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A love For The People And Politics Motives Local Public Servant

After serving more than 27 years as a public servant, Vernal City Council Member JoAnn Cowan has announced she will not be running in 2015. Cowan began her public service as a way to encourage her Uintah High School students to engage in their community.  One of her former social studies students, Kerry Bringhurst, asked her about her time volunteering.

At 14-years-old, Kerry began working as a reporter for KVEL “The Hot One” in Vernal, Utah. Her radio news interests led her to Logan where she became news director for KBLQ while attending Utah State University. She graduated USU with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and spent the next few years working for Utah Public Radio. Leaving UPR in 1993 she spent the next 14 years as the full time mother of four boys before returning in 2007. Kerry and her husband Boyd reside in Nibley.