Reply from Gerry Rogers

[Aida M]

If you guys want to connect with her this winter...

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Subject: RE: DEC 17 - St. John's Citizens for Affordable Housing: Lanterns for Housing
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:29:43 -0330
From: Gerry...@gov.nl.ca
To: aidam...@hotmail.com
CC: Jenne...@gov.nl.ca

HI Aida,

thanks for your email and invite to speak. Unfortuantely I was unable to attend
however, Jenne Nolan, who works with me did on my behalf.

Congratulations on a great event and the wonderful work you are doing.
Please keep me informed of your activities and I would love to meet with
you in the new year.

Wishing you a peace filled and joyous holiday.....

gerryxo

Gerry Rogers MHA
St. John's Centre
NDP Caucus Office
3rd Floor, East Block
Confederation Bldg.
PO Box 8700
St. John's, NL
A1B 4J6
T 709-729-2638
F 709-576-1443



-----Original Message-----
From: Aida M [mailto:aidam...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thu 12/8/2011 2:08 PM
To: Rogers, Gerry
Subject: DEC 17 - St. John's Citizens for Affordable Housing: Lanterns for Housing



Hi Gerry,


I'm writing you as a member of a newly formed group called St. John's Citizens for Affordable Housing.

We're hosting a "Lanterns for Housing" event in Scotia Square at 3:30pm on Sat Dec 17th. Our goal is to raise awareness about the growing housing crisis in St. John's. There will be a free touton serving to accompany a display of lanterns with housing facts and personal stories on them. We will then march with the lanterns to a new condo site planned by the Jumping Bean and display them there.

We are still establishing our goals as a group, but our main mandate is to advocate the province to legislate rent controls by unit. We're hoping the NDP can help make this happen. A few people have told me to contact you regarding our group and event because affordable housing is one of your main concerns. Would you and the NDP like to participate, and help us spread the word? Would you like to speak at the event?

The Lanterns for Housing event is part of International Human Rights Week. I'm attaching two posters: One is about panel discussions on "Inequality, Poverty, and Homelessness" happening on Dec 10th, hosted by Amnesty and OccupyNL. The other poster is a general one listing all the events for the week.

We're working on a press release for the event, which we can include you in if you are interested and/or just send along to you as well.

We look forward to working with you now or in the future, and hearing your ideas on securing affordable housing. You can email me or the whole group at st...@googlegroups.com
Sincerely,
Aida Mashari
c/o St. John's Citizens for Affordable Housing

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