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0 9 elections The Citizen, Ottawa, Tuesday, November 14, 1978, Page 61 Board of Control 7i Reid new deputy mayor )1 (1,014 of 1,062 polls) mmfm II IMP'" m'! IfflTOT Don Reid 47,721 Brian Bourns 35,173 William Law 32,290 'Ralph Sutherland 28,159 Roy Bushfield 25,284 Gerry Trudel 22,883 Jules Morin 22180 Doug Payne 17,598 Richard Calagoure 10,740 David Dchler 10,727 Cyril Goulet 10,431 Sam McLean 8,622 Joseph Louis Paradis 7,314 George Theckedath 2,233 I 7 It A 1 hr A 7 1 rfJij fc Brian Bourns Runs strong second Ralph Sutherland Majority from left Don Reid: easy win for familiar face on board of control By John Hay and Katie FitzRandolph Citizen staff writers Don Reid, the ex-mayor who won his first city council seat 24 years ago, easily won his third straight term on board of control and becomes deputy mayor under Marion Dewar. Trading on his well-known name and familiar face, he led the field of 14 in the race for board of control. Brian Bourns, Ralph Sutherland and Bill Law were the other finishers in the race for the city hall executive board. For Reid, 51, it was a long, cheap campaign. Mayor of Ottawa from 1965 to 1969, Reid had been known as a lavish campaign spender in some elections.

But he took a different tack this time. He printed no leaflets, ran just two newspaper ads and put up only four signs. Instead, he pounded the pavements and knocked on 6,000 doors by his own count, spending he says a miserly $3,500. His one-woman campaign committee was his mother-in-law. As he has done throughout his political career, he stood well clear of the factional and partisan conflicts of the campaign.

As the results rolled in Monday night, Reid called his shoe-leather strategy this time "a personal campaign," in which he told voters what they wanted to hear the need to revitalize the downtown core and clamp a lid on high-priced capital projects like sports arenas. sixth behind fellow former school trustee Roy Bushfield. "I'm going to come fifth. It's so close, it's sick," she said as the returns were being posted. "I'd rather be (George) Theckedath.

I'd rather be 14th." But she left talking of the next election. For Bushfield, his, out-of-the-money finish is the end of a 12-year political career. "I had a hell of an enjoyable political career, but I look at it as past now." Sutherland said the campaign had heated up in the last week with a number of effective candidates Law, Jules Morin, Trudel and Doug Payne making strong pitches. He didn't foresee any significant change of direction for the new board. "We'll miss Lorry's sense of control.

"Marion has strengths but I feel Lorry has a firmer sense of command. Bourns is a massive addition." Vanier Rockcliffe Park Plumptre new reeve in close vote count, village goes 'wet' Victors getting ready for 1980 mayor race, council faces familiar As for his new boss, Reid said: "With my experience, I can be a big help to her." A businessman and father of five, Reid won his first council election as an alderman in 1954. Moving up to board of control in 1961, he served as deputy mayor for four months in 1964, when senior controller Lloyd Francis left for a seat in the Commons. Then came the trouncing of Charlotte Whitton and four years in the mayor's office that ended in 1969. He left city hall with an eye on the regional council chairmanship, but never mounted a campaign against Denis Cooli-can, who is quitting the regional job this year.

Four years later he was back as a controller, polling second to Dewar in 1974 and 1976. Having sold his furniture stores years group of people who thought there was a job to be done." As it turned out, only two of the three candidates running alongside Plumptre were elected Dr. A. G. (Sandy) Watson, and John Coyne.

The third hopeful, J. Duncan Edmonds came last in the race. Plumptre said she was confident she'd be able to work effectively with the new council. Amalgamation remains an issue in the village, Plumptre said, along with proposed new housing developments along the shore of McKay Lake. Peter Newcombe, the one re-elected incumbent, who led the field with 770 votes said it was obvious village residents were not voting for a slate.

The other succesful candidate, architect Patrick Murray declared himself against the idea of a slate at the outset of the campaign, and supported the outgoing council's stand on amalgamation. Included on the Rockcliffe ballot was a yes-no question asking residents to declare the village "wet" or and the over- Jim Mernlhew, Citizen Perennial candidate Joe Louis Paradis, however, found 13th place enough to prompt his retirement from politics. "They're all the same," he said, surveying the elected controllers. "Law didn't have the guts to run two years ago and came back because there were two seats open. Reid is in Florida half the year to hell with them all." No one else, however, was prepared to quit politics for good.

Morin, who finished seventh, said he wasn't about to decide his political future at 3 a.m. And Cyrille Goulet, who ran 11th, was disappointed with the showing but was prepared for another two years of attending council meetings and working in the community in preparation for another run. Sam McLean, from 12th spot, felt the people had made a mistake. "We've got a bunch of damn socialists running the city. about him, veteran councillor Marcel Chaput re-elected for his third term by an easy margin said he was already "anticipating running for mayor in two years." Later, when the hubbub had died down, reigning Mayor Bernard Grandmaitre showed little surprise.

"Who knows? After all I might not run again in two years," he said with a deadpan expression on his face. After three terms as mayor by acclamation this time it's possible "to become immune to the small problems," he explained. "You see the big problems but these things start first as small ones," he said. Grandmaitre said he was happy to see an experienced council elected. With one exception, the returns showed Vanier voters were sticking to the tried and true, returning all but one of the incumbent aldermanic candidates to office in Monday's election.

Even the two new faces on council former deputy reeve Wilfrid Champagne and Vanier personality Bunny McCann are old ones in Vanicr's tight knit community. In Ward 3 site of the election's only upset former councillor Wilfred Champagne's unexpected show of strength edged first-term councillor Gilles Barbary into third place, with the ward's two scats going to Champagne and second-place finisher, incumbent Robert Madore. Champagne, who made his triumphant, return to Vanier politics after 12 years absence, credited his win on his door-to-door campaign strategy. While challenger Champagne took an early lead, the race between Barbary and Madore was tight until almost all the polls had been counted. In Ward 1 the two elected candidates veteran incumbent Paul St.

George and political newcomer Bunny McCann have strong community roots. The election results in Ward 2 were almost a foregone conclusion as the two incumbents Marcel Chaput and Ronald Killeen were returned with only token opposition from fourth time candidate Yvette Bigras. William Law Moderate on board ago, Reid now runs a travel agency in Ottawa and a restaurant-lounge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Meanwhile, Dewar, Bourns and Sutherland give the board a majority drawn from council's acknowledged left. Both Reid and Law can fairly be considered moderates.

With the departure of Controller Pat Nicol, it has lost its only strong, right-wing voice. Bourns polled a strong second in his move up from alderman, and Law made a respectable comeback to the board after two years on the Ottawa Board of Education. After only 20 polls had reported into his Bank Street office in a former furniture store, Bourns had a two-vote lead on Reid and he knew he definitely had a seat on the board. Sorest loser was Gerry Trudel, who ran fifth for a time but Finally settled into Beryl Plumptre Amalgamation issue whelming response (744 to 233) was The villagers didn't seem concerned that the question asked them to declare themselves in favor of licenced premises in the village. Better to make provision for the occasional parties held on village property, they decided.

Besides, the village is protected by its by-laws prohibiting liquor lounges. Under the old rules, Rockcliffe was theoretically "dry" but could apply for special occasion permits to serve alcoholic beverages. Thompson, out of the race by only 70 votes. Newcomer Don Wright was elected Car-Icton Board of Education trustee with 893 votes, well ahead of the other three candidates. Incumbent George Drew, former chairman of the board, did not seek re-election.

Township officals estimated that 40 per cent of the 7,1 17 eligible voters went to the polls Monday, compared to 35 per cent in 1976. For McEvoy, the dean of council going into his sixth term, the results were tight but not unexpected. Perhaps the only surprise in the race was that it was Thompson, and not 28-ycar-old lawyer Paul Coulson, who gave McEvoy a strong run for the fourth scat. Thompson took an early jump over i I i 'Bernard Grandmaitre Council WARD 1 Paul St.George Bunny McCann Marcel Champagne Joseph Gariepy Paul Tomaro acclaimed 503 413 327 132 78 1321 891 321 710 677 586 164 (acclaimed) (acclaimed) WARD 2 Marcel Chaput Ronald Killeen Yvette Bigras WARD 3 Wilfred Champagne Robert Madore Gilles Barbary Gerard Gagne Guy Cousineau Florian Gauthier WARD 4 By Mark Fawcett Citizen staff writer Vanicr's elected were still hugging and congratulating one another when the first shot was fired for the 1980 mayoral race. While election night jubilation swirled vote results McEvoy on the strength of overwhelming support from the Edwards poll in his own neighborhood.

But McEvoy kept gathering momentum after his home poll in Grecly gave the local contractor and tourist park operator the necessary margin for victory. Thompson, who pledged he would be in the running again in 1980, said he was surprised at his showing. The losers and winners all felt the results showed the voters were happy with the administration of the past two years. "I hope it is a tribute to two years of hard work," said incumbent Mary Cooper, whose first-place finish was a far cry from the results of 1976 when she finished in the last council position, two votes behind McEvoy. Reeve Beryl A.

Plumptre 'Ronald Clark 526 504 Council Peter Newcombe A. G. (Sandy) Watson Patrick Murray John M. Coyne Gordon Shearly J. Duncan Edmonds 770 685 683 623 445 412 By Linda Drouin Citizen staff writer By a slim margin of 22 votes, challenger Beryl Plumptre squeaked past incumbent Ronald Clark, in the race for reeve of Rockcliffe Park Village.

With a whopping 68 per cent of the 1,535 eligible voters coming out to the polls, it was a close race from the moment the first results of the advance poll were counted Monday night. Plumptre, who watched the election returns from her home on Lakeway Drive surrounded by friends and admirers, speculated that the amalgamation issue probably "stirred" village residents to come out in record numbers for this election. That, plus the fact that for the first time in 10 years, all positions were contested. It was a quiet evening at the municipal offices on Springfield Road, as the five polls were counted. Clark, defeated incumbent Gordon Shearly and winner Peter Newcombe were the only candidates present as the ballots were tallied.

As the final count from the five polls rolled in, showing him the loser by a hair, Clark conceded gracefully. He said he would not be asking for a recount despite the close vote, and added that he felt "elated" by the results. Plumptre, in an interview at her home, said she wasn't sure what to expect when she entered the race because "I'm not experienced in politics," a modest claim for someone who spent many years grappling with big government as chairman of the Food Prices Review Board and vice-chairman of the Anti-Inflation Board. Plumptre denies that she was the leader of a "slate" of candidates trying to oust the old council. "If we were going to take over, we would have nominated a full slute of six candidates," she said.

"It was just a Osgoode Township Council unchanged by Reere Albert Bouwera acclaimed Council Mary Cooper 1,500 Albert McKeown 1,414 Fred Alexander 1,322 Philip McEtoy 1.192 Doug Thompson 1,112 Paul Coulson 852 Brent Reid 544 By Bob Marlcau Citizen staff writer Osgoode Township council remains completely unchanged by Monday's municipal elections. Reeve Albert Bouwers was acclaimed while all four incumbent councillors were returned. Just over 300 votes separated the incumbents with the fifth-place finisher, Doug I.