By Tara de Ryk

KENASTON — Of the more than 1,000 meetings Bill Hannah has attended as the Division 1 councillor on the R.M. of Rosedale council, last Tuesday’s is the one that will likely stick with him for a while.

After 34 consecutive years council’s Oct. 11 meeting was Bill’s last. For this round of municipal elections, Bill’s decided to step aside so that someone new can look after the needs of Division 1 and the rural municipality as a whole.

“I’ll miss them all for the rest of my journey,” Bill says of his fellow councillors, ratepayers and R.M. staff members he’s worked with over the years. “It was a lifestyle and I’m really going to miss it.”

Bill has lived in the R.M. of Rosedale all his life. He was born there 72 years ago and has lived on his current farm in the southeast corner of the R.M. for 70 years. He moved there in 1946 at the age of two with his parents Gib and Mae Hannah.

Bill says his dad had considered a run at local government.

“Dad said he was going to run for council and Mom said, ‘you do and I’ll kill ya.’ She said she wasn’t going to answer phones for him.”

Mae’s word seemed to be law, so Gib didn’t run.

Years later, Bill got the notion to run for council.

KENASTON—Of the more than 1,000 meetings Bill Hannah has attended as the Division 1 councillor on the R.M. of Rosedale council, last Tuesday’s is the one that will likely stick with him for a while.

After 34 consecutive years council’s Oct. 11 meeting was Bill’s last. For this round of municipal elections, Bill’s decided to step aside so that someone new can look after the needs of Division 1 and the rural municipality as a whole.

“I’ll miss them all for the rest of my journey,” Bill says of his fellow councillors, ratepayers and R.M. staff members he’s worked with over the years. “It was a lifestyle and I’m really going to miss it.”

Bill has lived in the R.M. of Rosedale all his life. He was born there 72 years ago and has lived on his current farm in the southeast corner of the R.M. for 70 years. He moved there in 1946 at the age of two with his parents Gib and Mae Hannah.

Bill says his dad had considered a run at local government.

“Dad said he was going to run for council and Mom said, ‘you do and I’ll kill ya.’ She said she wasn’t going to answer phones for him.”

Mae’s word seemed to be law, so Gib didn’t run.

Years later, Bill got the notion to run for council.

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