Incumbent Glenn Hawes is facing a challenge from Bruce Waggoner for the rural northeastern District 3 on the Shasta county Board of Supervisors. Hawes, a farmer and rancher, is the county’s lone agricultural representative, a position he has served for 11 years. Howes considers his occupation a “good prerequisite” for representing the heavily rural and mostly agricultural areas of the county.

Hawes is also adamant about the county’s need to expand its jail facilities, and would like to draw new businesses to the unincorporated areas of the county by commercially developing the Interstate 5 interchange in the Churn Creek Bottom.

“We’re doing the best we can with the dollars we have now,” Hawes said of the county’s finances.

“We just need more. Every county needs more.” Bruce Waggoner, 58, a Vietnam-era U.S. Navy veteran, is the lead attorney for the State Compensation Fund and also chairs the Shasta Group of the Sierra Club. He moved to the Palo Cedro area from Sacramento in 2004 and is interested in preserving the county’s natural beauty and agricultural land from too much development without quashing growth.

“We need to save some of the lands that are irreplaceable,” Waggoner said. “We should not be building houses on every square inch of land that we need to grow our food on.”