Editor’s note: Seven candidates are standing for election Nov. 7 to three at-large seats on the Woodward City Council. In order to provide our readers with first-hand knowledge of the candidates, their characters and their ideas, ThePerryNews.com presented them with this short series of questions:
1. Kindly outline for us in brief your educational and professional experience. Where did you attend high school and/or college? What sort of work do you do? In other words, what is your background, generally speaking?
2. What particular qualifications do you feel that you would bring to the job of a city councilor? What qualifications do you believe are generally desirable in a city councilor?
3. What has led you to seek elected office? Have you run for or held elected office before?
4. Are there any particular issues of interest to you or of importance to Woodward that have led you to run for office? More generally, what issues do you feel Woodward faces today that are of greatest importance? What direction would you like to see the council take? What direction, if any, do you feel the council should not have taken that it has taken?
5. What are you most passionate about when it comes to the public life of Woodward? the commercial life of Woodward? the social and cultural life of Woodward? What is your vision for the town? Where would you like to see Woodward be in five years? 10 years?
Candidates were encouraged to answer in their own manners. They were under no constraint to answer all the questions or to follow the order given. ThePerryNews.com did not wish to program their answers in advance but encouraged them to feel free. Five candidates replied to the questions.
ThePerryNews.com offers the candidates’ answers to readers directly and unfiltered.
Dolores Crane, 505 E. 3rd St. in Woodward, 515-438-2544, mdxpress@live.com
I attended St. Paul High School in St. Paul, Neb. I graduated in business and have had a variety of jobs the last 30 years that I lived in Woodward. I served as a server at the famous Woodchuck Inn in Woodward, was a dietary clerk at the Recourse Center in Woodward, was assistant manager for Dollar General. I am currently a delivery specialist for O’Reilly Auto Parts in Perry.
We need to keep Woodward a small community, and we all need to help one another. We are not a large town but a friendly town.
I have always wanted to do this for years, and now I have a chance to keep the city of Woodward a small city. Currently I am on the Board of Adjustments and Appeals as secretary.
I am not running on any particular issues but all issues and interests of the citizens of Woodward.
As a firefighter and EMT for the city of Woodward, I feel we all need and that we all are important for the community to grow in the direction that we all agree on and not to spend the hard-earned money that our senior citizens worked for all their lives.
I am a people person, and I feel that the citizens of Woodward are my passion for I love this community and can see it grow in the future without breaking the bank of our seniors and make it a friendly town for our young children and educate them to be part of Woodward. I want to keep them interested in growing with the young and the old.
The people taught me the values of Woodward, and many of them have passed and moved away, but I am here to stay.
That is why I am running for city council. –Dee Crane
