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WALK, RUN Community members are all set to hit the streets for several good causes. Walk With My Mayor, benefitting the Arnprior and District Breast Cancer Support Group and the Arnprior and District Memorial Hospital, is this Saturday. The Military Run for Families will come through Arnprior next Thursday. 12, 15
MUSICAL SUNDAY If you want to soothe your senses prior to election day Monday there are two musical events taking place Sunday – the May Musical Interlude at GraceSt.Andrew’s United Church and Arnprior Community Choir’s ‘Sing and Celebrate’ 20th Anniversary Concert. 27, 46
April 28, 2011 | 48 Pages
Mobs vote Advance polls turnout up over 1,000 from 2008, more youth showing up to cast ballots JOHN CARTER john.carter@metroland.com
It’s all over but for the voting Monday, May 2. Well, at least most of the voting. Some electors have already voted and if the response to the advance polls on the weekend is any indication, there is plenty of interest in the federal election in Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke and across Canada. Concerns the scheduling of the advance polls on the Easter weekend might deter voting proved unfounded as there were line-ups at the opening of many of the advance polls around the riding on all three days and a steady stream of voters throughout most of the day. Elections Canada Eastern Ontario field liaison officer Joan O’Neill said the advance poll turnout was up in Eastern Ontario from previous elections. “It was quite busy (Easter) Friday, Saturday was quieter, but Monday was the busiest of all,” she said. The exceptions were polls located in shopping centres, such as Arnprior, where Saturday was busy too, she added. In Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke, 9,246 people voted in the
advance polls, one of the highest numbers in the province, and well up over the 8,100 who voted early in the last two elections. Overall in Canada, preliminary figures (a few polls have yet to report) indicate over two million electors voted at the advance polls, a 34.5 per cent increase from the 1.5 million electors who voted in advance in 2008. More than 676,000 Canadians voted Easter Friday and more than 823,000 Easter Monday, representing the two busiest days of advance voting ever. “There was a higher than expected turnout this past weekend at the advance polls,” said Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Marc Mayrand. “We thank voters for their patience and field staff for their responsiveness.” In the 2008 election, the total turnout in Renfrew-NipissingPembroke was 63.6 per cent with 47,314 votes cast, down from 69.2 per cent two years earlier when 52,064 voters cast their ballots. Of particular interest to O’Neill were reports from Eastern Ontario polling officers noting a higher turnout of young people at the polls. See ‘GREENS’ Page 4 EN OP USE HO
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FITNESS CLASS JOINS FIGHT AGAINST CANCER Arnprior District High School is once again offering a senior fitness course that culminates in the students completing the 10-kilometre event at Ottawa Race Weekend. Students Zach Raley, right, and Brandon Firlotte work out at a recent visit the class made to the Mixed Martial Arts and Fitness Academy in Arnprior. For more, see Page 21.
Town welcomes windfall DEREK DUNN derek.dunn@metroland.com
Councillors learned of a windfall for Arnprior OPP salaries at Tuesday’s regular meeting. The province is handing out additional money to a number of regions to cover rising OPP costs. Towns in Renfrew County were given more than a half million dollars to make up for 2009 costs through the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund. The
towns of Renfrew, Deep River and Petawawa split about half. Meanwhile, Arnprior, after years of strident opposition to signing a contract that would increase salaries and the number of officers at the detachment, was awarded $213,500. However, Arnprior’s budget process has been arguably thrown into turmoil more than other municipalities. See ‘OPP’ Page 3
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