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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Age Doesn't Slow Capitan Hopeful
By Rene Romo
Journal Southern Bureau
LAS CRUCES — If Bernhard Reimann wins his bid for the Capitan mayor's office March 2, he will bring plenty of life experience, 87 years' worth, to the job.
Reimann would turn 88 two months into the four-year term if he wins, but the retired biologist and German immigrant says voters don't have to worry about whether he has the energy or drive to head the Lincoln County village of about 1,500 residents.
"I'm physically in good shape. I do a lot of exercise in the morning," said Reimann, who moved to Capitan in 1988 after a 20-year career working at an electron microscope lab at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso. "The main thing is the brain still works, and it works fairly well."
The other candidates for mayor are the incumbent, Sammy L. Hammons, who is seeking a second term, and former trustee George Tippin.
Reimann had run for the office of Capitan trustee and lost, but he says he has experience in local government.
A previous mayor appointed him the village's environmental adviser shortly after Reimann moved to Capitan, and in that role he oversaw construction of a wetlands for the village's wastewater treatment system.
He also helped secure state money for an emergency dispatch system.
Reimann says, if elected, he will try to run village government more professionally and make it more accessible to residents. "That is what I would like to provide — open government where everybody knows what's going on," Reimann said. "After all, it's our money. By the people, for the people, of the people."
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