Please remember today is election day. Polls are open from 8am to 8pm, and are at Ruth King Elementary (South Langford) and Millstream Elementary (North Langford).

Tim Rud, a candidate for school trustee in School District 62, responded to our offer to pass on whatever information the candidates wanted to share with voters.

TIM RUD CANDIDATE FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE SD 62

I am an at home dad/musician. My family resided in the Glen Lake area for 15 years prior to moving to Colwood 2 years ago.

VOTE FOR ME IF YOU BELIEVE THAT SOME CHANGE IS NECESSARY IN OUR DISTRICT

I believe in fair representation for all school communities within our district

I will advocate Read the rest of this entry »

This table looks at the handouts candidates made available at the all-candidates forum. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order, within mayoral and council candidates. The total notes how many categories their handout touched on, with higher numbers indicating more informative and/or greener handouts. Most columns should be self-expanatory (eg. recycled paper means the handout was printed on recycled paper, double-sided means the handout used both sides and no “X” in that column means one side was blank, etc.), but if you have any questions please leave them in the comments.

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Here are the candidates’ statements (in order of appearance):

Mayor Stew Young (incumbent)
Candidate for Mayor Christopher Andrew Johnson (absent)

Councilor Roger Wade (incumbent)
Councilor Lillian Szpak (incumbent)
Councilor Winnie Sifert (incumbent)
Councilor Lanny Seaton (incumbent)
Grant McLachlan (candidate for Langford Council)
Councilor Denise Blackwell and appointed Rep. to CRD (incumbent)

Councilor Matthew Sahlstrom (incumbent) (absent)
Sean Patrick Horgan (candidate for Langford Council, absent and did not attend All Candidates’ Forum)

Check out local civic election coverage on Shaw TV at:

http://www.globaltvbc.com/Pages/Story.aspx?id=6442515296

We invited any of the Langford or School Trustee candidates who wished to do so to submit, well, to submit anything they wanted to share with voters. Chris Johnson, a candidate for mayor, responded:

“One thing I don’t emphasize enough is that my own personal #1 priority (which may or may not be the people of Langford’s priority) is that we Read the rest of this entry »

Back in September it was announced that an epside of the television show “Urban Suburban” would feature a showdown between Victoria and Langford for a couple trying to decide where to live. The episode in question airs Wednesday (October 25th) three times: noon, 7 PM, and 10 PM. It will air again on Sunday (October 30th).

“Urban Suburban” pits a brother and sister team of real estate agents, with the brother trying to convince a couple to purchase an urban home and the sister trying to convince them to purchase a suburban home. This episode has the Burnside/Mayfair area of Victoria (urban) vs. suburban properties in Langford, with Read the rest of this entry »

All candidates for elections in either the Langford local government election, or for Sooke School District trustee, are invited to submit their election platform, or other information about their candidacy that they would like to share with the voting public, to Inside Langford. As always, all content that meet the comment posting guidelines will be approved without editing, without regard to whether anyone involved with Inside Langford agrees or disagrees with their election platform.

The “PARKS, RECREATION, CULTURE AND BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING” agenda is up for download. The agenda has a verbal report on a proposed new aerator for Langford Lake. At previous Parks & Rec meetings it has been suggested that the Westhills development may be willing to pay for a new aerator, in exchange for being allowed to use Langford Lake for geothermal heat management.

The agenda also has Read the rest of this entry »

The first (and, if previous elections are any guide, possibly also the last) all-candidates meeting for the Langford local government election is scheduled for tomorrow (Monday) night at 7PM. Details, as provided by one of the candidates, are below:

All Candidate’s Forum in Langford
All Candidate’s Meeting

Gordon United Church
935 Goldstream Ave

Monday October 24 at 7:00 pm

The format will be as follows

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The Langford Council meeting agenda is up for download.

Also available on the City of Langford’s “Election Information” page is the official declaration of candidates. Things of note on it include the full slate of incumbents running again, plus two challengers for mayor, and two challengers for Council. Oddly, two of the challengers (one for each position) have the last name “Horgan”, no word yet on whether they’re related to our MLA, John Horgan.