There will be three names on the ballot for Mayor when Wells residents go to the polls for a by-election June 9th.
The nomination deadline was at 4pm on Friday, May 4th, and Jay Vermette, Richard Wright, and Jillian Merrick have all tossed their hat into the ring. Vermette is a former Mayor, serving two terms from 2005 to 2008 and then from ’08 to 2011.
Merrick is currently a Prince George City Councillor who lives in Wells on the weekends.
Wright served multiple terms as a Councillor from 2005 to 2014 and was elected again but left before finishing his 4th term because he moved away.
One of them will replace Robin Sharpe, who resigned in February.
In addition to the race for Mayor, four people have put their names forward to fill a vacant seat on the District’s Council.
They are Buffy Rummel, Mark Dawson, Kathy Landry and Dianne Andreesen.
– With files from George Henderson, My Cariboo Now
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