Perry County Voter Guide Now Available in Hardcopy and Internet Format

CONTACT:
Thomas Linzey, Esq.
709-0457

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chambersburg (October 16) - The Perry County Coalition announced today that its Voter Guide for Perry County Voters is now available in hardcopy format via mail and in digital format via the internet. The Perry County Coalition, an association of Perry County nonprofit organizations and businesses seeking to build a sustainable County, began preparation of the Voter Guide in August, when a Candidate Questionnaire was mailed to all candidates seeking elected office in the County.

The Candidate Questionnaire used as the basis for the Voter Guide included questions dealing with forest and farmland preservation, use of recycled paper supplies by local governments, use of renewable energy systems, corporate factory farms, and preservation of historic resources within the County.

This year's Voter Guide - the first produced by the Perry County Coalition - was coordinated with the Franklin County Coalition - an association of seventeen (17) nonprofit Franklin County organizations and over thirty locally owned businesses. The Franklin County Coalition's Voter Guide is currently being distributed through its locally owned businesses and through Coalition volunteers at most of the seventy-five polling places across the County on election day. Both the Perry County Coalition and the Franklin County Coalition are projects of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) based in Shippensburg.

Thomas Linzey, Coordinator of the Franklin County Coalition and Legal Advisor to the Perry County Coalition, explained that "this Voter Guide provides useful information for all Perry Countians headed to the polls on November 7th. It successfully covers a broad range of issues of concern to those attempting to preserve and protect Perry County."

Single and bulk copies of the Voter Guide are available by calling Diane Corriveau at 957-4987, and through the internet at http://www.celdf.org/fcc.