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LANDSLIDE WIN IN HAWKESBURY FOR ROBERT LEFEBVRE
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Lefebvre’s immediate goal when he is sworn in next month as the new mayor is to ensure that he and the new town council «work together and participate equally together» and also have a good working relationship with administration and staff. j8FIBWFBHPPEUFBNUIBUHPUFMFDUFE and they are motivated,» he said, «and have a good young staff to work with.» Lefebvre expressed thanks to Hawkes- bury residents who turned came out for the Monday poll and also for the advance polls earlier in the month. «I appreciate the turnout of people who wanted to vote,» he said. «Some people were turning up today on crutche or in wheelchairs so they could vote. It was good to see people lining up and willing to wait to vote.» New council Several incumbent councillors will rejoin -FGFCWSFBUUIFUBCMFJO/PWFNCFSBMPOHXJUI two new faces.
Raymond Campbell, André Chamaillard, Yves Paquette, and Antonios Tsourouna- kis all won their reelection bids. Paquette received 1715 ballots, Campbell 1682, Tsourounakis, 1662, and Chamaillard 1557. +PJOJOHUIFNBUUIFDPVODJMUBCMFJO/PWFN - ber will be Jeanne Charlebois, a former mayor of Hawkesbury now turned councillor. She polled 1930 ballots to support her return to council. Close behind Charlebois in ballot numbers is Julie Séguin with 1878. Incumbent councillor Lawrence Bogue lost his reelection bid, polling 1280 votes. Among the other four candidates for council seats, Marie Valérie received 1526, Yvon Cayen 1296, Simon Guindon 1263, and Gérard Malo 650. André-Paul Lalonde will represent Hawkes- bury on le Conseil scolaire de district catho- MJRVFEFM&TUPOUBSJFO SFDFJWJOHWPUFT compared to his rival, Gilles Roch Grefee with 862.
From first-time councillor to first-time mayor, Robert Lefebvre saw a flood of support for him from the ballot boxes at the end of Election Night Monday in Hawkesbury. “There’s a certain amount of relief,” said Lefebvre, during a phone interview, following confirmation of his successful campaign to become the next mayor of Hawkesbury. He described the past few months of campai- gning, including daily door-to-door canvassing of voters as “very busy and very intense.” Lefebvre received an overwhelming amount of support for his mayoral bid, with 2468 confirmed votes after the polls closed at 8 p.m. Incumbent mayor Paula Assaly received 896 votes for her reelection cam- paign effort. The new mayor-elect indicated he was still surprised at the amount of votes
he received. «I’m always an optimist for everybody else, except myself,» he said, with a chuckle. Robert Lefebvre sera le prochain maire de Hawkesbury, après avoir battu la maire sortante Paula Assaly par 2 468 voix contre 896 lors de l’élection municipale de lundi soir. —photo d’archives
YVES LAVIOLETTE REMPORTE LA COURSE À LA MAIRIE D’ALFRED-PLANTAGENET
A NEW DEPUTY MAYOR FOR EAST HAWKESBURY TOWNSHIP
ANTOINE MESSIER antoine.messier@eap.on.ca
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Yves Laviolette commencera à servir son premier mandat complet en tant que maire du canton d’Alfred-Plantagenet à partir du mois prochain. « Ça me donne la chance de travailler sur mes dossiers et faire avancer la municipalité, affirme M Laviolette suite à sa victoire lors des élections du 24 octobre. C’est telle- ment important. J’avais peur qu’on perde un autre quatre à se tirailler. Là je veux qu’on travaille ensemble. On a réduit le nombre de membres du conseil de sept à cinq, alors je pense qu’on va pouvoir travailler sérieusement et faire avancer les dossiers. » Laviolette a surmonté les défis des conseillers René Beaulne et Chantal Gal- lipeau et du nouveau venu aux élections municipales Marc Prud’homme. Dans la course électorale du quartier MFTDPOTFJMMFSTTPSUBOUT*BO8BMLFSFU Antoni Viau ont conservé leur siège malgré l’opposition d’Émilie Ducharme. Louise Lalonde a remporté le vote pour le poste de représentante d’Alfred-Plantagenet au Conseil scolaire de district catholique de M&TUPOUBSJFO Les deux sièges du quartier 1 du conseil
East Hawkesbury Township will have a new deputy mayor to replace Richard Sauvé who is stepping down from the position. Jacques Tranchemontagne won the seat with 599 votes in Monday night’s municipal election. He defeated Simon Rozon by 18 votes. Rozen held a seat on council and chose to run for the deputy mayor’s position rather than seek reelection as a councillor. Incumbent councillors Karina Sauvé and Stephanie Sabourin won their reelection bids with 528 votes for Sauvé and 648 for Sabourin. Monique Desjardins will joint hem as the newest member of township council, receiving 881 ballots of support. The other two challengers for council seats, Pierre Langlois and Thaila Riden, received 520 and 288 votes respectively. Mayor Robert Kirby was acclaimed for another term, with no declared challengers to his position at the end of the August nomination period. Sergine Rachelle Bouchard won reelec- UJPOBT&BTU)BXLFTCVSZ5PXOTIJQTBOE Champlain Township’s representative on the Conseil scolaire district catholique de
M&TUPOUBSJFOXJUIWPUFTUPDIBMMFOHFS André Bonneau’s 199. All of the incumbent school trustees with the Conseil scolaire QVCMJRVFEFM&TU0OUBSJP UIF6QQFS$BOBEB District School Board, and the Catholic %JTUSJDU4DIPPM#PBSEPG&BTUFSO0OUBSJP were acclaimed without challenge to their positions. Robert Kirby continue d’exercer ses fonctions de maire du canton de Hawkesbury- Est après avoir été reconduit à ce poste sans contestation en août. Jacques Tranchemontagne se joint à lui en tant que nouveau maire adjoint de la municipalité. —photo d’archives
Yves Laviolette won the mayoral seat in the Township of Alfred-Plantagenet. —photo d’archive
de canton et du Conseil scolaire publique EFM&TUPOUBSJFO EV6QQFS$BOBEB%JTUSJDU School Board et du Catholic District School #PBSEPG&BTUFSO0OUBSJPPOUÊUÊDPNCMÊT sans opposition le 22 août.
TWO NEWCOMERS ON CHAMPLAIN TOWNSHIP COUNCIL JO8BSE BOE4BSBI#JHFMPXBOE(FSSZ .JOPSJO8BSE
ANTOINE MESSIER antoine.messier@eap.on.ca
Sergine Rachelle Bouchard wins race for le Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’est ontarien ahead of André Bonneau. $PSJOB1BSJTFO 4VF8JMTPOBOE(JMMFT Fournier were elected by acclamation as trustees of the Upper Canada District School Board, the Catholic District School Board of &BTUFSO0OUBSPBOEMF$POTFJMEFTÊDPMFT QVCMJRVFTEFM&TUEFM0OUBSJPSFTQFDUJWFMZ Deux nouveaux conseillers municipaux de Champlain, Ginette Clément et Paul Burrough, sont élus dans le quarter 3, alors que Peter Barton et Paul Émile Duval remporte la course dans le quartier 1. —photo d’archives
Two newcomers, Ginette Clément and Paul Burroughs, won their election race in Ward 3 after defeating rival newco- mers Serge Ravary and Éric Boivin. Sitting councillor Peter Barton won his FMFDUJPOSBDFJO8BSEBMPOHTJEFFYDPVODJM - MPSBOENBZPSBMDBOEJEBUF1BVM&NJMF %VWBM TVSQBTTJOHOFXDPNFS%FOJT8FMEFO All newly-elected councillors will be taking their seats on Champlain Township council JO/PWFNCFS /PSNBO3JPQFMSFUBJOTUIFUJUMFPGNBZPS after winning by acclamation, alongside councillors Michel Lalonde and André Roy
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