Nominations are due today at 2pm for this year’s municipal, district education and health authority elections.
Here’s the current lists of candidates for some of the elections happening in this area.
UPDATED 4:30pm April 9. Check back on this story later for updates.
SACKVILLE TOWN COUNCIL
After a slow start to declarations of candidacy for the eight seats on Sackville town council, twelve candidates have now thrown their hats in the ring.
Five sitting councillors are running again, plus seven new candidates:
Andrew Black (sitting councillor)
Allison Butcher (sitting councillor)
Keith Carter
Alice C. Cotton
Sabine Dietz
Matt Estabrooks
Bill Evans (sitting councillor)
Joshua Goguen
Kenneth Hicks
Matthew R. Noiles
Bruce Phinney (sitting councillor)
Michael Tower (sitting councillor)
The candidates for mayor include two incumbents on council:
Ron Aiken (sitting Deputy Mayor)
Shawn Mesheau (sitting councillor)
DORCHESTER TOWN COUNCIL
Dorchester will also see elections for both their new mayor and four seats on council.
The two candidates for mayor are:
Bill Steele
Debbie Wiggins-Colwell
The seven candidates for council are:
Kara Becker
Robert Corkerton
Benjamin (Ben) A. Edge
Mike Gillespie
Robert (Bob) Hickman
Jason L. Holmes
Deborah Shea
PORT ELGIN VILLAGE COUNCIL
Port Elgin will have one contest for mayor, but with only four candidates for four seats on village council, the nominated candidates will be acclaimed.
The candidates for mayor are:
Jason Davis Stokes (sitting deputy mayor)
Tanya A. Trehnholm
The candidates for village council, all acclaimed, are:
Brenda Jones (sitting councillor)
Stacy Jones
Jan Legere (sitting councillor)
Kerry C Phibbs
DISTRICT EDUCATION COUNCILS
Sackville is part of the Anglophone East school district, where there are now two candidates, incumbent representative Michelle Folkins of Upper Dorchester, and Brian Neilson of Sackville.
Currently there is only two contested DEC seat in the Anglophone East district, and that’s subdistrict 1, which covers Cap Pele, Shediac, and Cocagne, and subdistrict 2, which includes Sackville. Six other seats on the district council will be acclaimed and one will remain empty.
Sackville is also part of the Francophone Sud school district, part of subdistrict 5 which covers Sackville and Memramcook. There are no candidates in this subdistrict.
Three out of ten subdistricts in Francophone Sud have no candidates, and four have just one candidate, so will be acclaimed. The other three seats will have elections.
HORIZON AND VITALITÉ BOARDS
Sackville sits in subregion B1 for the Horizon health network, and subregion A1 for the Vitalité network. Both cover the same geographical area including communities from Rockport to Cape Tormentine to Shediac, and up the coast to Kouchibouguac National Park.
There are two candidates for the regional Horizon board seat, incumbent Pauline Gallant of St. Louis, New Brunswick, and new candidate Laura Reinsborough of Sackville.
There are two candidates for the Vitalité board seat: Louis M Simard of Cocagne and Claire Havet Ephestion of Dieppe.
