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News/4 Santa's coming to town CLARINGTON'S AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER SINCE 1854 Sports/13 Eagles are moving on up Everything old is new again Adrian Foster wins squeaker in Courtice Clarington voters return all incumbents to council BY DANIELLE MILLEY Staff Writer BOWMANVILLE - The current crop of elected municipal officials must have been doing something right this past term because all but one have been returned returned to office. Every incumbent who choose to run was elected with huge majorities majorities Monday night. Jane Rowe was the only councillor who decided not to run. She is replaced as the local representative for Ward 1 by Adrian Foster, who she supported supported in what turned out to be the only real race of the election. Mr. Foster adds new blood to a council that saw three candidates candidates acclaimed and three others vying against only one challenger challenger each. John Mutton was returned for another term as mayor with an overwhelming majority. It came as no surprise to those in the council chambers watching watching the results that Mayor Mutton Mutton easily defeated his lone opponent opponent Richard Ward; as the results results came in Mr. Ward consistently consistently received only one vote to nine of Mayor Mutton. Shortly after 9 p.m. Mayor Mutton entered the council Jan Cox/ Statesman photo Mayor John Mutton, far right, and a couple of his supporters, look pensive as they watch Clarington voting results being posted at Clarington Town Hall, Tuesday night. The mayor had no need to be concerned however, as results proved. He was returned to council with an overwhelming 90 per cent of votes cast in the 2003 municipal election. chambers to a round of applause and handshakes of congratulations. congratulations. He joked and laughed before heading to the Bowmanvillc Legion Legion for a victory celebration. "I was extremely nervous at first because it is hard to go to the public and ask how I've been doing," he said. "I'm ecstatic with the results. "I'm really pleased the public has returned me with the confidence confidence they have" he said, adding 'ne didn't expect the support to be so strong. Regional councillor Charlie Trim was re-elected for a second term in Wards 3 and 4. He attributed his sizeable win over former councillor Arnot Wotten to a lot of hard work. See SIZEABLE page 5 BY DANIELLE MILLEY Staff Writer BOWMANVILLE - In what was the only real race in Clarington's municipal election, newcomer Adrian Foster was ;able to pull ahead of the pack to •win the local council seat for Ward 1. As the first results were added to the screen in council chambers Jim Vinson led the way by one vote, while following following closely behind were Mr. Foster, Foster, Suzanne Elston and Oudit Rai. Mr. Foster waited tensely for more than half-an-hour for those first results to be added to the screen. "It is so tight. It is a real horse race," he said before heading home to await the final results with some 30 supporters. "It is exciting." His tension eased late into the night when, with most of the votés counted, he was more than 150 votes ahead. "I'm feeling good. We worked hard at it and we've had a lot of positive feedback," he said in a phone interview from his home when he learned of his win. "I'm really quite happy." The Ward I race was the one to watch for those at the Municipal Municipal Administrative Building. "I'm really interested in who is going to win that race," said Councillor Jim Schell. "Whoever "Whoever wins I'll have to work closely with." Coun. Schell was acclaimed as regional councillor for Wards 1 and 2. Jane Rowe came out to support support her former council colleagues colleagues and to see who would replace her as councillor for Ward I. "It's basically the only race in town, which we kind of expect- See ELECTION page 7 Veteran Alexander Siwy, salutes after laying a wreath during a Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph at Clarington Town Hall in Bowmanville, Tuesday. Until we meet again Soldiers finally introduced after kids bring them together BY JANE MCDONALD Staff Writer CLARINGTON - A family family photo featuring generations of the Graham-Elliott clan hangs prominently in the dining dining room at a Tyrone home. But if not for the destiny, spunk and luck of two young men - two strangers -- the people in the picture would not exist. It's a bit of a miracle that they do. The men first met, although they were not formally introduced, introduced, aboard 'Olympic' -- a sister ship to the Titanic, to be exact. As it steamed towards Europe, they must have wondered wondered if they'd survive the worst bloodbath of them all - The war to end all wars' - tire First World War. More than 600.000 Canadians Canadians enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War (1914-1918). Today, Marjorie (Graham) Elliott and her husband Bill Elliott look incredulously at a copy of a picture taken aboard the 'Olympic' on March 17, 1918, both of their lathers clearly recognizable. Neither man would know each other until Bill and Marjorie Marjorie were born, grown and began courting. Private Henry Graham, Marjorie's father, was with the 116 Battalion, while Bill's dad. Private Frank Elliott was a stretcher-bearer with a field ambulance unit. "My father was gassed three times, two mustards and one chlorine," says a respectful respectful Mr. Elliott, a retired schoolteacher. "He wanted to fly and applied applied twice but was turned down. 1 have these papers. 1 have his acceptance to the Royal Flying Corps tinted Nov. 10. 1918." But the war was one day from ending by the time Mr. Elliott's father would be taken on as a flyer. Instead, he remembers remembers his dad telling him of trench warfare. "Lice would get inside the uniforms so he would run a candle over the seams and the lice would pop." he recalls his father telling him. "My dad didn't talk much," says Mrs. Elliott. He returned to the family farm in Colling- wootl while her father-in-law saved enough money to attend engineering school in Toronto. "They did get a chance to meet," says Mrs. Elliott. On their way to service at Pass- chendaele and Vimy. respectively, respectively, the two sailed aboard the Olympic although they would not formally meet until their children would bring them together. Twenty-seven years of marriage and four children later, the family portrait portrait beams down on family gatherings in Tyrone, thanks to two survivors. More unsafe equipment alleged used at hospital BY CARLY FOSTER Staff Writer DURHAM - With 115 lives already reeling from a botched equipment cleaning procedure at Lakeridgc Health Oshawa, a younger, more vulnerable group has now been exposed. Unsterilized surgical instruments instruments were used on four children children between the ages of 3 and 5 at the hospital during ear, nose and throat surgeries at the Oshawa hospital. The children are now being tested for HIV and hepatitis. "They (the parents) are worried worried sick for their kids," said- lawyer Bill Livingstone, rep re-. senting the children and their families. "They want to keep their children's identities secret so they're not affected at schools and day care. "It's just horrible." Mr. Livingstone believes the equipment - possibly dental mirrors - was used during the last week in October, but is still unsure of the time frame. He listed Oct. 1 to 31 in the statement statement of claim, to be filed in Whitby court today. The class-action lawsuit - which seeks $3 million in damages damages - comes on the heels of admissions by officials the Oshawa Oshawa hospital used unsterilized equipment during colonoscopies colonoscopies and gastrointestinal scopes during the week of Oct. 27. In separate class-action lawsuits, lawsuits, Mr. Livingstone and lawyer Bernie O'Brien are asking asking for $81 million in damages. Lakeridgc refused comment Tuesday. "Until we get legal advice on what can be made public - based on the fact that patients have taken legal action and it's now before the courts - we cannot cannot add any more to what was released before," said Françoise Françoise Guenette, corporate director director of communications. Mr. Livingstone stressed the two cases are separate, happening happening with different equipment in completely separate areas of the hospital. 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