By Bryn Hadubiak

POLL: Seniors and kids voting in large numbers to save water slides

Jul 22, 2014 | 4:24 PM

Seniors and daycare kids of Mont St. Joseph Care Home are pulling together to vote in massive numbers to help earn funding for Prince Albert’s Kinsmen Water Park slides.

As of 10 a.m. on July 22, the group voted 3,560 times on the Kraft/TSN Celebration Tour website, and the number keeps rising.

The care home’s staff set up a polling station in their lobby, manned by some of the staff’s children, to give the residents the opportunity to help out by voting, said Shelia Fazio, an administrative assistant at the home, and a member of the committee for bringing the Tour to Prince Albert.

“Not all of [the residents] have computers or know how to work them, and that’s the only way you can vote,” said Fazio. “So we thought of putting up these polling stations here at our facility to direct them and help them to vote, because they want to be able to contribute as much as they can.”

Residents, visitors, staff and kids from the care home’s daycare are coming by to vote, but the kids running the polling station really deserve credit too, Fazio added.

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“There’s always someone manning the computers, so if we don’t have a resident coming by, they can continue to vote, and they love it because they’re excited to have these water slides back and running.”

Mark Cartier, one of the residents of the care home, voted five times at the station.

Just before he built Mark’s Nine Golf and Country Club around 20 years ago, Cartier worked for Scott National Fruit, and he recalls on his daily route seeing kids at Kinsmen Water Park.

“I used to see lots of kids playing and having lots of fun on the slides,” he said. “It was usually part of my stop for a break, so I used to watch the kids on the water slides and how they were enjoying it.”

Cartier said he never used the slides himself – it’s the fun those kids had that motivated him to help out.

“I think the water slides should be saved. I think there’s a lot of money spent in other foolish ways where it should be used towards the water slides.”

As part of the Tour, the care home is also asking the public to donate any non-perishable Kraft items when they come by to vote. The donated items will be taken to the Food Bank at the end of the contest.

The winner of the contest will be announced Aug. 25.

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