Member for schuswap. uh Thank you, mr speaker. Today. I rise to pay tribute to a friend august bremner, now, 64 years ago, august immigrated to british columbia with not much more than the clothes on his back. His girlfriend alice soon joined him and they were married in 1958 starting a legacy of farming throughout british columbia.

August nellis began with a chicken farm on vancouver island and after almost a decade, they pulled up stakes and moved to the mainland where they tried their hand at dairy farming.

Now, like most everything that august and ellis tackled, they were successful and it wasn't long before they moved to enderby and in 1964 started a family dairy farm that continues to operate to this day throughout his years as a dairy farmer august was active in the industry working on behalf of dairy farmers like himself, he was a local director, a bc dairy producer director and chairman and later represented bc dairy to the dairy farmers of canada.

When august retired from the dairy industry, he became a bc feedlot producer and began to work with the bc. Feeders association continuously continuing his advocacy work for bc. Farmers. Today, august and ellis have a legacy that spans multiple cities includes being founding members of two different churches, a farm that has operated for more than 46 years.

Five, children, nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren august is an incredible individual and a pillar of the community in enderby, as well as the wider farming community in british columbia august commitments and determination is shown in everything that he does now earlier this year he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and he's responding well to treatment and still farming, his 60 acres and remaining active in the community, I'm so thankful to know august and to call him a friend and I'm so very appreciative for the work that he's done in our community.

I'd like to invite the whole house to join me in sending a very happy birthday wish to august when he turns 83 this coming friday, happy birthday august, and thank you very much for being such a great role model to bc farming families. Thank you.