Macmillan Cancer Support and Blind Veterans UK are the charities pf choice for support from Lincolnshire’s new County Council Chairman Eddie Strengiel.
Elected as Chairman at last week’s AGM Council Strengiel has selected those two charities because of support given to his family and his military service.
Coun Strengiel has served as a council county councillor for Birchwood Division in Lincoln City for ten years, and served on the City Council for 30 years.
Whilst serving as vice chairman, Eddie supported the chairman by attending various engagements including standing in to present individuals’ certificates for British Citizenship. Eddie will become Lincolnshire’s chairman for 2024. Councillor William Gray will serve as his vice-chairman.
Cllr Strengiel said: “It is a great honour to be elected to represent the County as its chairman and I will endeavour to carry out my duties to the best of my ability. I was also privileged and honoured to represent the City as the 798th Mayor of Lincoln in 2004.”
He was born and raised in Tain in the far North of Scotland. Tain is Scotland’s oldest Royal Burgh and is famous for being the home of Glenmorangie single malt whisky. Eddie joined the army at eighteen years of age and served for twenty-four years in the Royal Engineers, after which he enjoyed a long career in the financial sector, ultimately retiring from his own business in 2010. Married to Sandra, they are about to celebrate their 50th anniversary. They have two married daughters and one grandchild.
