Students at Hopewell Loudon School will join in the Kids Voting Program for the 1998 election. The number of Seneca County students served in the November 2000 election will be 6,365. For Questions regarding Kids Voting. The goal is for each school's youngsters to get their parents, grandparents, older siblings and other friends and relatives to register to vote. The school with the highest percentage of newly registered voters would win the grand prize, a pizza party.
All schools are to be equipped with necessary voter registration forms at the school offices.
Adults have until Oct. 10 to register to vote in the Nov. 7 general election. A poster contest among area fifth graders was announced, also sponsored by Time Warner. The remaining poster entrants are to be displayed at Kuebler Shoe Store's previous storefront on the corner of Market and South Washington streets through election day. Including area home schooled children in the Kids Vote program was also discussed. Smith suggested that the curricula be available at the Tiffin-Seneca Public Library so that parents can access it for their child's grade level.