{"id":12491,"date":"2019-10-02T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2019-10-02T00:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:46:15","slug":"local-students-to-be-engaged-in-student-vote-for-federal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12491","title":{"rendered":"Local students to be engaged in Student Vote for federal election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong>\n Students in the Fall River-Waverley area will be among those engaged \nduring the federal election as part of Student Vote, a program run by \nCIVIX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Student Vote is an authentic learning program that provides\n students with the opportunity to experience the voting process \nfirsthand and practice the habits of active and informed citizenship. It\n is a program, of CIVIX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools receive materials; engage with \ncandidates some of whom come talk to the students and answer their \nquestions; before students vote for who they think would be the best \nrepresentative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook in the Fall  River region, which currently has five candidates seeking the seat,  schools participating include: Waverley Memorial; Holland Road School in  Fletchers Lake; Georges P. Vanier Junior High in Fall River; Beaver  Bank-Kinsac School in Beaver Bank; Harold T. Barrett Junior High; and Lockview High in Fall River.  Those are the schools registered as of late September, according to  StudentVote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oldfield Consolidated School in Enfield, HRM is also  taking part, for Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One interesting tidbit  for Oldfield is that some of the students attending actually reside in  Central Nova, which includes the Oldham and Big Stop Irving areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Results of the StudentVote will be released following the closure of the final polls in the real election on Oct. 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n the 2015 federal election, students results have been very interesting \nand telling; in 2015 the students results showed that Justin Trudeau\u2019s \nLiberals were heading for their majority government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: Students in the Fall River-Waverley area will be among those engaged during the federal election as part of Student Vote, a program run by CIVIX. Student Vote is an authentic learning program that provides students with the opportunity to experience the voting process firsthand and practice the habits of active and informed citizenship. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10,773,2,784,29,4,5,627,785,155],"class_list":["post-12491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-beaver-bank","tag-election","tag-fall-river","tag-harold-t-barrett-junior-high","tag-holland-road-school","tag-lhs","tag-lockview-high","tag-sackville-preston-chezzetcook","tag-studentvote","tag-wmes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}