Voters in the Clearwater-Blue River area will have at least three election forums over the next week to help them decide who to vote for.
This afternoon (Thursday, Oct. 30) at 4 p.m. the students council at Clearwater Secondary School will host a forum for the two school board candidates in the Pit at the school.
Blue River's Willow MacDonald will face off against Shelley Sim of Clearwater to be school trustee for the Clearwater-Blue River area.
MacDonald is presently the Thompson-Nicola Regional District director for Thompson Headwaters (Area B) and is vice-chair of the regional district.
She is also running to retain her seat on the TNRD board.
Sim is a District of Clearwater councillor and president of the CSS PAC.
Sim is running again to be on Clearwater town council as well.
Thursday evening, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m. there will be an all candidates forum in Blue River Community Hall.
It is not yet clear whether MacDonald and Sim will debate again about who should be the new Clearwater-Blue River area school trustee.
However, MacDonald will definitely trade comments with Max Lentz, a former Area B director who wants his old job back.
One week later, on Thursday, Nov. 6, there will be an all candidates forum in the activity room at the new Dutch Lake Community Centre. The forum will start at 7 p.m.
It will be a full agenda for the candidates for school board (MacDonald and Sim), Wells Gray Country (Tim Pennell and Carol Schaffer), and Clearwater town council (Barry Banford, Merlin Blackwell, Dennis Greffard, Melanie Harwood, Gord Heisterman, Ken Kjenstad and Shelley Sim).
Grand finale will be when the two candidates to be Clearwater's mayor, incumbent John Harwood and challenger Jon Kreke, do battle.
Advance polls for the local government and school board elections will be held Nov. 5. Voting day will be on Nov. 15.