-Ast «plement to the North Shore News - Wednesday, August 13, 1980

MAJOR OPERATION SHIPPING IN FRUIT

As the new season begins
for shipping fresh fruit from

the Okanagan,
Similkameen, and Kootenay
areas, Al Kirk, Traffic

Manager of B.C. Tree Fruits
Ltd., reflects on the past
-welve months.

“It certainly doesn't get
any easier,” said Kirk.
“Sometimes we can't beg,
borrow or steal a truck, but
the staff always comes
through in the clutch.”

B.C. Tree Fruits ships
their fruit to the Canadian,
United States and world
markets, and the 1979-80
season was a busy one.

A total of 6,019 trucks
were needed to move the
crop and that is an increase
over the 5,087 trucks that
were used in 1978-79. Added
to that total is 553 piggy back
loads and 278 rail cars.

“We did have some

concerns at the beginning of
the season because of the
fuel problems in the United
States, but everything went
smoothly, with only minor
delays.”

In the always difficult and
intriguing world of  in-
ternational transportation
the Kelowna based company
shipped fruit to the world
market through ports in
Montreal, Newark, Norfolk,
Miami, San_ Francisco,
Oakland, Seattle and
Vancouver.

Many of these shipments
are loaded in containers at
packinghouses and delivered
to the Port of Seattle and
loaded aboard ship. This
allows for less handling of
the fruit before it reaches its
destination.

The 1979-80 crop. was
loaded on fifty-six different

ocean going vessels. Some of
these ships were used five
and six times to carry B.C.
fruit to the world market-
place.

“We are fortunate in our
transportation needs south
of the border. Some of our
truckers have been hauling
B.C. Tree Fruits produce for
over twenty years, and are
just like part of the family,”
Kirk said.

“Diesel fuel, and its
continuing supply and price
are always a concern of
mine. The world situation
continues to be very un-
settled and when you are
moving a product like fresh
fruit, you can’t wait for the
truck stay to get its next
allocation. 1 can see some
definite changes taking place
in the shipping of fresh
produce over the next few
years.”

WELL KNOWN for her cooking school, Cuisine de Barbara, West Vancouver's
Barbara Miachika displayed some of her talents at a party she threw last Saturday
evening. Pictured above, her son Paul helps the guests to the seafood salad which
contained squid, shrimps, and prawns tastefully seasoned with parsley, ginger, and
coriander. There were also staffed eggs with capers and a pate made with brandied
chicken livers, veal and pork. This course was only one of several delightful servings
throughout the evening. (Elisworth Dickson photo)

Fast foods measure up

Do today’s Convemence
oods measure up to needs
‘or good nutrition? Phas is a
question many (Canadians

are asking
Fortunately tesponsible
ood manufacturers and
ywrocessors—saare to
people's meal planning
problems. They dchberately
plan to produce and market
oods which give you service
AND aatrition! Laboratory
analyses show that modern
convenience foods are often
cher! in food valuc than
food prepared athome This
nolds truce for cnriched white

alert

bread.
ample
protein,

for cxrample with its
amounts cereal
calcium, tron and B
vitamins Although — the
calone and protein valucs
for ennched bread are about
the same as those for the
hind of bread Grandma uscd
to bake. the amounts of tron.
calcium and important: B
vitamins arc much greater in
today's modern loal

of

The story of canned and
frozen fruits and vegetables
1s a simular Modcrn
canneries pick and process
the highest quality fruit and

once

vegetables at their peak of
periccton and pack them in
cans of freezer package
under carefully controlled
standardized = conditions
Thus all year round you can
purchase foods which can be

counted on to furnish
amounts of vitamins and
mincrals almost equal to
those in freshly harvested
foods These commercially

processed foods are cer
tainly more nutritious than
many of those well-travelicd
ones which eventually ceach
the home-canning kettle o1
home-freczer pack

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