With advanced polls for the upcoming municipal election getting underway next week, The Bedford-Sackville Weekly News is offering voters a snapshot of candidates running in your district.
Voters can cast an electronic or phone ballot during the advanced voting period anywhere, anytime starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6 and ending 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 18. Alternatively, voters can vote in person on Election Day, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 (paper ballots only) from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
District 1 Waverley, Fall River and Musquodoboit
Name: Barry Dalrymple
Age: 59
Why should I vote for you? I kept my promise last time. No one works harder.
Name one great thing in your district: The building of the $7 million Beaver Bank Kinsac Community Centre without one cent of it being put on the backs of residents through an area rate.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Transit and sidewalks
Name: Steve Streatch
Age: 49
Why should I vote for you? I bring 13 years experience. I believe in an open and transparent government.
Name one great thing in your district: The best of all worlds urban, suburban and rural.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Better planning, traffic, water, sidewalks
District 13 Hammonds Plains and St. Margarets
Name: Peter Lund
Age: 56
Why should I vote for you? I get solutions to difficult situations.
Name one great thing in your district: Community values.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Accountability on tax dollars being spent.
Name: Doug Poulton
Age: 64
Why should I vote for you? I am the best candidate between the other two gentlemen.
Name one great thing in your district: The people and the history.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: The big three: Hammonds Plains Road, property taxes and public transportation.
Name: Matt Whitman
Age: 42
Why should I vote for you? It's time for a change. I put others first.
Name one great thing in your district: Glen Arbour Golf Course
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Hammonds Plains Road
District 14 Upper/Middle Sackville and Beaver Bank
Name: Laurie Sauers
Age: 47
Why should I vote for you? I bring new ideas and perspectives and common sense.
Name one great thing in your district: The amount of people that care enough about their community to make a difference.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Transit, and it seems as though District 14 is not being respected enough in the greater HRM.
Name: Brad Johns
Age: 43
Why should I vote for you? I live in the community. Energy, experience and enthusiasm.
Name one great thing in your district: The people.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Transit and sidewalks
District 15 Lower Sackville
Name: Ian Wilson
Age: 40
Why should I vote for you? I was born and raised here. Chose to raise my family here.
Name one great thing in your district: The people
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Traffic on Sackville Drive
Name: Janet Langille
Age: 41
Why should I vote for you? I am a problem solver
Name one great thing in your district: The people
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Safety and police presence in neighbourhoods
Name: Stephen Taylor
Age: 52
Why should I vote for you? I'm different
Name one great thing in your district: The people
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Service standard of HRM
Name: Steve Craig
Age: 57
Why should I vote for you? I have a combination of 30-year-community-engagement and 30-year-business career.
Name one great thing in your district: The people.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: The whole vehicular flow of traffic.
Name: Curt Wentzell
Age: 57
Why should I vote for you? I have a strong record of communication and creativity.
Name one great thing in your district: Too many to name.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Transit and the continued expansion of walking trails.
District 16 Bedford Wentworth
Name: Tim Outhit
Age: 50
Why should I vote for you? I did exactly what I said I would do over the last four years.
Name one great thing in your district: The new recreation centre
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Transit and traffic.
Name: Mark Ward
Age: 54
Why should I vote for you? I will finish a task. Enjoy working with people.
Name one great thing in your district: The diversity and different cultures in our area.
Name something in your district that could be improved upon: Communications. Keeping everyone informed and ‘in the know.'
blhall@eastlink.ca
