Campbell’s Bay elects father, son: The results of the 2000 municipal elections for Campbell’s Bay, Chichester and Portage du Fort are in.

Campbell’s Bay will see for the first time a father and son on the same council. Jean Landry and Jean-Pierre Landry said that they don’t think there will be any problems.

“My son has to do his work and I have to do mine,” said Jean Landry. “I don’t foresee a problem with my son on council. We both have a duty to perform.”

“It may be awkward at certain times, but I don’t see him as my father on council,” said Jean-Pierre Landry, “I see him as a member of council.”

The results for Campbell’s Bay were: Jean Landry won Seat 2 with 244 votes over Ronald Ostrom with 184 votes. In Seat 4 the results were: Jean-Pierre Landry with 262 votes, Faye Sullivan-Stafford with 110 votes and Philip Paquette with 57 votes. In the Campbell’s Bay election, 66 per cent of the electorate voted.

In Chichester, Jacques Fleury and Peter Smith vied for Seat 3. Jacques Fleury won with 158 votes and Peter Smith got 88 votes. About two-thirds of the electorate voted in the election.

In Portage du Fort, Janis Thompson won Seat 2 with 110 votes over Bruce Elliott with 35 votes. About 60 per cent of the electorate voted in the election.

Cajun music star Zachary Richard at ESSC: It was a classic example of the dictum “Ask and thou shalt receive.”

When Nancy Dagenais-Elliott, of Clarendon, was in search of an idea to raise money to upgrade the auditorium of the Ecole Secondaire Sieur du Coulonge, she thought she would ask a singer she was familiar with to come and play at a fundraiser. The singer, Zachary Richard, who was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, has been a mainstay of the Louisiana music scene since 1972, and has penned such hits as Marjolaine and Jean Batailleur.

“I wrote a letter to him in July telling him about the school and the auditorium,” she said, “and I asked him if he would do a benefit. I never thought he would say yes.”

The Cajun singer not only volunteered his time, but that of sidemen Rick Haworth, Eric Sauviat, Mario Légaré and sound engineer Paul Gagne and technicians Chris Gannon.

So, it came to pass on Saturday night that Richard and company took to the stage at the ESSC auditorium to perform for a rapt audience in a 200-seat venue which sold out shortly after it was announced Richard was performing.

After Richard was shown the local tourist sites earlier in the day, Dagenais-Elliott and the fundraisers took the entourage to the Spruceholme Bed and Breakfast (where Richard and his wife stayed) for dinner before the concert. After a cocktail hour in the candlelit lobby of the school, local entertainer René Bertrand opened the evening.

When Richard and his guitarists hit the stage, the audience was primed for a party, and the Zydeco master was up to the task. Initially scheduled to perform for one hour, Richard and crew stretched that into a two-and-one-half-hour show.

“They had everyone singing, dancing, laughing, clapping, and doing the ‘crawfish’ (a dance native to Louisiana),” she said. “He is a great performer, storyteller and he had everyone eating out of his hands.”

After three encores, Richard closed the evening with another hit, Travellier c’est trop dur. He was then presented with a gift basket loaded with local products such as maple syrup.

“He was given a ZEC pass for fishing — he loves fishing — and he said he’ll be back,” she said.