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Rookie Kelowna city councillor new Central Okanagan board chair

Rookie Kelowna city councillor new Central Okanagan board chair | iNFOnews.ca
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Loyal Wooldridge, who was first elected to Kelowna city council in 2018, is the new Central Okanagan Regional District board chair.

The previous chair, Gail Given, choose not to run for re-election in order to spend more time with her family.

Wooldridge was elected ahead of Central Okanagan West representative Wayne Carson but the vote count was not immediately available.

West Kelowna Mayor Gord Milsom was acclaimed as vice-chair.

The new position comes with a pay raise of almost $30,000. Given was paid $48,856 as chair in 2020 while board members were paid $19,009.

Given was first elected to Kelowna city council in 2011 and as board chair in 2014, replacing Robert Hobson who had served in that capacity for many years.

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Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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