Councillor Trevor Johns was elected Mayor for the year 2011/12 at the Annual Town Council meeting on Thursday 12 May 2011.  Trevor farmed at Huntshaw for forty years with his father and afterwards on his own.  In the Sixties he joined the Young Farmers' Club, as did most farmers' sons and one of the skills he learnt was public speaking.  In 1976 he was very proud to have won the Jenkins Cup which was awarded for stock judging for the county of Devon.  In 1974 he married Hilary, a Chulmleigh girl and together they have a son and a daughter and a grandson named Finlay. Trevor semi-retired and came to Bideford ten years ago. As a Chapel goer all his life, music has figured prominently and indeed he first met Hilary in a local choir.

 

They currently sing together with the North Devon Choral Society.  His ambition as Mayor for the next twelve months is to progress the re-generation of Bideford.  Trevor said, "Jubilee Square is on track.  Further strategic areas ear-marked for development must be driven forward, but in these stringent times investment is hard to facilitate."  Trevor cares passionately for our young people and will be encouraging the Council to give support to the numerous voluntary clubs and organisations in the town.