Correction / Good News

I was in the bath earlier, listening to the local FM radio station hoping to hear results of the council elections which were held last Friday, by postal vote.

Rather than go back and change yesterday's post I must make a correction. Not that anyone would be aware unless you were there at the time, but of course my mate Ian (Punjab) would know, but Andy Mitchell did not get engaged to one of the Cantillon twins, it was Kay McCauley, a sultry blonde, sister of Pam who was in my class at school. The radio station was playing rock and roll songs of the era of my adolescence such as Johny O'Keefe, Gene Pitney and memories flooded back, especially the correction I mention. I knew Punjab would pick up on the error. His mum, who died last year, remarried to Reg Cantillon, the Cantillon twins' father, some time after her husband and Ian's father died. It was the music bringing this back to me.

But the news is - EX COUNCILLOR AND MAYOR ED CHATWIN was dumped.

He did not stand for Ranges Ward, depriving me of the pleasure I would have had to put him last on the ballot. He stood for Central Ward in some sort of cunning move.

I'm enjoying a bottle of Beresford cab sav, a top drop.

Below is from the Berwick Leader -

 UPDATE 7.37pm: CARDINIA will have five new faces in its nine-seat council chamber at its next meeting.
Voters dumped Mayor Ed Chatwin, who tried to switch from Ranges ward to Central, but welcomed back a former councillor and mayor, Kate Lempriere.
Cr Graeme Legge failed to hold his seat in Ranges ward.
Voting went to the wire in several cases, with preferences deciding the outcome and overall shape of the new council.
The end result appears to be a largely independent mix of councillors, elected mainly on local issues.