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Your vote is important! By Virginia Rivers
Election Day on Tuesday, November 3, will soon arrive. We want every vote at Beaumont to count.
In-person voting
In previous years, you may have enjoyed the convenience of voting here at Beaumont on Election Day. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, our (P-11) precinct will be voting at Lower Merion Baptist Church, 911 New Gulph Road, rather than at Beaumont, in order to keep outside visitors to a minimum and mitigate our community risk of the Covid-19 virus. Beaumont will provide transportation on Election Day for those who wish to vote in person.
Mail-in voting
New to Pennsylvania in 2020, mail-in Ballots provide an opportunity to cast your vote without having to travel to your local polling station. There has been a great deal of controversy about mailin balloting for the 2020 general election. This is a major
October 2020 issue, especially for battleground states like Pennsylvania, where 26,000 mail-in Ballots were rejected in the 2020 primary. The majority of the rejected Ballots were from Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties. The most common reasons for Ballot rejection were late Ballots and questionable or missing signatures. Now there is another reason for rejection. There are two envelopes in the Ballot packet: • A larger envelope addressed to the Montgomery County election office. • A smaller confiden tiality envelope that will contain your completed Ballot. You must place the smaller envelope inside the larger one. You may not place your Ballot directly into the larger Photo by Richard Stephens envelope. VOTE continued on page 2 AUTUMN IS HERE! The squirrel has collected a clutch of acorns to stash away for winter.
Mansion Gardens offer peace and beauty
By Nancy Sharp for the Grounds Committee
In late 1914 our Mansion was built on over 100 acres of land on both sides of Old Gulph Road. Some of the land was sold and became Beech Road; the rest created our campus on the corner with Ithan Avenue. It was first named Liseter Hall before it became Beaumont. Do you realize how fortunate we are that Beaumont has three beautiful interior gardens in the Mansion? LISETER GARDEN was a miniature golf There is a small course in the early ’90s. atrium garden across from the Grill Room and an adjacent larger atrium near
the mailbox area. And then we have the largest and best known, the Liseter Garden. When the Liseter Garden was created in the early ’90s, a miniature golf course was donated in honor of a resident. Because that space seemed to be the most desirable for a place to visit with friends or enjoy the peace and quiet that it created, the golf course was eliminated and flagstones were laid with an edge of Belgian block. Then shrubs and trees were planted, many of them still in existence. In 1992, near the door to the Music room, a beautiful circular flagstone medallion was donated by Helen Elizabeth Stephens, mother of Dr. Richard Stephens, who along with his wife, Barbara Ballam Stephens, resides in Baldwin today. In 1993, a group of Beaumont ladies created the wonderful tile mosaic that is located on the wall at the far end of the Garden, across from the door leading into the Mansion. Just walk past the fountain toward the little statue of
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