Election day this year, for 2009, is Tuesday, November 3rd. For election information or if you would like to know where to vote, please contact the County Elections Office at (208) 529-1363 or click here.
Now, an introduction to Ida Hardcastle…
I have been a council woman since 1994. In that time, I have been the Council Chair over the municipal services, the Police and Fire Dept., and Parks & Recreation. I also was the Library Liasion for 12 years.
I have lived in Idaho Falls for 45 years. My husband came here to work for Westinghouse NRF as an engineer, and he retired in 1997. We have 3 children raised in this community and 16 grandchildren, most of which live in another state.
I have been very active in the schools, my church, and in the communnity the entire time I have lived in Idaho Falls. Besides being a trustee for the Idaho Falls Public Library for 13 years, I have also served on the following boards: the United Way, Development Workshop, CASA, the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, and the Museum of Idaho
I am presently serving on the Art Museum and the Museum of Idaho baords, and I’m a CASA volunteer. I have worked with the Chamber of Commerce in various capacities and for many years on the parade committee, some of which as the Chair. I have also been a participant with the Christmas Festiveal since its beginning.
I think this is a great community and we have been fortunate to have been able to raise our children here. It has been a great honor to be an active participant in many of the events as well as the progress of the City of Idaho Falls as it has grown.
Contact info for Ida Hardcastle – Phone: (208) 529-5204; Address: 2643 Ridgecrest Dr., Idaho Falls; website: http://www.advantageousdesign.com/ida/index.html
If you would like to view the IFT post for Ida’s opponent, Alex Creek, for Idaho Falls City Council please click here.
(This information is meant as an introduction to a selected candidate seeking public office and was obtained through the candidate’s campaign website and/or flyer. Placement of this post does not constitute an endorsement of the candidate by Idaho Falls Today.)
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- The questionable and irresponsible spending habits of the Idaho Falls City Council.
Gato got runned over by Marcus many moons ago. Be ye daft, 2486? 
Let's have a new poll, alright, Joe?
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I’m disappointed to not read about what Ida plans to do if re-elected. Just because you are the incumbent does not mean you can coast into the next term. Earn it or you’ll lose it.
Change is definitely in the air. Ida acts with an aura of invincibility in local matters not seen since Mayor Daley. The blighted city council needs fresh ideas, fresh people, and most of all a return to transparency and limited government. Let’s lower the burden of government by voting for Alex Creek.
Thank you Ida for your time and energy. I think it’s time to go out to pasture.
Oh for pete’s sake. On Ida’s watch the city has been amazingly fiscally conservative: they save money rather than run bonds. Creek calls it a slush fund, but anyone that would go to a few meetings and track how things have happened know that the city systematically builds up money for new fire engines (so they’re bought without a loan), infrastructure and roads, etc. Yeah, it’s a boatload of cash, but it saves us MILLIONS because we’re not borrowing and paying interest every time something has to happen.
When the mayor began to look into city office, he started using all his vacation time to step away from his job and attend planning meetings, working sessions, budget reviews and anything else. I bet Creek and Earhart haven’t done anything of the sort.
A vote for either of these is a vote for decades of saved money getting siphoned off into insider-friend business tax breaks, followed by all of us getting hammered with property tax increases and water meters and god knows how many different levies being proposed.
I smell a rat here. Actually, several: Larry Lyon, Vucovitch and a few other disgruntled wannabes and pompous twits trying to ‘raise’ Idaho Falls to the no-sidewalks, no-stoplights, no-services, pothole-infested standard of living Ammon struggles to fund.