The ice bucket challenge is hot, and members of Alberta’s farm community aren’t letting it cool off.
Rick Taillieu of the Alberta Canola Producers Commission let each of his four daughters dump a bucket of ice water on his head. Farm advocate and blogger Sarah Schultz allowed her brother-in-law to use a front-end loader to soak her. Provincial Agriculture Minister Verlyn Olson also got in on the act, while wearing a cowboy hat and an Augustana University Vikings T-shirt.
And Grain Growers of Canada president Gary Stanford was ice bucket challenged by federal Agricultural Minister Gerry Ritz.
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“To get called out by the federal ag minister was quite the feather in the cap of the Grain Growers,” said the Magrath-area farmer.
Stanford and his two sons, Matt and Sean, performed the challenge while wearing Ag For Life shirts that proclaim “Kiss me, I’m a farmer.”
The ice bucket challenge, which raise money and awareness for the neurodegenerative disease ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), has become a viral sensation. When a person accepts the ice bucket challenge, they must donate $10, post a video of themselves being dunked (or pay $100 if they chicken out) and then challenge someone new.
Gary Stanford has linked to many videos on his Twitter feed @senatrstanford.
