Huron Expositor, 2014-10-29, Page 3Wednesday, October 29, 2014 • Huron Expositor 3
Allan Thompson wins Huron -Bruce federal Liberal spot
Lisa Umholtz
QMI Agency
Glammis native Allan
Thompson will be the Huron -
Bruce Liberal candidate in the
next federal election.
More than 500 ballots were
cast by members of the Liberal
riding association at the Luc -
know Community Centre on
Oct. 20,2014, with Thompson
beating out fellow nominee
Maarten Bokhout of Clinton.
"I feel great," Thompson
said after the announcement
he had won. "It feels great to
see 500 Liberals in a room get-
ting ready for the 2015
election"
Thompson took the stage
after his victory was
announced to address the
large crowd that had stayed to
witness the results.
"Welcome to the first day of
the 2015 election campaign,"
he said.
Thompson said he may take
a day post -victory as a
breather, but looked forward
to building his team across the
riding.
"I want to get the (Liberal)
party back to where it
belongs," he said, and, bor-
rowing a phrase from his late
father, Ron Thompson, said it
was time to "buckle in."
Born and raised on a farm
in Glammis, Thompson has
studied journalism at Carleton
University in Ottawa, and
earned his masters degree in
International Relations at the
University of Kent in England.
He began his career in jour-
nalism as a reporter with the
Kincardine Independent and
Teeswater News before join-
ing the Toronto Star and cov-
ering Parliament Hill from
1994 to 2003. He has since
worked as a professor in Car-
leton's School of Journalism
and Communication.
"I worked for a decade as a
political reporter on Parlia-
ment Hill and those 10 years
taught me a lot about national
politics and the role of a good
member of Parliament,"
Thompson said in his speech.
Thompson said he had
been contemplating getting
into politics for a while, and
that he had always known he
wanted to do that in
Huron -Bruce.
"I believe strongly that you
have to have a deep connec-
tion to the people you repre-
sent," he said. "For me, that
connection is here. They say
that home is where the heart
is, and my heart has always
been in Glammis."
Since putting his name
forward in July Thompson
has travelled the riding, con-
necting with voters at church
suppers, plowing matches,
fall fairs and other commu-
nity events.
Thompson said he
decided to get into politics
"to take a stand against what
I believe is the worst govern-
ment and the worst prime
minister Canada has seen in
decades"
Speaking to reporters after
the event, Thompson said he
sees Stephen Harper's Con-
servative Party as posing
"challenges to the pillars of
Canada's democracy"
"I worry that people have
lost track of all the horrible
things that have been done,"
he said.
This concern prompted
him to put his name forward
and take a stand by entering
politics.
"I will do what I really,
strongly, personally believe
has to be done," Thompson
said, expressing his desire to
get back to a positive and
hopeful place in Canadian
government.
Thompson said he has
spoken to many people
across the political spectrum
The 2014 Walk for Wellness at St. Anne's
Jesse Le
Special to the Expositor
On Oct. 16, St. Anne's
Catholic Secondary School
held their annual Walk for
Wellness.
This large event involved
organizing the student body
into their respective home-
rooms to donate money to
charitable causes and partic-
ipate in school -wide games.
These teams competed to
create the best team cheers,
costumes, bases and overall
themes for rewards like pizza
or skating parties for their
classes.
This year's walk set a goal
of raising $18,000 for the
Middle -Eastern country of
Syria.
Several peripheral rewards
were set for certain bench-
marks made in donations as
well. If $16,000 was raised,
Grade 12 student Tim Wae-
chter would shave his hair. If
$17,000 was raised, Grade 12
student Will Marcy would
allow himself to be duct -
taped to a wall. If the $18,000
goal was reached, teacher
Joe Voros would allow him-
self to be taped to a wall. As a
bonus for raising $1,000
above the established goal,
teacher Steve Geiger would
allow his hair to grow for
approximately half a year
without a single haircut.
The results of this year's
Walk for Wellness show that
the school just missed their
goal by about $400, having
garnered around $17,600.
This means that Marcy
and Waechter will still have
to go through with their
promises.
This Wallc for Wellness also
had the largest percentage of
student attendance than
ever before with 85 per cent
of the student population
participating this year. Out of
those students, the class that
donated the most money
was Bill Whelan's homeroom
at $59.90 per capita, followed
by the homerooms of Adam
Suski and Brad Thompson at
$ 5 0 . 3 7 and $ 4 7 . 4 6
respectively.
The classes with the best
spirit in team cheers, bases,
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costumes and overall theme
was Chad Verberne's Grade
12 chemistry class.
The individual students
that donated the most
money to the cause of help-
ing Syria were Dominic
who have given him the
sense that there is an interest
in change.
"It's quite a strong senti-
ment, and it's not just Liberal
partisans or NDP support-
ers," he said.
Thompson said he was
surprised by the number of
Conservative supporters
who expressed an interested
in his campaign, including
progressive conservatives,
who he said are "essentially a
homeless party"
"Stephen Harper is not
their party," he said.
He also reached out to
NDP supporters, saying that
supporting the Liberal Party
in the next federal election is
a way to defeat the Conserv-
ative government.
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