NOTE TO EDITORS:

Education Minister Judy Foote will be at the Airport Plaza in St. John�s at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, October 30, to address a session for school district personnel who are responsible for Safe and Caring Schools. The session is designed to assist districts with their planning and to identify supports needed to move forward, with their community partners, to implement the action plan that resulted from the Creating Peaceful Schools Forum held in May 2002. Attending will be representatives of northern, eastern, Avalon and Labrador districts. A similar session was held in Corner Brook on October 28, for representatives of the central and western regions.

For further information visit: www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2002/edu/1028n02.htm

Media representatives are invited to attend.

Media contact: Carmel Turpin, Communications, (709) 729-0048.

2002 10 29                                       1:35 p.m.