2014 municipal election candidates

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The field of competitors for the Oct. 22 municipal and school board elections are set.

The majority of elections for municipal reeve and mayor in the Southeast will feature two opponents. In those races, the incumbent is seeking a return to office in municipalities including Hanover, Ste Anne, Piney, Stuartburn and Reynolds.

Notable acclamations include Chris Goertzen’s return as Steinbach mayor’s for a third term, Gavin van der Linde as Morris mayor and Ralph Groening as RM of Morris reeve. Mona Fallis has been named the new mayor in St Pierre.

A full list of this fall’s election candidates are listed below.

An asterisk denotes an incumbent candidate and each acclamation has been noted.

City of Steinbach
Mayor: Chris Goertzen* (accl.)
Council (six to be elected): Ryan Derksen, John Fehr*, Earl Funk*, Cari Penner*, Susan Penner*, Jac Siemens*, Michael Zwaagstra*

RM of De Salaberry
Reeve: Marie Lefevre, Marc Marion
Otterburne Ward (two to be elected): Andre Carbonneau*, Hans Gorter, Cyril Inman
Dufrost Ward (two to be elected): Patrick Catellier*, Jason Czarnecki, Ron Martel
St Malo Ward (two to be elected): Darrel Cure (accl.), Gabriel Gosselin (accl.)

LUD of St Malo (three to be elected): Maurice Comeault* (accl.), James Gosselin* (accl.), Francois Lambert* (accl.)

RM Emerson-Franklin (merged municipality)
Reeve: Wayne Arseny, Greg Janzen
Ward 1: Archie Hunter, Dennis Rodewald
Ward 2: Ron Mihaychuk (accl.)
Ward 3: Elaine Holodryga, Orest Kuryk, Ken Nedohin
Ward 4: Troy Kirkpatrick, Duaine Riach
Ward 5: Ron Ramsey, Dennis Weiss, Marvin Wilkinson
Ward 6 (two to be elected): Joyce S. Dayton, Doug Johnston, Brenda Lange, Glen Pappel, Larry Propp

LUD of Emerson: Kelly Ihme (accl.). Two members shall be appointed by council after Jan. 1, 2015

RM of Hanover
Reeve: Clif Bakx, Stan Toews*
Ward 1: Peter Hiebert* (accl.)
Ward 2: Bernie Stahn* (accl.)
Ward 3: Bob Brandt* (accl.)
Ward 4: Dylan Barkman* (accl.)
Ward 5: Leonard Friesen, Gordon Meneer, Neil Warkentin
Ward 6: Henry Funk*, Doug Wiens

LUD of Blumenort (three to be elected): Roger Harder* (accl.), Leo Penner* (accl.), Ed Peters* (accl.)
LUD of Grunthal (three to be elected): Jim Funk* (accl.), Paul Perreault (accl.), Jacob Peters* (accl.)
LUD of Mitchell (three to be elected): Brian Esau* (accl.), Brad Kehler (accl.), Dick Penner* (accl.)

RM of La Broquerie (with three councillors to be elected in each ward)
Reeve: Cornie Goertzen, Larry Tetrault, Lewis Weiss
Ward 1: Alvin Derksen, Paul Gauthier, Tyson Giesbrecht, Cameron Peters, Darrell Unger*
Ward 2: Wilfred Chabot*, Ivan Normandeau, John Suderman, Ken Tallaire*, Henry Turenne

LUD of La Broquerie (three to be elected): Gaetan Bisson* (accl.), Rheal Gagnon* (accl.), Yves Lafreniere* (accl.)

RM of Montcalm:
Reeve: Derek Sabourin, Laurent Vermette
Ward 1: Alain Barnabe, Jacques Perron
Ward 2: Deanna Jablonski, Emile Remillard*
Ward 3: Paul Sabourin, Andrea VanRyckeghem-Reeks
Ward 4: Harold Janzen, Ulysse Marion

LUD of St Jean (two to be elected): Lucien Jean* (accl.), Wayne Klassen* (accl.)

RM of Morris:
Mayor: Ralph Groening* (accl.)
Council (six to be elected): Brad Coulombe*, Mervin Dueck*, Barry Fraese*, Rick Giesbrecht, Margaret Gluck*, Robert G. Mears, Denis Robert*, Stan Siemens*

LUD of Rosenort (two to be elected): Shane Kroeker, Frank Peters, Lorne Siemens*

Town of Morris
Mayor: Gavin van der Linde* (accl.)
Council (six to be elected): Bill Ginter* (accl.), Mike Hinchey* (accl.), Tim Lewis (accl.), Ruth Murray* (accl.), Trevor Thiessen* (accl.), Bruce Third* (accl.)

Town of Niverville
Mayor: Myron Dyck, Kerry Church
Council (four to be elected): John Falk*, John Funk*, Daniel Horne, Ken Kwiatkowski, Jim Mahoney, Liz Riley, Helen Sparrow, Kevin Stott, Lindsay Unrau, Chris Wiebe

RM of Piney
Reeve: Wayne Anderson, Duane Boutang*
Ward 1: Stan Letkeman, Ken Prociw
Ward 2: Frank Boychuk, George Culleton, Dale Edbom, Don Winnicky*
Ward 3: Sian Barrow*, David Beaudry
Ward 4: Doug Laing*, Melanie Parent

RM of Reynolds
Reeve: Walter Panych, David Turchyn*
Ward 1: Garry Gaetz* (accl.)
Ward 2: George Babisky, Curtis Buley*, Nancy Garand
Ward 3: John Miscavitch*, De-Ann Holmes
Ward 4: Michael Turchyn* (accl.)
Ward 5: Michael Huzel, Maurice Yaremchuk*
Ward 6: Florence Campbell*, Robert Shendroski, Jason Nazar
Ward 7: Jim Colbert*, Jeff Zalitach, Alan Kelly

RM of Ritchot
Mayor: Jackie Hunt, Doug Touchette
Ward 1: Ernest Dumaine* (accl.)
Ward 2: Jeff Egan, Ronald Mamchuk
Ward 3: Jeannot Robert* (accl.)
Ward 4: Elmer Hywarren*, Corinne Webb

Village of St Pierre-Jolys
Mayor: Mona Fallis (accl.)
Council: Paul Gauthier (accl.), Brian Martel* (accl.), Raymond Maynard* (accl.), Luc Nadeau* (accl.)

RM of Ste Anne
Reeve: Art Bergmann*, Rolland Sarrasin
Ward 1: Renald Courcelles* (accl.)
Ward 2: Jake Reimer* (accl.)
Ward 3: Paul Saindon*, Raymond Turenne
Ward 4: Faren Chadney, Roland Chaput, Kevin Lansard
Ward 5: Roger Massicotte*, Kris McLean
Ward 6: Laurie Evans* (accl.)

LUD of Richer (three to be elected): Jim Cleland, Roger Godard*, John Lenton*, Brent Wery*

Town of Ste Anne
Mayor: Richard Pelletier, Bernard Vermette*
Council (four to be elected): Heather Benson, Kodi Benson, Romeo Blanchette, Helene d’Auteuil*, Ken Dayment*, Ginette Gagnon, Cornie Klassen*, Maranda Lanouette, Wayne Setlack, Donald Simard*, Yvan St. Vincent, Leon Tetreault, Jean-louis Verrier

RM of Springfield
Reeve: Bob Bodnaruk, Norm Howat, Jim McCarthy*
Ward 1: Howie Boyce, Jacques Desrosiers, Glen Fuhl, John Penny, Cheryl Sinclair
Ward 2: Chris Eide, Jason Franklin, Steve Pochuk, Shandy Walls
Ward 3: Ron Bylo, Danielle Hildebrand, Jason Regula, Allan Suggitt, Rick Wilson
Ward 4: Heather Erickson, Ken Lucko*
Ward 5: Garry Brown*, Tiffany Fell, Lisa Turner, Lorne Vaags

RM of Stuartburn
Reeve: Lawrence Sesiuk, Jim Swidersky*
Ward 1: Daniel Bodz, Christine Friesen*
Ward 2: Josh Gawronsky, Ronnie Maxymowich, Edward Penner*
Ward 3: Jerry Lubiansky, Michael Paciorka, Robert Pitura
Ward 4: Mark Kostyniuk, Konrad Narth*

RM of Tache
Mayor: Ross Deschambault, Robert Rivard
Ward 1: Jacques Trudeau* (accl.)
Ward 2: Bob Lagasse, George McGregor, Ravi Misir, Hettie Penner (Stam)
Ward 3: Lucille Brunette, David Menard*, Glenn Tomchak
Ward 4 (two to be elected): Missy Johnson, Armand Poirier, Steve Stein*
Ward 5: Bill Heather* (accl.)
Ward 6: Eric Plourde, Andy Rivard*, Jim Sloane

LUD of Landmark (three to be elected): Gerald Kroeker, Charlene Kubin, Jason Miller, Murray Plett*, Mike Valks*

LUD of Lorette (three to be elected): Tim Graham*, Carol Laramee, Denis Sarrasin*, Ron Tardiff

RM of Whitemouth
Reeve: Bill Dowbyhuz (accl.)
Council (four to be elected): Allan Besel, Lori Bachman, Roy Nichol*, Hermann Saxler*, Martin Saxler*, Manny Sikkenga