Teresa Townsley
Candidate for Langley Township Council
Teresa Townsley is a South Langley farmer and the owner and CEO of Festina Lente Estate Winery, which she built from the ground up on her family farm in 2016. She is a co-founder and former co-chair of the Langley Farmers Institute and served six years as Vice-Chair of Tourism Langley.
Before moving to Langley in 2010, Teresa worked as an emergency and trauma nurse at Surrey Memorial and St. Paul’s and was one of B.C.’s first Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners. She served as Vice-Chair of the Delta Board of Education and on the Delta Police Board. She is a mother of two and founded a youth choir.
HOW I WILL ADVOCATE FOR YOUNG BRITISH COLUMBIANS
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Low or no cost recreation for young people. Teresa will push for affordable access to public facilities for young residents, and services that keep pace with how many people now live here.
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A school trustee’s view of public education. As Vice-Chair of the Delta Board of Education she was a signing officer on a $122 million budget and helped rebuild public trust through a restructuring affecting more than half of the district’s students.
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A Township young entrepreneurs can navigate. She built a business through the permit process herself. A single case manager would guide residents and small businesses through approvals instead of leaving them to hire a consultant.
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Food security and a healthy environment. Protecting farmland, water and the land our food depends on, and planning for the severe weather young people will face.
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Decisions made in the open. Closed sessions limited to the land, labour and legal matters that require them, with everything else debated where residents can hear it.
"I have spent my life working with and for young people, from school board budgets to the youth choir I founded. Langley needs a Council that plans for the future instead of the next election, and the people who will live in that future deserve a say in it. I am honoured to earn YBC4BG’s endorsement because I share their commitment to evidence, fairness and giving young British Columbians a real voice"