Atamanenko gives constituents chance to say good-bye to Jack Layton
By Nelson Daily Staff
The constituency office of Alex Atamanenko, Minister of Parliament for B.C. Southern Interior is offering voters the opportunity to pay tribute to NDP Leader Jack Layton.
Layton died Monday at the age of 61 of cancer. His body is to lie in state on Parliament Hill and Toronto’s City Hall.
Atamanenko’s office in Castlegar is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the rest of the week.
Voters are invited to leave messages or share stories about how Layton touched their lives.
Residents that cannot make it in person can do so online at www.ndp.ca and click on Express your Condolences to leave a message about Jack Layton and what he meant to them.
Layton’s family has asked that in lieu of flowers – and to continue the work of making Canada a better place – donations be made instead to The Broadbent Institute, in memoriam.
Donations to the Broadbent Institute can be made online at: www.ndp.ca/inmemory
Or mailed to:
Broadbent Institute
c/o Canada’s New Democrats
300-279 Laurier St W
Ottawa, ON K1P 5J9
Layton will be honoured with a 15-gun salute when he leaves Parliament Hill for the last time.
The casket will rest “in repose” at Toronto City Hall all day Friday and Saturday morning.
The state funeral will be Saturday at 11 a.m. PDT in Toronto at Roy Thomson Hall. Atamanenko will be in attendance for Layton’s funeral.
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