{"id":16071,"date":"2020-08-10T06:34:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T09:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=16071"},"modified":"2020-08-10T06:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T09:34:23","slug":"meh-warden-not-re-offering-in-octobers-municipal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=16071","title":{"rendered":"MEH Warden not re-offering in October&#8217;s municipal election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> The Warden for the Municipality of East Hants will not be re-offering for the position in this fall\u2019s municipal election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Smith made the news official at a recently held East Hants Council meeting, held over Zoom. It was the last meeting before the summer break which comprises of no meetings in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Warden\u2019s comments section of the meeting, Smith spoke to his council colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI made it no secret that I wasn\u2019t going to run again, but I figured I should make it official,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI\u2019m just letting everybody know this is my last term.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned that depending on COVID19 he may miss September\u2019s council meeting, which would be his last before the municipal election on Oct. 17, as he will be at national marksmen championships in Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been great to serve with all the people I have on council,\u201d said Smith. \u201cIt\u2019s time for greener pastures for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of his council colleagues thanked Smith for his dedication and time as Warden of the municipality before the meeting concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adroytate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENFIELD: The Warden for the Municipality of East Hants will not be re-offering for the position in this fall\u2019s municipal election. Jim Smith made the news official at a recently held East Hants Council meeting, held over Zoom. It was the last meeting before the summer break which comprises of no meetings in August. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[1240,1101,1322],"class_list":["post-16071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-municipal-election","tag-municipality-of-east-hants","tag-warden-jim-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}