[OKC] [ok-sus] We need to rally to defend April Harrington

[Christine Patton]

Here is a way to find your State Senator and Rep: 
http://www.capitolconnect.com/demoassoc1/legislatorsearch.aspx.

Christine Patton
Co-Chair, Transition OKC
www.goinglocalokc.org 




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From: Robert Waldrop <bwaldrop at cox.net>
To: Sustainability Issues in Oklahoma <ok-sus at lists.oksustainability.org>
Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 2:13:59 PM
Subject: [ok-sus] We need to rally to defend April Harrington

April Harrington is one of the most innovative local food entrepreneurs in the 
nation.

She buys excess produce from farmers and turns it into delicious food products 
which she sells to customers.  Other local food entrepreneurs rent her facility 
to make their products.  She has employees.

She is also being threatened with the loss of her business.

ODOT wants to widen highway 77 and take her property for that project.  They are 
talking low-ball offers and want her out of there by January 1 or sooner.  They 
are not offering business relocation assistance nor compensation for the time 
she would be out of business.  And of course, there's nothing on ODOT's table 
for her employees, for the entrepreneurs who use her facilities, or for the 
farmers whose produce she buys.

This is a terrible crime of social and economic injustice.

It's time to swarm the barricades in her defense.  I encourage everyone to call, 
email, or write their state rep and senator, and the governor's office, and 
rally to the defense of April Harrington.  She has worked hard and smart, and 
does not deserve what ODOT is doing to her.

Bob Waldrop
http://bobaganda.blogspot.com 


      
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