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Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 I .. r Bed Necks Ride Kendal's own Jimmy Haystack and the Red Neck Rodeo Band were front and centre in the community's celebration last week Saturday. A parade procèeded the ribbon cutting and entertainment program to mark the official opening of the Kendal Community Centre. Pictures and story on pages 10 and 11. Band members are - foreground - Mike Felix, riding - Mike Pollard, walking - Rob Pollard. /r A KIRBY and ORONO UNITED CHURCHES The Churches are holding a Mission and Service on Sunday, November 19; Kirby 9:30 a.m. and Orono 11:00 a.m. Guest Speaker: Koren Kassirer. NEWCASTLE COMMUNITY CHURCH BAZAAR The Newcastle Community Church will be holding their Christmas Bazaar on November 23rd from 11 a.m. - 2:00 p.ra. 987-4076 or 987-5448. ORONO AMATEUR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION The Association is holding a New Year's Eve Dance, December 31, 2000, 6 p.m. -'1 a.m.+, Orono Community Centre, dinner 7 p.m. with tickets $100. per couple. Public School support staff will be in a strike position position at 11:30 p.m. Friday, if talks with their Board break off. The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board's 1,200 custodians, secretaries and educational assistants have been working without a contract contract for the past 2 years. Employees of the former Newcastle North umber lan d Clarington Board are also seeking pay equity with their Peterborough School Board counterparts. The two Boards amalgamated two years ago and the former Peterborough Board employees employees currently earn approximately approximately $1.60 per hour more than their colleagues across the board. ■ ' , Support workers, signed up for picket duty last Saturday, and plan, to target the" Board's office on Fisher Drive in Peterborough as their first stop. Candidates outraged with mail in ballot The potential for abuse in the Vote by Mail system has many candidates seeing red. George Khouri, Local Candidate for Ward Two, says he has been made^ware of at least two irregularities in the voting process. "I understand that candidates candidates and agents of candidates candidates have been dropping off numerous completed voting kits to. your office," stated Khouri in a letter dated 6, 2000, to Clerk Pattie November Municipal Barrie. Equally disturbing to Khouri was the information that ballot security envelopes, and the yellow mail in envelopes were available at the Clerk's Department just for the asking. ■ To prove this. could be done, two other candidates went to the Clerk's department department and' received at least 30 sets of envelopes each, no questions asked. 1 Voter Addition Forms are also available at the Clerk's Department. To be added to the voter's list one must complete complete and sign a • 'Voter Addition Form' and include the signature.of an agent. No identification is required. There is no problem with people dropping off multiple ballots, said Barrie yesterday. To date 14,000 of the 48,000- ballots have 'been C£St. "1 have instructed my staff to . stop handing out envelopes," Barrie told a Times reporter on Monday. Having the voters list made up from the tax assessment assessment roles means that any residents owning more than one piece of property in Clarington would have received a ballot for each piece of property in their (continued page 12)