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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012 • MERRITT NEWSPAPERS
Merritt gets ready to vote WHERE DO YOU NEED TO GO TO CAST A BALLOT?
General election day is just around the corner. This means if you are an eligible voter, you still have one more chance to cast your vote and make your voice heard. To vote in the Saturday, Sept. 15 civic byelection, you simply need to go to City Hall between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and show two pieces of identification. Voters will then have the opportunity to select one city council candidate from the six options on the ballot. ARE YOU ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE SEPT. 15 CIVIC ELECTION?
THE COLLECTOR Bob Scafe, left, an avid insulator collector, explains his work to a visitor during his annual Merritt Insulator Show on his property Saturday. Collectors from as far away as New York State attended the show this year to buy, sell, swap and talk about insulators. Phillip Woolgar/Herald
Man attacked with baseball bat on Coldwater Merritt RCMP have responded to several assaults since the start of the month including an incident that left a man bleeding on the sidewalk with a head injury from a baseball bat. Officers were dispatched on Sept. 1 at around 1:30 a.m. after receiving a complaint of the assault that occurred on Coldwater Avenue. “Police located a male lying
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on the sidewalk bleeding from a head injury caused by a baseball bat,” said Merritt Staff Sgt. Sheila White. RCMP officers are seeking anyone who may have witnessed the assault and are trying to determine a motive for the attack. The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact the Merritt RCMP at 368-4262, or
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Crimestoppers at 1-800-222TIPS. Police also responded to a second report of an assault on Sept. 1 at the Cabin Lake Forestry Site. White said a Good Samaritan intervened in a domestic dispute between an Alberta couple and transported the victim — a 40-year-old woman with non-life threatening injuries — to the
Merritt RCMP Detachment. Police arrested 47-year-old Ocean Steele, who was formally charged with assault causing bodily harm and brought before a Justice of the Peace. “Mr. Steele was released from custody with several conditions placed on his behaviour and will appear in court in early October 2012,” said White. “Alcohol was a factor in this investigation.”
You can vote if you are a Canadian citizen, if you are 18 years of age or older as of Sept. 15, if you have lived in B.C. for at least six months, if you have lived in Merritt for at least 30 days and if you are not disqualified by law from voting. It does not matter whether you rent or own your home. If you own property in Merritt, but live somewhere else in B.C., you can also vote in Merritt elections. Nonresident property electors can vote only once, regardless of the number of properties they own. If there is more than one registered owner of a property, only one of the owners may, with the written consent of the majority of the other owners, register as a non-resident property elector. Landed immigrants who are not yet Canadian citizens are not permitted to vote in civic elections. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO BRING?
To vote in Saturday’s civic byelection, you simply need to go to City Hall between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. and show two pieces of identification — at least one with your signature and one with your address — to the registration clerk. Your name will be recorded and you can cast your ballot.
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