Most candidates say they don't want to rehash old issues, but their presence could mean the election season will stir up emotions of the heated debates that split the city.

Charelle Bowman and Eric Richardson, who jointly headed up the pro-beer, pro-Sunday shopping group Concerned Citizens of Cedar Hills, have filed their paperwork.

Ban supporters David Lone, Paul Shumway and Chris Kruger also have joined the race.

"I hope it's behind us," Richardson said. "My campaign is not going to be based on, 'I won the initiative, hey, vote for me.' I hope no one votes for me because of the initiatives."

Beginning in May, rival resident coalitions waged a war of morals and principles over two initiatives on the June ballot.

Those initiatives would have outlawed beer sales and Sunday business operations. They failed, but the fray divided neighborhoods, church congregations and even families.

For their part, the candidates say they don't expect a rehash of the issue.

"I'm hoping it won't be as heated and there won't be as big a barrier between opposing sides as there was for this summer's election," Bowman said. "I don't think people are going to rehash that again. We're still trying to heal and let that scar fade away."

David Lone, who was an active member of the ban-supporting Coalition to Preserve Cedar Hills, said he wants to mend the deep wounds, too.

He said that is one of the main reasons he decided to throw his name into the race again this year after putting it in two years ago when the city was looking to appoint a mayor.

"We have these two dominant factions that don't know how to meet on common ground," Lone said. "For once and for all, we just need to quiet this rivalry. It really can be done if everyone can come to the table and bring courtesy to that table."

Lone said he has a plan for how the city can come together. The state's quick and effective involvement with the spring mudslide in Cedar Hills is one model for successful bridging of countering parties, he says, and he suggests putting together an ad-hoc committee made up of influential city residents.

Such a group could produce solutions and ideas for the many issues facing the growing bedroom community.

Other issues sure to surface or resurface during the election season concern commercial development, diminishing city services and the debate over the debt-incurring, city-owned golf course.

For candidate Paul Shumway, who supported the banning initiatives, beer sales and Sunday closings are moot.

"I won't say I'm happy with [how the vote went], but I'm content with it," Shumway said.

"I personally wouldn't bring it up again. I think we can go forward from this. That's not why I filed, but I can't speak for the others."

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