Writer expresses support for Hannah Booth-Watts

To The Eagle:

At the eleventh hour, a write-in candidate has emerged to challenge Cathlamet’s newest Council Member, Hannah Booth-Watts, in next month’s election. I encourage voters to retain Hannah to insure a strong, balanced Town Council.

Hannah is an accountant by training. She understands finance, knows how to read a budget and grasps the importance of spending the town’s very limited resources effectively to deliver needed services. Since joining the council last April, she has played a lead role in improving financial oversight, and is the current council liaison to Cathlamet’s much-loved library.

Hannah has been active with the Community Garden and in the Women’s Club, where she currently serves as treasurer. With the retirement of Ruth Doumit this year, Hannah would be the only woman on the town council, if re-elected.

Talents such as those Hannah has displayed deserve to be rewarded, as do traits like kindness, compassion and common sense. Council members work nearly for free and do so out of love for this community.

Let’s give Hannah four more years.

George Wehrfritz, Cathlamet