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| Affiliation | Nova Scotia Party |
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| Name | Gerald Rodgers |
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Spryfield, Nova Scotia , Canada |
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| Info | Gerald Rodgers is a native of Spryfield, Halifax County. He attended local public schools in Spryfield and then attended the Halifax Grammar School. Gerald has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Economics, a Bachelor of Education degree, and a Masters of Business Administration degree, with twin concentrations in Corporate Finance and Small Business Creation from Saint Mary's University.
Gerald has been involved in the ownership and management of companies in the wholesale distribution, courier, trucking, and taxi industries. Gerald paid his way through university by working at the Halifax Shipyards, where he served as an electrician and as a lead hand in charge of supervising electrical cable supply and distribution during the outfitting phase of six offshore drilling platforms constructed at the yard during the early to middle 1970's.
In 1979, he started G.M. Rodgers Graphics, a commercial and quick-print operation in the Bayer's Road Shopping Centre. In 1986, he moved the print shop--by then a full-service commercial print shop re-named Park Print, a Division of Lakeside Publishing Ltd.--to his new 2,500 square foot industrial condominium unit in Lakeside Industrial Park.
In recent years Gerald has taken university training in both computer hardware and software and now teaches courses in Web site design at the Bell Road Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC).
Gerald ran as a candidate for the Nova Scotia Party in the riding of Halifax Atlantic during the 1999 general election, and continues to act as election readiness officer and policy director for the Nova Scotia Party.
His can-do attitude has led to his heavy involvement in community matters. Gerald was a co-founder and charter member of the Halifax County Business Association, where he lobbied federal, provincial, and municipal politicians for fair and honorable treatment of small businesses with respect to taxation, paper burden, and day-to-day regulations.
Gerald was also a co-founder and charter member of C.R.E.E.D. (the Committee for Responsible Economic and Environmental Development), where he worked for and helped achieve the HRM blue bag recycling, green cart, and beverage container recycling programs. He also lobbied governments on environmental issues relating to solid and liquid waste disposal in the HRM.
Gerald also lobbied in concert with R.A.T.E. (Real Alternatives to Toxins in the Environment) and other interested parties for the lawn pesticide ban in HRM at both provincial and municipal levels. He is a past president of the Mainland South Heritage Society and a Director of the McIntosh Run Watershed Association.
Gerald has long dedicated himself to the concept of greater democracy for the people of Nova Scotia and the promotion and upgrading of Nova Scotia's economy and place in Confederation.
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