Well, we did it! First and foremost, thank you to each and every one of you for all your support and votes! Im blown away and so excited to be a part of our future over the next four years and beyond! Congratulations to each and every candidate who threw their hast into the ring! When I look towards the future, I am excited to continue to join forces with the candidates, each and every one of you brought something special and unique to the table! I would like to speak to all my fellow council candidates and thank you! Doug Race, I appreciate your wisdom and look forward to working with you and learning more about the SODC, Jason Blackman-Wulff, I am excited for your fresh and youthful enthusiasm and knowledge, Ted Prior, thank you for your teamwork and that Ted Cares spirit, Karen Elliott, thank you for being an environmental and family advocate, Susan Chapele, thank you for your work on transit and sportsmanship (I am also impressed that you campaign sign free), thank you Paul Dosanjh for advocating for youth and essential public services, thank you Auli Parviainen for your courageous spirit, knowledge and vision, thank you Stephen Fryer for your advocacy for youth and Brennan Park, thank you Brad Hodge for your passion with improving affordable housing and volunteer work, thank you Eric Andersen for your dedication and wealth of knowledge with our Squamish heritage, thank you Rob Weys for advocating for lower tax/utility rates and Squamish Youth Soccer, thank you Chris Pettingill for advocacy with economic development (I also loved your creativity by including local artists on your campaign signs), thank you Bryan Raiser for your previous dedication on city council, sportsmanship and advocacy for safer pedestrian/cycling routes (thank you for also encouraging me to run again after not being successful in 2011), thank you Scott Wengi for advocating for our infrastructure and business growth/job creation, thank you Glenne Campbell for your creativity, grace, and environmental advocacy, thank you Deb McBride for never giving up on advocating for our estuary, thank you Phil Audet for your heart, environmental advocacy and genuine speeches at every all-candidate meeting, thank you Kevin Jewell for your sportsmanship and kindness (I love that your daughter is a Terminator fan), and lastly, thank you Terrill Patterson for being deep rooted within our Squamish, for your uniqueness, creativity and honesty! Thank you to the mayoral candidates, Ron Bahm for throwing your hat into the ring, to Rob Kirkham for your previous work as councillor and mayor, and lastly a big congrats to Patty Heintzman for your previous dedication to our community as councillor and now as our new mayor! I have appreciated your openness and mentorship greatly and look forward to the team spirit ahead! Congrats to School Trustee candidates Alice Guss, Ian Kent (yay for team Kent) and Rick Price! Personally, I would like to thank my family big time! My wife Marcia, thank you for your love, relentless dedication, encouragement, inspiration and for being my campaign manager and biggest cheerleader! You are my rock. To my 5 year old twin boys Ryder & Hunter, thank you for letting Daddy work hard to help build a safe and healthy community for you to grow up in! My boys put up with joining me many times on the campaign trail, whether that was going door-to-door dropping off my campaign cards, attending meetings, hammering signs, being babysat a lot while my wife worked or I was attending all-candidate meetings and I forgot to pack their school lunches in their backpack this week because of the campaign chaos! I have survived this campaign on their hugs alone! Thank you to good friends for all your support and help! I would especially like to thank my good friend Les McDonald for shooting and editing every one of my campaign videos, to Brian Vincent for being relentless and helping me immensely with my campaign and for the hours he volunteered waiving my signs around! Thank you John Jervis and Mo Freitag! The list goes on and Im so sorry if I havent mentioned your name or if I have forgotten anyone! Thank you to the community of Squamish! Taking my signs down today, I walked around looking at our beautiful Squamish, breathing in the fresh air and being darn proud of this community! I look forward to what lies ahead and Im hoping, that our community can continue to rally together and stay keen and involved. Thank you everyone from the bottom of my heart! Im excited to take a few days to recharge and look forward to rolling up my sleeves and getting to work! Ill leave my long-winded note with this great quote: The future will require those of us in such positions to keep our eyes, ears and minds open. It will require us to listen and to involve, to coach and to develop, to enrich and to motivate, to risk and to credit, to care and to express concern, and to laugh - especially at ourselves.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:24:06 +0000
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