announcing: go to March for Arch 2!

Because of various problems, too complicated to anyone to explain, this blog no longer works for me, and I have continued on a new one called
http://marchforarch2.blogspot.com.
Come on over!

Another observation from Tom Eschak

Tom says that the Afghan people will always give a little warning to them that there will be a suicide bombing or attack coming shortly. Sometimes it's a kid holding a stick and pretending it to be a gun and shooting at them. Or sometimes the kids hold their thumbs up at them. Usually the Canadian guys notice that there are no people around. No people on their farms or no people in the close vicinity. (Because they are clearing out getting ready for a bombing.) Sometimes they notice a guy with a cell phone. A cell phone means that they are usually communicating with other bombers and they are planning on doing an attack.

(Tom's mother tells me that it is rare to hear from her son: the Canadians are out in the mountains, far from any communications. The only time Tom has managed to telephone was when he is at the "base". These snippets your Blogress is entering here are from only 2 conversations Tom has managed to have with his family since the beginning of August.

We have no idea where Tom and his company are - this is secret - but the Oct 23 Western Standard has a story on a major attack conducted against the Taliban. Code named "Medusa" this was "by all reports a tremendous success, with the combined forces killing upward of 1,000 enemy combatants, a quarter of the regional Taliban force..." Tom has said that "the Canadians were the leaders in the Medusa Operation that aggressively went after the Taliban, and they 'set the standard' for the operation....

Tom's mother, Marj Eschak, has been asked by the Canadian Legion to participate in the November 11 celebrations here in Whitehorse. If she lives in fear for her son's welfare, she also has great pride in his courage, and his service to Canada.

the summer of 2006 was a great summer...

but just wait for the next one!

Yukon Party Party next Saturday, Oct 28 !!!!!!

MESSAGE FROM YUKON PARTY EXECUTIVE

Hello!

The Yukon Party Executive is hosting a Yukon Party Appreciation Night on Saturday, October, 28th, 2006 to coincide with the day's celebrations of swearing in our MLAs and Cabinet Ministers. We've made history folks and we can be proud of our team for gaining a second mandate from the Yukon electorate. So let's get together to show our support and to celebrate in our success.

The dinner will be held at the Westmark Whitehorse, cocktails start at 6:00 pm and dinner at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $50 and there are only three hundred of them, so get them before we run out! Contact myself, Alexia McKinnon, by responding to Yukon Party Info , or calling 393-2470. Marie Cox is also selling tickets and can be reached at mariedon@northwestel.net or 668-4679.

For those of you from out of town, the Westmark is offering a room rate of $89 per night. When making your reservation with them please call 1-800-544-0970 and ask for the “Yukon Party Event Rate”. You can also e-mail your reservation to khunt@HollandAmerica.com

Also, please join the MLAs as they are sworn in as Legislators on Saturday morning 11:00 am at the Government building. Then join them again as they are sworn in as Cabinet Ministers that afternoon at 2:00 pm again at the Government Building. A short reception will follow, then it's on to the evening celebration!

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible. It'll be a great evening of fun, as we share stories, reunite with friends and no doubt have a chuckle or two!

Have a safe and great weekend and remember to order your ticket!

Lexi

Alexia McKinnon
Yukon Party Secretary

Swearing in of the new Government

The new government will be sworn in - by the Queen's representative, the Commissioner - next Saturday, October 28th.

At 11 am, all the MLA's will be sworn in, in the Legislative Council Chambers.

At 2 pm, the Cabinet Ministers will be announced and sworn in, in the foyer of the YTG. It is at this time, and not before, that we will know who gets what portfolio.

Both events are open to the public.

the sun rises about 9-ish now.. and

Shirley Ford's letter to the Yukon News

Shirley Ford sent this letter to the Yukon News, but they haven't printed it yet, so your Blogress leaps into the breach!

The Editor, Yukon News,
Regarding Richard Mostyn’s article “Imagine tomorrow and sweat!”
The Yukon News made a brutal attempt to influence this election and went completely over the line. Is it right to print an editorial the Friday before the election on the front page encouraging people not to vote for the Yukon Party? I wonder how some of the people in Porter Creek South feel considering the riding was determined by only 6 votes?

Richard Mostyn said ‘We’ have decided that the Yukon Party does not deserve a second term. Who is ‘we’? Are Yukon News employees and reporters required to vote in a block? Or is he speaking about himself and the owners of the Yukon News, with their cozy ties to the Liberal Party. There’s a glimpse of their idea of ethics and accountability. Fair and balanced reporting during an election should be expected for the good of the Yukon. I wonder how the many small business people must feel who voted for the Yukon Party. They continually spend hundreds and thousands of dollars advertising in the Yukon News. They have to because the Yukon News virtually has a monopoly into the communities. Through past governments the News has secured sweetheart advertising deals for government ads (taxpayer money). Go figure. They are using your private sector and your government taxpayer advertising dollars to push their political agenda. Your own money is working against you.

The Yukon News has made its bed during the election, now they are going to have to lie in it. Imagine tomorrow, Mr. Mostyn, and sweat, because hopefully it will be with a lot less advertising dollars from the small business sector.

If the Yukon News is so intent on substantially influencing the outcome of an election, maybe its owners or the editor should run in an election or work hard for a candidate of their choice, like decent people do in a democracy.
Shirley Ford
Ford Farms, Whitehorse, Yukon, 633 4342

CORRECTION: Shirley tells me that the Yukon News DID carry this letter today. My apologies for the error. You must understand, though, that your Blogress does not read the Yukon News, and has not done so for many years. As a result, I am a happier and wiser person, along with the Prozac, of course.

where is Archie?

well, your Blogress does not know. However, the word is, the Yukon Party people are 'caucusing' and preparing to be sworn in as members of the legislature. When? Your Blogress does not know that, either. Oh well.

a tiny light in the darkness?

Yesterday, the first furnace oil delivery of the season came to the home of your Blogress.

Now, back in the dawn of history, ie, Feb 2002, this stuff cost 43.65 cents per litre. What with this and that and other World Events, said Stuff cost your Blogress 88.40 cents per litre in May, 2006.

The cost on October 17, 2006?? 78.70 cents per litre.

This is not the time to throw open the windows and breathe the crisp fresh winter air, of course; but I'm not ready to double up on the woolly underwear, either.

There is, by the way, a great word to describe the atmosphere of a room that has been thoroughly insulated against the cold for some 6 months, in a pathetic attempt to 'save on fuel.' This word means, "thick, stuffy, smelly atmosphere, especially that of a crowded, poorly-ventilated room." Its misfortune is that it sounds like one of our 4 letter words, which is why it is not popular today. The word? "Fug." It SOUNDS exactly like what we can all recognize, come March, doesn't it?

That thing at the Fish Lake cutoff...

If you go to this Alaska government site, and click the following: Map View... Haines/Skagway... Cameras... South East Alaska ... Camera.... you will see photos of the South Klondike Highway Summit taken within the hour. Also, at the same Site you can also access a nice little explanation as to road conditions on most of the roads in Alaska.

This is possible because of something called "Road Weather Information System". And you can see our own Yukon version beginning here at the Fish Lake Road: that is what that miniature tower with electronic doodads is all about. It comprises (1) pavement sensors in travel lanes; (2) atmospheric sensors next to the roadway; and (3) digital cameras to show weather and road surface conditions. Thus road surface temperature, de-icing chemistry, moisture, subsurface temperature, air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction and precipitation are all measured, all the time. This information is constantly transmitted to a central server, work stations, maintenance offices, etc.

There are 2 other stations in the Yukon being established, also in the Whitehorse area, on high-volume parts of the highway (Meadows Golf Course and Lewes R south of Whitehorse).

In so doing, Yukon is joining a comprehensive network forming throughout the North American continent. Allan Baranyk, of our own Yukon Highways Dept tells me that Yukoners will eventually be able to get the same real-time level of road information as is now available on the 511 Alaska site.

The cameras, by the way, are not capable of capturing/recording vehicle speeds: Each active camera is polled 1- 4 times per hour, capturing a single still image each time. The ADOT&PF temporarily archive these images for a time period not to exceed 2 days.

another message from Tom

This is another part of Tom's conversations with his sister, this time from 3 October:

"They were back at main base because their vehicle had been hit by a double land mine. Every one of them were knocked unconscious. Nobody was hurt but they were all out for differing times. He came to with two of his buddies on top of him. He said he was feeling around in the dark to see if they were bleeding or injured. They were ok. They had to abandon the vehicle - 18 tons blown into the air by a double land mine. So they had to jump far out of the vehicle to ensure that they didn't land on any other mines. They had to wait for replacements before they can go too far, so they called back for reinforcements and then came back to the main base.

They are back on the base and will get some sleep time. He said it's two weeks since they were at the base. That was the last suicide bomber that their platoon came in contact with. They will be out again within 24 hours. However, they can sleep, wash their clothes and get some real food....

He said they got mail and the most touching were the letters they received from the little Brownies. He said that the letters made them feel like heroes. They were really proud to be getting letters from the Brownies. It hit home to them...

Rumour says....

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that when a Political Party loses an election, that Party's factions turn on each other. And so it seems to be here, in the Yukon.

Rumour says that the Yukon News and the Yukon Liberals are... shall we say... "dissatisfied" with each other. After devoting pages and pages of free space, predicting the delights of a Liberal majority while at the same time describing the Yukon Party in ... shall we say... "negative" terms.... and doing so for the entire month of September... what does Arthur Mitchell and his team do?? Fail. That's what. Fail. Considering the intellectual firepower involved in all this scribbling... well... can you blame that brave little band of 'reporters' for being 'let down' by a bunch of losers???

And on the other hand, we have the spectacle of the Yukon Liberals losing to the Yukon Party. Why?? Couldn't the Yukon News have shown just a wee little bit of .... say .... "nuance" in their election coverage?? Why, by October 9th, it had become a laughing stock of the Yukon ... and ... darn it .... dragged the the Yukon Liberals down with it.

That's the rumour, anyway.

MacIntyre Creek

before the snow, at Fish Lake Road and the Highway

how to get in touch with Tom Eschak

His mother tells me that Tom does not get into reach of email much - he is REALLY on the front lines - but when he does, his email address is: t_eschak@hotmail.com

By happenstance (I went to the top of March for Arch and clicked the "Next Blog" square), I came upon this website, which (scroll down a bit) has a VERY short video of a Harrier taking off, in Afghanistan! Quite a moment there.

From Porter Creek to Afghanistan...

Tom Eschak, born in October 1983, and a graduate of both Jack Hulland School and Porter Creek Secondary School, is a soldier in Afghanistan. He is a member of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and has been on the front lines of our war against the Taliban since the beginning of August.

On Aug 31, Tom telephoned his sister, sounding upbeat. This is from her report: "He said they have had a couple of close calls now. The Taliban find the leftover unused rockets that the Russians used when they were in Afghanistan. These Afghans now use these rockets to fire at the foreign military that are now in Afghanistan. Tom said that they recently fired an old Russian rocket into Tom's LAV (Light Armored Vehicle). It got lodged IN the gas tank, but luckily it didn't explode. There was another one that got lodged in the window...."

There is another Yukon man who has served in Afghanistan: a Corporal Tizya, very respected, and a friend of Tom Eschak. If anyone knows anything about this fellow, let your Blogress know!

Is Hawkweed "Noxious"??

Well, it is genuinely sub arctic and the Yukon is its home. It has its own name, a string ending with "Porsild", referring to Ellen Davignon's uncle, Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977), who identified it for the official botanical world. Even after a freezing night, this little hawkweed has retained some of its beauty:

The Porsild brothers made quite an impact on the North. Dick North wrote a whole book about their study of reindeer in "ARCTIC EXODUS: THE LAST GREAT TRAIL DRIVE", which is still in print. They were Danish boys from Greenland. Their father Morten P Porsild was also a botanist. He founded Arctic Station on Disko Island, Western Greenland in 1906. Earlier this year, there was a family reunion of this man's descendents at Disko. He is held in very high esteem in Greenland, and the reunion party met with a great reception.

According to Ellen Davignon, her grandfather changed his surname from the very boring and common "Pedersen" to the unusual "Porsild." Thus, the people with that surname are ALL descendents of Morten P Porsild!

the future of this blog

Your Blogress LIKES working on this blog, and wants to continue doing so. It will focus on (a) Archie in his coming political career; and (b) Porter Creek. I plan to back the thing up with a very simple website upon which I can save and display information about interesting people around and about the place. It is amazing how interesting Porter Creek is! And I would very much like to continue telling its various stories.

I hope you will continue to tune in.

Another thing about the Yukon News...

One of the problems with modern politickin' is that a politician has to remain silent while he is being unfairly attacked by the 'media'.. This is especially so, during campaign season.
The election was held last Tuesday. In the time between now and when the Yukon Party takes responsibility for the government, Archie would like to get ONE MORE THING off of his chest. So. The Yukon "News" ran a story on Monday, 25 September, page 5. It boasted about this on the front page with huge red letters: LANG DRILLED ON ANWR. Rushing on to page 5, we see a breathless headline asking: "Does the Yukon Party support drilling in ANWR?" The story is below:


In actual fact, Archie was NOT the only other Yukon politician at this Juneau forum. Patrick Rouble, Ted Staffen, and Todd Hardy were also there with Arthur Mitchell. And, in actual FACT, the person how made the statement, "We all know that it is a not a question...." was NOT Archie, but rather, the Alaska State Senator. Archie was a Minister of the Yukon Government, and it was and is the stated policy of that government and the Yukon Party, that they are against drilling in ANWR.

One of this Blog's readers sent me this message:"I do know this; I have a Broadcast diploma and I freelanced for a number of years. And to allay your anger somewhat, there are reporters out there who really do care about the truth."

I know that, and so does Archie. However, the Yukon News has been way over the edge of acceptable partisan politics for the past few years. And sometimes, it is necessary for one's pride to tell people the true story. This is one of those times.

Where have all the Dandelions gone??

Your Blogress is absolutely not a gardener nor a botanist. I can recognize Dandelions, though, which is why I have noticed that rather than dandelions, there is a different kind of yellow flower springing up all over the place. My gardener expert tells me that it is a "hawkweed."
It's amazing where a simple question can lead one. In this case, having asked, and not really answered, "where have all the Dandelions gone?", the very pretty hawkweed has captured my interest. And what should I find??? It is an Aster, with an official name, "Variety Hieracium gracile Hook. var. yukonense Porsild."

PORSILD. That is Ellen Davignon's maiden name. You know, Ellen Davignon who works at Mac's Fireweed, and wrote wonderful columns in the newspaper, and a book with "Cinnamon Bun" in the title. With a little rummaging in Google, it turns out that Ellen's uncle was Alf Erling Porsild, a very famous biologist. With his brother (Ellen's father), he studied the grazing potential of reindeer in northern Canada.

His biography states that, "Erling returned to Ottawa in 1935 and started to turn out a stream of publications based on his studies of the boreal American flora. In the following year he was appointed Acting Chief Botanist at the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa. In 1946 he became Chief Botanist at the National Museum of Canada, a position which he held until he retired in 1967. He was awarded a great many honours, one being Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America. His life was a saga of unique experiences and accomplishments. Erling Porsild died in Vienna on 13 November 1977. His older brother, Robert, died a few weeks later at his home in Whitehorse, Y.T. - on 30 December."

A photo to go with the previous story!

Yukon News "reporting"

This is a portion of a Yukon News article that appeared the day after our election. It purports to be a direct quote from Archie, made to the reporter, "Genesee Keevil."

Your Blogress was present through much of last night, and I can remember a person in a pink T-shirt, wandering around with a notebook. When this person approached Archie for an interview, he asked her who she represented. When she identified herself as a Yukon News 'reporter', he walked away without saying anything. He is quite clear that he did not make that statement that appears in that newspaper, and - indeed - he is VERY clear that he never talked to anyone from the Yukon News about anything.

The Yukon News has slid from being a relatively legitimate opposition newspaper into a huge swamp of Mean. I use that word, "Mean" as an accurate description of its approach to news: undistinguished; of low degree; poor in ability and learning; petty; shabby; ignoble; small minded; seedy. All of this overlays a grinding ongoing malice.

You see, most Yukoners are NOT mean, nor are they malicious. The Yukon News reporters ought to get out more, and meet some of them. You know: like real reporters.

There's always someone ....

who doesn't want to leave the party..

Nola and Al Lueck present Karen with flowers

for all the great work she did in Archie's re-election campaign. Karen is an organizer without peer.

11 pm Election Day in the Yukon!!!

Election Day Today (Tuesday)

Archie Lang's Electoral Division!
Porter Creek Centre: Holy Family Elementary School, Wann Road.
Jim Kenyon's Electoral Division!
Porter Creek North: Our Lady of Victory Church

Dean Hassard's Electoral Division!
Porter Creek South: Jack Hulland Elementary School

Your Blogress: on Election Day (Tuesday)

Your Blogress has "volunteered" to scrutineer on Tuesday from early morn to late at night, meaning that everytime anyone votes, I put an "X" on that person's enumeration number. Eventually, an ally will rush over from Campaign Headquarters, pick up these "bingo" sheets, and harass any of OUR voters who have not voted to get out there and VOTE. Meanwhile, your Blogress sits there. Drinking coffee. Making X's.

Now, you will note the words, "early morn." This means REALLY EARLY. Like, I must be on the spot at 8 o'clock IN THE MORNING. Many readers of this Blog may look puzzled and murmur, "sooo??". Those people are the kind of people who say "The Early Bird Catches the Worm!! Yayyy!". This is not true. To catch worms, you take a bucket and a flashlight and wander around in the dirt LATE AT NIGHT.

One of the great heroes of the human race, Winston Churchill (photographed here early in the morning), described this division of humanity in a charming and NON JUDGEMENTAL manner: We are (morning) Larks, or we are (evening) Nightingales (catching the worms). The twain meets somewhere around noon.

Why I support another Yukon Party majority...

Your Blogress began this 'blog' because she wanted to support her brother, Archie, in his bid for re-election in Porter Creek Centre. I think he is a great representative, and has done an excellent job for his constituents, and for the Yukon, for the past 5 years.

But. Your Blogress had little or no opinion re the Yukon Party's performance as a whole.

However, the experience of actually presenting information to the readers of this Blog, has made me think New Thoughts: I am a very uncooperative person, with extremely 'right wing' opinions, and I tend to be harshly judgmental. But, I have had to admit this: The Yukon Party has adopted 'cooperation' as its philosophy VERY SUCCESSFULLY, and the Yukon is a better place now than it was 5 years ago.

It has cooperated with the other 2 north-of-60 governments, and thus made better deals with
the Federal Government (eg, the $$$ for health care improvements).

It has cooperated with the Yukon First Nations governments, working with them - government to government - to make them FULL PARTNERS in Yukon's Economic Development. A stellar example of this has been the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Premier Fentie and Chief Isaac of the Selkirk First nation... enabling the development of the new Sherwood Copper Minto mine and even a power line extension in the area.

As Jim Kenyon has pointed out, Canada’s average increase in the mining sector for the 2002-2004 was 16.3%. Yukon, working with the same prices, did almost Ten Times Better than the
Canadian average. WE DID THIS WHILE INCREASING OUR PROTECTED AREAS TO THE HIGHEST IN CANADA.

And.
They have shown practical and consistent concern for social problems... from improving community safety legislation, to supporting agreeable green spaces within the city of Whitehorse (ie, the VerSluce Meadows project), to adopting the Whole Child Program in order to build strong and healthy links between local schools and their communities.


And.
The Yukon Party government has managed our financial resources so well that it has received excellent reviews from Federal Canada's Auditor.

And that is why I very much hope that the Yukon Party wins a majority AGAIN in our legislature!!!

Another day, another walkabout

And this time, Archie had Linda Dixon to help him out. Saturday was crisp, with a vivid blue sky, and the two of them worked hard to talk to people Archie had missed seeing so far.

It's Friday, going on Saturday

And as far as your Blogress knows, the World is not ending anytime soon, so, I thought you might like a photo of Porter Creek itself, to help us all think Good Thoughts.

There is something about this street

that your Blogress likes... (there is another Archie sign down by that car, too)

Gosh, it's Friday... and...

This is too beautiful to NOT show off

To recap: Archie's Porter Creek Initiatives

*** Archie has advocated for upgrades on the Alaska Highway, ESPECIALLY through the Rabbit's Foot Canyon.

*** He has supported an advisory committee which is going to start a Dogs for Drug Free Schools at Porter Creek Secondary School, using the Medicine Hat program as a template.

***He is working to ensure the Holly Street green space is expanded into a city park.


*** He has been a strong advocate for restoring the Versluce Meadow area for the use of Porter Creek residents

Another night, another Porter Creek Street

Archie and Roxanne continue to knock on doors. Your Blogress (and Archie's personal paparazzi) caught up with them on Cedar on Thursday evening.

Time for More Signs

And as many as you can manage, too. Archie and his crew have been replacing broken ones, etc and keeping up the good fight in this Battle of the Signs. For a Battle it seems to be, with even (very rarely) over excitable partisans attacking some Sign, one hopes without machetes. All this action keeps the campaign in high gear, though...

Get yer name on The List!!

One of those strange skies we see here

The Yukon Territory has the best looking skies possible in the world, and the most interesting. Your Blogress took this photo this (Wednesday) afternoon, just because.

more activity in the Rabbit's Foot Canyon..

Turning with relief from that dismal Scottish stonebreaker, these are photos of activity on the splendidly upgraded road through the Rabbit's Foot Canyon. The Road Weather Information System is being completed, with something terribly electronic being encased in that box in the ground The process seems to involve carving a line across the road, placing something electronic therein, and covering it up again! (Your Blogress did not waste her time in physics classes, b'gosh). Any further explanation of this process would be welcome. Seriously.


It will be interesting to notice the results this winter. One hopes it will be safer to drive between downtown Whitehorse and Porter Creek.

To re-emphasize: this whole program is in operation because our Yukon Party - and Archie - have made it a priority of their government.

On the joys of stonebreaking...

Further to the previous entry, this is a drawing of a 'stonebreaker.' When I did a study of a small Scottish village that was 'cleared' (in 1848) of its population, one of the people thus dispossessed (Duncan McLean) became (according to the 1851 Census) a 'stonebreaker.' The drawing was done about 1830 by Walter Geikie. Mr Geikie was deaf. At the time, deaf people were viewed as 'morons.' Walter Geikie was, in his time, proof positive that this assessment was wrong.

Wann, the Queen of the Yukon, and "Tarmac"

This is a photo of Clyde Wann, back when he owned the Queen of the Yukon (sister to Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis.) Your Blogress is presenting this photo, because it's a great photo (somewhat photoshopped, I admit), but also, because it is a good excuse to tell you about "tarmac".

If you have been an attentive reader of this blog, you will know that the "Queen" and other bush planes are buried under the "tarmac" of the Whitehorse Airport.

Once upon a time, roads were built in the old Roman way, that is with big stone blocks. A smart Scotsman named John MCADAM (b 1756), in charge of roads to the Bristol (England) Turnpike Trust, figured out that better roads would result by using layers of tiny stones (ones that could fit in a labourer's mouth). Such roads were known as "Macadamized" roads. When the car arrived, and dust became a problem, TAR was added to the macadamized road surface, and ... voila!! ... "tarmacadam"... and then "tarmac."

Also, the need for tiny stones necessitated a new kind of labourer, a 'stonebreaker', who sat and broke stones with a hammer... gruesome job, eh??

Archie with Pat Berrel on Teak

Another evening, another walkabout, this time on Teak and Evergreen. Archie was accompanied by Pat Berrel on this particular walk. Note the clipboard in Pat's hand. We have to keep track of everyone Archie meets and talks with, so Lists upon Lists are needed for this venture.



Pat has told me that he is working for Archie's re-election because Archie has been so supportive of the Whole Child Program.

Advance Poll today and yesterday

Some ten polls set up shop in the Selkirk gymnasium, so that Yukon citizens can vote in an "Advance Poll" for their next Territorial Government. They were 'manned' by several very friendly and helpful people, who let me know that they will not be able to accept donuts or any other high calorie food that is provided to Party scrutineers... it may be construed as a bribe!


Two memories were with me this evening: I knew a fellow in Toronto, a Syrian Christian, who was amazed and impressed when, during one of our exciting Canadian elections, there were NO TANKS IN THE STREETS (like they were back in good ol' Demascus).

The other was a photo, taken during that January election in Iraq. It was the picture of an old man being wheeled to the Voting booth by a couple of young men. The old man had a white beard and a turban, and the wheelchair was really a baby buggy which had been made into a sort-of-wheelchair.

Lists, Lists and Advanced Polls...

Another reminder to take advantage of the Advance Poll. Remember, you can't just wander over and be sworn in at your local Voting Booth. You must be on THE ELECTORAL LIST. OK??

There will be a "Special Revision" for those who are completely absent- minded, at their Returning Office, this coming Friday, 4 to 9 pm.

This is NOT MY FAULT. I DO NOT KNOW WHEN THIS DECISION WAS MADE. Funny how things happen, isn't it??