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WOODLAWN BOARD RUNOFF TUESDAY

Friday, October 3, 2008 9:29 AM CDT

Special to The Commercial

RISON — Voters in the Woodlawn School District will go to the polls Tuesday to decide who will become the newest member of the Woodlawn School Board.

Aaron Tooke of Rye and Brian “Billy” Smith of Calmer qualified for Tuesday’s runoff election after garnering the most votes in a four-candidate race Sept. 16.

The Cleveland County Clerk’s Office announced that the polling sites — the Woodlawn Community Center and Union Methodist Church at Rye — will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

All positions on the board are elected at-large, which means every voter in the school district is eligible to vote in Tuesday’s election.

The winner will fill Terry Young’s seat for five years. Young, a former president of the Woodlawn School Board, decided not to seek re-election.

On Sept. 16, Tooke received 76 votes (43 percent), Smith 47 (27 percent), Billy Reed of Calmer 38 (22 percent) and Chris Watkins of Rowell 14 (8 percent).

Smith, 41, is a graduate of Junction City High School and is employed with Washington Group International, a contractor at the Pine Bluff Arsenal.

Tooke, 31, and his wife, Lindsey, are both graduates of Woodlawn High School. He works in the construction industry.

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