Eli El-Chantiry won't run again for Ottawa city council ottnews ottawa
CBC NewsWest Carleton-March Coun. Eli El-Chantiry in April 2022.thanked the residents that elected him five times in a statement"You have welcomed me into your homes, and to your businesses, farms and communities … and trusted me and relied on me in the aftermath of the 2018 tornado, during the 2017 and 2019 floods, throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and most recently, in the wake of the severe storm on May 21," he wrote.
El-Chantiry was first elected in 2003. He has spent more than half that time chairing the Ottawa Police Services Board, a role he currently holds. Before that, he moved to Canada from Lebanon in the mid-1970s, owned the Lighthouse Restaurant in Constance Bay and has been a dedicated community volunteer, according to his city biography.
He singled out his pride in having the Cavanagh Sensplex built and the Corkery and Constance and Buckham's Bay community centres approved for expansion during his time in council. Coun. Eli El-Chantiry, right, during a 2019 event marking progress made in the year since a tornado hit part of his ward. With him is then 17-year-old Michele Mariani, whose neighbours' homes were destroyed.
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