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SUNDAY APRIL 25 2021 FACEBOOK.COM/CENTREDAILY 1B CENTREDAILY.COM TWITTER.COM/CENTREDAILY Voters Guide continue to grow these amen­ KEY INFO ities? State College, JON EATON Party: Dem Education: High School: Bald A Register to vote by May 3. Eagle Nittany ­ 1977, College: A Apply for an absentee or mail-in Penn State Me­ ballot by 5 p.m. May 11. Bellefonte council chanical Engi­ A The election is May 18. A Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. neering ­ BS A This Voters Guide may be taken into (1981), MS (1991) the voting booth. Qualifica- A Mail-in ballot applications and ballots and mayor races tions: 1) Borough can be tracked at resident since www.centrecountyvotes.com. 1985, 2) Council Q: If elected, businesses daily. Second, con­ Jon member since CDT staff reports what will be your tinue to keep our community Eaton 2017, 3) Project FOR ELECTION INFORMATION top three pri­ safe while we enter the recovery Manager for sev­ Contact the Centre County Board of BELLEFONTE BOROUGH orities, and how phase of COVID­19. I’m so eral R&D programs (external Elections with all questions: COUNCIL WARD 1 will you address appreciative of the sacrifices funding) at ARL­Penn State, 4) [email protected] or Candidates (choose 2): them? that our friends and neighbors Department Head ­ ARL Penn 814-355-6703 or go to www.Centre- CountyVotes.com MELISSA HOMBOSKY A: First, I wish have made to stop the spread. State Party: Dem Melissa to continue to Third, I am chair of our parks Q: If elected, what will be ABOUT THIS GUIDE Date of Birth: Oct. 19, 1978 Hombosky support our local committee. Over the past year, your top three priorities, and The material in this guide was com- Education: 2002, Penn Col­ merchants. We our parks system has seen an how will you address them? piled by the League of Women Voters lege of Technology, BS are lucky to have a strong busi­ uptick in resident use and I hope A: As a member of Council’s of Centre County with assistance from Qualifications: Bellefonte ness community that has contin­ that we can continue that trend. Finance and Human Resources the League of Women Voters of Penn- sylvania. This material may not be Borough Council, five years; ued to grow despite a global There are so many outdoor committees; I consider 1) budget altered or reprinted without the per- board member and event chair, pandemic. As a small business recreation activities in our re­ & taxes, 2) Regional Integration, mission of the League. Each candidate’s Downtown Bellefonte Inc.; owner myself, I understand the gion and some of them start reply has been printed as submitted. Board member, Springboard unique challenges that face right in our parks. How can we SEE BOROUGHS, 4B Candidates were invited to participate in the Vote411 online voters guide via email. All reasonable efforts were made to encourage candidates to participate. The candidates listed are those whose names appear on the ballot as of when the ballot was approved by the Penn- sylvania Department of State. They are listed according to their party and then alphabetically. Nothing in this guide should be construed as an endorsement or non-endorsement of any candidate, party, or initiative by the League of Women Voters. ABSENTEE VOTING Pennsylvania registered voters who are ill, disabled or will be absent from the municipality on Election Day may vote by absentee ballot. Completed applications for civilian absentee bal- lots must be received by the county Board of Elections by 5 p.m. May 11. You can request an application be mailed to you by calling the Centre County Elections office at 814-355-6703 or you can apply online at VotesPA.com. If you are registered in another county, you must request your application from that county. Any disabled voter having questions regarding the accessibility of a polling place should consult the Centre County Board of Elections. MAIL–IN VOTING Pennsylvania registered voters may vote using a mail-in ballot. Completed applications for mail-in ballots must be received by the Centre County Office of Elections by 5 p.m. on May 11. You can request an application be mailed to you by calling the Centre County Elections office at 814-355-6703 or you can apply online at VotesPA.com. WRITE-IN VOTING ABBY DREY [email protected] Information for write-in voting will Penn State student Coulter Robb deposits his ballot in a Centre Conty ballot box outside the State College borough building Oct. 29. Ballot be available at the polling place. drop boxes will be used again for the May 18 primary election. COMPLETING YOUR MAIL-IN OR ABSENTEE BALLOT Upon receiving your mail-in or absentee ballot, please follow all direc- tions, blackening circles of the candi- Candidates for township council, dates you selected. The completed ballot must be placed, first, in the white secrecy envelope, marked “Official Election Ballot” and sealed. This enve- lope, then, must be placed in the outer supervisor races in Centre County envelope addressed to the Centre County Elections Office in Bellefonte. Seal this envelope and complete the Party: Rep (1975­1979) • community planning and devel­ declaration on the back of the enve- lope, being sure to sign your name. No CDT staff reports Did not respond United States oping public/private partner­ postage is necessary. You may then Army Reserve ships that enhanced community place your ballot in the U.S. Mail, drop it BENNER TOWNSHIP BOARD COLLEGE TOWNSHIP (1979­1985) mobility options in one of the secure drop boxes OF SUPERVISORS COUNCIL Qualifica- Q: If elected, what will be throughout the county, or take your Candidates (choose 1): Candidates (choose no more tions: • College your top three priorities, and completed ballot in person to the RANDALL MOYER than 2): Township Coun­ how will you address them? Centre County Elections Office at the Rep cilman (January As an existing council Willowbank Building in Bellefonte. Party: L. ERIC BERNIER L. Eric A: Completed ballots should be sub- Did not respond Party: Dem Bernier 2013­present) • member, my priorities are al­ mitted so as to be received by the Campaign Website: College Township ready integrated into the town­ Elections Office no later than 8 p.m. on BENNER TOWNSHIP BOARD www.linkedin.com/in/l­eric­ Planning Commission­15 years ship’s budget, Capital Improve­ May 18. OF SUPERVISORS bernier­88a14772 (1997­2012) • 35 years working ment Plan, vision, and mission If you have not used the secrecy UNEXPIRED 2-YEAR TERM Date of Birth: Oct. 19, 1957 in a high profile, community statement. This Council has envelope before submitting your ballot Candidates (choose 1): Education: • State College service public sector career or you have damaged your ballot, SEE VOTERS GUIDE, 5B please contact the Centre County THOMAS MOYER High School (1975) • Penn State integrating access equity into Elections Office. ELECTION DAY PROBLEMS If your right to vote is challenged at SCHOOL BOARD how will you address them? continue to focus on inclusion, how will you the polls on Election Day and the A: Funding the needs of the diversity and equity education if address them? problem cannot be resolved at the RACES district while respecting the we are to grow as a community A: 1. Learning polling place, the judge of elections at the polling place should telephone the community’s pocketbook. This and give our staff and students a gaps — I look county Board of Elections. The problem process of managing our annual better understanding of issues forward to en­ could be resolved by phone if your BELLEFONTE AREA BOARD budget is difficult given the both here and abroad. The couraging the name appears on the county records. If OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS annual last­minute unknowns board of directors must be will­ administration to it does not and you want to try to Candidates (choose 4): from the state and federal gov­ ing to lead the way in this dis­ Jon explore alternate resolve the problem, then you can go in RODNEY E. MUSSER ernments. Fortunately, we have cussion. Guizar methods of iden­ person to the county Board of Elections Party: Dem, Rep an exceptionally good budget JON GUIZAR tifying the learn­ where a judge from the Court of Com- mon Pleas will be on duty to resolve Date of Birth: 11/28/51 office. We have been able to Party: Dem, Rep ing gaps now deepened by the election problems. Alternatively, you Education: Bellefonte 1969; upgrade our facilities on a reg­ Date of Birth: 1966 pandemic and supporting/vot­ can ask for and vote by provisional Michigan State University, B.S. ular schedule but we need to Education: B.S. Civil Engi­ ing to allocate the resources ballot. If it is later determined that you 1974 remain within our borrowing neering, Penn State University needed to address these gaps. 2. were eligible to vote, your ballot will be Qualifications: Current capacity and maintain our AAA Qualifications: Served for six Aging buildings — Our elemen­ counted. You will be given instructions board member; Former: Peace bond rating which allows us to years as school director. Served tary project has been put on on how to determine if your vote was Corps Volunteer VISTA volun­ borrow at a favorable rate and as board president for three hold due to the events of the counted. If you have any questions or need to report any problems, call teer Spring Township Planning save money for the community. years. Served as volunteer on past year. As a civil engineer 866-OUR-VOTE for assistance in En- Commission Agland Preserva­ Our graduates will enter a glo­ many boards over the last 20 and senior project manager in glish or Spanish or 888-API-VOTE for tion Committee bal economy and we need to years.

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