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There are six candidates officially registered for the June 7, 2018 Provincial Election for Chatham-Kent Leamington (formerly Chatham-Kent Essex). The Chatham-Kent-Leamington provincial riding is currently known as ChathamKent Essex, but will change names following the election to mirror the equivalent federal riding. PC: Incumbent Member of Provincial Parliament Rick Nicholls, a native of Chatham, will be the Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate in this year’s election. Nicholls was first elected in 2011 and again in 2014. Nicholls is set to open his campaign office on May 11 in Chatham. The local MPP has been heavily involved in the citizendriven ‘Build the Barrier’ campaign to have a concrete median installed on Hwy 401 from Chatham-Kent to London, which has been dubbed Carnage Alley. NDP: New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Jordan McGrail opened her Chatham-Kent-Leamington office on Thursday night in Chatham to start her 2018 provincial election campaign. “I’m very humbled and excited to have the chance to talk about issues that matter to our communities,” said McGrail. “I’ve gotten to meet so many neighbours already, and they are ready for change for the better.” McGrail is a lifelong resident of Chatham-Kent. She works as a Robotics Technologist at St. Clair College, and is also a racing horse owner. She was nominated in January as the NDP Candidate for Chatham-Kent-Leamington. LIBERAL: Campaigning under the Liberal banner will be Margaret Schleier Stahl. “I’m honoured to join a team under the leadership of Premier Kathleen Wynne that is fighting for fairness and to ensure we continue to invest in care and opportunity for everyone,” said Schleier Stahl. “I’ve been advocating for supports for residents in communities throughout the Windsor, Leamington and Chatham-Kent areas for over 26 years. I will continue to advocate on your behalf for the investments that our residents need including free tuition for post-secondary students, a $15-an-hour minimum wage and free prescriptions for children and youth and soon for seniors.” Margaret has worked for the Municipality of Chatham-Kent in a variety of roles. She currently is a member of the Leamington Mennonite Home Gala Committee. GREEN: The Green Party Candidate is Mark Vercouteren. “I grew up in Chatham-Kent then earned two Bachelor degrees; one in Math and one in Physics. I have worked in a variety of jobs, in several cities in Ontario, and started my own business in Blenheim. I see that businesses succeed and fail based on their ability to see the big picture. This is what I expect from our government and not what I am seeing now. We need to focus more on small businesses and manufacturing to have a stable economy. We’ve created more jobs with the green energy sector than in the oil sector. LIBERTARIAN: The Libertarian candidate is Richard Vaz. No other information is known. NONE OF THE ABOVE: Yes, that’s the name of the party – The None of the Above Party. Bryce Giroux, an IT analyst, has put his name forward for this party in this election. No other information is known. Drew Simpson, an Independent candidate from Chatham who stated early in the election that he was running, does not show up as a registered candidate for this riding as of Monday, May 7. Nominations close May 17 at 2 p.m.
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Joel Epp loads a box with cans of chicken for a yet-to-be-determined location as part of the Mennonite Central Committee’s annual Meat Canner tour at the Southwestern Ontario Gleaners’ facility Tuesday, May 1. This year, the Leamington site canned and packaged 22,000 pounds of chicken from a new supplier. (Sun-Journal Photo)
Meat Canner tour ends in Leamington By Bryan Jessop Volunteers from the Tomato Capital and beyond have again joined forces at a location known to feed the hungry to do their part in meeting that same objective. Over a course of two days, approximately 400 individuals from across Leamington, Essex County and well into Chatham-Kent converged upon the Southwestern Ontario Gleaners’ location on Industrial Road in support of the Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) annual Mobile Meat Canner tour. This year’s campaign featured Leamington as its final stop on the 32-community voyage. The journey began October 9 of 2017 in Sterling, Ohio and wrapped up with its only two Canadian destinations — Elmira, Ont. Apr. 23 to 27 and Leamington Apr. 30 to May 3. Members of the local Rotary International Club assisted with the canner’s set up on Apr. 30, followed by two 15-hour days of canning May 1 and 2 and then tear down and departure on Wednesday, May 3. Volunteers in Leamington selected a five-hour shift of 7 a.m. to noon, noon to 5 p.m. or 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday or Tuesday of last week. Retirees from various businesses and institutions and representatives of about 30 local churches offered their assistance, either filling, cleaning, drying, labeling or packaging 795 gram/1.75 pound cans of chicken. In total, the Leamington stop ended with the canning of 22,000 pounds of meat, packaged into boxes of 24 cans each and delivered to Plum Coulee, Manitoba — about 100 km southwest of Winnipeg and 35 km north of the North Dakota border — where it will be stored until a destination country is determined. The original MCC Meat Canner was built in the 1940s and although it would be more than 50 before it first arrived in Leamington, a local connection to its services was formed much sooner. The parents of Martin Rahn, then residents of a war-torn Germany, received food aid before his father moved to Canada in 1951 and his mother a year later, where they eventually married. Rahn is now a publicity director with MCC, which operates locally out of an Ontario office based in Kitchener. (Continued on Page A-3)
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