Meet the Candidates:

Age: 54

About: "We've lived in the community for 20 years now. We love living in Wrangell, have raised our kids here, and now they're all off to university."

Why do you wish to serve another term on the assembly? "I really enjoy being on the assembly, and I enjoy working with other assembly members. I'm very excited about our new city manager and where I see her helping to guide the community to go. But I see a lot of financial challenges coming up, and it's going to be imperative that we approach these challenges with our eyes wide open and looking at creative solutions to make sure we don't need to increase fees and taxes and all of that in order to keep the services that we have. So I would like to stay on to provide consistency and support to our city manager, and at the same time help us to create some bridges over some financial, troubling waters."

Prysunka is one of two candidates running for two open positions on the Borough Assembly. Candidate Rolland C. Howell was unfortunately unavailable for interview prior to the election on Oct. 3.