DBIA chair runs for council

Downtown Business Improvement Association Chairman Berry Drage will seek a seat on Cobourg council, running on a platform advocating more openness in local government.
Drage, 45, who ran for the public school board and council in the past, hopes to hold a series of informal drop-in style meetings to find out what voters want on the agenda for the next four years. If elected, he promises to continue this practice with an "open house" style meetings where questions and answers would take place after an executive session of council.
Another plus, Drage says, is his age. At 45, he is one of the younger candidates and a lot younger than most of the current council members. He says this generation is not well represented on council.
Drage ran unsuccessfully in the last election, but hopes time spent volunteering and raising his profile in the community will help him this time.