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Newfoundland and Labrador NDP Womens Committee are selling "I am woman see me vote" NDP tees Black or White with orange text - sm med large

Please note "woman" is the symbol and the font is cool.

These Canadian union made Tees are being sold to raise funds for the Helen Fogwill Porter Fund for Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic
Women Candidates, which was officially launched on March 7 at great event chaired by Nancy Riche. The Fund will give financial assistance to
women candidates at the provincial level in both general elections and by-elections. Grants from the Fund will provide childcare and household
assistance, replace wages sacrificed to campaigning, and will pay for important campaign costs.

How you can get your Tee:

For $20 you too can own one of these great Tees.

Contributions from $35-$99 will get a shirt; and for every $100 an autographed copy of Helen's awarding winning novel January, February, June, or July; and if you give $120, your get a book and a shirt. And tax receipts of course.

Just send a check or money order to:
Helen Fogwill Porter Fund, PO Box
5275, St. John's, NL A1C 5W1

and I will pop it in the mail to you.

Thank you
Amanda

Helen Fogwill Porter
Writer. Feminist. Mother. Grandmother. Sister. Social Activist. Union Member. Friend. Doctor of Letters. And New Democrat. Helen Fogwill Porter is all of these and so much more.

Born in 1930 in St. John's, Helen graduated from Prince of Wales College and worked for several years as a secretary at the Department of Justice and later as a reference assistant at the Provincial Reference Library in St. John's.

She began writing freelance in 1962. Since then, Helen has penned numerous articles, reviews and pieces of fiction for some of Canada's large circulation publications, including Chatelaine, Saturday Night, Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Forum, Books in Canada, and Quill and Quire.

Her poetry and fiction appear in many anthologies and textbooks. Her work has been published throughout the world, including New Zealand, Great Britain and South Africa. The CBC has broadcast 10 of her plays, while others have been produced on stage. She has also written commentaries and reviews for CBC Radio and documentaries for CBC television.

Helen's books include:
- A Long and Lonely Ride - a collection of short stories, published by Breakwater in 1991
- January, February, June or July - a novel, published by Breakwater in 1988 for which Helen received the Canadian Library Association's
Young Adult Canadian Book Award and was short-listed for the W.H. Smith Books in Canada First Novel Award.
- Below the Bridge - published by Breakwater's Folklore-Folklife series in 1980
- From This Place - (with Bernice Morgan and Geraldine Rubia), an anthology published by Jesperson Press in 1977.

Helen has three works in progress, including a novel set in St. John's. She has been honoured for her writing many times, including a lifetime
achievement award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. She received a doctor of letters from Memorial University in 1997.

Helen also shares her talents with others. Since 1977 she has been teaching creative writing and she is a member of many notable organizations including International P.E.N., the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Newfoundland Writers' Guild and the Writers' Union of Canada, the last two of which she is a life member. In addition to her prolific writing career and raising her children, Helen has made a tremendous contribution to the New Democratic Party in our province. This was recognized in 1998 when she was honoured with an outstanding service award by the Party.

Helen ran for the NDP four times between 1975 and 1985. The first three times in the district of Mount Pearl and the last time in Harbour Grace. In 1975, she received 21% of the vote. The campaign was run out of her home on a shoestring budget of less than $600. Dorothy Inglis was her campaign manager.

"I had a lot of support from women and men too of course. Gerry Panting talked me into running in 1975. He was very good at that," Helen Porter.

Helen would run three more times firmly believing that citizens shouldhave an opportunity to vote NDP.

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