Harold Dougall — Orillia Ward 2
I was born and raised in Hamilton.
In 1960, at age 11, I was placed at the Huronia Regional Centre.
I was 18 when I moved out of there to Edgar. In 1975, I moved into Orillia.
I want to join council to help the people in the community.
If I win, that would be lucky.
If they want to vote for me, fine.
Right now, some of the issues that are important to me include accessibility.
By 2025, everywhere in this city has to have wheelchair accessibility.
I’ve been in a wheelchair; trying to open a door in a wheelchair? No way.
If those push buttons are there, it is easy for people to go into stores.
I would also like the city to get a medical centre in Orillia because you wait a long time to get into the emergency department at the hospital.
I know the wetlands were blocked off on the other side of HRC, and I’d like to see them get animals in there, like turtles and birds.
It’s a wetland, you can’t build on it.
If you build on them, there go all of your animals and you will be having floods all of the time.
I’d also like council to look into Orillia Transit.
In the wintertime, they have bus shelters on Mississaga Street, but they don’t have one on West Street on the far side.
In the winter we have cold weather and you can’t stay out in the snow and cold air.
I know people feel it if they don’t have bus shelters.
About me, I’m kind, I’m happy and any questions that they want to ask, they can ask me. I’ll try to answer them.
I volunteer for Mariposa Folk Festival, and most of the time I volunteer with the jazz festival and the blues festival.
I want them back here.
A lot of people ask me why the blues festival quit.
I’m a paper carrier and I like to meet people, a lot of people. They like the way I do the papers.
I can be reached at or on Facebook.