Lance Jacobson has started his third term as Mayor of the Town of Swan River.
After defeating Ainslee White by an over 2-1 count in Wednesday's election, Jacobson was sworm in on Thursday night, along with councillors Don Bobick, Dee=Ann Clarkson, David Moriaux, Tanya Powell, Drew Ronnquist and Duane Whyte.
Jacobson is looking forward to carrying on some topics that he and the previous council were working on.
"Crime obviously, and keep working on that with our RCMP, Our new GIS team has been doing a fantastic job. Homelessness as well as addictions and all of that. We will be working with the province and lobbying them to help deal with some of those things. We are always going to be talkng about economic development and so forth, not just for Swan River but for the entire Swan Valley region."
Other topics sure to come up in the coming weeks and months is improvements to the intersection of Highways 10 and 83, as well as discussions surrounding a possible new arena for Swan River.
