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Date: | Tue, 2 May 1995 13:19:10 -0400 |
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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
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