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Township of Rideau Lakes electors in Bastard and Burgess won't be going to the polls next month to decide who will be representing them at the council table. Former Bastard and Burgess councillor Rob Dunfield was acclaimed for the post after he became the only candi- date. Last week before the close of nominations on May 31, Paula Banks, the only other candidate to submit a nomination with- drew her candidacy. Dunfield was sworn into office at Monday's council meeting and was back in the same seat he occupied during the 2010 to 2014 term. Council could have appointed someone to fill the seat but decided to hold an election which would have seen the new councilor sit from August 2017 until the election in October 2018. At a meeting in April when council decided how they would fill the seat Banks had encouraged council to let electors decide who they wanted to represent them and to hold an election despite the cost. "It would also be the truest test of what the peo- ple of this ward want. Democracy is not cheap or easy but it is something that we need to protect, value and respect," she said. Both candidates ran for the current council in 2014. Banks ran for coun- cilor and Dunfield ran for mayor. Banks also ran against Dunfield for Bas- tard and Burgess council- lor in the 2010 election. Dunfield lost to Mayor Ron Holman in a three- way race that included Don Wills. He has indicat- ed he may run for mayor again in 2018. The withdrawal of Banks' nomination won't save the township all of the costs of the election for the township which has already paid around $3700 for licensing of software to manage the voting list. Thursday, June 8, 2017 Serving North Leeds and area since 1893 Vol. 126, No. 22 $1 incl. tax Canada Post Contract No. 40021501 RDHS Lion Brett Hawkins saved his best for last Friday at the all-Ontario high school track and field championships in Belleville, winning bronze in the high jump. See page 9 for more. 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Guests are invited to arrive beginning at 12:15 p.m. and the assembly will run from 12:30 until 1:30 p.m. Cake will follow in the cafeteria. This month Halladay is retiring from a career in education which she began dreaming about when she was in kinder- garten where she thought the world of her teacher. "If I could ever be any- thing like her that was all I wanted," said Halladay who looks back at her career with satisfaction. She began her career with the Lanark County Board of Education full- time in 1989 as an elemen- tary school teacher. She went on to become a spe- cial assignment teacher, an elementary vice principal, an elementary principal and completed her career at Rideau District High School. For Halladay the transi- Rideau saying goodbye to popular principal Sharon Halladay Parks Canada was finally able to open all lockstations along the Rideau Canal from Kingston to Ottawa to boat traffic June 2. 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