As the votes were being counted in municipal elections throughout the Fraser Valley Oct 20, there were more than a few candidates with UFV connections holding their breath waiting for results.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to the following successful candidates with UFV connections:<\/p>\n
Abbotsford:<\/strong> UFV alumna and current Bachelor of Adult Education student Shirley Wilson<\/strong><\/a> was re-elected as a Board of Education trustee.<\/p>\n UFV alumnus and former mayor of Abbotsford Bruce Banman was elected as a councillor.<\/p>\n Chilliwack:<\/strong> Elected school trustee Dan Coulter<\/strong><\/a> has also been a UFV student.<\/p>\n Agassiz\/Kent\/Harrison<\/strong> Mission: Maple Ridge:<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the votes were being counted in municipal elections throughout the Fraser Valley Oct 20, there were more than a few candidates with UFV connections holding their breath waiting for results. Congratulations to the following successful candidates with UFV connections: Abbotsford: UFV alumna Kelly Chahal (named one of UFV\u2019s Top 40 Alumni recently) was re-elected … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18105\/revisions\/18106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUFV alumna Kelly Chahal<\/strong><\/a> (named one of UFV\u2019s Top 40 Alumni recently) was re-elected as a councillor. She has an MA, BA, and diploma in Criminal Justice from UFV.<\/p>\n
\nReturning councillor Jason Lum<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 is a UFV alumni (Lum is also one of the UFV Top 40). Lum took a variety of courses while a student in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n
\nSusan Spaeti<\/strong> (who earned a BCIS degree in 2003)\u00a0 was elected to Council for the District of Kent (which includes Agassiz).<\/p>\n
\nPam Alexis <\/strong>was elected mayor after serving as a councillor. She has served on UFV\u2019s Mission Community Council and was on the UFV Foundation board.<\/p>\n
\nRe-elected councillor Kiersten Duncan<\/strong><\/a> has been a UFV student.<\/p>\n