Media Advisory: Governor LePage to attend Maine Agricultural Trades Show

January 11, 2016

The Governor will join Commissioner Walt Whitcomb in publicly recognizing this year?s recipient of the Commissioner?s Distinguished Service Award.

AUGUSTA CIVIC CENTER? Governor Paul R. LePage will attend the 75th Maine Agricultural Trades Show on Tuesday to highlight the importance of agriculture to the economy and how Maine supports job creators. The Governor will also join Commissioner Walt Whitcomb in publicly recognizing this year?s recipient of the Commissioner?s Distinguished Service Award.

?The 75th Maine Agricultural Trades Show is an opportunity to highlight Maine?s enormous potential to produce and sell even more Maine products and produce jobs,? said Governor Paul R. LePage. ?Maine has the greatest diversity of food production in New England and the most farms. Maine?s reputation for quality and unique way of life matches the growing interest in locally grown foods that our family farms produce.?

Governor LePage will present the Commissioner?s Distinguished Service Award at the Commissioner?s Luncheon at the Augusta Civic Center on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at noon.

For more information contact: John Bott at: 207-287-3156