Mayor and Council

Mayor Luke Charbonneau

Mayor Luke Charbonneau lives in Saugeen Shores with his wife Alison and his three young sons, Benjamin, Theodore and Martin. Along with his parents Norm and Nora, he is the owner of the local fresh fruit and vegetable market Hi-Berry Farm.

Luke was first elected to Saugeen Shores Council, as a representative for Saugeen Township in 2006 and served as the municipality’s Deputy Mayor from 2010 to 2018; during this time he also served as Chair of the Saugeen Shores Police Services Board.

Luke served on the Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority for 11 years between 2006 and 2018, as a member of the executive committee from 2011 to 2015, and as Chairman from 2015 to 2018.

Luke was acclaimed as Mayor of the Town of Saugeen Shores both in 2018 and 2022. Working with Saugeen Shores’ team of outstanding councillors and municipal staff, he is dedicated to ensuring that Saugeen Shores continues to be a leading community in Bruce County and a great place to visit, start a business and raise a family. 

Deputy Mayor Diane Huber

Vice Deputy Mayor Mike Myatt

Mike and his wife Jean have two sons Jeff and Andy. Jeff and his wife Katie reside in Saugeen Shores with their children Peyton and Colby.  Andy and his wife Melanie reside in Binbrook, Ontario.

Mike takes great pride in his past experiences as a Hockey and Baseball coach for over 20 years, a long-time member of Port Elgin Cenotaph Committee, and member of the Port Elgin Legion.

Mike has served on Council since 2014. In that time, he has served on Physician Recruitment Committee,  SMART (Saugeen Mobility and Regional Transit), Committee of Adjustment, Planning Committee, Saugeen Rail Trail Committee, and Port Elgin BIA Board of Management.  He also served as the Co-Chair of the Lamont Sports Park Fundraising Committee and takes great pride in having guided that project to its construction. 

Mike looks forward to being a strong voice for all three Wards in Saugeen Shores. 

John Divinski, Southampton Councillor

John Divinski was appointed November 1, 2021 as Saugeen Shores Councillor for the Southampton Ward, and then acclaimed in 2022.

Divinski has been a Southampton resident ever since he moved to the area in 2005 where he was employed by Bayshore Broadcasting as News Director of CFPS-FM (98 the Beach; 97.9 the Bruce).

He semi-retired in 2011 and went back to his roots as a news reporter out in the field, where he covered Saugeen Shores council meetings for 10-years before retiring from work in August, 2021.

Divinski has been active in the community since moving here, hosting a one-hour daily talk show called Soundingboard on CFPS-FM, helping people solve their problems or, at the very least, trying to get experts on the air that could solve the issues.

He also was the first Honourary Chair of the "Light the Way" fundraising campaign for the Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation and helped create the annual Radiothon on 98 the Beach that continues to this day.

Divinski also continues to be the “voice” of the Saugeen Shores Winterhawks Sr. AA hockey club handling public address duties at the Plex.

Divinski is married to Rev. Ann Veyvara Divinski of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Southampton.

Justin Duhaime, Saugeen Councillor

Cheryl Grace, Southampton Councillor

Councillor Cheryl Grace is serving her third term on Saugeen Shores Council as a Southampton Ward Councillor.  A Bruce County native, Cheryl and her husband, Mike, summered in Southampton before retiring here in 2011.  They have two children, Lindsay and Perry.

With degrees from the Universities of Toronto and Western Ontario, Cheryl taught high school for thirty years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she founded and coached her school’s state-champion Mock Trial program. 

She volunteers with the Marine Heritage Society as a Chantry Island tour guide and is a member of the Southport Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW). 

In the previous Council term, Cheryl chaired the Town’s Environmental Stewardship Advisory Ad Hoc Committee, and was a member of the Attainable Housing Task Force, the Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority Board, Chamber of Commerce Board, Municipal Heritage Committee and Accessibility Committee.

T.C. "Bud" Halpin - Port Elgin Councillor

Bud is a Bruce County native who has spent some time living in Alberta and attending school in the United States. In his twenties, Bud was involved in volunteer work that took him to the Philippines and Central America, where he met his wife, Jenny, a Wisconsinite. 

After volunteering, Bud and Jenny settled in Chesley where they raised their four children, Elizabeth, Rachel, Ben, and Molly. Bud ran a home building business and sat on Chelsey Town Council and the PUC commission for one term each, while Jenny worked as a Nurse.

A career change brought Bud to Saugeen District Secondary School in 2000, where he taught construction technology for 22 years. During that teaching career, Bud took the opportunity to partner with the Town to contribute to its many parks and public spaces. From 2004 to 2016 the Halpin family owned and operated two cottage parks in Port Elgin. The family started summering in Saugeen Shores in 2006 and moved to town in 2010. Bud retired from teaching in 2022, and was elected to Council by Port Elgin residents in the same year.

Dave Myette - Saugeen Councillor

Councillor Dave Myette moved to Saugeen Shores from Mississauga in 1997 to work at the former Ontario Hydro Bruce Nuclear Power Development, now known as Bruce Power. The Myette family moved onto an eight-acre farm just south of Port Elgin where they keep goats, dogs, cats and chickens. Dave is married to Melinda and they have three adult and loving daughters, Renee, Sydney and Simonne.

Dave worked for Ontario Hydro/OPG/Bruce Power starting in 1982, and retiring in January 2015 as an Operations Specialist.

His initial involvement with the Town was as a member and later Chair of the Parks and Trails Advisory Committee.

In addition to being a Councillor, he is on the United Way of Bruce Grey Board of Directors. He is a member of the Lake Huron Fishing Club Executive Committee and is the Manager of the Port Elgin Salmon Hatchery. He and Melinda also operate a rental accommodation business in Saugeen Shores.

Rachel Stack - Port Elgin Councillor