The winner of this years’ Tommy Cooper award is a farmer from Paisley.
Jack Riley was nominated by the Bruce county Federation of Agriculture.
He has been a member of the Federation for 35 years, he is a past chair of the Bruce county plowmen’s association. Riley is also director on the Saugeen Conservation authority.
In total, Seven people were nominated for this year’s Tommy Cooper award.
The winner was announced Friday night in Elmwood.
The Tommy Cooper award goes to the person who has made the greatest contribution to agriculture and rural living.
It commemorates the late Tommy Cooper, a well known provincial government agricultural representative in the area who was instrumental in founding the Grey Bruce Livestock co-operative.
The other nominees this year were:
Carl Weber of RR 1 Ayton is nominated by the Normanby Plowmen’s Association.
Allen Hughes of RR 2 Meaford has been nominated by the Grey county Federation of Agriculture.
Donald McNalty of RR 2 Singhampton. He is nominated by the Feversham Agricultural society.
Denise Edwards of RR 6 Markdale and Alex Leith of RR 4 Durham. They are co-nominees who have been an integral part of the rural leadership team in Grey county.
And the Egremont and Proton federation of agriculture nominated Conn area pork producer Wayne Caughill.