Pinkney vs Jurek for 100 Mile House Mayor

In what was looking like a 2nd acclamation for current 100 Mile House Mayor Maureen Pinkney going into the 2026-2030 term is now resulting in a "battle of visions" for the future of 100 Mile House ... 

Mayor Pinkney's sole opponent (although this can change before Friday, Sept 11, 2026 at 4pm sharp!) is 100 Mile House realtor David Jurek 

Both Jurek/Pinkney have taken to social media to outline their vision/plans for 100 Mile House - should they be elected as Mayor of 100 Mile House on October 17, 2026

As an outsider -- Mr. Jurek's campaign to be 100 Mile House Mayor is very impressive... but I know current 100 Mile House Mayor Maureen Pinkney is up for the challenge to hang on to her seat as a life-long resident of the South Cariboo 

David Jurek's website can be viewed here.  In addition: he has published a quick 1 minute video about his mayoral candidacy which, as of this writing (September 7, 2026), has received 310 "likes", 30 "shares" and 105 comments on Facebook - view that here

Meanwhile, 4 people so far have put in their nomination papers for the 4 District of 100 Mile Councillor seats -- 

i) Dave Mingo (incumbent)

ii) Marty Norgren (incumbent) 

iii) Aaron Fulber of Lone Butte (Cariboo RD Area "L" unincorporated community)

iv) Norm Knutsen of 108 Mile House (Cariboo RD Area "G" unincorporated community) 

Current incumbent District of 100 Mile Councillors Donna Barnett and Jenni Guimond have yet to state if they plan to seek re-election this October... 

Deadline for the current 2026 District of 100 Mile House Council Nomination Period concludes this Friday, September 11, 2026 at 4pm sharp! with General Voting Day set for Saturday, October 17, 2026

Maureen Pinkney to seek 2nd term as Mayor of 100 Mile House

Maureen Pinkney -- incumbent Mayor of 100 Mile House told the My Cariboo Now that she wants a 2nd term as 100 Mile House Mayor to complete "unfinished business"....

More here

In other Mayor races in the Cariboo-Chilcotin: 

Wells - Ed Coleman will not seek re-election in October.  More here

Quesnel - Unknown at this time if incumbent Quesnel Mayor Ron Paull will seek a 2nd term

Williams Lake - Surinderpal Rathor will seek a 2nd term as Mayor of Williams Lake - click here

Nomination packages for all locally elected positions (Mayor, Councillor, Electoral Area Director, School Trustee) are expected to be available for pickup in the first half of August 2026 with the formal nomination period being September 1-11, 2026 and General Voting Day for BC Local Governments' being Saturday, October 17, 2026... 

Debate amongst 100 Mile Mayoralty Candidates on Economy

From the Rush:

Maureen Pinkney:

100 Mile Mayoral candidate Maureen Pinkney says she’s running because the District needs more energy injected into Council to get some things happening in town.

Pinkney says 100 Mile needs more economic diversification to create the jobs to bring young families to the area and keep them.

She says we need to do more a lot more exploring on what other avenues are available here as far as business and industry.

Pinkney says 100 Mile is staying the same and going backwards in the number of retail stores and other things that used to be here, while other communities are moving ahead even in tough economic times.

She says we need to see what’s out there and capture it and that’s not really being done right now.

Pinkney mentions a pellet plant, a dog food production facility, or ship building contracts as possibilities for new industries.

In response, current 100 Mile Mayor Mitch Campsall says:

Campsall says they are searching for opportunities in those areas already. He says they are trying to attract young people to the community, but the bad economy is a tough reality. He says they’re looking in to anything and everything.

To that end, Campsall says there are some possibilities, but with the economy in its current state, many industries like Pellet Plants or Bio-Energy, aren’t viable.

Campsall says the focus is on trying to maintain the jobs and industries that we have. He says that while Quesnel and Williams Lake have lost Saw Mills, 100 Mile hasn’t.

He says despite the economic dive over the last number of years, we’re still going well – he looks at a tax increase of 0% this year as an example.

Campsall says economic development is actually the mandate of the Chamber of Commerce, but he’s says Council would certainly be willing to partner with them given a good working strategy.

100 Mile Election News...

Civicinfo BC reports that both Mitch Campsall (current 100 Mile Mayor) and Maureen Pinkney (100 Mile Mayoralty candidate) have filed their nomination papers

Also - former District of 100 Mile House Councillor Spence Henderson and 100 Mile resident Ralph Fossum have filed papers seeking election to 100 Mile Council

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100 Mile Council Election News...

In the 100 Mile Free Press - they report that Mayor Mitch Campsall and Councillors Bill Hadden & Dave Mingo will all seek re-election while Councillors Jeanne Best and Mel Torgersen will not

See here

Note - Mitch Campsall's opponent for the Mayor seat (and likely the only one) is former CRD Area 'L' Director Maureen Pinkney.  No word on challengers for both Councillor Best/Torgersen's seats'