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CHARLES PRIDHAM dark horse EARLE WILLIAMS tight race MAURICE MILLER back as councillor Dark horse wins race for reeve in Essa vote By SUE ROUTLIFFE ExaminerStaff Writer Charles Pridham dark horse of the race for reeve in Essa township topped the polls with 249vote edge over incumbent Eugene Smith All but one of the people elected to the five offices open are newcomers to Essa council while three of the five have never sat on council before Mr Pridham owner of Not tawa Electric in Angus and father of four has never held political office before Anthony Mancini the third place reeve candidate who brought in just 678 votes despite his experience on council said once the polls were in that con troversy over the Angus arena could have been the cause for the rout Of the members of the previous council just one was returned to office Maurice Miller stepping down from deputy reeve to run for coun cillor because of health pro blems was elected with 1146 votes He ran second to newcomer Bev Regan with 1319 the homemaker from Angus who consistently led the polls for councillor throughout the long night Final returns came in at 1am Eric Binns restaurant and hotel supplier also of Angus placed third in the councillors race with 1178 votes Incum bent Ed MacDonald placed poor fourth with 1055 In the office of deputy reeve what began as runaway per formance by Earle Williams changed into tight race against incumbent councillor DonElines REGAINED LEAD Williams now member of the Essa planning board and former member of Barrie coun cils lost his lead at one point but finished with 1539 Elines now in hospital after serious farming accident received 1373 Votes Mr Pridham took an early lead for reeveship with the first polls one from four Angus village polls and one of five Angus subdivision polls com ingin after1pm It was steady lead of at least 100 votes that be main tained until the 18th poll was in and he trailed 824 to 840 on the latest votes from Ivy The 19th from another Angus subdivi sion poll put Pridham back in the lead however DECISIONS Mr Pridham has taken stand of no promises no deals telling voters he felt he could offer sensible business ap proach to council He also said at the last can didates meeting held in Angus Wednesday he felt his inex perience would bring freshness to council Ill make no promises other than getting quicker decisions on council and getting back to the people with the decisions be commented Wednesday would also like ratepayers groups formed He has pushed for properity in the small township through medium growth an issue present councillors have come under fire for over the lack of industry attracted to Essa Arena to blame Mancini Mondays vote in Essa township was vote against the present councils stand on the Angus arena according to An thony Mancini Coun Mancini unsuccessful in his bid for reeve said Essa voters dropped all but one of the present council members because of the issue He ran third in the election with 678 votes as compared to 1248 by winner Charlie Pridham and 999 by incumbent Eugene Smith The only candidate for reeve at the polling station when final results came in Coun Mancini pointed to the poor showing by council members in all Angus and area polls There were substantial drops in the performances of all coun Town of Allis ton COUNCILLORS four to be elected Douglas Taylor 737 Aiden Whelan 913 Elmer Hawkins 895 John Taylor 639 Joseph Heydon 833 Gerry Moon 937 FLUORIDATION REFERENDUM Yes 403 No 1056 City of Barrie MAYOR Ross Archer 6213 Willard Kinzie 4096 Dorian Parker 3839 ALDERMEN Three to be elected in each ward WARI Alex Arthur 3331 Nelson Garrett 2188 Chris Kaszuba 1201 Fred Reumper 2468 Henry Verstraten 1621 WARI Del Cole 2502 Bill Knowles 2039 Charles Style 1850 Ed Thompson 2444 WARD Robert Dennis 950 Janice Laking 1729 Ernie Rotman 1659 Ross Stephens 1963 WARI Barrie Boisclair 739 Bill Campbell 1739 Ron Lynch 1304 Gordon Mills 1168 Philip Sauve 979 PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Two to be elected Ernie Alexander 7834 Val Brucker 7259 AbJansen 4882 Claude Watt2291 Village of Beeton COUNCILLORS Four to be elected Allan Bennett 334 William Fox 329 John Hacking 283 Paul Coburn 301 Amy Harting 319 Town of Bradford MAYOR Arthur Turner 700 Roy Gordon 787 COUNCILLORS Four to be elected Rick Wright 664 Jack MacFadden 502 Sandy Hudson 622 Pat Pattenden 489 John Zigma 975 Ci members in Angus and Borden polls with the gap bet ween Reeve Smith and Mr Pridham stretching from 11 to 110 in one Angus poll Coun Mancini who said publicly last week the arena issue was out of the townships hands fared badly with 37 to 110 vote gap in the same poll Al Zaba member of the defunct Angus arena board made strong showing in all Angus area polls despite finishing as candidate for coun cillor with 946 votes Eric Binns who came out for new start on arena building was elected to council with thirdplace vote 1178 Bev Regan newcomer to council who favored recrea tional development that she said should include an arena topped the votes for councillor consistently with 1319 Coun Ed MacDonald who said last week the township had no choice in the arena case but to continue with the suit lost his seat He came fourth with 1055 getting just nine votes in one Borden poll and seven in another There is lawsuit still peri ding between the township and the arena board in the Supreme Court with no date set as yet Hardesthit by the issue was Reeve Smith who had said Wednesday that while he was sure there is need for an arena costs coud be blamed on residents This has been your problem not councils problems he said Wednesday Campbell wins by 432 in race for 0m reeve By ROSEANNE McCABE Examiner Staff Reporter Reeveelect Howard Camp bell rubbed his hands together Its my turn he said as voting results tumbled in Mr Campbell raked in 1459 votes beating opponent Charles Simpson by 432 votes in the race for reeve in Oro township Monday night really didnt think Id win by that much he admitted Im quite satisfied Mr Campbell was the first reeve candidate to show up at the tournship hall on the seventh line where results were posted His wife Jean ac companied him The win was no surprise to the new reeve He took the ma jority of votes from eight of 12 polls The biggest poll Oro Sta tion came in second to last He polled 271 votes to Mr Simp McLean confident of winning It was rather unemotional Al McLean who came away Monday night as the new deputyreeve of Oro township was confident would do well he said puffing com placently on cigar as he jotted down figures from the black board didnt expect that much of majority though he said Mr McLean beat rival Paul Hansen in all but one of the 12 1G RPCFFING l1 sons 116 in Oro Station had clean campaign he said Nothing dirty has been done Mr Campbell lost to Mr Simpson two years ago in the race for deputyreeve He was beaten by 12 votes But not only are they old rivals they are friends Mr Campbell kept close eye on the blackboard while chatting with Wayne and Elaine Simp son No hard feelings were evi dent think we both had clean campaign were still friends Mr Campbell assured the crowd of about 75 What now for Oro Id like to see good relations with Barrie think Oro can develop as the rural and recrea tional area between Barrie and Orillia he said see no polls In the largest poll Oro Station he took 222 votes and Hansen158 Mr McLean was once reeve was beaten and returned as councillor think itll be good coun cil he said As for the campaign Am ever glad its over he said Paul Hansen looked little glum but managed to keep his McLEAN WATCHES RESULTS inners losers in Igor Nikolajev 359 Zygmund Fenik 654 PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Four to be elected Thomas Church 870 Alan Hudson 440 Keith Stevens 887 Gordon Bantam 850 Lyn Bowmaster 432 Bud Robson 862 Village of Coldwa ter REEVE Herbert Stevens 185 Earl Brandon 258 COUNCILLORS Four to be elected Barbara Terrell 228 Herbert Smith 203 Alf Brand 283 Richard Schell 207 Thomas Dean 302 Jack Letherby 265 Town of Collin gwood COUNCILLORS six to be elected Ben Andrews 856 Ray Barker 127 Robert Crysler 1289 Ronald Emo2119 Siegfried Herrmann 802 Ilarold Krogman 934 BobLivingstonc 1147 Paul McKeown 1900 William Powell 1215 George Stephenson 1262 Ken White 1491 PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION two to be elected Ted Carmichael 2127 William ldham 1170 Eugene leycha 1511 Village of Cookstown REEVE Norman Lever 222 Melville Brayman 260 COUNCILLORS Four to be elected Dennis Partridge 185 James Currie 237 Martin Connolly 230 Anne Monkman 276 George eff 0rd 247 Brian Baker 183 Ronald Turner 151 Jean Webber 142 Rudy Langguth 22 Village of Creemore REEVE Ralph MacDonald 252 Ruth Gater 20 Carmen Gowan 95 Essa Township REEVE Eugene Smith 999 Charles Pridham 1248 Anthony Mancini 678 DEIUTY REEVE Earle Williams 1534 Donald Elines1373 COUNCILLORS Three to be elected Eric Binns 178 MacDonald 1055 Jim Burns 788 Cecil Westover 558 Bev Regan 1319 Allan Zaba 946 Maurice Miller 1146 Everett Police Village Trustees Three to be elected James McCarl 56 Harold Moon 114 Donald Kerr 45 rvilleJenkinsX 111E David Pegg 86 Flos Township REEVE Donald MacDonald 512 Alex Finlay 518 COUNCILLORS Three to be elected Donald Bell 814 Donald Bertram 799 Orville Tracey 546 William Stoddart 337 Hawkestone Police Village Trustees Three to be elected Larry Monkman 59 Paul Fallon 88 Bradley Richardson 71 Ralph Leigh 116 Diane DuBeau 62 Innisfil Township REEVE George Burton 2673 Bill Gibbins 2808 DEPUTY REEVE Grant Andrade 1381 Blake Constable 2056 Don Koopmans 1981 COUNCILLORS Three to be elected John Cowan 2099 Katie Jans 3426 John Roomc 585 William lipple 2691 Fred Watts 915 Roger White 1081 Jack Young 2879 Mara Township REEVE Peter Forbes 692 Thomas McKean 530 COUNCILLORS Three to be elected Allan Byers 649 Thomas Garry 845 Cliff Martin 825 Graham McGillivrary 682 Matchedash Township REEVE Gordon Priestman 333 Glen Lovcring I71 COUNCIL Four to be elected Walter Can 197 Robert Hancock 246 Lois Laughlin 340 Bruce McLoughlin 78 Peter Shaw 299E Arthur Silk 241 George Yagcr 243 Medonte Township REEVE Kenneth Ilamilton 425 Ingram Amos 852 DEPUTY REEVE Horace Vasey 518 David Walker 807 COUNCILLORS Three to be elected Clifford Wells 658 Hoaard Dunlop 582 Donald Ilervieux 136 LytleJohnstone 861 Del Kelly 205 Pat Lawlor 715 Town of Midland MAYOR Brian Wood 166 Moreland Lynn 2335 Catherine Dion 1466 DEPUTY REEVE Miles Blackhurst 1934 Bill gilvie2041 COUNCILLORS Four to be elected WARI Nancy Keefe 629 Rudy Scherloski 453 WARI William rr 544 Wayne Parker 346 WARD Jim Malcolm 683 Fred Jeffrey 391 Orillia ALDERMEN eight to be elected Frank Kehoe 2590 Myrtle Bowlen 3006 Al Smith 2494 Wilbur Cramp 2923 Cecil James 1734 Charles Jordan 713 Len Cotton 1436 Art Bradford 2032 Gurney Trites 3055 Ralph Cipolla 238l Donald CraigPaul 1351 Jack Stewart 1782 Patricia Mclssaac 4049 Thomas Parish 1944 David MacDonald 2976 Orillia Township REEVE Ron Stanton 1281 Bill Calverley1287 DEPUTY REEVE Jack Haste 837 on da John Hewitt 1567 OlNClLLORS One to be elected in each ward WARD Ralph Kay 280 Norman Telford 422 WARD Art Gregg 135 Ron Stevens 268 Steven Ilintoii 198 Jack Brown 398 WARD it Dave Edwards 387 lack Fountain 454 ro Township REEVE Howard Campbell 1459 Charles Simpson DEPUTY RE EVE Allan McLean 1570 Paul Hansen 866 COUNCILLORS three to be elected Ross Bradley 849 Dave Bull 648 Paul Kitchen 1320 Anthony Keene 318 Charley Sanderson 1159 Babara Tiffen 619 ClarenceSmith 1442 Town of Penetanguishene MAYOR Vincent Moreau 1352 Lionel Dion 737 REEVE Armand Iharlcbois 954 Arthur Stewart 1100 DEPUTY RE EV Clarence Lomas 1289 Vernon Farrow 731 COUNCILLORS six to be elected Mary Rogers 1261 Frances St Ainant 1238 Ronald Bellislc 1252 Kenneth Iannahill 1163 Ray Baker 1150 Eric Rankin 748 Hurbert Charlebois 966 Brian Byng 655 Donald Charlebois 733 WATER ANI LIGIII COMMISSION two to be elected Robillard 1256E Martin Marchildon 1341 Brunelle 575 Village of Port McNicoll REEVE Bruce Dockray 176 Robin Talbot 480 DEPUTY REEVE Robert rmstroiig 404 Wes Clark 231 COUNCILLORS three to be elected Albert Borrie 232 Regis Quesnelle 309 Arthur Winkworth 112 Christine Boucher 182 1027 reason to annex The crowd waited until 1110 for the results from the Jarrett poll and although the hall was never alive with enthusiasm the place was silent as the crowd waited the final figures Mr Campbell broke the si lence with his thankyou speech Meanwhile across the room was smiling Jean Campbell Im very happy never ex pected him to take the lead that way she said And Mr Campbell is well prepared for the reeve position she said Two years ago he couldnt have done it Now he has the time and thats what you need she said The Campbells returned to their home where son Don and his wife awaited them for the victory party address to the audience rather light Whenever came home from meeting smelling like cigar had hard time con vincing my wife was at council meeting But tonight she met Al he said Ill spend more time with my family Im looking forward to the next two years for one want to see lot of changes takeplace But in an interview earlier Mr Hansen admitted he was disappointed Who wouldnt be Lets face it you dont run and expect to lose ROSS SAUNDERS numbers impress By SHEILA McGOVERN Examiner Staff Reporter Well the whole campaign was kind of blah said Ross Saunders as he stood at city hall watching school board results being posted Bill Straughan described it as With so many concerns and the amount of money being spent am disappointed there was so little interest The race for public and separate school boards got off to an uninteresting start with 21 of the 36 seats being awarded through acclamation The sad thing is some of the ones acclaimed are not the ones who take an active part said Mr Straughan In Barrie where there were races for the three seats on both boards sitting members were reelected For the Simcoe County Board of Education Dr Allen Fisher was in first place with 7548 votes Betty Thompson was se cond with 7267 Mr Straughan JOHN BRENNAN strong interest Campaign kind of blah finished third with 6850 Bob Boden was fourth with 6231 For the Simcoe County Roman Catholic Separate School Board current chair man John Brennan led the polls with 1090 Mr Saunders fin ished with 732 votes REGAINS SEAT The third position with 675 votes went to Tony Decarie former member of the board who regained the seat he lost in 1974 when redistribution cut the number of separate school board seats to two Mr Decarie defeated new comer Clair Moreau who had 494 votes and the two changed positions several times while the ballots were being counted Hazel Ann Carson finished with 503 votes and Marcel Moreau with 230 Mr Brennan said the turnout was very good and attributed it to the strong interest in the mayoralty race which brought people out to the polls Mr Saunders was impressed Clarence Smith tops poll Clarence Smith tucked his winning votes away and went his victory party got it he said as th results of the remaining polls came in Monday night at the townshiphall He was surprised at UK number of supporters from Shanty Bay and Guthrie Wh added to his 1442 vote total They object to the industrial park he said And Mr Smith is all for it as source 01 revenue Mr Smith led the other rc township council candidates Paul Kitchen newcomer tc council came second with 1320 votes and Charles Sanderson came third with 1159 votes Well won didnt expect to Mr Kitchen told the gathering Mr Sanderson was just as ea thusiastic Im thrilled to be back on council again he said He consoled the losers with this thought Its better to have run and lost than not to haverunatall Tony Keene received the municipal Gordon Beausolcil 152 Gary Newton 194 Kenneth Young 188 James Zunsmack 273 Rama Township DEPUTY REEVE Charles Smith 410 Ambrose McMillan Patricia Slater 205 COUNCILLORS three to be elected Fred Cooper 413 Ted Dixon 260 John Godward 338 Robert Hayes 288 Town of Stayner MA Y1 George Charlton 668 Ron Abner 334 Sunnidale Township REEVE Ed Tulham 424 Lloyd Pridham 559 DEPUTY EEVE Joe McKinnon 425 Mary Stacey 538 COUNCIL three to be elected Donna Casey 258 Douglas Day 653 Charles McNabb 576 Jim ONeil 428 Burnfield Wines 525 Tay Township Deputy Reeve Ed Hill Bruce linney 927 COUNCILLORS three to be elected David Moore 1040 Torn OHara 947 Robert Rhem 681 David Walker 884 WAUBAUSIIENE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION two to be elected Leonard Walker 163 Robert Stewart 161 Ian Miller 73 Murray Moreau 129 Tecumseth Townshi COUNCILLO three to be elected Mrs Evelyn Carter 344 Gerald Wallace 674 William Brethet 746 Ernest Ferguson 372 Keith Dermott 556 Judy Reid 532 Tiny Township DEPUTY REEVE Basil Dorion 981 Hilda Sibthorpe 1380 COUNCILLORS three to be elected Vincent Marchildon 906 Etienne Marchildon 1002 Judy Johnston 838 Cyrille Marchand 873 Eugene Maurice 917 fewest number of votes with 318 didnt expect to be at the bottom of the totem pole he said He said even though the people of Oro told me how they feel about me Ive learned hell of lot about the place livein Ross Bradley and Dave Bull consoled each other later Mr Bradley took 849 votes and Bull took 648 Barbara Tiffen took 619 votes Its what the people of ro want Mr Bradley said Mr Bull Im relieved its over Im very busy man He was happy at the votes he received in his own poll Im glad wiped Rugby as wellasldidhesaid Coffee flowed freely early in the evening in the basement of the township hall while votes for the local poll were counted upstairs It took from to 1015 for results to be cleared from the upstairs poll so overall results could be posted John Butler 903 Tosorontio Township DEPUTY REEVE Calvin Haddock 563 Marianna Nears 266 COUNCILLORS three to be elected Marion Kerr 312 Keith Hibbert 330 James Gwynn 329 Richard Bailey 445 David Young417 Villa of Victoria arbour COUNCILLORS three to be elected Florence Belcher 284 Anne Connely 315 Walter Fournier 212 Edward Savage315 West Gwillimbury Township DEPUTY REEVE Charles Bud Brown 741 Robert Sturgeon 521 COUNCILLORS three to be elected Robert Hamilton 737 Art Janse 724 Bruce Keffer 637 Richard Medrek 625 Mrs Lenore Rumble 316 CLARENCE SMITH got it ALLEN FISHER tops polls with the number of people who ran for the Barrie seats He said the number of candidates was good sign people are wondering what its all about Mrs Thompson said she has been knocking on doors throughout the city for the past few weeks but found there were few concerns about school board Mrs Thompson said com munication must be lacking because of limited interest in the race Mr Straughan shared her opinion saying the board is go ing to have to work hard at tell ing the public what it is doing NOT CONFIDENT Mr Straughan said he ar rived at city hall Monday night feeling he had done good job but not confident he would re gain his seat knew what happened to George the last time he said In 1974 Mr Straughan was the newcomer to the school board race and defeated in cumbent George Taylor Rev Bob Boden who was newcomer to the race and was defeated said he was glad he entered and pleased with his finish Rev Boden said he presented himself as an alternative can didate and did not invest any money into the campaign He said he is not politically oriented and found there were no issues raised during the weeks before the election Hazel Ann Carson who fin ished fifth in the separate school board race said she will probably try again in the next election She suggested church or ganizalion might consider holding an allcandidates meeting next time Im not young enough to go out and knock on doors said Dr Fisher left it entirely to the people to decide Dr Fisher praised his two colleagues on the board saying the public had elected responsi ble trustees However he also expressed concern over the lack of in terest municipalities have in school board races despite the amount of money being spent Were like something the cat dragged in he observed voting Howard Campbell reeve elect for ro Township stands on chair to see over heads for posted results while his wife Jean chats Monday night at the town ship hall on the seventh line of Oro Examiner Photo out