Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner to call it quits when term ends

Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner, who leads B.C.’s second-largest city, will not be running for re-election in this fall’s municipal election.
Hepner, who is in her first term as mayor, made the announcement in an emailed statement Tuesday evening. She is the ninth Lower Mainland mayor to say she will not run in October’s municipal elections.
According to the statement, after some soul searching, Hepner realized that she needed to make her family a higher priority than the city.