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SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT Students aim to increase voters Megan Cole News staff
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Hannah Cater, left, Glen Harrison and Jessica Manness get ready for the upcoming track season and Oak Bay High school track and field’s manure sale. The team is raising money for an upcoming trip to Florida and is taking orders for manure they will bag at the school at the end of the month. The cost is $6 per bag or $25 for five bags, which includes the delivery of your prepaid order. Contact Mike Sheffer at 250-514-2599 or mwsheffer@hotmail.com or the school at 250-598-3361 to order.
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With only three months left until British Columbians head to the polls, students are busy encouraging their peers to vote. The University of Victoria Students’ Society has already had Elections B.C. on campus helping register voters, but with more than 500,000 eligible voters under of the age of 34 not participating in the last election, director of external relations with the UVSS Lucia Heffelfinger Orser said youth issues are being forgotten. “I think when students go out and vote it brings youth issues to the forefront,” said Heffelfinger Orser. “Some of the reasons why health care and other issues always “I think rank at the top when students for government is go out and vote because it is an older who it brings youth demographic votes and those are issues to the the issues that are important to them.” forefront.” As a student society, - Lucia the primary issue Heffelfinger Orser it would like to see addressed by the political parties in the election race is postsecondary education. The UVSS and other student societies from across the province are joining together, creating a coalition called the Alliance of B.C. Students, which previously ran an informal campaign known as Where’s the funding? “It represents over 180,000 students in the province and we are running a campaign specifically targeting the four major political parties in the upcoming election,” said Heffelfinger Orser. “Essentially we’re trying to call on the Liberals, the NDP, the Conservatives and the Green Party to commit to making B.C. have the highest quality, most successful post-secondary education system.” PLEASE SEE: Election timing tough, Page A10