Tag Archive: Solvay

Nov 06

Solvay Tigers Auxilary uses Election Day as a fundraising opportunity

Homemade baked goods for sale at the Solvay Geddes Community Youth Center

  Alana LaFlore SOLVAY (Democracy in Action) – Rosemarie Delfavero, trustee of the Solvay Tigers Auxiliary, stood behind a table full of homemade desserts and baked goods after placing her vote at the Solvay Geddes Community Youth Center. She was trying to earn money for children’s activities at the center. Some of those activities are …

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Nov 06

In Solvay, Election Workers Are Hard to Come By

Joanne Balduzzi, the Solvey-Geddes Community Youth Center's poll site manager, arrived at 5:00 a.m. to beginning setting up for voters.

The Solvay-Geddes Community Youth Center was brimming with commotion, coffee and nearly a dozen early voters when the polls officially opened at 6 a.m. this morning. No one would have known that just an hour earlier it was nothing more than an empty gym with a few scattered tables and basketball hoops. The poll center’s …

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Nov 06

Voters show up early in Solvay

Bill Martin helps voters determine their voting district.

SOLVAY - Even before the sun was up this morning, voters and poll workers were wide awake at the Solvay-Geddes Community Youth Center. Starting immediately at 6 a.m., Joanne Balduzzi, 53, was directing voters how to cast their ballots. For Balduzzi and the other workers here, it’s the beginning of a long day that offers even less relief than in …

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Nov 06

Voters in Solvay arrive early

    By Alana LaFlore Democracy in ACtion  SOLVAY- The polls didn’t officially open until 6 a.m., but voters turned up before that at the Solvay Geddes Community Youth Center. As early as 5:30 am, people stood in line or waited in their cars reading newspapers to pass the time. Joanne Balduzzi, the poll site …

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