NLIS 3
April 2, 2002
(Government Services and Lands)

 

NOTE TO EDITORS:

Financial Awareness Month

Walter Noel, Minister of Government Services and Lands, will hold a news conference on Wednesday, April 3 at 11 a.m. in the Media Centre, Ground Floor, East Block, Confederation Building to outline special activities planned for Financial Awareness Month in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Minister Noel will be joined at the news conference by Denise Voigt Crawford of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA); Linda Maher, Coordinator, Marriage Preparation Program, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John�s; and Anthony Patey, Securities Commissioner for Newfoundland and Labrador.

All four will jointly release a new publication entitled Planning for Your Financial Future. This planning guide, a NASAA project, will be made available to interested parties throughout North America. It is being piloted in St. John�s by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese as part of its marriage preparation program. Major portions of the guide were prepared by officials in the Department of Government Services and Lands.

Ms. Crawford, who is traveling to St. John�s for the launch of this project, is a past president of NASAA and is actively involved in its financial education and literacy programs. She currently serves as Securities Commissioner for Texas.

At the news conference, the minister will release other informational material and speak of a new Financial Awareness Month Web site.

Media contact: Rick Callahan, Director of Communications, (709) 729-4860.

2002 04 02           3:35 p.m.

 


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