Huron Expositor, 2015-12-16, Page 88 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Cecil Rose gets his day as West Perth mayor MP Ben Lobb calls on Liberal
Galen Simmons
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After successfully bidding on
the chance to become Mayor for
a Day at the Mitchell Fall Fair
silent auction, "mayor" Cecil
Rose was given a tour Dec. 1 of
the municipal buildings in
Mitchell by West Perth's other
Mayor, Walter McKenzie.
The tour started at 10 a.m. at
the West Perth municipal build-
ing, where interim clerk Susan
Duke gave Rose (a farmer from
Logan ward in his regular life), a
behind the scenes look at what
municipal staff do on a daily
basis. Rose also got the chance
to chat with treasurer Karen
McLagan about how the munic-
ipality secures funding for its
various projects, before moving
onto the West Perth Fire Station
to chat with station chief
Jim Tubb.
"Then we went over to talk to
Rick Vivian over at the arena to
check out the compressor for
the ice and check out the ice -
making machine," Rose
recounted. "I've never seen one
of those compressors before,
and I've been there, sort of off
and on for years. Some of these
places, you know they're there,
but you're never in there."
After having lunch with
McKenzie, the mayors then
headed over to the West Perth
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
detachment, where Rose had
the chance to check out a brand
new police cruiser and watch a
demonstration of how police
deploy spike strips when an
officer is in pursuit of a suspect.
The West Perth Library was
next on the tour schedule, where
Rose was introduced to the ben-
efits of having a library card.
"You can take out some fairly
new DVDs to watch - it's nicer to
do it on a Friday because you
have an extra day - and there's
magazines you can take out -
which I thought was good, I
don't always get the chance to
read the ones I do subscribe to -
of course you can use the com-
puters there if you want," Rose
continued.
"I always enjoy reading the
township history books, but you
can't get hold of the one from
Hibbert (ward) anymore, so you
can go and look it up there."
Near the end of his tour, Oper-
ations Manager Mike Kraemer
gave Rose, a former contract
snow -clearer for the Township
of Logan, a tour of the public
works shop while answering
all of his questions about
the machines and equipment
contained within.
Afterward, McKenzie took
Rose to the Mitchell wastewater
treatment plant.
"There's a lot of behind the
scenes stuff that you may not
necessarily think of - you may
have an idea of what goes on.
The odd time I'll go to a council
meeting - but I go to square
dancing in the winter and
that's on Monday nights (during
council meetings) - but some-
times in the spring and summer
I'll go to meetings, but that
doesn't give you the full picture,"
Rose said.
As part of his prize, Rose will
also be presiding over the Jan.
11, 2016 council meeting with
McKenzie.
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