Westport rancher antone vieira announces candidacy for house of selectmen

Local rancher Antone Vieira believes he can urge the potency, burden as well as clarity of locale supervision if he is inaugurated to the House of Selectmen.
Vieira is using for the single of the dual three-year seats accessible upon the house this year.

Incumbents Steven Ouellette as well as Brian Valcourt have been additionally using for those seats, the single of which Vieira hopes to take up after the Apr twelve locale election.

“In further to being the rancher, ” Vieira pronounced in his claimant matter, “I reason the doctorate in preparation as well as work for the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. During the Vietnam epoch, we served active avocation in the United States Army for 3 years.”

Vieira chaired the Westport Community Preservation Committee for 5 years as well as served upon the Westport Finance Committee for the final 3 years, together with the army as authority final year. Vieira has coached soccer, basketball, as well as ball in locale jaunty leagues. He additionally serves upon the series of play, commissions, councils, charge forces, as well as committees in Fall River, New Bedford, Dartmouth, as well as Westport. He sits upon the house of directors for Westport Commercial operation to Commercial operation as well as the Fall River Chamber of Commerce.

Veira is the lifelong proprietor as well as the third-generation farmer. He as well as his mother, Shirley, live during 8 Kelly Ave. as well as have 4 tied together young kids as well as 7 grandchildren. The Vieiras’ young kids all attended Westport Schools.

“As Westport’s former Finance Committee Chair, we am endangered about the benefaction citation the locale is streamer, ” Vieira writes in his claimant statement. “I hold my proven care knowledge, together with responsibilities for doing multimillion dollar budgets in open, in isolation, as well as nonprofit businesses, yield me with the skills which have been indispensable for the town.

“I have additionally grown the series of successful commercial operation models, as well as we have had the wish to learn an senior manager care connoisseur propagandize year prolonged module for over the five-year duration, ” Vieira said.

“My father as well as grandfather never graduated from tall propagandize, ” Vieira pronounced, “but we hold we schooled as most from them as we have from the educational world. They taught me values, the significance to attend when the single communicates, as well as because this locale called Westport is such the special place.”

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