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Highland Packers’ 20K sq ft Smithville plant gets started By Mike Williscraft NewsNow New jobs are precious to any community but when they also come with a highly respected business and a significant new build, it’s even better. Highland Packers’ new 20,000 sq ft manufacturing plant will bring all those things to its new Smithville See JOBS, Page 4 On hand for Monday’s groundbreaking at the new Highland Packers plant were (L to R) Dejonge Family members Janet, Janneke, Nick, Marinus, Fred and Edwin. In front are Janneke and Marinus’ grandchildren Esther, Ryleigh, Lincoln and Wesley. Williscraft Photo
Sobye Road sign honours community contributions By Joanne McDonald For NewsNow A street sign helps us figure out where we are, but for the Sobye family, it also commemorates where they’ve been. The Town of Grimsby agreed last fall to fix a long-time error
and correct the spelling of Sobie Rd. to Sobye Rd. And last week, family matriarch Mae Annable (Sobye) helped install the newly minted sign celebrating the family’s heritage and in honour of her parents Joe and
Stella Sobye and her brother Bill. Family, friends and neighbours met with local officials to pay tribute to the Sobye family and the significant contributions they made to their community. The sign is a powerful way to
preserve that history. The family’s legacy in Grimsby and the family farm at Sobye and Thirty Road go back to the 1925 purchase of 100 acres at that intersection. In 1939, the Milk Board of Ontario passed a law that
milk must be pasteurized. The Milk Board allotted certain territories to each dairy. Joe and Stella were given from Fly Rd. north to Lake Ontario, to the east side of Beamsville, to the west side of Grimsby Beach. Smithville was
later added to their territory. While the family sold milk from their farm, they formally moved into Sobye’s Dairy which included Mae, her parents Joe and Stella, and brother Bill, in 1958. See SOBYE, Page 11