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Spice ponders reasons for winning trustee race
By Kate Heartfield
In the days following the Nov. 13 municipal election, both the winner and the runner-up in the Centretown school trustee race were still trying to determine the reasons for the results.
Incumbent Albert Chambers, who says he was “surprised and disappointed” after the election, took only 32 per cent of the vote. School council activist Joan Spice won with 52 per cent, and David Allston, a 21-year-old university student, had a remarkably strong showing with 17 per cent.