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Miller retains mayors seat YEAR END REVIEW Wednesday December Page By BRIAN MscLEOD Herald Staff Hills voters gave Incum bent Mayer Miller a ringing en dorscment Monday reluming him office with almost per cent of the vote He defeated challenger Sheldon votes to 44M in what many thought would be a much closer race Mayor Miller who laid he had the support of nine of the aald bis honesty and per helped Mm fend off the challenger vomers returned him to office with web a wide margin of victory Mayor Miller Mid Because Im honest People trust me Ive never ol any body down the dra In Mayor Miller said he had never changed from when be working in the paper mill to when he was mayor But the campaign waa soured somewhat by some of Councillor Sheldons remarks which the Mayor said hurt him personally I was angered with tome of the Turner stuns opponents Opposition parties were tunned at the margin of victory by PC Garth Turner in the Nov federal elec tion Liberal Pierre Klein arrived at Mr Turners North Golf sad Country Club headquarters to con gratulate the winner He later said at his own campaign headquarters keep up the faith Everything we could determine from polling from working doors led us to believe It would be a very very tight race Mr Kleins cam paign chairman Kevin said New Democrat Fern Wolf said she cant believe the free trade senti apparent in the election results NDP riding president Allan Moore said Im going to go home end practise singing the American anthem Libertarian George was quite happy with the votes he garnered during the campaign In the municipal elections just one week earlier Tour newcomers took seats around the town council table Pat McCarthy and Anne Currie defeated Tom Politi for the two Want seats Robert and MS Spent edged Don McQueen In a race that couldnt be decided until the last poll was In In the only Regional race Hewitt sue made the Jump from town politics holding off a strong challenge from BID Bill upset incumbent Temunt in the race Tor the Ward hydro commissioner seat In cumbents Hurt Allison end Bill Smith retained tbdr seats on the And in the only school board race Dick held off challenges from Apgarand Rod Taylor November About per cent of the electorate turned out to vote In the municipal elections the largest recorded In years Mike a 17 yearold Georgetown resident was credited with saving the lives of sue people In an early moming tiro Sept 12 Mr Compton entered a burning building at 1 Guelph St and knocked on tenants doors awakening them In time to escape the blaze which caus ed an estimated damage After years of service the owners of the post office in Limehouse General Store announc their intention to discontinue postal service in late November This Is a funeral today said Mrs Delia after she and her husband they would drop the service Members of the citizens group POWER took their protest to Queens Park Nov The group which organized to fight the Acton landfill site proposal Interviewed sn effigy of Environment Minister James Bradley Town caught off guard early November when they learned that the Peel Separate School Board was close to finalizing a lease for the MO acre Farm near Ball ad She did nothing but stand up at the meetings and say what a great person she was I didnt go out and tell people what a great guy Miller is Mayor Miller said The Mayor said he worked behind the scenes to meet with provincial officials write letters and actively campaign against the Acton landfill site but he didnt seek public recognition for his effort because It my fob Mayor Miller said he was disap pointed that some POWER members who supported him before the landfill proposal threw their support behind Coun Sheldon Asked by reporters if he thought it was a dirty campaign the Mayor said yes Miller registered a victory over challenger Coun than once grew Pam Sheldon in the race for Candida tea went toetotoe the mayors seat Mayor Miller PCs take Halton Peel riding By Mike Turner Brian MacLeod Donna Herald Staff In what proved to be a surprise for many Progressive Conservative Garth Turner his op position to become Peel first Member of Parliament In Mon day a federal election Mr Turners victory was never in doubt as he collected per cent of the decided vote In Peel With a total of votes Mr Turner easily defeated challengers Liberal Pierre Klein with 16 New Democrat Fern Wolf with and Libertarian George Mr Turner was declared the vie tor less than an hour after the polls closed and a short time later of had projected a PC majority government much to he delight of the crowd that gathered at the North Golf and Country Club for a victory celebration The Progressive Conservatives swept back Into power with a smaller but still solid majority The PCs took 170 seats across the nation white the Liberals irpped their total to si seals and the New Democratic Party took seats For Mr Turner Monday victory was truly a humbling experience The run for the seat was highlyintense and often bitter for the candidates with the free trade Issue becoming a catalyst that brought out I per cent of voters in the riding Free trade was the most conten issue In the election not only In Peel but throughout trie country Mr Turner credited his Citizens Guide to Free Trade with pulling him over the top We rolled up our sleeves and got Into It he said A lot of people were confused and frightened until the final days of the campaign Mr Turner his nig Business Editor of the newspaper gave him a high recognition factor in Peel He also admitted that John McDermld a legacy in this riding may have helped Mr McDermid who represented Brampton for 10 years campaign l Mr a to A well managed campaign machine consisting of volunteers also worked for Mr Turner in A dejected Mr Klein accepted the election process as the decision of the people It was apparent from the onset of the election campaign thai the Tories were Intent on winning he said demonstrated by the visits of such heavywHghts as the prime 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