FORKS — Longtime resident Bruce Guckenberg has been appointed to the Forks City Council.
He replaces Tim Fletcher, who resigned from the five-member council after moving outside the city limit.
“I’ve thought about it for a while now. I’d talked to the council member who left and he talked me into it,” Guckenberg said Tuesday.
Guckenberg, who was appointed Monday night, will serve until Fletcher’s term expires on Dec. 31, 2005, and “probably” will file for election in July, he said.
Guckenberg is manager of Sully’s Drive In on Main Street and a former Little League coach. He also is a member of the West End Business and Professional Association, Citizens Advisory Committee for Clallam Transit System, Forks Events Committee and Forks Parks Board.
City Attorney Rod Fleck said the city’s newest council member’s most notable distinction is being one of those who color some of the thousands of eggs for community’s annual Easter egg hunt.
