Stella Locker News Today

Photograph By Thompson Citizen files Stella Locker, who died April 29 at the age of 87, and served seven consecutive terms as a city councillor, beginning in 1989 until her retirement from municipal politics in 2014, all while helping to run a business, was sometimes viewed as a person who was against everything, but the reality was more nuanced then that. The Thompson Citizen once received a letter to the editor, while Locker was still a member of council, suggesting tha...

Former Mayor Tim Johnston, who served one term as a fellow councillor with Locker and two as mayor with her as one of the council members, said he always knew what she told him was what she really felt and that she was looking out for the people she worked for: the voters. “I always knew that she was representing her constituency and what she believed and I always knew that she was doing it because she felt it was in the best interest of Thompson,” said Johnston. And even though she was ...