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Volume 73, Number 41 GST Included $1.25 Wednesday October 27, 2010 Orono Town Hall Publications Mail Registration No. 09301 Agreement No. 40012366 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone since 1937 Mayor Elect Adrain Foster and his team celebrate their election victory in his campaign office after the last poll was reported at 1:31 Tuesday morning. From left to right: Ron Collis, Jim Richards, Kerry Meydam, Adrian Foster, Deb Foster, Lee Foster and Terry Shirk. Adrian Foster wins 3-way race for Mayor For the first time since the Muncipality was formed in 1974, Clarington has a Mayor from Courtice -Ward 1. When the last poll result came in at 1:31 Tuesday morning, Adrian Foster had won with 35.51 percent of the vote, ahead of incument Jim Abernethy with 31.54 percent of the vote. In third place was first-time candidate Paul Adams with 29.52 percent of the vote, while Jeremy Woodcock came in last with 3.54 percent. Mayor Elect Foster said the first thing he is going to do Tuesday morning is to write a letter to the Minister of the Environment, asking him to delay making a decision on the incinerator Environmental Assessment until after the first Regional Council meeting on December 8. The Regional Councillor seat for Wards 3 and 4, vacated by Charlie Trim who did not seek re-election, was taken by Willie Woo in a decisive victory. Woo who had been Local Councillor for Ward 3 for one term, campaigned against Gord Robinson who had been Local Councillor for Ward 4 for the past three terms. Woo won with 70.7 percent of the vote. Robinson got 27.9 percent, and Carl Zmozynski, a Newcastle resident who did not run a campaign, received 1.3 percent of the vote. Early poll results for Ward 4, Local Councillor had Newcastle candidate Dean Perrin in the lead. By 10:30 p.m., Wendy Partner pulled into the lead, and she ended up winning the seat with 27.8 percent of the vote. Perrin slipped into fourth place with 13.6 percent, just behind Robert Jackson who had 13.94 percent, and just ahead of Cecil Mackesey who had 13.2 percent of the vote. Tim Tufts came in second in the Ward with 21.7 percent of the vote. Chris Brown, the youngest candidate in this year's municpal election placed 6th with 7.6 percent and Robert Willett had 1.84 percent. Election Day, October 25, was the first time in 10 years that Clarington voters went to the polls to elect their municipal council. Since 2000, municipal elections in Clarington were conducted with a Vote-by-Mail system. Average voter turn-out for those three elections was 38.8 percent. Voter turn-out in Monday's election was 34.5 percent. Municipal Clerk Patti Barrie said the vote count process was what she expected it to be. "It takes a long time to count by hand," she told the Orono Times on Tuesday morning. Barrie had strongly recommended to council that the municipality rent vote-counting machines again, as they had in the past election. Council opted to ignore her recommondatation in favour of counting by hand. The newly elected council assumes office on December 1st. They will be sworn in on December 5th. Referendum question According to unofficial results, 79.9 percent of those who voted across the Region are in favour of changing the way Durham Region chooses its Chair. In Clarington, 82.4 percent of voters said they were in favour of changing the method of selecting the Chair from appointments by the members of Regional Council to election by general vote of all electors in the Region. In order for the referendum to be binding, 50 percent of eligible voters in the Region would have to have participated in the referendum. That requirement was not met. At the next Regional Council meeting, to be held on December 8th, the newly elected Regional Council members will elect their new Chair. Anyone who can get themselves nominated by a Regional Council at the December 8th meeting is eligible to run for the Chair position. Current Chair Roger Anderson, who has had the position for the past 12 years, told the Orono Times reporter at the Orono Fair that he would seek re-election. Former Clarington Mayor John Mutton declared earlier this year that he would be challenging Anderson for the position. What's inside... see page 5