Carter holds lead in county commission race

EPHRATA - Grant County District 3 Commissioner Cindy Carter has a comfortable lead in her re-election bid against Quincy chiropractor Randy Zolman.

Carter, a Royal City farm owner, received 8,079 votes, or about 63 percent.

Zolman, who also served as a station chief at Crescent Bar Battalion, received 4,795 votes.

Carter thanked her constituents for the votes and said the county has a lot of work left to do. She mentioned moving the county's health department from Ephrata to Moses Lake as well as other county department office moves as ongoing events.

She said Zolman brought a lot of attention to The Gorge Amphitheatre and she hopes to address some of the issues between the concert venue and its neighbors when the county signs a new concert management agreement with the venue's owner Live Nation this week.

Previously Carter said customer service is her number one priority and she enjoys solving the problems that constituents encounter.

"Every four years we get a job evaluation and I just got mine," Carter said.