Advance polling at Leaside heavy say workers

Leaside arena Tuesday

The William Lea Room was busy Tuesday morning with people lined up to vote in the advance poll. The arena building at 1073 Millwood Rd is the only advance poll in Ward 26. That’s the rule in all wards. In Ward 27, the Commmunity Centre at 519 Church Street was also busy. And on this first of six advance polling days comes word of a rather feeble effort to sell beer because there is an election. It’s enough to justify all the terrible things the formerly tea-total electoral system used to say about boozing. This time it’s called (groan) Happy Voting Hour. Apparently you don’t have to vote to buy beer and to drink. Yeah. No one seems to have figured out that the Happy Voting Hour might actually deter people from voting. The places doing this shall be nameless. Where to vote locally