10292010

The Creemore Echo •

MAYOR Registered: 12,472 Voted: 5,592 Turnout: 44.84%

Ken Ferguson (i) 3,758

by Brad Holden The new Clearview Council will look mighty familiar when it begins its work in the New Year, with seven of its nine members re-elected Monday night, including Mayor Ken Ferguson and Deputy Mayor Alicia Savage.

Earning seats on Council for the first time were Brent Preston, who defeated the incumbent Marc Royal by a resounding margin in Ward 3 (Dunedin), and Deb Bronee, who comfortably unseated the incumbent Roger McGillvray in Ward 6 (New Lowell).

The closest vote of the night was in Ward 2 (Duntroon), where incumbent Orville Brown beat John Millar by a single vote. Millar has requested a recount, and the outgoing Council will vote on whether that will take place at its meeting on Monday, November 1.

Municipal protocol says that if the vote is not a tie, it is up to Council to decide whether a recount is necessary. Should the recount go ahead, both Millar and Brown will be involved in the process.

If the recount should result in a tie, a decision will be made by lot (either a cutting of cards or the drawing of names).

The situation is reminiscent of the Mulmur Mayoral race in 2006, when the initial counting of the ballots gave Paul Mills a one-vote victory over Gord Montgomery. After Montgomery requested a recount, the outcome was actually reversed, with Montgomery becoming the Mayor with a one-vote margin.

Those two men faced off again Monday night for the Mulmur Mayor position, and this time Mills came out clearly on top. His Council will be dramatically different than the previous one, with Rhonda Campbell

DEPUTY MAYOR Alicia Savage (i) 3,271 Eric Jelinski

2,158

WARD 1 (Nottawa) Registered: 1,929 Voted: 879 Turnout: 45.57%

Doug Measures (i) 417

David McKee Allan Bell

254 198

WARD 2 (Duntroon)

Orville Brown (i) 285 Registered: 1,388 John Millar 284 Voted: 628 Ivan Weatherall 47 Turnout: 45.24% * John Millar has requested a recount.

WARD 3 (Dunedin) Brent Preston

Registered: 1,263 Voted: 664 Turnout: 52.57%

302

Jace Meatherall Marc Royal (i) Dave Huskinson

134 123 94

WARD 4 (Creemore)

Registered: 1,659 Voted: 904 Turnout: 54.49%

Thom Paterson (i) 586

Michael Bennett 308

WARD 5 (Sunnidale Corners) Robert Walker (i) 566

John Broderick David Witzke

175 95

WARD 6 (New Lowell) Deborah Bronee 454

Roger McGillvray (i) 355

Registered: 1,927 Voted: 853 Turnout: 44.27%

Registered: 2,207 Voted: 819 Turnout: 37.11%

WARD 7 (Stayner) Shawn Davidson (acclaimed) Registered: 2,099

OFFICIAL MULMUR RESULTS MAYOR

Voted: 845 Turnout: 40.26%

OFFICIAL SCHOOL BOARD RESULTS Overall (Collingwood/Clearview) 3,184 6,510 1,435 3,719

CLEARVIEW PUBLIC

Paul Mills

982

Gord Montgomery (i)

819

Caroline Smith Rod Brown

CLEARVIEW SEPARATE

DEPUTY MAYOR Rhonda Campbell Moon

869

Susan Snider (i)

841

COUNCILLORS (3)

Shawn Cooper Michael Foreman

Lynn Topping

Earl Hawkins (i) Lynn Hilchey Heather McIntosh-Hayes Carl Tafel

1,236 1,036 1,081

817

Tony Maxwell

Overall (Collingwood/Clearview)

249

112

874

326

Elected

436

MULMUR SEPARATE

Overall (Dufferin)

Frank Di Cosola 52 Klaus Hertel

780

Overall (Dufferin minus Orangeville)

MULMUR PUBLIC

49

Elected

Moon moving up from Councillor to the Deputy Mayor position (defeating incumbent Susan Snider) and only one Councillor, Earl Hawkins, returning for another term.

Speaking with the Echo, Mills called the new Mulmur Council a “dream team,” declaring that the results were a call for more transparency and accountability.

In Clearview, Mayor Ferguson was ecstatic with the results, saying that stability was important with several big decisions lying ahead.

“I worked harder than I ever have in my political career,” said Ferguson, who has sat on Council since 1994. “I talked to business people, I talked to the agricultural sector, and I stuck to what I believe in. We need jobs in Clearview and we need to support our farmers.”

In Ward 4 (Creemore), incumbent Thom Paterson scored a decisive victory over challenger Michael Bennett.

All across Clearview, voter turnout numbers were up, with the total percentage nearing 45. Last election, turnout was below 40 per cent.

Caroline Smith, who has been working hard on Clearview-based Accomodation Review Committees for the past two years, was returned to the Simcoe County District School Board as the Collingwood/Clearview Trustee.

Clearview’s outgoing Council will meet three more times in November, and the new Council will be inaugurated in January.

Creemore man charged in connection to murder A Creemore man has been charged in connection to the death of Stayner resident Ronald Trebilcock, who went missing on September 9, 2010 and whose remains were found on October 16, in a field north of Highway 401 between Belleville and Napanee.

Charged with “Accessory After the Fact to Murder” and “Indignity to a Dead Body” is 57-year-old James Wayne Elder of Creemore.

No further information has been released by police. The Napanee OPP Crime Unit is continuing the investigation with the assistance of the Huronia West OPP Crime Unit.

Anyone with information pertaining to this case is asked to call Napanee OPP at (613) 354-3369 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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