Several months ago, Ryan Mennie announced he was running for city council in Lethbridge.

The Oct. 20 elections were a distant dream at that time, but Mennie felt it was the right moment for him to enter Lethbridge politics.

“That was five months of knocking on doors, talking to people. I started campaigning back in May. Everything that I had been hearing, there was a lot of frustration, there were folks that felt like they weren’t being heard,” said Mennie.

But like any good story, there was a twist leading up to the climax: Mennie refiled his paperwork at the last moment — declaring his intention to run for mayor instead.

“I didn’t see a true, honest option coming forward as we got closer to the cutoff,” he said.

Before he joined the race, the names on the mayoral ballot were incumbe

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