(Photo supplied by Wally Schenk)

By David Opinko

Wally Schenk running for Lethbridge City Council

Sep 30, 2021 | 6:00 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – Wally Schenk hopes that his business acumen will land him a seat on Lethbridge City Council.

He has owned and operated various restaurants throughout the city and elsewhere in Southern Alberta for many years.

Schenk told LNN that a strong business mind is exactly what Lethbridge needs at the decision-making table.

“Controlling costs, analyzing budgets, like I said, being in business for 46 years myself, 36 as an owner, and having to do this and dealing with the public and giving to the public. Helping control costs and tax dollars, basically, that’s what everyone’s interested in, controlled spending and fiscal management.”

Outside of the financial end of things, he says the opioid crisis would be his top priority if elected.

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Alcohol addiction is something that Schenk has struggled with in the past, and while he admits that it is not exactly the same as opioids and other hard narcotics, there are many similarities. He has been sober for 17 years now.

He believes that the city’s drug crisis can no longer be swept under the rug.

“The [supervised] consumption site, to me, that was a good start and helping people while they’re injecting, but for me in my program, enabling is not a good thing to do. We have to go way further – we need beds, we need better treatment centres, we need dry beds, better professionals maybe to help these people.”

Prior to general election day on October 18, there will be three weekends of advance voting:

• October 1, 2 – City Hall (Downtown)
• October 8, 9, 10 – Exhibition Park drive-through (East)
• October 14, 15, 16 – ATB Centre (West)

For more information on voting in the municipal election in Lethbridge, use the city’s website here.

For more coverage from Lethbridge News Now, visit our Municipal Election 2021 page here.