Nobel Peace Prize winner offers to help City Council

Heads up, Frank Manzo.

You've got competition in this year's Ward 6 Council race.

You need to know you'll be running against a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ron Schinners of Sussex Road filed nomination papers this week.

Schinners is a retired naval veteran with 25 years of experience, culminating in the rank of master seaman.

His lengthy naval career included a 1974 stint with the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, who in 1988 were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

To read the presentation speech by Egil Aarvik, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, honouring the 500,000 young men and women who served as UN peacekeepers, please click here.

Ward 6 is currently represented by Peter Vaudry and by Manzo, who threw his hat into the ring on the first date he could legally do so, January 2.

Besides Schinners and Manzo, only one person has filed nomination papers for the fall civic elections.

Terry Sheehan, an incumbent city-wide trustee on the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board, will be seeking re-election.

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