Estevan will have a race for mayor in 2012.
Veteran Councillor Lynn Chipley announced Monday that she will be running for mayor in the Oct. 24 municipal election.
Chipley said she is running for mayor because she loves Estevan but feels more work needs to be done to improve the city in order to make it a place that people desire to live in.
"What we do now and what we do over the next five years is absolutely going to decide where we are in five to 10 years because if all of those people once this little boom is over, pack up their bags and go back to the Maritimes, back to Ontario and back to B.C. because we didn't get create the kind of environment that made them feel at home and wanna call this home, then we have not done our job," Chipley said.
Chipley will be up against fellow Councillor Roy Ludwig who declared his candidacy for mayor earlier this summer.
For more on this story please see Wednesday's edition of the Estevan Mercury.
