Community News & Events

OPMA’s 7th Annual Produce Industry Curling Bonspiel

With a crisp hint of winter in the air and the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials underway in Winnipeg for the 2014 Winter Olympics, OPMA is now looking for curlers for this year’s Bonspiel.  This is the 7th Annual, and the event is shaping up to be another fun-filled day out on the ice!  Come join … Read more

OPMA Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony

We’d like to take a moment to offer our congratulations to the OPMA for another memorable Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony and all the 2013 OPMA Award Winners announced November 8th: OPMA Fresh Award: Ben Alviano, Mann Packing Outstanding Achievement Award: Nature Fresh Farms Cory Clack-Streef Produce Person of the Year: Noel Brigido, Freshline Foods … Read more

The Happy Snaps You’ve Been Waiting For!

The long awaited audio/visual extravaganza with highlights from the 6th Annual WaudWare Invitational Golf Tournament 2013 is complete! There are definitely some “keepers” in this show. Hennie Lloyd and Wendy Marlow are the photographers who earned credits and kudos for this production – and they would like to thank everyone for “striking a pose.” See … Read more

Sesame Street and PMA – Together at Last!

The Produce Marketing Association (PMA) announced on October 30, 2013: “On behalf of the industry, we were honored today to join First Lady Michelle Obama to announce a unique and powerful partnership between Sesame Workshop and PMA that’s committed to increasing children’s consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. We’re thrilled to share that, under the … Read more

Congratulations to Hillside Gardens on 50 Years of Growth

We are pleased as parsnips to congratulate WaudWare customer, Hillside Gardens on 50 years in business and farming excellence! Hillside Gardens is a root vegetable farm growing onions, carrots, celery, beets, parsnips, and turnips, which are place-packed and shipped across Ontario, Eastern Canada and the United States from two locations: the 50-year-old original farm in … Read more

See you at the Fair? (The Royal Winter Fair)

In keeping with the Ontario Produce Marketing Association’s mandate to encourage the consumption of fruits and vegetables by promoting our members’ products and services, OPMA announces their participation in the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair this November. OPMA is planning on having our celebrity spokesperson, Kary Osmond, feature sponsored fruits and vegetables using our Produce Made … Read more

SNAP’d by SNAP

SNAP Brampton once again played the role of Vezina Trophy Sponsor as part of the “hockey-themed” 6th Annual WaudWare Invitational Golf Tournament that also gave gave Brampton’s newest team, the Brampton Beast, a chance to get noticed! The WaudWare Invitational Golf Tournament supports the Brampton and Caledon Community Foundation. Click on the link to see … Read more

Danke, Natick, Grazie… (thank you)

A picture is worth a thousand thank you’s. That’s why we published special “kudos to you” for our Stanley Cup Sponsor, North American Produce Buyers Ltd., the Vezina Trophy Sponsors, CCV Insurance and Financial Services, Meri-Mac Inc. and SNAP Brampton, to name a few. We sincerely appreciate everyone’s support of the 6th Annual WaudWare Invitational … Read more

OPMA Produce Made Simple WebSite Survey

The Produce Made Simple survey will provide answers to questions to help us make improvements and enhancements to the site.   The site educates consumers by using a “back-to-basics” approach on how to pick, store and prepare fresh fruits and vegetables, and has already proven to be a huge success with consumers. The OPMA is reminding … Read more

Holland Marsh – a reminder from Ontario’s Soup and Salad Bowl

The Holland Marsh Growers’ Association recently released the first in a series of seven educational videos showcasing an area: that has been around for nearly 100 years is recognized around the world for prodictivity and economies of scale has a diversity found nowhere in Ontario… and yet, it doesn’t exist on a map. Learn more … Read more

WaudWare Sponsors Women’s Lacrosse Event!

Team England travelled to Canada to compete in the Women’s Lacrosse World Cup held in Oshawa, Ontario from July 10 – 20, 2013. Since England’s weather (usually) varies from ours, it was requested that they play some exhibition games so they experience playing in Ontario weather. The Brampton Women’s Lacrosse team with some outside help, … Read more

Be a Hero – Be a Sponsor!

This Friday (July 19) is the last day to become a hero and a sponsor at the 6th Annual WaudWare Invitational Golf Tournament in support of the (newly branded) Brampton and Caledon Community Foundation (www.bramptonareacf.ca). The tournament is set and ready for Thursday, August 1, 2013. Sponsor and join us for a great day of … Read more

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