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Vol. 59 No. 47 Sicamous, B.C., • 1.25 (GST included) • www.eaglevalleynews.com
Team incomplete: Sicamous residents voted for change on district council, electing Terry Rysz for mayor and, for council, the candidate team of Colleen Anderson, Gord Bushell, Todd Kyllo, Malcolm Makayev and Jeff Mallmes. The unofficial election results show Janna Simons as the sixth councillor elect, narrowly beating out incumbent Fred Busch by three votes. Busch, however, says he will be asking for a recount.
Sicamous votes for change, electing all new council Not over yet: Council candidate Fred Busch to request recount. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
An anticipated recount will determine who will be joining Sicamous’ mayor and councillors when they get down to work in December. Unofficial results from Saturday’s election and the advanced vote show Terry
Rysz as the community’s new mayor with 545 votes, beating out candidate Malcolm MacLeod by 200 votes. In the race for council, Gord Bushell received the most votes with 682. Next in line was Malcolm Makayev with 565, Todd Kyllo with 518, Jeff Mallmes with 492 and Colleen Anderson with 463. Coming in sixth place was Janna Simons, who received 371 votes. However, she won by a mere three votes over incumbent candidate Fred Busch, who said Monday that he would be asking for a recount. “I guess I should try, if I still wanted to
have a seat on council, and I do. So we’ll have to see,” said Busch, noting how, in the 2011 election, Coun. Don Richardson wound up being elected following a recount. “They found 50 votes or something like that, that hadn’t been tallied properly and he ended up gaining a seat. So we’ll see.” Simons says if she were in Busch’s position she’d do the same. “I’m good either way, whether I get in or not,” said Simons. “It’s going to be what it’s going to be. It’s what the people want. And I think Fred should go for the recount
because it’s so close.” On the other end, Bushell, clearly taken aback, said he did not expect to receive the most votes of all the candidates. But Bushell is pleased with how he and the group he campaigned with (Anderson, Kyllo, Makayev and Mallmes) were chosen to represent the community. Regarding the group, Bushell affirms they may have campaigned as a team, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be debate when they’re on the job. “Everybody asks us, you know, are we See Recount on page 2