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Health and Community Services
September 23, 2010
Media Advisory: Transition House to
Officially Open in Carbonear
The Honourable Jerome Kennedy, Minister of
Health and Community Services and MHA for Carbonear-Harbour Grace, will
officially open O'Shaughnessy House, a transition house in Carbonear
offering safe refuge to women and children escaping violence. The event
will take place tomorrow (Friday, September 24) at 1:00 p.m. at 1 St.
Clare Avenue, Carbonear.
Minister Kennedy will be joined by Mary Dwyer,
Chair, Board of Directors, Iris Kirby House; Gail Tobin, Executive
Director, Iris Kirby House; Sister Sharon Fagan, Congregation Leader,
Presentation Congregation; and, Morley Linstead, Manager, Home
Assistance Program, Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation.
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Media contact:
Tansy Mundon
Director of Communications
Department of Health and Community Services
709-729-1377, 685-2646
tansymundon@gov.nl.ca
2010 09 23
1:30 p.m.
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