A 33-year-old technical
officer in the Telecommunications
Branch has been elected mayor of Rockland, Ont.,
a town of 4,000 located 25 miles east of the Capital.
Georges
Martin, a D.O.T. employee for the past four years and a former town councillor, beat his opponent, who had been mayor of Rockland for six years,
in a close race during the December
election.
Fellow employees presented
the youthful mayor with a "chain of
office" made from paper and a
hand-lettered sign for his desk
labelled "Mayor."
Mr. Martin, a bachelor who
has three brothers and a sister, says he plans to "put Rockland on the map."
A member of the Richelieu Club and the
Knights of Columbus, the new mayor is
an active sports supporter.
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