Whitby Free Press, 2 May 1979, p. 3

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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2,1979, PAGE 3 Proxy The proxy voting rules have been broadened to include more electors in Canada's 31st Federal Elec- tion on May 22. . Proxy voting allows another qualified elector to Councillor Joe Drumm said last week he thought Council is "putting the cart before the horse", in consi- dering approval of the pro- posed retirement home at the corner of Manning Road and Brock Street He felt it~sliöiild be more specific in regards to the details and requirements before approval is given to the developers. Councillor Bob Carson, Chairman of the Administra- tive Committee explained to the members of Council that the Committee is agreeing in principle to a retirement home. The site plan for the home is to come back to the committee and the planning department. The present by-law allows a 40-foot height. The proposal before the committee was a 35-foot high building and the committee voting riN cast your ballot for yoifit you will be absent and unable to vote on ordinary polling day, or at an advance poll or in the office of the Returning Officerlfor your district. had asked him to reduce it even m'ore. The neightbours in the area are objecting to a 40 foot high building "looking down" on their homes. "For any rezoning appro- val the project has to come back to Council," Mayor Jim Gartshore pointed out. The Council approved the Administrative Committee's recommendation that the development proposal for a retirement home be approved in principle, that the site plan elevations be revised where appropriate and further to reduce the height of the proposed retire- ment home to a "level more compatible with the area.' All property owners within 400 feet of the proposed retirement home are to be advised as to the date when this matter will -again be considered by the Adminis- trative Committee. t u Saturday May Other ln-Store lesfor federal To vote by Pfoxy, you must mitted in previous take steps to appoint another elections. But ameni elector, called a proxy voter, election law recer to vote in your place. extended to air, for You will qualify for this topographical surv kind of voting if you fall in and to trappers, t any of these three voting privilege. categories: Both your name a 1. a fisherman, mariner, your proxy voter n prospector, trapper, the same voters' l member of an air crew, Either you or ya forestry crew or topographi- voter must presen cal survey crew; cial application for 2. you have a medical certificate to the E doctor's certificate indicat- Officer of your dis ing you are ill or physically soon as possibleE disabled; voters' list is posted 3. you are a full-time stu- later than Friday, dent, away from home dur- An application form ing arr academic terrn, and able from the F have a statement from the Officer. registrar of your pducational If you are applyin institution in Canada. by proxy because( Proxy voting has been per- or because you ai 5, ele ýs general dments to ntly have estry and« ey crews, he proxy nd that of ust be on st. ur proxy t an offi- r a proxy Returning strict, as after the -- but not May 18. a is avail- Returning ng to vote of illness re physi- WE'ýVE MOVEDI Our New Location: 116 Brock St. s. ction explained cally incapacitated, you Advance polls are ope must have a certificate from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturc a legally qualified medical May 12, Monday, May doctor on the doctor's letter- and Tuesday, May head paper (containing the Persons of advancedî doctor's address and phone who are disabled or ill number), stating that the have reason to believe t doctor personally has seen will be unable to vote you. election day are the n An elector may act as categories that qualify proxy for one other elector -- advanced voting, provi but the names of both must their names are on be on the same list of elec- voters' list. tors in the same polling If you will be unable division. The proxy voter can vote in an advance poll o cast his own vote on election normal election day, day as he casts the proxy may vote in the office of y vote. district' Returning Offi Those who expect to be -- from 12 noon to 6 p.m.,i absent from home on elec- from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. - tion day normally will vote if any day starting Mond possible at an advance poll May 7 and ending May or at the office of the Retur- except Sundays and adva ning Officer. polling days. Just a few doors nfrth of our former location, 126 Brock St. S. <COME. AND -CELEBRATE OUR MOVE Lt. Governor visits Chamber Ontario's Lieutenant- Governor, The Honorable Pauline McGibbon will be the guest speaker at the June meeting of the Whitby Chamber of Commerce. The meeting will be held at the Whitby Yacht Club, June 11, starting at noon. The Lieutenant-Governor will be arriving promptly at 12:15 p.n., and will be available after the luncheon for a brief, informal reception downstairs. 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