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fake tad EEN at SEA A ha) idm - 4 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, September 27, 1988 Don Cochrane seeking Area Councillor seat Recreation one of priorities for Cochrane After six years representing He felt he would either have nouncing last week that he will be Ward 3 (Scugog Island) voters on to "move up" or get out of munic- seeking the area council seat in Township council, Don Cochrane ipal politics. the November elections. was faced with a decision. He decided on the former, an- This is the seat now leld by LLL PO RT PERRY} adore me NS Nh : SEE > ; carl = x -- --ceEETlh SNE Harvey Graham, who is going af- would like to pursue is a re- ter the Mayor's chair this Novem- structuring of the present council ber. format. As of now, councillor Co- He thinks the people of the chrane is the only candidate de- municipality might be better clared for the area council seat. served if there were five wards, in- Unlike the Ward reps which are stead of four, and the area council elected only by the voters in the seat was done away with. specific wards, the area councillor He said the fifth ward could is elected at large by all voters in include the southern portions of Scugog Township. Ward 1 (Reach) and Ward 4 (Cart- Councillor Cochrane said that wright). Creating a fifth ward is an idea > @ ' \ A Incumbent Ward 3 (Scugog Island) rep Don Co- chrane will be running for the area council seat In the November municipal elections. He has completed two terms as Ward 3 rep. The area councillor is elected Township-wide. one of the major priorities for the that has been discussed by some municipality over the next three councillors on an informal basis. years is the development of recrea- It would take a change in Provin- tional facilities on Township land cial Act that created the amalga- around the Scugog Arena. mated Township. He mentioned new baseball Acknowledging that the sewer diamonds, a park and bicycle paths treatment capacity for Port Perry as examples. 18 now at a maximum, councillor As for the more costly recrea- Cochrane said the municiplality tion facilities such as a second pad should be asking Durham Region of ice, banquet hall-fitness room, to look at ways to expand this ca- he said there is no doubt of the pacity. need, but the real problem is find- There are other ways to ing a way to pay for them. handle this problem, but we (Scu- He said that if there were no £08) haven't been able to get the other financing alternatives availa- Region very interested in looking ble, the Township might have to at them," he stated. consider short term loans to pay In seeking the area council for such facilities. seat this term, councillor Co- Another priority for the coun- chrane noted that he has been a | cil is to try to come up with more resident of all four wards. | parking in the downtown core., He has lived in the Scugog | though he admits it will be a area all his life, the past 15 years tough task because of the availa- On Scugog Island. ) ) | ble land that could be developed He is a retired supervisor with | for parking is privately owned. General Motors, and currently op- | Councillor Cochrane belicves rales a busy auction business the development policies of the With his wife Freida and son Phil. past should be continued: i.e, In an interview with the Star new subdivisions should not be last week, councillor Cochrane allowed helter skelter in the rural ~ $3id he thought about taking a run areas, but rather in the hamlets for the Regional council seat this and the existing urban areas of clection. Scugog. The fact that his auction busi- One thing he would like to Ness is growing and because the sce in new subdivisions is the in- + Re rep two or three clusion of small personal service days cach week attending council commercial land for such things and commitce meetings in Whiti- as a variety store. by or Oshawa, he decided not to One long range idea he said he jump into the Regional race term.