Mayoral Candidates
Don Murray
- Currently on council as Deputy Mayor
- Concentrate on the beach, support agriculture
- Respect everyone
- It’s been tough on municipalities due to COVID
- 5 million in grant money for the area
- Good working relationship with local MPs
Angela Thompkins
- 40 yrs in tech industry
- launched multiple services
- 30 yrs at TD Bank
- ran governance commitees
- common sense thinking, looking at issues
- promoting community, maintain way of life
- maintain growth
- learned that people come forward only when there are problems
Roxy Bergman
Deputy Mayoral Candidates
Jim Hanna
- Councillor for 22 yrs
- resident in the area, professional engineer
- runs farms in the area still
- daughter is a dentist in Wingham
- township has no debit, healthy res?, good maintenance of material
- West of Hwy 21 → 70% township revenues
- all councillors available for contact
Perry Elliott
- farmer on Thames - 67 yrs
- crane operator
- went to a few council meetings, got no answers, meeting adjourned
- too many questions unanswered
- admits he’s not a good speaker
Councillor Candidates
Carl Sloetjes (incumbent)
- 3 terms here, 19 yrs total
- enjoyed the experience, so running again
- wants to give back to community
- if he doesn’t get elected just wants people to collaborate and cooperate
Lllian Abbott (incumbent)
- 24+ yrs on council
- working to finish the drain, finish the lighthouse, natural gas brought in, standpipe funded for Lucknow
- have to work together
- asks for your endorsement
- works at the library
Larry Allison
- Retired now lives in Lurgan Beach
- Previous work experience in the GTA as an “Embay”
- Past Chair of hospital board
- worked on the DGR
Brian MacEachern
- Concerned with township spending
- increased from $20M - > $28M - up 4%
- rein in spending
- concerned about growth - 12th concession
- plan was 2.5 units/acre - developer has 9 homes/acre
- fudged their numbers to get more units/acre
Alan Church
- Recently retired, from Hamilton, now lives in Lucknow
- worked with privacy board
- Interested in the gap between community and government
- activist - sees something wrong → stands up
- will ask hard questions, politely
- Support me - I’ll support you
Ed McGugan (incumbent)
Shari Flett
Scott Gibson