The warden of the Municipality of the District of Guysborough says it’s great to have so much interest in a vacant council seat.
Four candidates are in the race for the District 4 seat- Jenny MacDonald, Tino Winter, Elaine Durling and David Hanhams.
They’re running to replace Blair George, who represented the district for more than 30 years; he was killed in an ATV crash in Halfway Cove in January.
After March’s regular municipal council meeting Wednesday afternoon, Vernon Pitts, the municipality’s warden, said the race is democracy at its finest.
“We have four very interesting and unique candidates coming forward- males as well as females, which is good,” he said. “They’ll have about a month now to do their campaign, door-to-door-type thing.”
Pitts said any of the four candidates would be a great addition to council.
The District 4 byelection takes place April 13; there will be two days of advance voting April 4 and April 9.
