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Maple Leaf Foods: Maple Leaf Brandon

El Salvador Dept: The group came to the Wheat City Aug. 14 as part of the company's latest recruitment effort to bring 200 new workers in from El Salvador and Honduras, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Barahona is also from El Salvador, and she arrived in Brandon to work at Maple Leaf Foods in 2005 and bRANDON -- Forty new foreign workers from El Salvador have arrived in Brandon to work at Maple Leaf Foods. "They are feeling very positive to be here, because they can change their lifestyle and they can change their family's lifestyle," said Elsy Barahona, production supervisor at Maple Leaf Brandon. "They come for the better future and they have a better opportunity." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.