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i i i i } |] { i Township lection ter Hallie; w only folks in For Scugog's new Mayor Howard Hall, there never really was much doubt on Monday night. As the poll results started rolling in to the Latcham Centre, the trend became apparent almost from the outset. Hall's two main opponents were splitting the so-called rural vote in Ward 1 (Reach) and Ward 4 (Cartwright), while Hall was winning by slight paring on the Island and by comforta i in his home ward of Port Perry. And in the end after all th votes were counted, Hall was home free by a comfortable 500 vote margin over Harvey Graham, and nearly 1000 votes better than John Wolters. Hall polled 2512 votes to 2025 for Graham and 1566 for Wolters, while Stan Taylor, the 67 year old retired farmer from Cartwright, who ran an "unusual campaign" was a distant last with 156 votes. Most political observers in Scugog were predicting that if Graham and Wolters, both Cart- wright natives, split the rural vote, Hall would emerge the vic- tc. with a strong showing in Ward 2 and decent support from Reach and Scugoy Island. That is pre- cisely what happened on election night. In offering his congratulations to Hall, Graham said "I have no hard feelings." Speaking directly to Hall from the stage, Graham said "we'll give him three years to sce if he (Hall) makes any mistakes, and if he makes one, I'll be back in three years." In conceding defeat, Graham told the audience he made up his mind a long time ago to spend two terms (six years) on council and "then make a run for the top or get out. "Well, I'm getting out and I'm rcally not all that disappointed," said the 53 year old Graham who operates a large farm west of Blackstock. Wolters was equally as gra- cious in offering his congratula- tions to the winner. "I'd like to offer my congratu- lations to Howard for his landslide victory. "I have worked very hard and it didn't pay off for me. I want to thank all my supporters and wish the council the best of luck," he said. Wolters, like Graham owns a large farm west of Blackstock. He suffered serious injuries in a farm- ing accident a couple of years ago, No one in Scugog was any happier or prouder Monday night than Howard Hall's family. From left is daughter Jennifer and Jamie Donaldson with daugh- Zula, daughter-in-law Gina Hall and daughter Cathy. They're the wn who can call the Mayor "Dad." Mayors race never in doubt as Howard Hall holds on to early lead and has since gone into real estate as an agent. Monday was his second shot at the Mayor's chair as he lost in 1985 to Jerry Taylor in a two-man race. As for the colourtul Stan Tay- lor (no relation to retiring Mayor Jerry) he had voters in Scugog be- mused and perplexed through the campaign, especially his perfor- mance at an all-candidates meeting two weeks ago when he read his speech taped to the back of a shovel. On lcaving the Latcham Hall after the votes were counted Mon- day night, he said "victory or de- feat, it's been a treat. And yes, you can quote me on that." He managed to poll 150 votes, and in the end, those votes proved not to be a factor in out- come of the mayoralty election. In a brief victory speech at the Latcham Centre, Hall with mem- bers of his family at his side said he felt "very humble." "I never thought I would see the day that I would be elected as the mayor of Scugog." He described the incoming council as "new and different," but added "I think we arc going to work well together, and I don't think things arc going to fall apart." Turnout high as 50% cast votes (From page 1) The vote in both Uxbridge and Brock was closer. A NEW LOOK Clearly, with the retirement of Mayor Jerry Taylor and Regional rep Lawrence Malcolm, plus the defeat at the polls Monday night of Harvery Graham and Neil McLaughlin, it is a new look council that will be sworn into of- fice on December 5. Three members of the council- Marilyn Pearce, Al Goreski and Glenn Malcolm have no munici- pal experience. But that will be tempered by the fact that they all have worked actively in communi- ty affairs and with the wide range of political experience that the other four reps bring to the coun- cil table. In his brief remarks at the Latcham Centre, Mayor elect Ho- ward Hall referred to what he called the "new and diffcrent coun- cil." "I don't think things are going to fall apart with this council," he told the audience. THE TURN OUT For a municipal election that Hunter battles to the wire with Woodcroft For the second time in three years, Neil Hunter found himself in a close political battle in Ward 1 (Reach Township) But on Monday night, the outcome was different than it was three years ago for the long time resident of Greenbank and areca. Hunter won the scat with 719 votes; 74 more than the 645 col- lected by Prince Albert resident Tia Woodcroft, who's the immedi- atc past chairman of the Durham Catholic School Board. Three years ago, in a three person race, Hunter was defeated for the Ward 1 seat by 32 votes by Yvonne Christie. In this election, Connic Southern of Greenbank polled third behind Hunter and Woodcroft with 502 votes, and Harold West- erman, who lives south of Port was void of any single burning is- suc in 1988, voter turn-out in Scugog was considered very high. An un-official total of 6,233 votes were cast, slightly more than 50 per cent of the 12,290 eli- gible voters. The voter turn-out of resident voters (as opposed to those who reside outside Scugog, but own property here) is estimated at greater than 60 per cent. This is certainly an indication that the issues in the election- growth, development, services- were taken scriously by the people who live in this Township. The polls closed on Monday night at 8:00 PM and by 8:30 the municipal election night HQ in the Latcham Hall was starting to fill up with interested spectators. The results of the first poll to call in (Poll 6 in Ward 4) were posted just before 9:00 PM, and clearly showed the trends that were to follow the rest of the evening. Graham and Wolters "split" that Cartwright poll, Hall picked up a handful of votes. (Turn to page 11) Perry polled 187. : The battle between Hunter an Woodcroft wasn't decided until the final three polls in Ward 1 were reported just before mid-night Monday. In fact, with two polls still to count, Hunter had a slim 16 vote margin over Woodcroft. But the final polls were from the Greenbank-Seagrave arca, and as expected, Hunter garncred strong support there. Woodcroft had very strong support from polls in the Chalk Lake area and from her "home turf" of Prince Albert. Hunter told the Star that one thing that is concerning him is "what we are going to do with our garbage." Aside from that major prob- lem, he said there is "nothing | drastic coming up right away." LeFort wins race Port Perry resident Kathleen LeFort is the new trustee for Scu- gog, Brock and Uxbridge Town- ship on the Durham Catholic School Board. Mrs. LeFort, 28, a mother of three children attending Immacu- late Conception School, polled 311 votes in Monday's clection to defeat Tom Adams, who lives near Beaverton. This was the first time that Catholic School supporters in Scugog, Brock and Uxbridge voted for a trustee to represent their in- terests. Mrs. LeFort, took 199 votes in Scugog, 87 in Uxbridge and 25 in Brock Township. Mr. Adams had 75 votes in Scugog, 111 in Uxbridge and 56 (Turn to page 50)