,000 KG Lifetime Milk in 9 Lactations

-Over 13,000 KG Lifetime Fat + P

-2 Excellent & 2 VG daughters

-4X Grand Champion of the CAHC Barn Cow Competition

Congratulations to the other club nominees:

CRHC

Helmusstead Yance Tinsel- EX-91-4E

Longtime 100,000 KGs

Freedom Dairy

NAHC

Rietben Comet Lorene EX-90-5E

Longtime 100,000 KGs

Rietveld Dairies

SAHC-

Benthemmer Chelios Haven EX-93-3E 1*

Longtime 60,000 KGs

2 Superior Lactations

Van Benthem Dairy

GAHC-

Continental Dempsey Delores EX-90

Longtime 120,000 KGs

5 Superior Lactations

Deerfield Colony Farming Co. Ltd

2023 President’s Club Cow- Marsfield Denzel Kimmy EX93-7E 5*

Helmusstead Yance Tinsel- EX-91-4E

Benthemmer Chelios Haven EX-93-3E 1*

Rolf Van Benthem

Congratulations to the 2023 Alberta Breeder of the Year, Crestomere Holsteins, Ev & Marylee, Lee & Lisa Simanton!

Highlights from their year include:

116 Records

9 new VG 2 Yr Olds

9 First time EX

12 ME

7 new stars

10 Longtime Production awards

Premier Breeder at the Alberta Dairy Congress

Congratulations to the other club nominees- All breeder stories are available on the website in the club awards section!

CRHC – Enterprises Lavoie (1999) Inc. – The Lavoie Family

NAHC – Rietveld Dairies – Jason & Kristine Rietveld & Family

SAHC – September Dairy – Merein & Kelsey van Benthem & Family

GAHC – Nifera Holsteins Ltd. – Ard & Jennifer Van der Kooij & Family

2023 Breeder of the Year- Crestomere Holsteins

Crestomere Holsteins was established in 1936 by Ralph & Edith Simanton. Today the family farm is run by Everett & Marylee Simanton along with their son Lee & his wife Lisa; they have two toddlers, Easton & Ava. In 2018, the farm saw a new barn build and herd expansion to 100 milking cows in which they are fed and milked robotically, a big change from the 67 cow tie-stall.

Since the late 1970’s we have been frequent hosts to young temporary foreign work through Agriventure, CAEP, IRE, and others. We have really enjoyed having young people from all over the world live with us from, anywhere from 4 months to a year, join our family, and work with our herd. From Australia, New Zealand, England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, France and Japan. On top of the “trainee” we also have one other part time employee and occasional casual employees.

Ev & Marylee were 2022 Marj Atkins award winners for their past involvement in shows, WCC, 4H, and Alberta Branch. We were invited to the live broadcast announcement of the Master Breeders for both 2022 & 2023 for being top 10 in our category. In the top 10 - 5 times in the last 10 years

We can’t talk about the success our herd has had without mentioning Acme Star Lily EX94-2E 8*(0/40). Ev & Marylee acquired her as a baby calf from the prestigious Acme herd and she went on to being named HI All-Time World Champion 1998, 3x Grand Champion of the Royal, and WDE Grand Champion in 1998. Then came Crasdale Dundee Victory EX91-3E 12* (9/51) with her most notable daughter Crestomere Lou Victoria EX94-2E 5*(12/14). This family has made up a large portion of our herd. Crasdale Dundee Tia EX91-2E 4*(0/20) was another cow family that was very influential in our herd in the past.

Today we have some new rising stars that we are excited to see their families continue. Crestomere Sidekick Valkyrie, Daughter of Lou Victoria, owned with Stanhope/Wedgwood and Mosnang, was named 2022 Honourable Mention All-Canadian Jr 3 Yr Old at the start of this year. Another impactful daughter of Lou Victoria, Crestomere Most Valuable EX93 is coming to the end of her third lactation as a 5 year old. Crestomere Solomon Cookie EX94-3E is in her 5th

BREEDER OF THE YEAR- Central Alberta Holstein Club- Crestomere Holsteins – The Simanton Family

2022 Marj Atkins Award winners

Acme Star Lily Grand Royal & WDE 1998

lactation as a 6 year old. Crestomere G D Lillie EX94-2E is just fresh in her 6th lactation. Crestomere Doorman Callie EX92 is 10th generation classified excellent due to calve again this spring! Ms Apples Arusha EX92-3E 3*(0/16), out of the famous KHW Regiment Apple-Red EX96-4E DOM 41* (0/205), is owned in partnership with all 3 of Ev & Marylee’s children; Crestomere Holsteins (Lee), Charlyn Farms (Sandy Kingdon), and Lovholm Holsteins (Jess Lovich). She is currently on a flush program and her daughters and granddaughters have already made quite the impression!

In 2022, we were the consigner of the Alberta Dairy Congress Sale where 36 head of Crestomere bred heifers and cows were sold to many great herds in the west! Then again in 2023, this time we co-consigned alongside Lucky Hill Dairy and Hamming Holsteins for the Alberta Dairy Congress Sale where 19 head of Crestomere bred heifers and cows were sold. We want to thank everyone that was a part of making both of those sales a success, and we wish the new owners the best of luck with these animals!

2023 was a great year for our home bred cattle. With 11 VG 2 Yr Olds, 9 New Excellent Home bred Cows, 12 ME this year, 1-100,000 kg award, 1-120,000 kg award, and 2 Superior Production Awards. The current makeup of our herd is 17ME- 15EX - 55 VG - 34 GP1G.

2023 saw great success for Crestomere Holsteins in the show side of things too! We were very pleased with how our group of cows came out for two shows this year and we couldn’t have done it without the help of our show crews! We really enjoy being able to show off animals that we are so proud of and also for the time to be together with other dairy enthusiasts, friends, and family. Now it has become even more fun with having our littles in the peewee classes. Lee is an official judge and judged the Jr Show at the Westerner Dairy Showcase in 2023.

Show accomplishments 2023

- Alberta Dairy Congress — Rimbey

- 3rd Summer Yearling - Crestomere Perennial Violet - 3rd Summer 2 Yr - Arrow Lynx

- 2nd Winter 2 Yr - Aligator Bongo

- 3rd 5 Yr Old - Most Valuable - Best Bred & Owned

- 2nd Mature - GD Lillie - Best Bred & Owned - B&W Premier Breeder

Westerner Dairy Showcase

- 3rd summer calf/1st R&W - Warrior Lovesong - 5th Spring Heifer - Conway Kara

- 5th Milking Yearling - Fuel Leak - 2nd Spring 2 Yr - Cellular Twinkle

Crasdale Dundee Victory EX-91-3E 12*

Crestomere Lou Victoria EX-94-2E 5* Daughter of Victory

Crestomere Sidekick Valkyrie VG-89-3YR Daughter of Victoria

- 3rd 5 Yr Old - Most Valuable - Best Bred & Owned

- 3rd Mature - Solomon Cookie

- 2nd Sr Breeder Herd

- Runner up Premier Breeder

- Reserve Best Bred & Owned - Most Valuable

Both Lisa & Lee are directors on the Central Alberta Holstein Club board with Lisa being the club secretary and Lee coordinates the barn cow competition. The whole family is very active in the Club events. Lee is currently on his mandatory year off of the provincial board after 8 years as a Alberta Holstein director. He is also a committee member for the Alberta Dairy Congress. This past year our farm hosted the CAHC & Udderly Unique 4H club Judging day as well as a judging workshop for the Crestomere Multispecies Club. Outside of the dairy industry, both Marylee & Lisa are members of the Wolfville Community Ladies Club, both Lee & Lisa are on their church’s Family Ministry Committee, and Lee also serves on the Church’s Transitional Committee.

Fun Fact: In the old Tie Stall barn, aside from sports events, the only event that was deemed acceptable to be late for milking was to watch the Kentucky Derby.

What do you think are the most valuable services of Holstein Canada and the Alberta Holstein Association? Having the information to determine and publicly display the top animals in the breed for the members to use as a breeding guide to improve Canadian Dairy Cattle. I also think having a business that can mandate change to help improve the breeding strategies. It takes these types of businesses to make change and an example I can think of is implementing testing of class winners at the Royal, this has drastically changed the udders in this country. As well as updating new needs on the classification system as we see weaknesses appearing in the breed.

We are honoured to have been named the Central Alberta Holstein Club Breeder of the Year for 2023!

Chad

Congratulations to the 2023 Scholarship Recipients: Darrick Nicol & Tyson Rietveld!

Udderly UniqUe 4-H ClUb Club Reporter: Graison Wildeboer

Upcoming Events:

Green Acres Achievement Day May 23

Rollyview/ Moos on the Moove Achievement Day July 2

Mountain View Achievement Day

July 2nd- Olds

Udderly Unique Achievement Day

July 8-9- Lacombe

Alberta Youth Dairy Show

July 16-18, Rimbey

WCC

August 13-18, Armstrong, BC

The Udderly Unique Dairy Club has had a number of meetings and workshops this year! We started the year with a meeting to nominate our executives. We have hada few more members join our club this year and they have all been great additions to the club. We also had a fun evening for Christmas as a club at the U-TURN in Lacombe. We played mini basketball, mini sticks, Crokinole, and all sorts of other games. We then ended the evening off by having a White Elephant gift exchange. We recently had a public speaking workshop to figure out how we can improve our speaking and our impromptus. This year we also have had a judging school and have learned about parts of the cow. Lastly, we had our public speaking competition. Everyone brought their own speeches and spoke in front of a crowd of 30 people or so. We all did well! It has been a very exciting year and we are all enjoying it a lot.

Junior

1st- Ayda Luymes

2nd- Wyatt Hehli

3rd- Adair Hehli

Intermediate

1st- Keaton Wildeboer

2nd- Graison Wildeboer

3rd- Owen Vanderlinde

Senior

1st- Adyson Wildeboer

2nd- Megan Schrijver

3rd- Nicole Verhoef

Chad Crest

MoUntain View 4-H ClUb

Club Reporter: Rylan Lesy

The Mountain View 4-H Dairy Club held their Public Speaking competition on February 4th at the Mountain View Community Hall. It was a great day of speeches given by our members and Cleavers. Our top 3 results were:

Juniors

1st - Sydney VanSickle

2nd - Ainsley VanSickle

3rd - Carson Tenbrummelhuis

Intermediates

1st - Karsen VanSickle

2nd - Mike Ridder

3rd - Rylan Lesy

Our club hosted the South Area Public Speaking competition and were well represented. Sydney VanSickle placed 3rd for Juniors and Karsen VanSickle placed 3rd for Intermediates. Our next meeting will be a judging meeting hosted at Buffalorock Farm, the Ridder Family. Our Achievement day is scheduled for July 2nd and 3rd at the Olds Cow Palace Infield tents.

rolly View 4-H ClUb

Club Reporter: Georgia de Lange

Our club had our public speaking competition on January 27. The results are as follows:

First place junior was Karley deGeoji and second was Janaye Retiveld. First place intermediate was Georgia de Lange and second was Silas de Lange. First senior was Izzy staub and second was Lauren Sayers.

Over all the whole day went great, everyone in our club did really well on prepared speeches and impromptus. Thanks to our judges, we hope they enjoyed the day. Our first place winners moved on to the Leduc district competition, there Izzy Staub won first place senior and will be moving on to the Northwest Regional competition in March representing our club. In February we had a fun night and played Laser tag, it was a lot of fun. In up coming news we will be have a record book workshop in March. So far the 4-h year has been going really well and I can’t wait to see what the next events bring.

Clarence Slingerland

Holstein Canada hosted the first Dairy Dynamics Workshop at Juno Dairy in Diamond City, AB. It was a great success with 54 producers and industry partners in attendance! The workshop included a presentation from Holstein Canada’s Director of Innovations and Solutions and a panel discussion by AI reps Garry Vanderpost (Blondin Sires), Erik Klugkist (Select Sires) and John Mueller (Westgen) and local dairy producers Tim Hummel (Marylander), Ard Van Der Kooij (Nifera) and Bart Schuiling (herdsman at Southsky, own Prefix Eastview) moderated by Bob Reck (Lactanet). The workshop was a huge succes with great discussions and networking opportunities had by all! Thanks to all who attended, stay tuned for more upcoming workshops.

ADVERTISING & MARKETING REPORT

Randy Slomp

As reported at our recent annual Alberta Holstein meeting, there will be a couple of changes in the Social Media department for this year. For one, the deadline for securing pages in the 2025 calendar will be moved up to September 15, 2024, while the deadline for sending in content for these pages will be October 31st. This will allow more time for the printing and distribution of the calendars.

Also, there will only be two newsletters (one Spring and one Fall) sent out from Alberta Holstein this year as opposed to the usual four. With the former BC Holstein News broadening their reach by becoming the Western Candian Dairy News, it was felt that more of the Alberta Holstein news could be sent on to this publication.

With a new Alberta Holstein Directory set to be published in 2025, Amanda Hehli will be hard at work in the upcoming year to update everyone’s contact information. The prices to advertise in the calendar, newsletter and directory can be found on the Alberta Holstein Association website under “Advertising” in the “News and Media” dropdown menu.

Finally, the Alberta Holstein booth was once again set up for the Western Canadian Dairy Seminar along with Holstein Canada. Thanks to all those who stopped by!

Fred Hofstra

With 2024 off and running we are looking forward to another year of judging clinics and dairy shows.

This year we have a new show entering into the circuit of dairy shows in western Canada. The Western Dairy Expo is to be held April 11-13 which will include judging schools and a Holstein and Jersey open show Alberta Holsteins is supporting this new event and hope that our many Alberta breeders will too.

Of course our annual judging clinic to be held at the Alberta Dairy Congress in Rimbey June 6, is quickly approaching and we look forward to inviting all of our official judges and aspiring judges to attend along with anyone else who would like to increase their judging knowledge as this is open to everyone.

We are looking forward to introducing a mixed breeds class to our judging clinic along with a showmanship teaching class.

As always Alberta Holstein continues to support our many club shows through the year with our best bred and owned sponsorship.

Along with these shows we also support our 4-H Club shows, the Alberta Youth Dairy Show and of course WCC.

We very much look forward to another busy and eventful year!

JUDGING AND SHOW REPORT

Fred Hofstra

Congratulations to Chad Crest, moving from Aspiring to Official Judge! Chad has participated in many Judging Schools with above average scores and has judged several shows throughout Western Canada over his time as an aspiring judge.

JUDGES LIST

OFFICIAL

Atkins, Gordon

Bienert, Dale

Chalack, David

Hehli, Markus

Whalen, Linsey

Simanton, Lee Folkerts, Joe

Morey, Lee

Crest, Chad

ASPIRING

Morey, Casey

Van de Brake, Jan

Hofstra, Chance

Staub, Martin

Kozak, Katelyn

Ten-Have, Maxime

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Calgary Rimbey

Millet

Ponoka

Sherwood Park

Rochester

Athabasca Rochester

Lacombe

Millet

Edmonton New Sarepta

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