Three candidates file for open GBOS seats

By Soren Wuerth

TNews Editor

Three candidates will appear on the ballot for Girdwood Board of Supervisors in the April 2 municipal election. 

Well-known locals, Brian "Burntski" Burnett and Brett Wilbanks, have filed for—appropriately—Seat "B", while current GBOS co-chair Jennifer Wingard will run unopposed for Seat A.

Both Burnett and Wilbanks are fixtures in local governance and are running in for a seat left vacant by out-going member Amanda Sassi. 

Burnett, who filed for the open seat 11 days after Wilbanks, is the former mountain manager at Alyeska Resort and is currently a ski technician at Powder Hound Ski Shop in Girdwood.

Wilbanks, owner of Polar Marine in Whittier, is serving as chair of Girdwood's Housing and Economic Committee.