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FEDERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES SET TO ANSWER QUESTIONS TONIGHT
Elections Canada reminds citizens to read their voter information card BY SHERI REGNIER Times Staff
In a new federal riding like South OkanaganWest Kootenay, there's bound to be a glitch or two. Electors in the Trail area are urged to carefully read their voter information cards, which were mailed out last week. The reason being, like similar reports from across the country, certain Oct. 19 polling day locations in Trail are questionable. For example, some East Trail residents are directed to go to the Trail Memorial Centre for advance polling this weekend. Whereas those same voters were advised on their card, to cast a ballot in the Warfield Community Hall on election day. Notably, unless Elections Canada makes the associated corrections, the Trail voter would indeed have to drive up to the village to vote that day. The local riding office has been inundated with calls about such errors, and Roberta Post from the main returning office location in Penticton, confirmed new voter information cards are on the way for affected Trail residents. “I can tell you that the polling district group of people (East Trail, polling number 230) have been moved to the Trail Memorial Centre as their polling place on voting day,” Post told the Trail Times on Monday. “Everyone will get a new voter information card in the mail, directing them there.” It's all part of the normal period of adjustment during the election process, says Dorothy Sitek from Elections Canada. “It's normal for returning officers to have change or change location of the polling place,” Sitek explained. “It's part of the process, as was the case in 2011. It's expected approximately 1.5 per cent of electors will be affected by change in their polling location, and that's the number that happened in 2011.” As a result of the current snafu, which some attribute to the re-drawn federal ridings, almost 200,000 voters across Canada have received or will receive a replacement card. See ADVANCE, Page 2
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The All Candidates Forum is set for tonight in the Cominco Gym, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. The Trail and District Chamber of Commerce is providing the opportunity for the public and media to question the five federal candidates vying for a seat in the Oct. 19 election. Lindy Barta, TCOC's member services manager, is prepping the forum for the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding's NDP candidate Richard Cannings, Liberal Connie Denesiuk, Conservative Marshall Neufeld, Independent Brian Gray, and Samantha Troy, Green Party. Visit the Trail Times website Wednesday for a recap of the event.
Trail takes top spot in international competition
CiB judges rave city rocks, both figuratively and literally BY VALERIE ROSSI Times Staff
Trail has reinvented itself as a sustainable, liveable city but hasn't lost sight of its industrial roots, if its international win in the Communities in Bloom competition is any indication. Dan Rodlie, chair of Trail Community in Bloom (CiB), is still in shock after returning from the 2015 National
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Symposium and Awards Ceremonies held in Kamloops this past weekend. “I'm pretty surprised,” he admitted to the Times Monday. “We didn't really expect it because you are competing against the top communities (internationally).” The city took home a five-bloom rating and a bronze title, based on its score of 85.3 per cent in the medium category. Trail came out on top against fellow competitors Ahoghill, Northern Ireland, Estes Park, Colorado and Jasper
and Stettler, Alta. “It's what we've been striving for, for many, many years,” added Rodlie. “This is the world championship in horticulture. This is the big one.” Communities in Bloom is a non-profit organization committed to fostering civic pride, environmental responsibility, and beautification. Trail has participated in the program since 2002. After running through the ranks of winning provincially and See JUDGES, Page 2
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