And they keep coming...

A Cobourg mom has joined the race for council late last week, becoming the youngest contender thus far.
Melissa Marshall, 34, a personal care support worker, is running on a family-oriented platform for the November municipal election with a focus on youth and seniors. If elected, she wants to hold regular forums at schools and nursing homes to hear directly on important issues from all members of the community. She supports the idea of a senior#039s centre, as proposed by the current council, but wants it to be a multi-use facility.
This is the kind of new blood council needs. And, while she does not have the level of community involvement of other candidates or incumbents, she claims to have good grassroots backing. If nothing else, she will add a needed dimension: a young mother. This will stand in stark contrast to the male retirees who make up the current council. Her family-based perspective is blowing through this election like a fresh wind in a stale house.
Marshall is not completely without political experience, she has worked on a municipal campaign previously as a teenager in a Port Hope election.
She is the fifth to submit papers along with Wayne DeVeau, Bob Spooner, Miriam Mutton and Larry Sherwin. Three other have declared their intention to run: Mayor Peter Delanty, Councillor Gil Brocanier and former councillor Ben Burd.