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Thursday, December 27, 2012 VOL. 30 Number 51
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Fair members allowed to vote PAT KELLY
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people would have been ineligible to vote in next month’s Rock Creek and Boundary District Fall Fair annual general meeting. The fair association bylaws require attendance at four meetings in order to be a voting member. But because the November meeting saw the board get up and walk out after calls from the floor that the meeting, that had already begun to deal with correspondence, needed to be officially called to order. Six people met with the Boundary Creek Times reporter on Tuesday, Dec. 18 in Rock Creek to voice their concern about the possibility of being disenfranchised. Long-time Rock Creek resident Louise Fossen was one of as many as a dozen people who said the November meeting would have been their fourth. “I feel that it is an insult that you have been to four fair meetings and now you are not allowed to vote,” asserted Fossen. Debra Tilstra was another who says she was left wondering if she would be credited with attending the November meeting. “I think this is unfair because I took the time to attend, showed interest,” said Tilstra in an email to the Times. Others also caught in the dilemma included Gail McLean, Donna Scott, Vern Rexin, Clara and Steve Smith and Dwayne and Grant Harfman. Last Thursday, Dec. 20, an email was sent out to the community from the board that settled the question. “It was felt that as people had made the effort and expected to attend a meeting that those that signed in should be given credit. A motion
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