PREVIEW – 7 PM CITY COUNCIL MEETING
The latest installment in the saga of “who will replace the late Jim Brown” is up again at Thursday evening’s Lakeside Council meeting (December 11th).
Mayor Orville Nelson, who has been recovering… (continued, click headline.)
An analysis
The death of Jim Brown in September has created the third opening for Lakeside City Council in the last two years, all during Orville Nelson’s first term as mayor. It was decided last month that the position would be filled at this Thursday’s 7 p.m. council meeting.
Will mayor Nelson attempt to continue a pattern of stacking the council?
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The recent accident of Mayor Orville Nelson and his subsequent ongoing rehabilitation became the factor in postponing the top agenda item at the November Council meeting last Thursday.
The appointment of a replacement for the late Jim Brown and the behind the scenes maneuvering involved in the matter became topics of heated debate among citizens participating in the meeting. But it was not an issue for the council members and Eubanks, as the vote to postpone was unanimous.
After two years and a failure of 2006 candidates to carry out a signed promise with Lakeside residents, a new effort to get back on track with the people gained widespread acceptance with voters. [Click headline for full story]
A new dynamic appeared in Lakeside.
Here’s the vote totals for the November general election for the positions of mayor, one two-year council seat, and three four-year council spots…and fire district annexation.
There was a crowd in the City Council Chambers Thursday night for Lakeside’s regular council meeting. Many were there to welcome Mayor Nelson back after a hit and run accident that took him to Emanuel Hospital in Portland in critical condition. He is receiving physical therapy at Baycrest Village in North Bend for a time. [...]
So that you (our reader’s) can get to know the candidates running for office in Lakeside, we have iinvited them to submit something about themselves. As we get their statements they will be posted ‘unedited’ to this site.
In the absence of Mayor Nelson, who is recovering from critical injuries sustained in a automobile accident, this months Lakeside city council meeting was presided over by it’s council president Mack Eubanks. At the commencement of the meeting acting Mayor Eubanks asked for a moment of silence in memory of Jim Brown long time councilor [...]
Mayor: Orville Nelson, Ed Gowan, Darline Atkin. Council (two-year): Buford Gould Jr., Rod Schilling. Council (four-year): Chrysta Swift, Mack Eubanks, Benny Henry, Gary Wilson, Elaine Armstrong.
It is long past time to remind those that were elected in the last election of their signed promises. You can click here for the full contract. From the contract with the citizens’ of Lakeside, signed by Mayor Nelson when running for office that are very pertinent to this issue… 1. Transparency, section D. Publishing council [...]
By Pastor John Adams While nearly all of us know Jesus’ name, fewer know who he really was. Many people assume that Jesus was just a good moral teacher. But if he were merely a good teacher, why would we celebrate his birth in the twenty-first century? More enemies than friends Jesus was born in [...]
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