Plourde sets sights on council

Tracy Hughes - Salmon Arm Observer  Published: July 12, 2011 
That kid’s going places. It didn’t take much more than a few minutes of meeting recent Salmon Arm Secondary graduate Skylar Plourde for me to make this judgment. Some might remember a few weeks ago I drew up a list of people I would like to see run for council. And it looks like in at least one instance, I’m going to get my wish. I hoped for someone under age 35 to run for municipal office.  At 18, Plourde is the first such candidate to publicly declare his intentions. Indeed my request for an interview gave him the final push to confirm his candidacy. “I’m all in now,” said the former co-president of the 2011 grad class. And he’s wasting no time: setting up a website, getting on Facebook, even setting up to receive donations via PayPal. “Politics has always interested me and I think I’m able to take the heat that comes along with the job. Being co-president of the grad class, that’s a job that’s totally political, with a big dose of high-school drama thrown in. Anyone who remembers high school would probably know that city hall politics couldn’t be any worse,” he joked.