By CHRISTINA SEINER
\nEditor
\nRepublican James I. Burket has announced his candidacy for a six-year term as Snyder Township supervisor.
\nBurket has lived in Snyder Township for 23 years and is the son of Ralph (Sonny) Burket and the late Betty M. Burket.
\nHe has two sisters, and he married Gail Diehl in August 1981 and started a family. He has a daughter, Nichole, and two sons, Justin and Drew. With his oldest son, Burket is running a business in Snyder Township called Burket\u2019s Auto Repair.
\nBurket graduated from Tyrone Area High School in 1978 and started working at Harpster Chevrolet in 1977, which shut down in 1980. He then started working for Penn State University where he worked his way up the ranks. He started out washing dishes and now has the title Director of Facilities.
\nBesides working for PSU, he runs the home business of Burket\u2019s Auto Repair and attends township meetings. He also participates in \u201cDay of Caring\u201d and coordinates the blood drive at his job.
\n\u201cI would like the opportunity to serve you and the community as township supervisor,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe if you give me this opportunity you will agree it is the right choice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By CHRISTINA SEINER Editor Republican James I. Burket has announced his candidacy for a six-year term as Snyder Township supervisor. Burket has lived in Snyder Township for 23 years and is the son of Ralph (Sonny) Burket and the late Betty M. Burket. He has two sisters, and he married Gail Diehl in August 1981 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}