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Vol. 21, No. 4, Wednesday, October 22, 2025
New Mayor in Mundare Lamont County sees changes JOHN MATHER Mundare will have a new Mayor for the next four years and a different council with a mix of the old and new. Rick Patrie has won the race for the mayor’s seat defeating William Rankin and Kent Santo. Patrie has spent the past four years as a councillor in the community. On council, two previous councillors, including former mayor Cheryl Calinoiu will return with a couple of new faces. Irene Talaga and Calinoiu have been returned and they will be joined by Geoffrey Hughes and Jennifer Joiner. The mayor’s race wasn’t that tight with Patrie claiming 132 votes to Rankin’s 72 and Santo’s 59. The council race was much tighter with Hughes topping the count with 150 votes, followed by Talaga with 136, Calinoiu and Johner tied at 128. Former incumbent Glen Rozumniak had 123 votes while former incumbent Danika Brison had 116. There were two upsets in Lamont County. Division three councillor and Reeve David Diduck was defeated by newcomer John Uganecz. Uganecz received 166 votes to Diduck’s 91. In Division one incumbent and longtime Councillor Daniel Warawa was defeated by former public works director Gerald Thorowsky 119 votes to 91. In Division four Roy Anaka was returned to council receiving 92 votes while contender Tammy Picket received 57 and Brent Matiaszow received 44. In Division five incumbent Neil Woitas won with 215 votes against Natasha Phair’s 33. Division two incumbent Aaron Wick was acclaimed to his seat.
New Mayor for Bruderheim
JANA SEMENIUK The 2025 municipal election brought several changes to councils in most municipalities once the votes were counted. All results are unofficial until posted on Oct. 24 by noon, in order for results to be validated. In the unofficial results, the town of Bruderheim has a new mayor for the first time since 2011 when long time resident Ron Ewasiuk won the mayor seat with 283 votes over George Campbell who garnered 120. Campbell served as town councillor for the past 12 years before running for mayor this year. Other results to fill the four council spots were newcomer Luis Diaz who won with 276 votes, incumbents Arlie Young and Dayna Jacobs with 258 and 238 respectively, as well as newcomer Lesster Quijano Acosta who received 203 votes. In fifth place was Gina Peters who was only one vote behind Acosta with 202, triggering an automatic recount whose results were too late for press time. The last two places went to mayor Karl Hauch who ran for a council position and had 121 votes and newcomer Andy Styles who had 157. In Chipman, Morris Langevin and Shana McIntyre were re-elected with 49 votes for Langevin and 68 voters for McIntyre, and newcomer Evelyn McNaughton was elected with 51 votes. Other candidates were Jennifer Ausman with 36 votes, Rick Gallant with 32, and Tammie Lemky with 42. In Andrew, a nearly entirely new council was elected after nine candidates were running for council and two for mayor. Bill Romaniuk won the mayor seat with 121 votes to Chris Lupul’s 46. Lupul previously won a council seat in a by-election in Nov. 2023. Newly elected council members are newcomer Melissa Dyck who got 74 votes, incumbent Merwin Haight with 88, former councillor Osama Hamed
with 101, and newcomer Kyle Stotyn with 78. Candidates not elected were Stacey Bodnarek with 66 votes, Carol Dubitz with 58, Heather Pauls with 18, James Rustand with 27 and John VanVyfeyken with 65. The town of Lamont saw very few changes, with the exception of two new councillors to fill spots left empty after the resignation of former Mayor Kirk Perrin in 2024 and former councillor Dave Taylor in Jan. Newcomers Lynn Huxley and Chris Mintenko won their seats on council with 203 votes for Huxley and 178 for Mintenko, incumbents Linda Sieker got 229, Perry Koroluk 170, Colleen Holowaychuk 214, Al Harvey 172 and Jody Foulds won the mayor seat with 227 over Paul Desrosier’s 62.
Bruderheim's new mayor Ron Ewasiuk is the first new mayor Bruderheim has had since 2011. PHOTO SUPPLIED