NOTE TO EDITORS:

Cabinet ministers from government�s Social Policy Committee are on the west coast for the next couple of days, touring the Cormack-Grenfell Region of the Strategic Social Plan. They arrive in Stephenville this morning, September 16 and will officially launch the Community Accounts of the Strategic Social Plan at 1 p.m., at the Bay St. George Campus of the College of the North Atlantic.

The cabinet committee will also visit the Community Education Network in Stephenville later in the afternoon. On the following day, September 17, they�ll travel to Corner Brook for meetings with the Cormack-Grenfell Regional Steering Committee of the Strategic Social Plan.

Media contact: Marcia Porter, Communications, (709) 729-0175

2002 09 16                                    12:00 p.m.