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Wednesday March 12th is wacky hair day at school for Jake. We looked for coloured hairspray only to be disappointed. After dismissing the Kool-Aid and food colouring routes, I decided that I would use craft paint. Here's the finished product!

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It is absolutely beautiful outside today. We spent most of the morning cleaning up the backyard, and then Lindsey and I went inside and Kolby and Jacob played until after lunch. They came in covered from head to toe in dirt and sand and as happy as can be! I have blisters on the skin between the thumb and the pointer finger from raking! YIKES do they hurt.
I entered the Tour De Airdrie which will be on April 20. I entered to do the 5k, but there are 10k and 21K races too. I am definately not ready for a 21K, I will have to start really working harder to do a 5K in a good time. The race is for raising money and awareness for Family Violence. I hope that this race will be the first of many! I really want to do the 10K Mother's Day Race in Calgary. I must start extending my running route. I checked out the race plan for the Tour De Airdrie and it looks like it is almost all flat, thankfully! There is a slight incline right off the bat and then a slight decline, but the rest is flat! It'll be a scenic route too. www.tourdeairdrie.com

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The Progressive Conservative Party took 73 of the 83 seats available in the Legislative Assembly. Liberals secured 8 and the NDP got 2. No Green, No WildRose, No Independents.

88% of the LA is controlled by the PC party.

The candidate in our area had over 7000 more votes that the next closest rival, who wasn't a Liberal, but a WilRose Alliance member. 7000 votes out of only 14978.


AIRDRIE-CHESTERMERE
Polls Reporting: 90/90
Party Candidate %of votes Votes
PC Rob Anderson 62.6 9,372
WAP Jeff Willerton 15.8 2,360
LIB John Burke 13.2 1,972
GRN David Brandreth 4.4 660
NDP Bryan Young 4.1 614

There are over 30000 people in Airdrie alone, and only 15000 people made it out to vote.

Fingers crossed that Rob Anderson does what he says he wants to do here. Fingers crossed that Ed Stelmach does for this province what he promised to do. Getting rid of Health Care Premiums, lowering income tax, more money for the arts, for schools and building more hospitals and providing the means to staff those hospitals. Harsher penalties for criminals.

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Today is the provincial election. The Tories are running for an 11th consecutive term, with the Liberals looking to at least create a minority Conservative gov't. The NDP will be happy with a few more seats and the WildRose and Green Parties are happy with any recognition that they receive.
I was impressed with the amount of voters I saw entering and leaving our polling station within the whole 5 minutes that it took me to vote, if that pace had kept up all day, I think that there may be a much better turnout this year than during the last election.

If I was to judge the election outcome based on the number of lawn signs - I would say that it'd be a landslide Conservative win, with the WildRose Party placing a distant, yet established 2nd place. Liberal, NDP and understandably, the Green Parties are not even placing in this contest. Liberal - has some great platform ideas, but doesn't seem to have the pull within this province - mostly due to the blunderous Federal run that the Liberals had, NDP - come on, who the heck even takes them seriously, and the Green Party better not have any lawn signs - they are supposed to be Green after all!

I was really torn about getting a lawn sign. I wasn't really sure what the repercussions would be of having a sign. I am not outwardly political and wouldn't be very comfortable having any type of discussion that may arise from having a lawn sign, positive or negative. I enjoy following politics, embrace the frustration that comes from government - at all levels, and can participate in a political conversation to a relatively competent level.

Politicians are a special breed of person - or a groomed person at the least. I think that having full confidence in one person, or a group of people who seem to believe in the same things that you do, is almost impossible.
For one, in general, politicians make more money than "we" do. Do they really earn it, do they really deserve it? I'm not sure. I guess if they are providing my area with the roads, schools and other necessary things, yes. If they are not representing the area properly, no.
For two, perspective plays a huge role. A new person will have no experience in dealing with their adversaries or with lobbyists, or with their own counterparts. But having a person who is similar in age and similar in needs to you - it makes you really relate to that person.

It was my right to vote and I exercised that right. Did you?