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Jaclyn Dorchak has lived in Airdrie since 2015 and owns a small real estate company. The local businesswoman says she has thought about running for council for years. “Airdrie is the place where opportunity and desire met,” she says.

Owner of Star Bound Dance Company, Kendra Phillips, has dedicated almost two decades of her life to helping create not just talented dancers but well-rounded human beings.

Kristi Puszkar knew she was Métis, but wasn’t allowed to celebrate it growing up. It wasn’t until she moved to Alberta in 2010 that she began to reconnect with her Indigenous background.