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As many of you know, the Lake Cowichan Food Bank needs a new home. They’ve entered a contest called the Aviva Community Fund to win money to cover new housing costs, and they need your vote to win the contest. However, a huge obstacle, says Katherine Worsley, volunteer and Treasurer of the Lake Cowichan Food Bank Society, is that the online voting process is really complicated. “I’ve been fielding a lot of phone calls from people who want to vote but are having trouble with the process,” said Worsley. When you visit the website, www. avivacommunityfund. org/ideas/acf1972, you are prompted to register via email or through Facebook. “Facebook is the much easier way to go,” said Worsley. “And for people who voted in the same contest for Palsson school last year, it’s much easier. They’re already registered so they can just go in and
vote.” If you choose to register via email, you’re sent a confirmation email. From there you have to click a link, and then sign in. Once you’ve signed in, the site prompts you to start a new idea. Most people would say no at this point, since they only want to vote, but Worsley says you should say yes. Then once you’ve gone through that process, you are allowed to find their file and place your vote. The difficult process is really hindering the food bank from receiving votes. “We’re at just under 300 votes since voting started on Sept. 29,” said Worsley. She looked at another registrant, the Lake Country Food Bank on the mainland. They have over 1,000 votes already, and they’re project budget to build a new facility is more than $1 million. Worsley believes the much smaller Lake Cowichan Food Bank doesn’t have many votes because voting is such a difficult process. “We need to get at least 500 votes by Oct. 13
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(Thanksgiving Monday) in order to move on to the next round of voting,” said Worsley. She and Betty Sanddar are feeling very discouraged about their chances in the contest right now. “Everyone is only one or two pay checks away from needing the food
bank,” she said. “If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for a cousin or mother or father or neighbour. If the food bank gets enough votes, they have the potential to win money that will go a long way to saving the food bank. “When I talk to people on the phone, they’re
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