The 1982 Brantford municipal election was held on November 8, 1982, to elect a

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, councillors, and school trustees in

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. The surrounding rural and small-town municipalities also held elections on the same day.

Results

*Robert MacKeigan said that unemployment was the key issue in the election. He called for Brantford to generate more high-tech jobs. *Lenny Kerr was a

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at the time of the election. He called for Brantford to seek loans from the

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and the

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to target its high unemployment. *Daniel O'Regan (died May 20, 2010) moved to Brantford from

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in 1971. He served on the executive of Brantford's

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local and was president of the

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. He sought election to the

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without success. In 1982, he ran for council with support from the

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and the labour council. O'Regan was also active with the Brantford Minor Sports Association. He died in 2010 at age sixty-six, after suffering a heart attack. *Andrew Sywyk worked with an insulation company in 1982. He campaigned against expensive municipal projects. *Mary E. Welsh is a businesswoman, farmer, and prominent volunteer in

. Raised in the city, she attended Queen's University in

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in the 1950s. She was elected to the

in 1970 and served for six years, finishing at the top of the City of Brantford poll in

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and

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. Welsh was elected to the

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for the city's fifth ward in

and was re-elected in 1982; she did not seek re-election in 1985. She made national headlines in 1987, when a cylinder from a

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rocket landed in her backyard. Welsh is a founding director of the Brant Waterways Foundation and promoted completion of the

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track in Brantford. She also recommended completion of a YM/

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condominium-hotel to promote downtown renewal in 1999, and she led a movement to rebuild the historical

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in the 2000s. Welsh received the 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism in Ontario, and she was appointed to the

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in 2009."Former premier David Peterson heads list of 27 given Order of Ontario," ''Canadian Press'', 15 January 2009.

References

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