The Chamber was host to a political forum for the 10 local residents vying for a seat on the Chanute City Commission. The forum was held February 24th in the Chanute Memorial Auditorium. The result of the March 1st primary was as follows: Tim D. Fairchild 827 Maury Thompson 605 Terri Orozco 600 David "Yankee Dave" Fryd 383 Katrina Moffitt 354 Rick Frommie 251
Linda Stange 219 Dean Silvey 184 John Farrell-Stuart 87 Jon Odell 74
The top six candidates will advance to the general election April 5th. The six will be invited to participate in the Chamber's next forum March 31st.