{"id":56507,"date":"2022-10-24T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T01:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=56507"},"modified":"2022-10-24T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T01:29:14","slug":"a-mix-of-old-and-new-for-wawa-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/24\/a-mix-of-old-and-new-for-wawa-council\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mix of old and new for Wawa Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 24, 2022 at 21:16<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the ease of internet voting, turnout for this year’s election is the lowest seen yet with only 37.4% of the eligible voters\u00a0 (773) participating. This is down from 2018, when 837 (of 2103) voters cast their ballot. Below are the unofficial results from the Municipality.<\/p>\n

Melanie Pilon has been acclaimed Mayor of Wawa for the next four years. The results for Council are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Jim Hoffman<\/td>\n523 ballots<\/td>\n67.7%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cathy Cannon<\/td>\n406<\/td>\n52.5%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joe Opato<\/td>\n398<\/td>\n51.5%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mitch Hatfield<\/td>\n392<\/td>\n50.7%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Angela Calaiezzi<\/td>\n382<\/td>\n49.4%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leah Isosaari<\/td>\n274<\/td>\n35.4%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Reeves<\/td>\n269<\/td>\n34.8%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mary Harbocian<\/td>\n162<\/td>\n21.0%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sue Smith<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n11.0%<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spoilt Ballots<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Declined Ballots<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ballots cast<\/td>\n2895<\/td>\n773<\/td>\nvoters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Jim Hoffman, Cathy Cannon, Joe Opato, and Mitch Hatfield will be the new council. The new council will attend their first meeting on November 15th, 2022.<\/p>\n

Acclaimed for school boards are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • English Public School Board (Algoma District School Board) – Russell Reid.<\/li>\n
  • English Separate \u2013 Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board – Carol MacEachern<\/li>\n
  • French Public \u2013 Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l\u2019Ontario – Jos\u00e9e Bourchard<\/li>\n
  • French Separate \u2013 Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel l\u2019Ontario – Luc Tessier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Oct 24, 2022 at 21:16 Despite the ease of internet voting, turnout for this year’s election is the lowest seen yet with only 37.4% of the eligible voters\u00a0 (773) participating. This is down from 2018, when 837 (of 2103) voters cast their ballot. Below are the unofficial results from the Municipality. Melanie Pilon has been …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 16:19:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56512,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56507\/revisions\/56512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}