Four vie for post long left vacant.Byline: LARRY BACON The Register-Guard REEDSPORT - Reedsport voters will fill the long-vacant mayor's position in the May 21 primary election. On the ballot are Percy Allpress, Connie Baldwin, Brandon Trainand Keith Tymchuk. The city has been without a mayor since Nick Daviscourt resigned in March 2001. City Council President Roy Swift has been acting mayor. City Recorder Jay Cable said the council could have appointed a replacement mayor but decided to let voters fill the position instead. Whoever gets the most votes will serve until year's end. In November, voters will again choose someone to fill the office starting Jan. 1. Allpress, 71, has lived in the community for 10 years and serves on three city advisory committees dealing with parks, traffic safety and placing donated wood carvings wood carving, as an art form, includes any kind of sculpture in wood, from the decorative bas-relief on small objects to life-size figures in the round, furniture, and architectural decorations. The woods used vary greatly in hardness and grain. . One of his strengths, he said, is his knowledge of city government. A retired millwright mill·wright n. One that designs, builds, or repairs mills or mill machinery. Noun 1. millwright - a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery , he made news last year after City Manager Jim Hough Jim Hough may refer to:
tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. his recording tape during a City Council retreat. A councilor coun·cil·or also coun·cil·lor n. A member of a council, as one convened to advise a governor. See Usage Note at council. coun had asserted that Allpress violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. an unofficial understanding that all meeting participants were to be advised before a meeting could be tape-recorded. After Allpress lodged a complaint, his tape was returned. The incident was key to his decision to run for mayor, he said, because the fact that "they wouldn't even apologize a·pol·o·gize intr.v. a·pol·o·gized, a·pol·o·giz·ing, a·pol·o·giz·es 1. To make excuse for or regretful acknowledgment of a fault or offense. 2. To make a formal defense or justification in speech or writing. " showed something needed to change in city government. Baldwin, 45, has lived in Reedsport since 1980 and operates a taxi service. She also believes the public has too little voice in city affairs and said she's running to try to change that. Her main strength as mayor, she said, would be an independence that would help her ignore individuals trying to influence her. She opposes a city plan to install water meters and abandon a flat rate for water and sewer SEWER. Properly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in general, made at the public expense. Crabb, R. P. Sec. 113. service, and she believes the City Council shouldn't consider selling Lions Park. Tymchuk, 44, is a teacher at Reedsport High School and also a lifelong resident. His father, Tom Tymchuk, was mayor from 1969 to 1976. Keith Tymchuk, a Port of Umpqua Commission member for seven years and now port president, said he's satisfied with the way city government is being run. He noted that the city has persuaded American Bridge Co. to build a production facility and headquarters on Bolon Island that may eventually have 120 employees. The city should continue its efforts to enhance infrastructure and attract new jobs, Tymchuk said. "The critical question is how ready are we to handle the next potential employer," he said. Train, 21, a lifelong resident, works at the Prince 'n Pride market and graduated from Reedsport High School. He didn't respond to requests for an interview. CAPTION(S): ELECTION 2002 |
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