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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Robert Waldrop <bwaldrop@cox.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Sustainability Issues in Oklahoma <ok-sus@lists.oksustainability.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, July 12, 2010 2:13:59 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [ok-sus] We need to rally to defend April Harrington<BR></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial>April Harrington is one of the most innovative local food entrepreneurs in the nation.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>She is also being threatened with the loss of her business.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>This is a terrible crime of social and economic injustice.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Bob Waldrop<BR>http://bobaganda.blogspot.com <BR><BR></FONT></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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