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New Executive Director For Agri-food Management Institute

The Agri-food Management Institute has a new Executive Director.

Alison Robertson took over the job this week.

She spent 11 years as the program manager for the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association.

The University of Toronto grad has also been a member of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Horticulture Value Chain Roundtable.

AMI promotes new ways of thinking about agribusiness management.

It gets it's funding from Growing Forward 2.

The AMI board includes representation from the primary agriculture, agriculture business and food processing sectors.

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Youth volunteers practice coastal conservation

Nine young volunteers aged 11 to 17 spent three days exploring and protecting the Lake Huron coastline during the Coastal Conservation Youth Corps' inaugural program in Grand Bend from July 21 to 23.