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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2013
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VOL 116 NO. 42
The future of Boundary meat production to be examined
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Are you a meat producer? Do you own property or agricultural land? Or are you interested in getting farm status? The Boundary Country Livestock Co-op is having an important meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at Community Futures Boundary (1647 Central Ave.) in Grand Forks. The purpose of the meeting is to update local farmers on the status of the mobile slaughter unit and what opportunities it will create for meat growers in the Boundary region once it is fully operational. “The mobile slaughter unit has been in Grand Forks for almost a year and is now ready to be put to work,” said co-op member Doug Zorn, in a press release. The Boundary Country Livestock Coop has brought in Andrea Gunner—an agricultural business planner—to speak at this meeting. Since 1989, Gunner has been providing business planning, agricultural marketing and economic consulting services to a wide spectrum of clients including industry associations, cooperatives, and government at the municipal, provincial and federal level. Together with her husband, Gunner runs a pastured poultry operation in the North Okanagan. She also manages a provincially-licensed mobile poultry processing unit.
• See SLAUGHTER, Page 19
Reality TV beckons Grand Forks man CRAIG LINDSAY
Grand Forks Gazette
Reality TV shows are all the rage these days from Survivor to Big Brother to Duck Dynasty. Well, Grand Forks now has one of their own soon to be appearing on a reality show. Professional gold hunter Dave Varabioff, who was born and raised
in Grand Forks, will be one of the stars of Meltdown: Bite the Bullet, which goes to air Halloween night at 10 p.m. on the National Geographic channel. Varabioff now lives in Spokane, Wash., and operates Goldbay, a store which sells different kinds of gold and other metals. “It’s really exciting,” he told the Gazette in an interview from
Spokane. “It’s the first of any reality show to be shot in Spokane. So it’s huge here in Spokane, let alone Grand Forks. The journey to the show began on Sept. 1 of last year for Varabioff. He answered a casting email he had received but really wasn’t expecting much. “I emailed her back right away but didn’t expect to hear back as it
was a Saturday,” he said. “She called me immediately and we talked for about 15 minutes. The casting director said they were not particularly looking for a character like Varabioff. They were looking more for a rough, aggressive type. “She told me, ’You’re way too nice.
• See REALITY, Page 3
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