LETHBRIDGE- Sheila Pyne says one of her favorite things is being a grandma to her eight grandchildren.
“Eight and a half, there’s one more on the way!”
It’s just one of the many titles Pyne holds, and now she’s added Liberal Candidate to the list.
She was raised on a farm near Taber and has lived in southern Alberta her entire life.
“I married my high school sweetheart and we have been married 40-plus years. We sold our farm and businesses, moved to Lethbridge and both went to university late in life, having four children.”
Pyne is an licensed practical nurse and also an at-home educator and distance learning teacher. The passion she has for her careers, and a desire to stand up for her community, is what pushed her into politics.
“I’m getting tired of what’s happening to our healthcare system and our education system. All of a sudden, there comes a time in life that you have to stand up and give back to your community, and to give back to the people and to the seniors.”
Having witnessed cutbacks first-hand, Pyne is most concerned about losing more frontline workers.
“We are not meeting the needs of all of our people and I don’t want that to start happening to education with the cutbacks and cutting frontline workers, and not just education, also with our fire fighters, EMS and centralizing. I don’t see where centralizing has helped at all.”
Even though being new to an election campaign can be intimidating, Pyne says she has jumped in, with both feet.
“I’ve always said, if you want me to do something throw me in the deep end and I’ll learn to swim, so I’ve threw myself in the deep end in politics in becoming a liberal candidate and I’m learning to swim.”
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