Bashaw and area residents will get a chance to learn more about those running to represent them in the Alberta legislature.
The Alberta Teachers Association is hosting a forum April 4 at the Bashaw School with all four declared candidates in the Camrose riding being invited.
The forum will kick off at 6:30 p.m. and focus on five topics that are important to rural Albertans — education, rural matters, health care, the environment and the carbon tax plus jobs and the economy.
As it is a newly formed riding — created last year when seven ridings in east central Alberta were consolidated into six.
The four candidates are: Morgan Bamford is running for the NDP and works for the City of Edmonton in Indigenous Community Economic Development; Bashaw area farmer Don Dubitz running for the Alberta Independence Party; the Alberta Party’s Kevin Smook who is a councillor in Beaver County; and, Jackie Lovely for the UCP who ran last time in an Edmonton riding.