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By Bill Chaplin In a report presented to Council Monday, Aug. 12, the Director of Corporate Services, Brian Sweet, has recommended that “internet voting” be implemented for the upcoming election. By way of background information, here are some quotes from that report: “In 1996, the Municipal Elections Act was amended to allow municipalities to use alternative forms of voting other than paper ballots at polling stations. In the 2000 municipal election, and the three municipal elections since, Leamington has used the alternative voting method of mail-in ballots. By the 2010 election, Leamington election staff had refined the process so there were few problems and the election results were delivered quickly after the end of voting.” “Internet voting is now used in many countries around the world and it is the most convenient and accessible form of voting for the majority of electors. It is also the least expensive. In 2010, approximately 44 Ontario municipalities used internet voting in combination with some other form of voting. Municipal election staff from seven local municipalities formed a working group to investigate using internet voting in 2014. The working group included the chief election officials from Chatham-Kent, Lakeshore, Leamington, LaSalle, Amherstburg, Tecumseh and Kingsville. The working group contacted all of the municipal clerks who used (Continued on Page 2)
Many dignitaries came out on Saturday, August 10 for the official opening of the Southwestern Ontario Gleaners facility in Leamington. From left are Leamington Mayor John Paterson, Chatham-Kent Essex MPP Rick Nicholls, ChathamKent Essex MP Dave Van Kesteren, Windsor-West MPP and Minister of Children and Youth Services Teresa Piruzza and Southwestern Ontario Gleaners Committee member. (SUN Photo)
Southwestern Ontario Gleaners feeding global and local hunger By Sheila McBrayne The Southwestern Ontario Gleaners officially opened its food processing/dehydrating facility on Saturday, August 10. The local group of volunteers has been working for two years to get to this point and just received the keys to their new home at 40 Industrial Lane, Leamington on June 1 of this year. The Southwestern Ontario Gleaners is only the 6th in Canada (3 in British Columbia) of its kind. In two months the group has refurbished this 10,000 square foot former fish processing plant into an ideal location for the Gleaners. “It’s like this building was meant for us. It had everything we needed. It’s 10,000 square feet and has cooling, refrigeration and proper floor drainage,” said Vern Toews, Southwestern Ontario Gleaners Board of Directors member and chair of the Corporate Donor Committee. Refrigeration is needed for the incoming frozen product and the coolers are used to store vegetables/fruits before hydrating. The focus of Gleaner’s began with the premise that too much local produce was not marketable for the producer and that by washing, dicing and dehydrating this nonsaleable produce, they could then produce a free soup mix for distribution to the hungry. “We’re the only Glean-
ers operation in Canada that has applied for and received CRA status to distribute this finished product within Canada. We realized there was Essex County: a tremendous need locally. • Windsor/Essex We will be supplying the County Food Bank school system in the county, Association served VON and food banks as 171,925 meals in well,” he said. 2012 “In consultation with lo• In Ontario, cal VON, Forgotten Har37.5% of food bank users are unvest, Plentiful Harvest and der the age of 18 the Jumpstart Nutrition • In 2012 a reProgram, we realized that cord 882,000 Cathere is a great need within nadians used food our own region. Further banks each month discussions have led us to realize the possibility of potentially providing a “value added” service by allowing our equipment to be utilized for the slicing of fresh vegetables, which will then be packaged for distribution by various community partners. The dicer that was recently purchased from Pure Hothouse will enable us to realize that objective if and when those organizations are ready,” (Continued on Page 3)
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