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CITY ELECTION RESULTS SANTA PICKS MAYOR, CI'T'Y COUNCIL MEMBERS UNOPPOSED; � UP A SLEIGH FULL OF TOYS LIQUOR LICENSE REFERENDUM PASSED FROM THE All three City officials running for re-election in the November 5, 2002 election HUGO FIRE were unopposed. Mayor Fran Miron was re-elected to a 2-year term, and Ward 1 Council Member Becky Petryk and Ward 3 Council Member Chuck Haas will DEPARTMENT serve 4-year terms. According to City Clerk Mary Ann Creager, this has never hap- pened before in Hugo and likely indicates that residents are satisfied with the City's leadership and the direction in which the City is going. As part of its annual "Toys for Tots" drive, the Hugo Fire Department and With regard to issuing new liquor licenses in Hugo, approximately 60 percent of its Auxiliary, the Hugo Fireflies, the voters answered"yes" to the City Question, "Shall the City Council be allowed arranged to have Santa ride through to issue six 'on sale' licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquor at retail in excess of the number now permitted by law?" Creager noted that this result demonstrates the neighborhoods in Hugo on a fire voter support for allowing new restaurant development in Hugo. truck collecting toys and cash dona- tions on Saturday, December 14. The voting results were: Pictures with Santa were also available Ward 1 Ward 2 Precinct 2 Ward 3 Total Precinct 1 on Sunday, December 15 at the Fire MaEWyor Hall, and all profits from those pic- 1,179 1,014 104 821 3,118 Fran Miron tures are donated to the Toys for Tots Council -Ward 1 Becky Petryk 1,134 1,134 drive. All toys and proceeds collected Council - Ward 3 are taken to the KARE 11 studios, Chuck Haas 770 where the U.S. Marines distribute City Question them to families in the Twin Cities Liquor Licenses area. •YES 900 747 59 630 2,336 • NO 620 501 53 397 1,571 BIG THANK YOU TO OUR N, ELECTION JUDGES On behalf of the Hugo City Council, City Clerk Mary Ann Creager would like to thank all those who served as election judges in both the primary and general elections this year. "The November 5 general election was a long and busy day because of the special supplemental ballots for the Senate race,"notes ��- Creager. "Our election judges put in extra hours and did an excellent job." 6