{"id":12572,"date":"2012-06-16T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=12572"},"modified":"2012-06-15T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T03:27:33","slug":"local-grandmothers-sign-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2012\/06\/16\/local-grandmothers-sign-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Grandmothers Sign Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GrandmothersAfrica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GrandmothersAfrica-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GrandmothersAfrica\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-12573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GrandmothersAfrica-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GrandmothersAfrica-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GrandmothersAfrica-228x170.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GrandmothersAfrica.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Submitted by:  Bev Leach<br \/>\n<\/br>Merle Robinson, representative of Friends for Grandmothers of Africa, watches as Susan Huxley signs a petition calling upon the House of Commons to pass<br \/>\nBill C-398.<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br>This Bill will help facilitate the immediate and sustainable flow of life-saving generic medicines to developing countries which can&#8217;t afford brand name retroviral drugs. The local Grandmothers group is collecting signatures which will be presented to Robert Sopuck and to the House of Commons with the hope that the bill will pass the second reading in early December.<\/p>\n<p>For more information you may contact members of Friends for Grandmothers of Africa.<br \/>\nBertha Minish 734-2178,<br \/>\nInge Orf  734-9693,<br \/>\nMerle Robinson 734-3906,<br \/>\nMary Snelgrove 734-5560,<br \/>\nTrish Sherrer 734-3462,<br \/>\nJoy Wenstob 734-2039,<br \/>\nBev Leach 734-2092.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by: Bev Leach Merle Robinson, representative of Friends for Grandmothers of Africa, watches as Susan Huxley signs a petition calling upon the House of Commons to pass Bill C-398. This Bill will help facilitate the immediate and sustainable flow of life-saving generic medicines to developing countries which can&#8217;t afford brand name retroviral drugs. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,16],"class_list":["post-12572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}