Dave Marit appointed to Enterprise Saskatchewan

Fife Lake municipal leader and farmer Dave Marit says his appointment to the Enterprise Saskatchewan board of directors is exciting.
"I'm terribly honoured to be on the committee," says Marit, president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities.
"I'd never have believed I'd be I am where I am."
The 10-member committee, headed by Enterprise and Innovation minister Lyle Stewart of Pense, is responsible for recommending direction and priorities of the Saskatchewan economy, with annual performance reports on the government's response to recommendations.
More than 300 people were nominated for the spots.
The first meeting is scheduled for March 31.
Nominated by SARM, Marit says he will represent rural interests in the big picture as the committee develops strategy.
"We need to make Saskatchewan attractive for new business to come from other parts of the world. We need to find out what we have to do to get there."
Increased business and investment builds jobs and benefits at all levels of government, he said.
Business is doing well in the province, he said.
"We hear announcements of new business almost daily. New business is locating in rural Saskatchewan."
Marit says he doesn't have much time for farming any longer with "an understanding brother and family" handling the operation.
A farmer for more than 35 years, he has been a councillor for the Rural Municipality of Willow Bunch since 1993.
Instrumental in founding the South Central Municipal Association, an association of 15 RMs and five urban municipalities, he is president of the Fife Lake Shortline.
The three-year-old short line railway is owned by seven municipalities and another short line.
Marit's list of committee wok includes Action On the Rural Economy Committee, Agrivision, SARM's clearing the path committee, Saskatchewan Biofuel Development Council, Federation of Canadian Municipalities and a seniors housing project in Assiniboia.