[1] Between 1991 and 2006, he worked to diversify the city's economy beyond mining, erased its debenture and highlighted its connection to Shania Twain.
[2] He graduated from Timmins High and Vocational School in 1952, attended the University of Windsor and the University of Toronto, then worked as a teacher and guidance counsellor at his high school before entering municipal politics.
[4] His campaign that year attracted a bit of controversy when he stated his intentions to retain his job as a high school guidance counsellor concurrently with serving as mayor, amid a provincewide debate about whether Ontario's smaller cities needed full-time mayors or not, and whether most cities even paid their mayors enough for the job to be a person's sole source of income in the first place.
[10] Power's mayoralty was marked by ongoing efforts to diversify the city's mining-based economy.
In 2004, he received national attention when he criticized the producers of Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, a television biopic of country star Shania Twain, for producing the film in Sudbury rather than Twain's actual hometown, Timmins.