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From advocacy, to decision-making, to keeping schools rooted in the community, the school trustees are important in many ways, says Mike Roberts, CEO of the BC School Trustees Association.

School trustee hopefuls did their best to sway voters gathered at the Queensborough Community Centre on Monday night for one of the final all-candidates meeting of the election season.

May Day, density and traffic have been known to get under the skin of locals, but council candidates kept calm while tackling these – and other – topics at Tuesday’s all-candidates meeting.

Still time to attend all-candidates meetings

Nearly all the candidates running for school trustee in New Westminster will be facing off in Queensborough next week. The all-candidates meeting is happening Monday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m.

Election in Brief

A Queen’s Park couple is dismayed they won’t be able to vote in the 2018 civic election. Keith Gagne and Diana Carr will be away on vacation for much of October – meaning they won’t be able to vote in the Oct.

Name Lisa Graham Phone 604-540-8577 E-mail lisa_graham@shaw.ca QUESTIONS (in 50 words or less unless specified) Tell us about yourself. (100 words) Lisa Graham, former school trustee/mother of two/community and special needs advocate.

Name Scott McIntosh Email scottmcintosh@shaw.ca Phone 778-892-4115 QUESTIONS (in 50 words or less unless specified) Tell us about yourself. (100 words) I, Scott McIntosh am proudly born, raised and educated in New Westminster.

Name Steve Tsonev Facebook/Twitter @stevetsonevbc E-mail steve@tsonev.ca Phone 604-245-2758 Website www.tsonev.ca QUESTIONS (in 50 words or less unless specified) Tell us about yourself. (100 words) I was born and raised in Europe.