I am very excited about this opportunity, and I am working hard to make it a reality, but I can’t do this without your help.
I need your support to win the nomination
What does this mean? It means that I need 200 people to join the BC NDP in Saanich South and come out to vote for me in approx. 3 months at a nomination meeting. The membership form is attached and it costs $10 to become a member.
If you would like another membership form please go online to BC NDP and you will be able to download one.
If you are not sure if you live in Saanich South you can check the map included or go online at www.elections.bc.ca
You cannot vote for me at the nomination meeting unless you have been a member of the NDP for 90 days, so timing is everything! I will need to have all membership forms sent to Vancouver by October 15th, 2008.
I can collect membership forms at any time. Please call me at 250-507-4222 or email lanapopham@rogers.blackberry.net.
To learn a little bit more about what I have been doing please check out my website at www.lanapopham.ca
Thanks so much!
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for the Provincial Constituency of Saanich South, Victoria, B.C.
- Lana Popham
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Elected as a Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for the Constituency of Saanich South on May 12, 2009. New Democratic Opposition Critic for the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. Raised on Quadra Island and has an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia. Extensive track record as a community leader, advocate and environmental activist.
Community History
- Member of the Legislative Assembly of B.C., 2009-
- Planning Transportation & Economic Development Committee - Saanich
- Peninsula Agricultural Commission - Commissioner
- Island Organic Producers Association - Chair of the Certification Committee
- Agri-Food Initiative Advisory Committee
- Central Saanich Little League - Treasurer
- Brentwood Elementary School - Compost Committee
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There is more to me than plastic bags.....
Nomination
SAANICH – Lana Popham, local business owner and community activist, was nominated on March 8th in Saanich South as the New Democrat candidate for the May 12 provincial election.
“I’ve spent my whole life speaking up, speaking out and speaking for things I believe in,” Popham told over 100 supporters today.
Popham said she is looking forward to holding Gordon Campbell and the B.C. Liberals to account by running in the May election with Carole James and the New Democrats.
“Gordon Campbell is not in the business of representing communities, he’s not in the business of representing you or me – he’s in the business of mis-representing our interests,” said Popham. “I am proud to be from Saanich and have the experience and drive to take our community’s concerns to the Legislature.”
Popham owns and operates The Barking Dog Vineyard - a successful Saanich small business and the first Certified Organic Vineyard on Vancouver Island – and is currently chair of the Certification Committee for Island Organic Producers Association and past President of the Vancouver Island Grape Growers Association. She’s a member of Saanich’s Planning Transportation & Economic Development Committee and is an active parent at her son’s school.
Popham’s “Think Outside the Bag” campaign has been a very successful on the ground environmental initiative that encourages people to switch to reusable bags.
With the support of her husband Jon, a firefighter for Oak Bay, and their 10 year old son, Popham is already campaigning to win a seat in the Legislature on May 12.
Books I love.....
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
- In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
- The Geography of Nowhere - James Howard Kunstler
- Heat :How to stop the planet from burning - George Monbiot
- The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler
- Urban Meltdown - Clive Doucet
- Home From Nowhere - James Howard Kunstler
- Urban Nation - Alan Broadbent
- The Economies of Cities - Jane Jacobs
- Dark Age Ahead - Jane Jacobs
- Farmageddon - Brewster kneen
Michael Pollan
Climate Change
Some interesting letters I have received:
Hi,
I listened to the discussion on the radio about plastic bags this morning. Seven years ago, when I immigrated to Canada from Germany I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw how plastic bags are used here. Back in Germany we’ve charge for them for years and it is normal to use baskets and cotton bags. Also, most stores have a corner where they pile up the boxes they receive the goods in and people are free to use them. Plastic bags are completely out and you almost feel bad if you have to buy one.
We are so behind here and it is truly just a question of habit, not convenience. I am glad there are signs that things will become more environmentally friendly over here.
Carola Daffner
Dear Lana
I wholeheartedly support your campaign to ban disposable plastic bags and wonder, since they have caused such harm to so much of our environment and promise to do so way into the future, why they were presented for general use and why were we allowed ... encouraged? ... to use them in the first place. Someone must have known!
I live in View Royal where concern has prompted the town's use of bio-degradable dog litter bags and now also, more recently, some action toward using bio-degradable plastic garbage bags. Are they really bio-degradable and part of a solution?
More questions:( rhetorical, since I don't expect replies..you are busy enough)
Is recycling of soft plastic available in the CRD? Presumably, not. Do you know why? What really has been happening to the grocery bags that we have been returning in good faith to the grocery stores?
Thank you for your caring and dedication
Andria
I listened to the discussion on the radio about plastic bags this morning. Seven years ago, when I immigrated to Canada from Germany I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw how plastic bags are used here. Back in Germany we’ve charge for them for years and it is normal to use baskets and cotton bags. Also, most stores have a corner where they pile up the boxes they receive the goods in and people are free to use them. Plastic bags are completely out and you almost feel bad if you have to buy one.
We are so behind here and it is truly just a question of habit, not convenience. I am glad there are signs that things will become more environmentally friendly over here.
Carola Daffner
Dear Lana
I wholeheartedly support your campaign to ban disposable plastic bags and wonder, since they have caused such harm to so much of our environment and promise to do so way into the future, why they were presented for general use and why were we allowed ... encouraged? ... to use them in the first place. Someone must have known!
I live in View Royal where concern has prompted the town's use of bio-degradable dog litter bags and now also, more recently, some action toward using bio-degradable plastic garbage bags. Are they really bio-degradable and part of a solution?
More questions:( rhetorical, since I don't expect replies..you are busy enough)
Is recycling of soft plastic available in the CRD? Presumably, not. Do you know why? What really has been happening to the grocery bags that we have been returning in good faith to the grocery stores?
Thank you for your caring and dedication
Andria