THREE FILE FOR SEAT IN CHAFFEE

CHAFFEE - Chaffee's Ward 1 has a second candidate vying for the city council seat of incumbent Jerry Wolsey in the April municipal election.

The candidate is John E. Nordin of 429 Helen. Incumbent Irmgard Chronister, of 402 Yoakum in Ward 2, has also filed for re-election to her seat.

Also seeking the seat held by Wolsey, who would enter his second two-year term if re-elected, is Edward N. "Cotton" Sadler. Sadler, a retired construction worker, filed for the seat last Thursday.

Chronister said she filed Tuesday. Nordin, who was unavailable Thursday to comment, filed either Tuesday or Wednesday, City Clerk Diane Eftink said. Nordin is a custodian and bus driver with the Chaffee public schools, said a district spokeswoman.

Four council seats, all of them with two-year terms, are up for election April 7. In addition to the seats held by Chronister and Wolsey, the seats of Ron Eskew of Ward 3 and Brad Bader of Ward 4 are up for election. Bader and Eskew have also filed for their seats.

As Wolsey, Chronister, 61, who is retired, would enter her second term if re-elected. She said she didn't have anything in particular on her agenda for the next two years, if re-elected.

"If there's a problem with the city, I just want to help the people, really," she said.

In her first two years in office, Chronister said, she "got her feet wet" and really learned something.

"Now that I'm in I think I can do even a better job because I know what the problems are in this town. When I ran the first time ... I really wanted to do things for the people; clean (the city) up better. There's many things I didn't like about this town, and I think it's better now. We get things done."

Chronister said she was instrumental both in getting a new bridge out on Nunn Road and in removing the city's parking meters, which were there for no reason whatsoever.

"We had them for a hundred years. I got them out," she said.

As well, she said, she got the city's animal shelter fixed and cleaned up. Chronister said she is in charge of the shelter.

Chronister formerly worked in real estate and operated a beauty shop. She and her husband, Jim, a native of Chaffee and a member of the Chaffee Board of Education, moved to Chaffee from Houston, Texas, in October 1988, she said.