{"id":7937,"date":"2024-12-02T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7937"},"modified":"2024-12-02T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T21:39:45","slug":"region-of-queens-hires-former-halifax-councillor-as-municipal-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/12\/02\/region-of-queens-hires-former-halifax-councillor-as-municipal-clerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Region of Queens hires former Halifax councillor as municipal clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7938\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7938\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lovelace-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lovelace-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lovelace-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lovelace.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Lovelace, a former Halifax councillor and mayoral candidate, is the Region of Queens&#8217; new municipal clerk. (Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Region of Queens has hired a former Halifax councillor and deputy mayor as its new municipal clerk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pam Lovelace also ran unsuccessfully for mayor of the Halifax region in October\u2019s municipal elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She placed third behind winner Andy Fillmore and runner-up Waye Mason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI am honoured to join the incredible team at Region of Queens Municipality <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and continue working in municipal government in rural Nova Scotia,\u201d Lovelace said in a Region of Queens news release Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally from Kentville, Lovelace is a former legislative support clerk in Halifax\u2019s clerks office and a former communications and project manager for the Municipality of East Hants. She is also an instructor in local government at Dalhousie University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was elected to Halifax regional council in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queens has been searching for a municipal clerk for a while. The clerk is essential to the operation of council and its committees. Lovelace will also be the region\u2019s freedom of information officer. And she will be the main researcher in developing policies and bylaws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queens CAO Cody Joudry said in the release that Lovelace is a &#8220;high-calibre candidate&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>QCCR acknowledges the support of the Community Radio Fund of Canada&#8217;s Local Journalism Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Region of Queens has hired a former Halifax councillor and deputy mayor as its new municipal clerk. Pam Lovelace also ran unsuccessfully for mayor of the Halifax region in October\u2019s municipal elections. She placed third behind winner Andy Fillmore and runner-up Waye Mason. \u201cI am honoured to join the incredible team at Region of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1427,2667,2598,1997,2666,2665,2664,24],"class_list":["post-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-cody-joudry","tag-councillor","tag-deputy-mayor","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-municipal-clerk","tag-pam-lovelace","tag-region-of-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7945,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions\/7945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}