A2.- The Terrace Standard, Wednésday, April 13, 2005 . OCS Election Notebook| Kitimat offices open THE TWO main candidates in the May 17 provincial election have now established beachheads in Kitimat. » Liberal Roger Harris has his campaign office in the ‘former video store location in the City Centre Mall in Kitimat. The office has been open only a few days a week so - far but once the writ is dropped April 19, plans are to have the campaign office there open five days a week, says Harris campaign manager Mona Nester. © A grand opening of some sort will happen after the writ has dropped. And NDP candidate Robin Austin hosted the grand opening of his Kitimat campaign office April 9. ; Skeena-Bulkley MP Nathan Cullen was on hand to . lend support at the event. Austin’s office is also located inthe, City Centre Mall, in Suite 213, and it is open seven days a week. Doe oles heart « _SKEENA LIBERAL MLA Roger Harris is officially in the race to defend his seat in the May 17 provincial ’ election. Just 10 weeks after suffering a heart attack Feb. 2 and going through by-pass surgery, Harris has been given the green light from his heart specialist. “I passed the running board test. Dr. Barrie Phillips told me: I. will make a full recovery some day. I still have to. pace myself,” said Harris last week. “Through the stress test, everything is holding up and there is no irregular heart beat.” ‘Harris is slowly increasing his physical activity level as is part of his rehabilitation. . He’s also going to be able to cut back on his medica- ‘tion, something he says will increase his energy level. “The medication keeps the heart beat down and that was sapping my energy,” Harris said. Although the official campaign period begins April 19, Harris and other candidates, including local NDP challenger Robin Austin, have been active for weeks. Ba rrett’s in town ‘WHAT'S A meal with former NDP Premier Dave Bar- - rett worth? It'll set you back $100 but you'll be sitting at Barrett’s table at an April 28 Robin Austin benefit. The $100 is double what others will be paying. for . First Nations fine dining cuisine. Barrett unseated So- cred W.A.C. Bennett in 1972 before himself: falling to: Bennett’s son, Bill, in 1975.. Barrett has also been a federal NDP MP and has be-._ _come a popular and sought after speaker, particularly _ has thrown his hat in the ring ' election. Liberals test voter strength THE B.C. Liberal party has spent the last month figuring out its level of support in the Skeena riding and elsewhere. - Using a company from Vancouver, the party has been phoning local voters to identify Liberal supporters and to establish a database of people who might volunteer for the campaign or put signs up on their lawns once the writ is dropped. . Voters called were asked three initial questions including what the respondants considered the most important issue leading up to the election, whether they are happy with the B.C. Liberals performance on that issue and if.the respon- . dent were to vote today, for whom would they vote. Respondents who said they are Liberal supporters were then asked if they would erect.a lawn Sign at their home. | “It’s extremely, important,” .says Mona Nester. who is running the.campaign for Liberal candidate Roger Harris. “It’s a place to start where. you've identified your support and you go from there.” , While the party has been using a Vancouver company for “now, Nester says Harris volunteers are ramping up for some polling of their own. A bank of phones will be set up at the campaign ‘office. and volunteers will be asking constituents what the impor- ‘tant issues are to them and offer materials relating to the Lib- ‘eral platform. ’ Nester estimates the Skeena riding, which takes in Ter- race, Kitimat and Hwy 16 East to Kitwanga and then north to ‘Kitwancool, contains 18,000 eligible voters. - She anticipates the local volunteers to attempt to contact © most of them. Nester is on leave from her position as a. constituency as-— sistant to Harris. . Green joins race ANOTHER CANDIDATE for the upcoming provincial Patrick Hayes, a 23-year- old Terrace resident, is rep- resenting the Green party for the May 17 vote. _ A December 2004 gradu- ate of the University of Vic- toria, Hayes holds an eco- nomics degree.. . 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