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Vol. 4, No. 34 Tuesday, March 28, 1995 174968 Luck of the draw puts Pearce in Region seat Lady Luck smiled on Marilyn Pearce Monday afternoon. When the vote by Scugog Mary Novak Liberal winner in 'Durham gw. . E. riding Durham East Liberals have nominated Bowmanville resident Mary Novak for the up-coming provincial election. But charges of "irregularities" started popping up at the nomination meeting Saturday night at Bowmanville High School. i And one of the defeated candidates, told the Citizen Monday evening he is still considering an appeal of the vote. Khouri told the Citizen he feels he has four or five grounds for an appeal. He deelined to go into detail about what the grounds are, but one party insider told the Citizen there may have been problems with Party members who were not allowed to vote. Mr. Khouri said Monday he would make a decision by Tuesday night on whether he would launch an appeal. Insisting that he feels he has grounds for the appeal, he said he has to decide if an appeal "is in the best interests of the party." "This is a very tough decision for me. What may be good for me personally may not be good for the interests of the party," he told the Citizen. Novak defeated Khouri, Port Perry High School teacher Dave Robinson and ambulance supervisor Doug Bird in what was believed to be a very close ballot. There 'were 428 "preferential" ballots cast on Saturday night in which 'delegates mark their choices in preference 1-4. - Final results were not released, but it took three tallies before Novak was declared the winner Pp shortly after 10:00 PM. The friendly skins game When Country Acres. Mil Golf and Driving Range opened over the weekend this group of friends got for a friendly 'Skins Game' on the mini putt. They agreed to have their , but only If we promised not to mention the stakes In the skins game. Getting In first round of mini putt of the new golf season are form left Cliff Smith, Vince Criscione,. s Cooper, Mike Skerratt and Crystal King. In the front are Jeff Brown and Jason Towns. Tu to page tio There were lots of golfers out at Country Acres getting the rust off thelr clubs. councillors to fill the vacant Regional seat ended in a 3-3 deadlock, Pearce's name was "pulled from a hat," giving her the seat over Ward 3 rep Ken Gadsden. Pearce and Gadsden were among 11 hopefuls seeking the Regional seat vacant with the death last month of Yvonne Christie. The nine others in the race failed to collect a single vote from the Township councillors. In the open voting, Pearce voted for herself and got votes from Doug Moffatt and Karen Puckrin. Gadsden also voted for himself and got votes from Mayor Howard Hall and Joyce Kelly. With the vote dead-locked clerk administrator Earl Cuddie put both names on slips of paper and asked spectator Ron McKinzey to draw one from a box. After her win, Pearce told the Citizen she is excited about moving to another level of government and to be representing the entire Scugog community on Regional issues. "I 'would have run in the last (municipal) election butYvonne Christie was doing a good job. I really was waiting until she (Christie) either retired or moved up (to run for mayor) before I ran for the seat," she said. Gadsden was disappointed it was not his name pulled from the hat, but told the Citizen he feels Pearce will do a terrific job. "We have a friendship and took on this contest without acrimony," he said. "We both knew one would win and one would lose and the way it turned out (the tie vote) showed the present coyggil has a good level of respect for both of us" Nine other people submitted their names for the post and each was allowed five minutes to address council in the chambers Monday afternoon. » Glenn Malcolm said he felt he is well qualified for the job. He lost to Christie for the Regional " seat in the November municipal Turn to page four Flyers 1 this week Flyers this week in your Scugog Citizen (selected areas for each) are as follows: Nestieton Country Store Big V Drug Store SPRING FORWARD!CLOCKS AHEAD SATURDAY NIGHT