Skip to content

DPAC all-candidates' meeting tomorrow night

The district parent advisory council is hosting its all-candidates' meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 5, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the New Westminster Secondary School's library.

The district parent advisory council is hosting its all-candidates' meeting on Wednesday,

Nov. 5, from 7 to 9 p.m., at the New Westminster Secondary School's library.

Parents, students and other New West residents are welcome to attend, district parent council chairperson Beth Ott wrote in an email to The Record.

For the first portion of the meeting, the moderator will ask questions that have been prioritized by parents; the second portion of the meeting will be open for questions from the floor, Ott explained. They are hoping for a large turnout to the event, she said.

The district parent council continues to seek input from individual school parent councils on their questions for the candidates to help determine parents' most-pressing education concerns.

Candidates seeking election are: Jonina Campbell, Casey Cook, MaryAnn Mortensen, Michael Ewen, James Janzen, Glen Armstrong, Jim Bell, Cort Ray Caldwell, Mark Gifford, Rajiv Pandey, James Pepa, Jeremy Perry and Kelly Slade-Kerr.

For more New West civic election coverage, visit www.royalcityrecord.com and click on the #elxnnw tab.