Our local breastfeeding coalition in Brattleboro (famous for its 28 naked-from-the-waist up ladies parade on a hot day several summers ago) will be fairly quiet this year. (It's our first year as a coalition and we didn't get our creative juices flowing until April -- too late for our first and we thought best idea: store windows throughout the downtown featuring breastfeeding and babies. This is definitely in the works for 1996.) Anyhow, we are placing a Letter to the Editor in the Brattleboro Reformer and other local papers asking for parents to nominate a Breastfeeding Friendly Business. We already have an "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child" committee and week, which does Child Friendly Businesses. As you can imagine, LLL and baby-people are heavily involved in all these committees. With a letter, and then a presentation, we will at least get two mentions in the local paper. In addition, the Reformer and the Town Crier (a weekly) will print well-written columns from various committee members. So -- Melissa Vickers take note! - small rural areas and newspapers can be friendly to mini-media blitzes like this. And lots of people will call me or talk to me later -- "Saw your -----in the paper! I breastfed my baby!" So we will do our small part. I feel we can really Think Globally and Act Locally here on Lactnet! With fondness to all my colleagues here, Dawn Kersula, FACCE,IBCLC Southwestern Vermont