NDP chooses candidate
Rachel Blaney has won the New Democrat Party’s North Island-Powell River nomination to run in the upcoming federal election.
Federal NDP members in the riding voted Sunday, November 23, in a race between Blaney, executive director of Campbell River’s Multicultural and Immigrant Services Association, and former union president and environmental activist Dave Coles.
Blaney won nomination in the newly created riding with 384 votes to Coles’ 183.
North Island-Powell River was created in the last federal riding boundary redistribution when the Upper Sunshine Coast was hived off from the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding.
Blaney will face Liberal Peter Schwarzhoff and Conservative Laura Smith candidates in the next general election scheduled for October 19, 2015. The Green Party of Canada has yet to put forward a candidate.
Officials take oaths
Recently elected City of Powell River councillors, Powell River Regional District directors and Powell River Board of Education school trustees will be sworn into office Tuesday, December 2.
A justice of the peace will perform two ceremonies. The public is invited to attend.
Trustees will be sworn in at 5 pm at School District 47’s administration building on Ontario Avenue. Wine and cheese will follow.
City councillors and regional directors will take their oaths at 7 pm in the Arbutus Room at Powell River Recreation Complex.
