It takes just about a week to win a seat on a local governing board. Bellwood resident Christopher Creek found that out yesterday.
\n\u201cNothing is official yet, but from what I\u2019m told, I got it,\u201d said Christopher Creek, a former Philipsburg resident who, unofficially, grabbed 113 of the 157 write-in votes for a 4-year-term on Bellwood Borough\u2019s governing body.
\nCreek said he had been toying with the idea of running for Bellwood Borough Council for a couple of weeks, but decided about a week ago to go for it.
\n\u201cI just printed out a bunch of handouts and stood outside the library handing the flyers,\u201d said Creek, a Republican. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to do that when there\u2019s only one polling location.\u201d
\nCreek said that although he doesn\u2019t have any experience as a public servant, his experience on organizational boards will help him with his first post on a local governing body.
\n\u201cI just want to bring a fresh perspective to Bellwood,\u201d said Creek. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I want to see a lot of changes here, but I would like to see some things get back to the basics.
\n\u201cI think government is at its best when it stays out of people\u2019s way.\u201d
\nCreek has lived in Bellwood for the past five years. He and his wife Abby have two 7-month old twins, Mercy and Grace.
\nOthers written-in include Tammy L. McCracken, with 87 votes; David L. Cherry, with 28 votes; Thomas J. Lechner, with two votes; and Chet Dillon, with a single vote.
\nTwo incumbents were also re-elected to sit on the council for four-year stints. John Gunsallus, a Democrat, and Kenneth D. Conrad, a Republican, who was awarded a Republican nomination in a write-in campaign in the May primary.
\nThose who will not be seen at the council table come January include Thomas J. Lechner and David L. Cherry, although both received write-in votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It takes just about a week to win a seat on a local governing board. Bellwood resident Christopher Creek found that out yesterday. \u201cNothing is official yet, but from what I\u2019m told, I got it,\u201d said Christopher Creek, a former Philipsburg resident who, unofficially, grabbed 113 of the 157 write-in votes for a 4-year-term on […]<\/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-45471","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\/45471","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=45471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}