Two more candidates step forward
Tully and Ojeda vie for council seat
We have an election race in Ward 4 (Warkworth).
Former councillor Ken Tully, who represented the area from 2014 to 2022 but didn’t run again that year, and Emilio Ojeda, who lost to Rick English in 2022, are both running.
So far, no one is running in Ward 2, where current councillor Rob Pope has refused to say whether he’s in or out.
Ojeda has a website with some background information and contact details. He is a settlement services co-ordinator with Northumberland County and was a Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board trustee from 2020 to 2022.
Tully was an executive at World’s Finest Chocolate and is a long-time member of the Campbellford Hastings Masonic Lodge.
CR 25 road closure
Northumberland County will begin replacing the Salt Creek culvert on County Road 25, south of Warkworth, on Monday, August 10, with construction expected to continue through to October.
The project is located on County Road 25 between Gravel Road and Pine Grove Road. The road will be closed throughout construction and detours will be in place.
Work will include:
Removal of the existing four-metre-wide, 25-metre-long corrugated steel pipe culvert.
Installation of a temporary water flow bypass system to maintain creek flow during construction.
Installation of a new 39-metre-long structural corrugated steel pipe culvert with a concrete cut-off wall.
Installation of new steel guide rails and restoration of the roadway.