Spud leaders to be honoured
Published Friday September 5th, 2008
New Brunswick Potato Museum's Hall of Recognition will welcome 2008 inductees Paul Bubar and the late Ron Piper
Two prominent Carleton County potato leaders will be honoured this weekend for all of their contributions to the industry.
For many years, Paul Bubar and the late Ron Piper strived to improve and grow the potato industry throughout the province and the country.
On Friday evening, both men will be inducted into the New Brunswick Potato Museum's Hall of Recognition for their hard work and dedication. The fifth annual gala event gets underway at 6 p.m. at Potato World, home of the Hall of Recognition.
Piper, a Bath native, was born to farm, learning his trade at an early age from his grandfather Fred Piper.
A prominent agriculturist, Ron Piper was always working for the betterment of the farming community.
The Knoxford potato farmer quickly became a strong voice for the entire potato industry and was a charismatic advocate always ready to lend a helping hand.
Piper believed in the New Brunswick potato industry and always promoted marketing excellence. His vision was to see potato growers have a fair return on their crop and believed growing too many open-market potatoes was detrimental to profitable farming. He believed the potato industry was vital to the region and the province and worked tirelessly to ensure its continued viability.
An excellent communicator between the provincial government and potato producers, he was praised for his ability to draw the attention of both the provincial and federal governments to the needs of New Brunswick potato farmers.
Serving on many boards and committees – including serving as former chairman of Potatoes New Brunswick – Piper was a prominent figure and was well-respected by potato growers, farmers, government officials and industry stakeholders.
Bubar is also recognized for his life-long work and dedication to the success of the potato industry.
The Upper Brighton native studied agriculture and graduated from the Carleton County Vocational School in Woodstock.
No stranger to farming – growing up on the family farm – Bubar purchased his own potato farm in Somerville in the early ‘50s. His business, Paul E. Bubar & Sons Ltd., grew, packed and shipped both seed and table potatoes. Over the years, he has enjoyed success and has expanded his business in several areas.
Bubar had innovation to find new ways to improve production and yields. He imported the first load of Russet Norkotah seed potatoes into Carleton County, and he actively supported and expanded the yellow fleshed varieties in the province. He also constantly updated his potato packing facility, agriculture chemical sales and warehouse – meeting all environmental, health, and safety requirements.
His hands-on involvement in potato activities and issues for many years showed great leadership in the industry. He served as a director and long-time member of the New Brunswick Potato Shippers' Association, was an active member of the New Brunswick Seed Potato Growers Association and spent his life involved in developing and promoting the New Brunswick potato industry.
Mardi Thornton, manager of Potato World, said being inducted into the Potato Museum's Hall of Recognition is quite an honour, and both men are well deserving of the recognition.
Thornton said she is looking forward to a great event and urges people to come out to see two local industry leaders be immortalized forever in potato history.
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