Peterborough County Council

Peterborough County Council

The Peterborough County Council is a municipal country council that governs Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada. It includes two representatives each from the townships of Asphodel-Norwood, Cavan-Monaghan, Douro-Dummer, Galway-Cavendish and Harvey, Havelock-Belmont-Methuen, North Kawartha,...

Asphodel-Norwood

Cavan-Monaghan

Douro-Dummer

Galway-Cavendish and Harvey

Havelock-Belmont-Methuen

North Kawartha

Otonabee-South Monaghan

• Joe Taylor is the owner of Otonabee Meat Packers in Peterborough. The 2010 campaign was apparently his first bid for public office.
• Terry Guiel is a pop
  Pop music
  Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
  
  -rock
  Rock music
  Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
  
   musician in Peterborough
  Peterborough, Ontario
  Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...
  
  . He has released two CDs, Little Red Balloon (1999) and Beguieled (2001). Guiel started an annual event called "Songwriters Unite for the United Way
  United Way of Canada
  United Way of Canada is the national organization for the 117 autonomous, volunteer-based United Ways across Canada. United Way campaigns raise money for local groups that address community issues and problems, and the national organization provides leadership, services and coordination to the...
  
  " in 1999, and he later took part in a successful lobbying effort against a restrictive municipal noise by-law. In 2003, he was chair of Downtown Countdown, Peterborough's Centennial Celebration, and the Rotary Victoria Day Fireworks. Guiel is also a practising Christian
  Christianity
  Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
  
  ; he wrote an article in late 2002 defending the use of religious themes in Christmas
  Christmas
  Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
  
   school plays. He was elected to the Peterborough city council
  Peterborough, Ontario City Council
  The Peterborough City Council is a city council that governs Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. It consists of the mayor and ten councillors, who are elected in five two-member wards across the city. Each member serves on various city committees. The council meets on Monday evenings on a three-week...
  
   for Ashburnham Ward in 2003
  Peterborough municipal election, 2003
  The 2003 Peterborough municipal election took place on November 10, 2003, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in the city of Peterborough, Ontario.Sylvia Sutherland was narrowly re-elected in the mayoral contest.-Mayor:...
  
  . After the election, he chaired the city's culture and heritage committee, community funding review committee, and social services committee. Guiel opposed plans for a parkway extension through protected green space. In January 2004, he introduced a successful motion creating a reserve fund to bring new doctors to Peterborough. In the summer of the same year, he organized a benefit concert for victims of a damaging flood. A 2005 "report card" in Peterborough This Week
  Peterborough This Week
  Peterborough This Week is a twice-weekly flyer delivery service in Peterborough, Ontario that was established in 1989. It is one of three newspapers in the Kawartha Division of Metroland Publishing, a company that owns newspapers across Ontario...
  
   listed Guiel as one of the better members of council. He planned to run for re-election in 2006
  Peterborough municipal election, 2006
  The 2006 Peterborough municipal election was held in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada on November 13, 2006. All municipal elections in the province of Ontario are held on the same date; see Ontario municipal elections, 2006 for elections in other cities.The election chose the mayor and...
  
  , but withdrew from the contest before election day. He later served as acting executive director for the Downtown Business Improvement Area. In 2010, he ran unsuccessfully for deputy reeve in Otonabee-South Monaghan.

Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield

• Mary J. Smith was raised on a dairy farm in the Emily Township, Ontario
  Emily Township, Ontario
  The Township of Emily was a municipality located in the south-eastern corner of the former Victoria County, now the city of Kawartha Lakes, in Ontario, Canada.Emily Township is also home to Emily Provincial Park.- Communities :*Downeyville*Fee's Landing...
  
   and has lived in Lakefield since 1976. She was elected as deputy reeve of the latter community in 1997, prior to its merger with Smith-Ennismore. She was later elected as the Lakefield representative to the amalgamated council in 2000
  Peterborough municipal election, 2000
  The 2000 Peterborough municipal election was held in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada on November 13, 2000, to chose the mayor and city councillors to sit on the Peterborough city council. Electors in Peterborough also voted for the city's representatives on the regional public and...
  
   and 2003
  Peterborough municipal election, 2003
  The 2003 Peterborough municipal election took place on November 10, 2003, to elect a mayor, councillors, and school trustees in the city of Peterborough, Ontario.Sylvia Sutherland was narrowly re-elected in the mayoral contest.-Mayor:...
  
  . In 2006
  Peterborough County municipal elections, 2006
  Elections were held in Peterborough County, Ontario on November 13, 2006 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.-Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan:-Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield:...
  
  , she defeated Dave Cavanagh to become Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield's deputy reeve. She also served as a Peterborough County
  Peterborough County, Ontario
  Peterborough County is located in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is projected to reach a population of 159,840 by 2031, according to the Ontario Ministry of Finance's Ontario Population Projections Update...
  
   representative on Peterborough's police services board. In 2007, Smith accused Reeve Ron Millen of not adequately supporting a medical centre for Lakefield. This followed a vote in which Millen and two other councillors refused to sign as loan guarantors for a foundation that was raising money for the centre. Millen denied in the charge and accused Smith of spreading misinformation, which she rejected. She defeated Millen in the 2010 election. Smith's father, Lloyd Ashmore, was also a prominent local politician.

• Greg Braund has a degree in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University
  Wilfrid Laurier University
  Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....
  
  . He worked for the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
  Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
  Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board has its headquarters in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board is the public, English language school board that takes in the regions of the previous Peterborough County Board of Education and the...
  
   for thirty-two years, teaching music, mathematics, and English. He is also a military musician; in 2002, he played trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   with the 48th Highlanders of Canada
  48th Highlanders of Canada
  The 48th Highlanders of Canada is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve infantry regiment based in Toronto, parading out of Moss Park Armoury. The regiment is part of Land Force Central Area's 32 Canadian Brigade Group....
  
   military band during a royal visit. Braund ran for reeve of Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield in 2006
  Peterborough County municipal elections, 2006
  Elections were held in Peterborough County, Ontario on November 13, 2006 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.-Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan:-Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield:...
  
  , focusing his campaign on the need for more water and sewer services. He lost to incumbent Ron Millen. He lost to former federal cabinet minister Andy Mitchell in 2010.