At Farm Outlook 2019 the Dauphin Ag Society presented the Ron Brook Memorial Award to Don Dewar.
“It’s a real honour to have been chosen. You do what you do. And I did what I did. I was having fun. I enjoyed it and made a lot of great people.” Dewar continues, “Like I said in my talk, nothing was personal. We would argue, not yell at each other, but come pretty close. And yet you’d sit down at the end of the day and talk about something else.”
The award is very localized according to Dewar.
“You’d have to have known Ron Brook when he was on the Ag Society. He was very dedicated; he was a very giving person. He gave a lot of this time. Actually, he was working of the Dauphin Fair that year when he had a devastating heart attack. So the Ag Society decided to make this memorial award. I’m rather fortunate to have been chosen.”
Dewar says he really enjoyed being on boards, but in the past few years, he has been trying to withdraw from meetings. “I’m still on our local hemp co-op and the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance. But those don’t take me away from home very often, I'm not on the road near as much. I enjoyed it all.”
“I hope enough young people will come up. We don’t have the, I’m going to say, the organization in place that used to train people for these jobs. It’s good to see a few of them stepping up.”
Dewar says he was also fortunate to have been told he was chosen a few weeks ago.
