BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 2, 2021
Growing up on his father’s potato farm in Cyr Plantation, Dominic LaJoie said he never could have imagined the size his family’s company, LaJoie Growers LLC, would reach. He also never planned on getting into politics. Nonetheless, the National Potato Council elected LaJoie, a fourth-generation St. John Valley potato farmer, president of the Washington, D.C.-based interest group on Feb. 22. LaJoie will serve a one-year term, during which he will lead the council through its transition to working with President Joe Biden’s administration, help coordinate its ongoing response to the pandemic-altered potato industry and generally pursue the industry’s priorities on a national level.